Peddle is actually a great experience - at least compared to the alternatives: LKQ, Copart, various other cash for cars type operations. With peddle you'll get a equivalent or better price with drastically less hassle. That will probably change as the margins shift, but right now peddle gives you hundreds for a salvage car and turns around and sells it right back to copart anyways. You can sell direct to copart, but expect a hassle.
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The author has sold one salvage title vehicle to a individual. All of the others I did not feel comfortable with handing off a known broken vehicle to a private party. I just did not trust that they understood what they were getting into. In contrast, the questions from peddle are 'Which part is damaged?' and 'Does it run and have the catalyic converters?'. Moreover, the tow truck guy just picks it up and takes it away, he doens't start it, drive it etc. He literally does not care. It's also a salvage car and looks like it's been for a while, so everybody is relaxed about the value invovled. They literally pick it up from your house and drop it at a junkyard or auction hosue. It's all professional and everybody knows what the risks are. This creates fun at the end of the process too - we're not trying to extract every single piece of value out of the experience, we're trying to have fun with cars. Still want to try selling the car directly to an individual? Look at the Craigslist Selling Walkthrough All of the techniques there are equally valid on facebook marketplace.
Automotive engineering is the nexus point of so many of our technological developments. It's truly a joy to experience them from an operator perspective, all the way down to the technician level. Having it arrive slightly broken just ups the fun factor as you'll have no choice but to get in there and evalute your options. The fact that these vehicles can be made road worthy and fun based on your mechanical skill and mental cleverness is extremely rewarding.
Next time you're in there - feel that gasket material around your door frames. That stays pliable and resilient for 20+ years on the entire north american continent. It cost virtually nothing to make - just amazing levels of development after basically all of modern history leading to a -20 + 150 degree range for that one part. Where else can you find for $400 a turbocharged air pump, vaccum reservoirs, 40k volts, real time computer operating systems, 5-95% body size ranges ergonimic decisions. Couple all of that with a desire for design, utility and performance that resonate with their market realities. And then you sit in it and absorb all of that. What a joy.