How To Sell Your Car Privately — Step-By-Step Guide! (Part 2)

So you’ve decided that the best outcome for you is to sell your car privately. If you haven’t already, check out my Part 1 on How to Sell a Car Privately Step-By-Step Guide. I give you my tested step-by-step instructions on placing an advert for your vehicle you plan to sell.

I also show the secrets on how to make your advert stand out from your competitors and get the best value for your car! Now that your advert is up and running, and you have interest in your vehicle, we can move to Part 2. Here, I’ll cover the process of the physical side of selling a vehicle.

Usually, this part is the part where deals are ‘make or break’. As the seller, you need to be at the top of your game to get the most value for your vehicle. I’ll cover the steps from preparing you for inspections, help you to approach potential buyers, explain if you should offer test drives and where to go, how to make a deal, and what to do once you’ve sold the car.

For some, it can be a very daunting experience, while for others it can be a lot easier, but with these step-by-step instructions, anyone will be able to master it, and it will only get easier and easier the more you do it! Let’s dive straight into it!

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Preparing for Inspections

Before you go ahead and organize an inspection with a potential customer, there are a number of things you need to get done and organized. The first of which is to prepare the paperwork. The trick is that you need to always be ready for the buyer and be ready to sell the car there and then!

There have been countless times where a potential buyer has turned up with an offer and cash ready, but the paperwork wasn’t, so instead of wasting the buyer’s time while you search and print the appropriate paperwork, you delay the sale to the next or another day. In fact, rarely has a buyer returned the next day to purchase the vehicle if you have delayed them. Most of the time, the buyer replied to me the next day saying they bought another car!