Sold my girlfriend's car, did I give it away?

[Dr House]

My GF parked her car at my parent's house in Feb 18 as we moved to central London and only have one parking space so it sat there collecting dust.

I was over at my parents and some guy knocked on the door and asked if I was willing to sell it so I thought why not.

It was a 08 Toyota Aygo with 44k miles, lots of dents and scratches, no MOT but runs fine, may or may not pas. May have some service history. I dont know why but it also had lots of fungus on the seats.

I asked the guy for £1k, accepted £900. Now im wondering if I sold it too cheap and if I should make up the difference?

 

[ivrytwr3]

Looks like you sold it for half of what it's worth:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-se...-from=2008&year-to=2009&maximum-mileage=50000

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Uh oh, better keep that one quiet.

 

[ivrytwr3]

Uh oh, better keep that one quiet.

He even haggled Housey down from the £1k too - brass balls springs to mind.

 

[Diddums]

He even haggled Housey down from the £1k too - brass balls springs to mind.

You're getting your housemembers mixed up. Housey couldn't handle an Aygo, don't be silly.

 

[kindai]

@Housey dare to defend your honor?!

 

[Nasher]

Shame they never put that one in to production.

 

[Gibbo]

Dr House, what you driving yourself now?

 

[GhostWKD]

Looks like you sold it for half of what it's worth:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?sort=price-asc&radius=1500&postcode=ln44ng&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly New&make=TOYOTA&model=AYGO&year-from=2008&year-to=2009&maximum-mileage=50000

Add the fact its been stood a year and needs an MOT I wouldn't say it's as much as half

 

[Housey]

@Housey dare to defend your honor?!

Well I 'owned' a Polo GTI and survived. The new owner took delivery this evening of my car and he is a video of his first drive

https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1077685581826674688

I told you all, not to meddle with things out of your powers.

 

[Tinders]

1k isnt too far off the mark for tatty Aygo. I sold my wifes high miles 61 plate for 1500 2 years ago. Prices can vary for them massively, you get some dreamers asking the earth for them, no way is a 08 plate model worth 2k. You can pick up Yaris's of that age range for 2k now.

 

[bainbridge]

I reckon it was a fair deal.

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Well I 'owned' a Polo GTI and survived. The new owner took delivery this evening of my car and he is a video of his first drive

https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1077685581826674688

I told you all, not to meddle with things out of your powers.

I'm in tears hahahahaha

 

[Housey]

I'm in tears hahahahaha

1/4 throttle I believe.

 

[andy_mk3]

Recently someone in my family who has a Peugeot 107 (the same car basically), which was 2010 and a bit tatty, was smashed into. Insurance paid out over £3k for it

 

[theone8181]

1/4 throttle I believe.

Shame, a bit more speed and he might have completed his roll, landed on his tyres and driven off lol.

 

[Semple]

That's not too horrendous! We part-exd my partners 06 Yaris in to a dealer for 1k. Similar mileage and damage by the sounds of things. No service history etc. Had a knackered battery as well.

You could have sold it for more, but consider that you'd have to have had it washed, taken some pictures and paid Auto Trader to list it. Then spend time waiting for someone to arrange to look / test drive it. At least this way you had minimal faff when selling it.

 

[silvagti]

I guess the sensible thing would have been to get an MOT for the car assuming it's cost effective. Given it didn't have an MOT I guess the price wasn't too bad.

 

[Dr House]

Yah I cant really work out if I have really shafted her and undersold it or the lack of mot and mould makes it worth only 900

Dr House, what you driving yourself now?

LP610-4, i8, Mini contryman S, old clio but all of them are going except the mini

 

[Fluke?]

I paid 800 quid for my 57 plate Sport Ka(!) a couple of year ago. More miles but can't imagine a little Aygo could be worth all that much more?