What the Mitsubishi was for decides what gets looked at.
A car that has obviously worked gets a shorter look and a rounder number, because working out what the work did to it takes longer than assuming.
So we ask what it was actually asked to do, and the answer decides which parts get gone over properly and which get an ordinary look.
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Both have a page
Two Mitsubishis, and two quite different calls
- Sell your Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
- For the household that quietly stopped charging it years ago and has been treating that as something to apologise for. It is not.
- Sell your Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross PHEV
- Kept being quoted as though it were the bigger one, by people working from the name rather than from the vehicle.
The Mitsubishi list
Short list, and short is the whole point
These are the electrified ones, which is what this business buys. If the badge on the back of yours is up there, it counts.
Battery electric
- i-MiEV
Plug in hybrid
Whichever of them is yours, none of it needs tidying up before we come. You do not have to have it detailed, take the bar off the back, or make it look like a car that spent its life doing school drop off and nothing else. Somebody is coming to read the car as it actually is, and a car presented as something it is not is the one that causes trouble later in the day.
It goes faster that way as well, which surprises people. An hour spent working out what has been cleaned off, unbolted or parked out of sight is an hour not spent on the car, and the questions that hour would have answered end up getting asked anyway, later, when there is a figure on the table and less goodwill to spend on them.
The work it did
The job it was bought for is written down nowhere
It is the most useful thing you can tell us about a Mitsubishi, and there is no document anywhere in the car that records it.
The calls about these usually open the same way, with what the car was for. Something had to be towed, or everything had to fit, or a load had to go somewhere every second weekend and nothing else in the driveway was going to do it. A bar went on the back not long after it arrived. It has spent most of its life with something behind it or something on the roof, and it is the one everybody in the family rings when they are moving house.
What that does to a sale is predictable, and it is not really anybody being dishonest. Visible work reads as risk, and risk gets a rounder number, because assessing what the work actually did takes longer than assuming the worst of it. The bar on the back is the giveaway. It is the one part of a car that says out loud what it has been used for, and it is the part sellers most expect to be punished for having.
We ask instead, and the reason is practical rather than generous. A boat that goes in the water twice a summer and a load that went out every weekend for years are not the same history, and the parts of the car that carried them are not in the same condition either. Nobody can separate those two from the outside, which is why the question gets asked out loud and why a straight answer is worth giving. Whatever it comes back as, the part we control does not move. The inspector comes to your home or your work, anything still owing is settled directly with the financier, and if the payout comes to more than the vehicle does, you get that shortfall in writing before you sign anything.
Two questions
The two that come up before anything else
It has towed a caravan for years. Is that going to be held against it?
Being asked what it towed is not the same as being marked down for it. What the answer does is send somebody to look properly at the parts of the car that did the work, instead of guessing at them from the outside. A car that has towed and been kept up is a different car from one that has towed and been ignored, and looking is the only way anybody separates those two.
It is in use every day and we cannot lose it for an afternoon. How does that work?
Somebody comes to you rather than the car going anywhere, at home or at work, at a time you pick. If it suits you better to bring it to us instead, the address is at the foot of every page on this site. Either way the car is out of your hands for as long as it takes to look at it and no longer.
Tell us what the Mitsubishi has been doing, and we will price the car that did it.
No obligation. Send the car details through and we call you back with a real price range.