How to sell your car in Toronto

How to sell a car in Toronto? Process can be quite complicated if you don’t have proper information to guide you in making the right decisions. Sellers are faced at times with questions on how to sell a car. Most will think a simple listing and some pictures will do only to be faced latter by a different reality. Buyers are usually very careful and suspicious when it comes to buy a used car. Facing prospects of expensive repairs needed in the future can make selling a car quite difficult sometimes. However, collection of proper information and knowledge of procedures involved can make the process easy.

Sell the car yourself:
First of all, when you sell your car privately you will need to have the time and inclination to do so. It comes with hassles and headaches but it does have its own rewards too.
Safety First: While we are at it might as well talk about safety. When selling your car is best to set up appointments during the daylight and is even better if you are not alone when meeting with buyers. If you do not want to use your home for appointments, use places not far from your home (nearby coffee shops or plazas). After all you are meeting strangers you never met before and better be safe than sorry.
Determine a retail value: This is not a hard thing to figure out, just look at your local listing, Autotrader.ca, Kijiji.ca. Cars of similar year, model, mileage, options will give you a pretty good idea on how much you can sell your car.
If your car is listed at very low values and is understandably past its time then will be time wasting to sell car yourself. Contact a scrap service to get it of your hands or just donate it.
Presentation: First impressions are very important, your car has to look presentable and clean, no two ways about it. Take your vehicle to a professional clean up shop if you don’t have time to do it yourself, it will probably be about $100 or so.
Buyers will be suspicious if your car looks tired and needs body repairs (chips, scratches, dents), might be a good idea to fix it. Body repair will cost you up front but make it easier and give a higher value when you sell it.
Mechanical problems can be fixed prior to listing and you can get a safety certificate. Safety will make selling your car easier or you can take the harder road of negotiating with buyer. If you choose the latter it is a good idea to have the car checked by a mechanic and repairs required presented to the buyer.
Documentation: You will need an information package (Used Vehicle Information Package, Uvip). Uvip can be obtained at any Ministry of Transportation location for $30, it will reveal information regarding your car (liens, previous owners, mileage, etc).
Information Package will also serve as bill of sale for your car and it’s pretty much self explanatory how to use it. Additionally you will need to give to seller one half of your ownership (green paper) after filling up buyer’s information and signed by you and buyer.
Getting a safety certification prior by your mechanic will help with selling your car. Buyers will feel confident it does not require any expensive repairs when the car already has passed a safety check by a mechanic. It is far easier to sell car with a valid Safety certification but bear in mind Safety certificate is valid only for 36 days and will expire after that time. If you are not able to sell the car within that time period you will need to pay again for another safety certificate.

Trade in:
Another way how to sell a car in Toronto is to trade the car. It’s an easier way of selling your car but you will have to purchase another vehicle from the dealer. Naturally, you will get a lower value than selling your car yourself. Dealers will go with wholesale prices usually. After all, your vehicle will need refurbishing and other expenses to be retailed otherwise they will also just sell at wholesale prices. However, you will not need a Safety certificate or Uvip to trade your car in.

Consignment:
Not all dealers will have consignment service but there are some that do and they will sell car for you. However, there are expenses associated with consignment cars. Dealer needs to make money too and it is not usually a cheap service. You might even not have any guarantee that your car will sell. Anyways, chances of selling a car are higher than trying to sell the car yourself. Different dealers might have different rules and fees, depending on situation.

Car buying Service:
This is the best option how to sell your car in Toronto. It will eliminate all the hassles faced, turning it into a very simple process with time and efforts required reduced to a bare minimum. Sellmycar.ca is the obvious choice when time comes to sell a car in Toronto and surrounding region.
Sell My Car service is streamlined and customer friendly, priority is given to fair price evaluations and reducing customer effort to a simple online application (form on the right). There are no requirements of any extra documentation (Safety certificate or Uvip are not needed).
All paperwork associated with the sale of the car and ownership transfers will be done free by Sell My Car…you don’t even need to clean up your car.

Sell My Car will purchase all cars in “AS IS” condition to save time and money to customers. Payments are made easy and safe (cash or certified funds) with no delays at the point of sale. While selling the car yourself will generally get you a better price, using our car buying service service will save you all the troubles and risks of selling your car privately with a small compromise in price.

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