Sell My Car in Scarborough

Selling a car in Scarborough: your three options

If you are selling a car in Scarborough you have three realistic choices, and it is worth being straight about the trade-offs of each.

Sell it privately. You will usually get the highest headline price, but you pay for it in time and hassle — writing the advert, fielding messages, arranging viewings with people you do not know, handling test drives, and dealing with payment. On an older or higher-mileage car it can take weeks, and the last few hundred pounds of value often disappears in haggling anyway.

Use an online buying service. Quick and convenient, but the online quote is rarely the price you end up with. The figure is typically revised down at inspection, and there is often a collection or admin fee taken off the top.

Sell to a local dealer. One conversation, one price, one appointment. You deal with a person you can actually go and see, and if you are buying your next car anyway, the whole thing becomes a part exchange and you drive away the same day.

We are the third option. We are not going to pretend we will always beat a patient private seller on headline price — but we will give you a fair figure based on what the car is genuinely worth, and you will have it settled in a day rather than a month.

How it works

The process is deliberately simple.

1. Send us the details. Use the Sell My Car form with the make and model, year, mileage and your location, plus up to three photos. Front three-quarter, rear three-quarter and the interior tell us most of what we need.
2. We come back with a price. Lex looks at what the car is actually making at the moment, not a computer-generated guess, and gives you a figure and the reasoning behind it.
3. We see the car. Bring it to Pavilion Garage on Somerset Terrace, or if you are further out we will come to you. Lex travels across the North regularly to buy, so distance is rarely the problem people expect it to be.
4. Money and paperwork. We sort the V5C, settle up and take the car away. No hidden deductions appearing at the last minute.

If the car is not right for us, we will tell you honestly and explain why, rather than making a lowball offer and hoping.

What we are looking for

We are an independent dealer, not a volume operation, so we buy what we know we can sell well on the Yorkshire coast. In practice that tends to mean:

• Sensible, honest cars with a reasonable service history
• Small hatchbacks, family cars and estates — the things people around here actually buy
• Cars with a decent stretch of MOT left, though it is not essential
• The occasional unusual or interesting car, which we have always had a soft spot for

We are far less interested in a spotless service book than in whether the car is fundamentally sound. Age and mileage on their own do not put us off — tell us what you have.

Selling from outside Scarborough

Plenty of the cars we buy never sat on a driveway in Scarborough. Lex travels across the country, and particularly across the North, to view and collect. If you are in Filey, Bridlington, Malton, Whitby, York or further afield, get in touch anyway and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth the trip for both of us.

If you are buying as well as selling, say so up front — a part exchange against something from our current stock is usually the cleanest deal for everyone.

Why sell to L.A Motors

We have been buying and selling cars in Scarborough for over 25 years. That is long enough to know what things are worth, and long enough that our reputation locally matters more to us than squeezing an extra couple of hundred pounds out of one transaction.

You deal directly with Lex throughout — not a call centre, not a valuations department, and not a different person every time you ring. Have a look at what our customers say and judge for yourself.