I’ve been suggested Carvana, and I may end up going that way if it is indeed the simplest route.
I’m driving an older car, it’s in many ways in very good condition, but the head gasket is starting to go. It hasn’t gotten bad yet (no coolant in the oil… yet) and could be fixed, but the cost to fix is about three times the value of the vehicle. It’s got relatively low mileage for it’s age and I’ve barely driven it anywhere during the time that I’ve owned it.
I don’t expect to get much for it, maybe a $400-$700 bucks, but I really don’t know the best way to go around it.
Like 15 years ago I would have just listed it with pertinent info on condition and photos on Craigslist. I’m not so sure Craigslist is so viable now.
Thanks for any help you can give me, Lemmy!
Doesn’t the car eventually make it to the consumer and then you are passing the hot potato onto the next guy with Carvana/CarMax?
They do an after purchase check on the car, and the cars sold have a post-sale warranty.
Both CarMax and Carvana offer a one week refund policy, and a post sale warranty. The warranty doesn’t cover everything, but they won’t be selling a car they expect will immediately fall apart, cause they’d have to eat that problem.
I assume if they end up with a piece of crap, they’ll sell the car to an auction or scrapyard to recoup what they can.
Honestly I just assume that those two are where people dump cars, I would never buy a car from either of those without an independent checkup or a warranty.
Also, the initial screening is not the only inspection that carmax does, if the issue is as pronounced as OP implies it’ll probably get caught and sent to an as-is dealer auction where people know that crap cars are sent.