Nissan Micra F reg

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It didn't drop £300 - you paid £300 over the top for it.

I just bought an L-reg turbo-diesel 7-seater estate car for £250, so I reckon you were silly to pay that much.

Cars of this sort and age have no set in blood value - they're just worth what someone is willing to pay. So all you need to do is find someone like yourself to buy it.

I'd put it in auction. With tax and MOT, it will sell. Or Ebay, but that's probably more hassle.

MANISH ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You're forgetting one small detail.

When you bought it, it had eight months MOT. Now it's got one month.

Why has it got so little MOT? After all, you can get it tested and get the

12 months added to the expiry date once there's only a month left - so you could be selling it with 13 months MOT.

Unless, of course, it's going to fail expensively.

Nobody's going to want to hand over *real* money for a car with next-to-no ticket on it. Invest £40 in the sale, and if the car's any good, you're more likely to get somewhere near your original money back.

If you've got old MOTs or service history to verify the mileage and it's in fairly solid condition as far as rust goes, then it might be worth getting it MOTd. Only thing is an MOT test will cost best part of £40, and even a few little repairs, if needed, will cost £50 or so if you can't do the work yourself. So you'll need to get £120 for it just to break even. It all depends how much you need the money - if I were you I'd put it on ebay as it is, emphasising the good points, like the low mileage, the excellent mechanical condition, the fact that it's never given you any problems, and you'll probably get around £100 or so for it, and then just cut your losses.

Peter

What mug's going to pay £100 for Micra with all of two weeks MOT? Then again, I suppose it *is* ebay...

You'd better just keep it until you feel you've had your money's worth out of it.

That's fairly obvious, isn't it? It's because quite a bit of time has elapsed since it had quite a lot of MOT :-)

But if the OP isn't very mechanically minded and would require a garage to do even relatively small jobs the car may fail on a small number of quite simple things which could easily add up to £50 or so at least. So if it costs him £40 for the MOT and £50 for the work needed for the MOT, then he'll need £120 just to break even. I reckon it would quite possibly get around £100 on ebay as it is with a decent write-up (if there's some way to verify the mileage), which is the equivalent of getting nearly £200 for it with a full ticket, which is all it's realistically worth, so personally I'd just bung it on ebay and not chuck any more money at it.

Peter

AstraVanMan ( snipped-for-privacy@WithThanks.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Even if it fails on a couple of minor things, it's got to be easier to sell with a fail sheet than without.

Ya, I wud luv to keep it with me but I am leaving UK shortly. That's why I am selling it.

Manish

this your car?

That one has 5 months MOT.

It should give the OP a realistic picture of the value of his/her car though: with no MOT, next-to worthless; with 12 months MOT, two to three hundred quid.

Ian