[James Watson]

Hi all

Thinking of selling our Leaf 24, as working from home and not likely to need this going forward.

What have people found is the best way to do so please?

Options would be to try and sell it back to Nissan, we buy any car it, or maybe call a few EV specialist sellers like eco cars to see if they would take it.

Would include selling on here and autotrader, but with social distancing I don’t want to be offering test drives and sitting next to other people in the car, so these options would be out.

thanks for any advice.

 

[James Watson]

Thanks both, appreciate the advice. WBAC came out with £5,100, but I know they often knock money off on the day (not that there is anything wrong with ours).

I guess we should ring Nissan, Drive Green and so on next and see how they compare to this.

It’s a bog standard black accenta 3.3 on 11 bars, 2014.

 

[James Watson]

Will update with what happens. Might not do anything for a month or so though, so will not be an immediate follow up 👍

 

[James Watson]

I listed my dads Leaf 24 on here for him a few years ago and it sold through this forum, but with covid just exploring more contactless options. A buyer on here will (quite rightly) want a test drive and so on, which I don’t want to do for the foreseeable future. Maybe a contactless dealer sale will get us a bit less money unfortunately though.

 

[James Watson]

Good point 👍

 

[James Watson]

Around that £5K mark is quite an affordable way in to EV’s, but at the same time the Leaf 24 will only work for certain people. Probably a second car for errands. At £5k the battery must be worth about that, shame there are no ways to turn it into a home battery system! It’s just sat there most of the time, it might as well be running the house!

 

[James Watson]

I'm in a similiar predicmant so would be very interested to hear how you get on.

As an update, we sold the Leaf to Cleevely EV for 5K. WBAC adjusted their price to under 4K when we listed a couple of very minor scratches. We also tried Motorway.co.uk, but they were not interested and were suggesting around 4K too. Nissan main dealer would not take it as they said it was too old to sell with a warranty. Bit rubbish when Kia’s would still be under the original warranty at 6 years old! The car is now for sale with Cleevely for £6,450. Maybe we could have got 5.5K as a private sale but didn’t want to be giving test drives in a pandemic.