Which option for selling?

[Gordz]

Right, here's my dilema...

At the end of June I'll be selling my beloved 2001 Red Seat Ibiza 1.4s

It's not in the best of condition externally with a fair few stone chips, scrapes and rear bumper that doesn't fit properly!

Internally it's very clean and in good condition, but the engine warning light is always on even though this does not effect anything (been proven by garages with vagcom).

It has a (when new) £300 Remus back box exhaust, lowered by 35mm & has 15" fox racing alloys on it. It also has Sony speakers in the front and custom colour coded internal grab handles

Also has tax & mot till March 2010 & is currently at 84,000 miles & some service history (all from me as previous owner had nothing!)

With all that info above, how should I sell my car to get the most money from it? As I don't think people would buy the car with the cosmetic imperfections & that stupid engine light always on, and they wont believe "oh that's nothing".

Part ex?
Auction?
Ebay?
Autotrader?
Sell off bits from it?

All help & criticism much appreciated

Cheers.

 

[Jamie P]

Put back to standard, and then go for a private sale...

 

[Gordz]

That was my first thought, but after a quick look on ebay & autotrader, standard 1.4s don't seem to be selling, or if they are they're going for £500 - £800. I want atleast £1000, ideally £1500.

So would keeping all the extras on not get interest from new young drivers or anything?

Or would I get more money from selling all extras & selling car for cheap afterwards???

 

[Myki da Pyki]

Be very very lucky to get £1000 for it. TBH the mods you've got on it aint really worth anything anyway so not point selling them separately.

Just stick it on ebay an let it go for whatever it ends at

 

[Jamie P]

I doubt it would attract young drivers mate, as they'd have to declare the mods on Insurance, therefore making their premium higher...

 

[Razor]

Firstly sell me your back box lol


Check out autotrader in N.Ireland.
They are still selling for £1500+ depending on milage

 

[__B3NNY__]

Fix the more important (visually and mechanically) faults to make it more sellable.

I`d be tempted to revert it back to standard also.

I`d problery go for ebay and autotrader as far as advertising is concernd.

 

[Mat]

Put some tape on the dash to cover the EML

 

[lemonslap]

Detailed service history and standard spec any boyracer mod's will devalue it I watch a corsa (this was about 6 years ago lol) go through auction with about 2k worth of addons go through and it went for £1500 which is £500 under book value. Any faults will put people off so get them fixed mate.