Selling
Trading in, selling privately, and what your car is worth to whom.
Donating or selling an old car
Five exits for a tired car - and an honest account of when donation is and isn't the better one.
Getting a car ready to sell
Ranked by return on effort - and the five jobs that are not worth doing at all.
How to photograph a car
Fifteen frames, in order - and what a buyer concludes from the one you left out.
Knowing when to sell
Cost per month of keeping it against cost per month of replacing it - the only comparison that settles the question.
Meeting a buyer
Seven phases, in order, for the part of a private sale everyone dreads.
Private sale or trade-in
Scored across money, effort, time, risk and paperwork - including the cases where we lose.
Selling a car you still owe on
The sequence, stage by stage - and the middle where nobody holds the title.
What happens during a trade appraisal
Forty minutes with a trade-in from the appraiser's side, and the four questions that produce the number.
What your trade is actually worth
Four valuation lenses on one car, four numbers, and why the gap between them is not anybody cheating you.
Writing a listing that doesn't waste anyone's time
Seven before-and-after rewrites, with the reasoning for every change.