Honest John Telegraph today

[RgrWynne]

Testing, testing…
I have a 1999 Lexus LS400 with 175,000 miles. It’s not perfect and needs a couple of small things doing to pass its next MoT so I am trying to decide whether to get it through the MoT before selling. What is it likely to be worth with and without a certificate? DS

With an MoT you’re looking at £2,500 to £5,000 – and one chancer is asking £9,995. Without an MoT, it’s £500 tops for the parts.

 

[Ben01]

6 minutes ago, RgrWynne said:

With an MoT you’re looking at £2,500 to £5,000 – and one chancer is asking £9,995.

Yeah, but IMHO if you will testing it with real money, not pools, eBay offers, or monopoly money, it will be £1000-£2000. And it could be long campaign and many frustrating "buyers".

But I agree - without MoT it will be £500 or less.

[dendonc]

29 minutes ago, RgrWynne said:

Without an MoT, it’s £500 tops for the parts.

Maybe but other difficulties are that it......(a) it depends where a buyer is located = travel time & costs..........(b) only buyers with the private space to store/hold it have would be in a position to buy it & for themselves.............(d) if a potential buyer only wants a couple known of spare parts costing less than  £500 & no travel costs/time.

On a personal level, I live in the W6 7LR postcode, type that into google earth and you'll clearly see there are no, free, parking spaces, my points are that selling a whole, 20 year old, obsolete car for spares is very limited.

[Malc]

Paul Frost buys these  ??  also repairs economically too maybe.

maybe that's an avenue to explore !

Malc

[RgrWynne]

3 hours ago, dendonc said:

Maybe but other difficulties are that it......(a) it depends where a buyer is located = travel time & costs..........(b) only buyers with the private space to store/hold it have would be in a position to buy it & for themselves.............(d) if a potential buyer only wants a couple known of spare parts costing less than  £500 & no travel costs/time.

On a personal level, I live in the W6 7LR postcode, type that into google earth and you'll clearly see there are no, free, parking spaces, my points are that selling a whole, 20 year old, obsolete car for spares is very limited.

I do not think the reference is an individual to buy for £500, it is it’s breaker value for scrap, or as Malc says Paul Frost , for parts, but I think Paul tends to break up 430’s

[Connor2x4]

What things does it need, where are you located and pics ?

All of these would allow people to help more

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