Selling a car

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Hello. I'm planning on selling my car. It's got a few bumps and scratches. Will it be better to have these fixed before I try to sell it?

It's a Honda Civic Hatchback 1.8 2010 Model
 
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Depends on the age / model of car.

Very likely no - but DO give it a valet and a good waxing. Make sure minor issues that will prevent RWC are sorted.
 
Depends on the car.

If it's an old City Golf, then no. If it's a Ferrari California, then every scratch could affect the price.
 
I have no idea what I can get for the car. It's got about 130 000 km on the clock.
There's nothing wrong with the car, but I've been looking at too many Jeeps lately...:love:

There's one bad scratch. Let me go take pics...
 
You'd probably lose around 10-20k on the asking price with those scratches - maybe less.
 
Aah... Love that car and totally sympathize. We have almost identical scratches on almost identical spot on our Ford Focus. I've been in two minds about doing something about it. I'm with Genetic on his assumption but closer to R10k. That can cost a bit of $ to fix and I'd say if the rest of the car is good then drop the price by 5k and clean it up nicely - maybe spend a couple of grand getting a small body shop to sort out that door as best they can and don't worry about colour matching 100%. For price - get online and Google to see what others are offering similar models and mileage for. I think you'll have little issue selling that beauty.
 
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BlindMelonChitlin said:
Aah... Love that car and totally sympathize. We have almost identical scratches on almost identical spot on our Ford Focus. I've been in two minds about doing something about it. I'm with Genetic on his assumption but closer to R10k. That can cost a bit of $ to fix and I'd say if the rest of the car is good then drop the price by 5k and clean it up nicely - maybe spend a couple of grand getting a small body shop to sort out that door as best they can and don't worry about colour matching 100%. For price - get online and Google to see what others are offering similar models and mileage for. I think you'll have little issue selling that beauty.
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Sound advice.
 
More like a dent than a scratch. You should have fixed that when it happened through insurance. Looks like old damage.
Even if the excess is 3-5k it's worth it because it should help with resale. Don't try sell with that scratch.
 
The major diffs would be a quicker sale with the dent sorted. Since its split in two with that fold, it should be easy to isolate the repair to the bottom half and still have it look good!

I'd love to own one of those, but Honda spares prices scare me lol.
 
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Geez op...Where did you learn how to drive? Would have been cheaper not to crash the car.
 
Thanks for all the comments. Yeah, I should've repaired it when it happened. I have 2 (expired) quotes for repairing, ~R5000 and ~R10 000. I'll get a few new quotes this week, and try to repair it.
It's a HONDA CIVIC 1.8 VXI. Registered as a 2010 but it's actually a 2009 model I believe. On cars.co.za prices seem to range from R100 000 to R130 000.

It's always cheaper not to crash the car, but thanks hey:wtf:
 
AceSwiftShooter said:
More like a dent than a scratch. You should have fixed that when it happened through insurance. Looks like old damage.
Even if the excess is 3-5k it's worth it because it should help with resale. Don't try sell with that scratch.
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+1, looks like it has started to rust as well due to the exposed metal.
 
That was not trolling. that was a painful truth. Problem with dents and deep scratches are they tend to rust. some time later the paint then lifts and it has to be redone. maybe look at having that whole door replaced from a scrapyard.
 
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That was not trolling. that was a painful truth. Problem with dents and deep scratches are they tend to rust. some time later the paint then lifts and it has to be redone. maybe look at having that whole door replaced from a scrapyard.
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We have identical scratches on ours caused by a taxi not understanding a yield. It was trolling.

I agree with replacing the door if available - I doubt those are going to be easy to find though.
 
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