At what point do you sell your car?

At what point do you sell your car?

  • When it keeps requiring small repairs

    Votes: 36 21.2%

  • As soon as something major goes wrong

    Votes: 30 17.6%

  • If it leaves me stranded, it's going

    Votes: 16 9.4%

  • As soon as it hits a specific mileage (e.g. 200,000km)

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • When it hits a certain age (e.g. 10 years, or 20 years)

    Votes: 17 10.0%

  • As soon as the warranty / maintenance plan expires

    Votes: 18 10.6%

  • When I want to maximize its trade-in value before it drops

    Votes: 14 8.2%

  • I will drive it into the ground

    Votes: 80 47.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 16 9.4%
  • Total voters
    170
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At what point do you sell your car?

Choose up to three options.
 
Besides looking after my cars, I don't have the means to change/trade-in every couple of years. Fortunately, I've never had any major mechanical problems at any point to consider selling/trading.
 
As soon as that warranty is finished.

Then it can be someone else problem.

Or if it's a G-wagon - ill keep that for a while lol.
 
I do not keep a car beyond 100 000 km. You have to be rich to afford a high milage car and I am not rich,
 
Depends on the car.

We just (very sadly I might add) sold my wife's A class because our mechanic was getting worried about the engine and the CVT. At 191000km, so good innings IMO. WebuyCars valued it at R55k. Which is likely far less than what it would cost to fix if the CVT and/or engine gave out.

I don't think I will ever sell the Fiat van though. It is just such an incredibly useful and practical car that finding a replacement for it is impossible.
 
I traded my last car in after 14-years. Reason being spares were becoming a problem. It took a week to find a water pump replacement (not even Goldwagen could supply it) and when I went to the agents for another part, they would have had to have ordered it from Europe and at an insane price (R9000 for a manual window winder).

The car in question was a 2010 Opel Corsa with 196,000 km on the clock. I bought it in 2011 and drove it until 2025. Not a day's trouble, but both my mechanic (30 years' experience) and the agents (Williams Hunt, previously handled GM) told me that spares were a problem for the car due to its age, so if something major went wrong it would be costly to replace and probably not worth it, or I would have to start trawling scrapyards.
 
thestaggy said:
I traded my last car in after 14-years. Reason being spares were becoming a problem. It took a week to find a water pump replacement (not even Goldwagen could supply it) and when I went to the agents for another part, they would have had to have ordered it from Europe and at an insane price (R9000 for a manual window winder).

The car in question was a 2010 Opel Corsa with 196,000 km on the clock. I bought it in 2011 and drove it until 2025. Not a day's trouble, but both my mechanic (30 years' experience) and the agents (Williams Hunt, previously handled GM) told me that spares were a problem for the car due to its age, so even some major went wrong, it would be costly to replace and probably not worth it, or I would have to start trawling scrapyards.
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What do you have now?
 
When i see something better lol.

But yeah usually once Maintenance plan expires by that point there's something better out too.
 
Variety of points.

Either the cost to repair something that is reaching end of life is prohibitively expensive, or I write the old one off are the two primary reasons.

This time around it might just be because I want a new car though since there are some nice new bakkies in the pipeline that are tempting.
 
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