Before you advertise the car

• Clean it inside and out and make sure that it’s generally tidy.
• Repair any minor paintwork damage or simple mechanical faults.
• Get a new MOT if there’s less than three months on the current one. Consider a new MOT anyway as this says a lot about the car’s basic condition.
• Remember that if your vehicle has a serious defect and is unroadworthy, you could be breaking the law by selling it, if you haven’t described it accurately.

Receipt

• Provide a ‘sold as seen, tried and approved without guarantee’ receipt
• Print off and use our buyer’s/seller’s contract
• Bear in mind that providing a ‘sold as seen’ receipt doesn’t affect the buyer’s legal rights – the car must match any description you give in writing or verbally in the course of the sale.
• You cannot use a ‘sold as seen’ receipt to cover the possibility that the car may be unroadworthy in some respect either. The law is clear – it’s illegal to sell a car in an unroadworthy condition.

For more information, visit the AA