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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Anyone managed to find where their car ended up for auction at lease end? I asked the dealer and he said they had nothing to do with it.</p>
I know motability might allow buying from them but it’ll be expensive.
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Disposed at closed motor auctions, Trade only.
Joss
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Hi
my husband was an auctioneer and although they have been online during the pandemic, previously all Motability were in fact open auctions certainly through BCA and although quite rare individuals did come and purchase their ex lease vehicle. The problem is to find which auction the car went too but there is a public portal on the BCA website and one would assume that Mannheim who also handled Motability would have a similar set up.
I googled my car reg randomly a few months after my last lease and it was up for sale. Since then I have seen it multiple times in my city as a driving instructors vehicle.
Thanks guys, I will certainly have a go. A friend is in the trade so that might help.
Not at auction but I kept checking auto trader for mines and it turned up at a small garage in York, then bought by a guy in Dumfries…. I know that cause he joined the forum for the car
Although a risk if you definitely want to buy your car at the end of the lease, this is definitely worth considering. The prices that Motability quote their customers who want to buy their car are clearly designed to deter all but the foolhardy.
I ask each time out of interest and for a car sold as seen with no warranty they have always asked silly money. For our last car, I found it for sale a few months later at a dealer in Norwich and they were asking £1k less than I was quoted, even with a warranty and so I suspect that they paid at least £2k less than that at auction.
I have just asked for a price for our current car as the lease is almost out and, yet again, they are asking £3k more than the car would fetch at an auction. Given that a 5% discount should be fairly easy to negotiate on a second hand car, I could even buy a similar car from a main dealer for less and that would have a warranty!
I got a letter from the DVLA not long after returning my last car asking if I knew it was being exported and if not to contact them. It gave a shipping date, but not a destination.
So, unlike us in these strange times, its probably living it up in some sunny land.
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
If you sign up to the BCA website you maybe able to track your old car down, the search tools are very poor but you might have some luck .
Not meant for the general public so you may have to be “inventive” with job occupation etc ?
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