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!

  • whodatdair
    7·
    9 hours ago

    See if Carmax will make you an offer. If it’s not bad enough to be blowing blue smoke and the coolant is clean, you may by able to sneak it by an underpaid intake tech.

    If you do use CL or FB marketplace, don’t offload it without a word of warning please. People are struggling right now and the ones buying $400 cars are doing so because they can’t afford anything else. Carvana and Carmax are giant corporations so no moral issues with offloading on them.

    • Snot FlickermanOPEnglish
      8·
      9 hours ago

      Oh no, it has to have a warning. It would be way messed up to sell it without them knowing the history and condition.

      I honestly would feel bad even trying to sneak it past an underpaid tech.

      I’d rather just get what I can from it for being honest. No one else needs to suffer so I can profit.

      Thanks for the call out on that though, that stuff is important.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      3·
      9 hours ago

      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?

      • whodatdair
        5·
        8 hours ago

        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.