Taking the Pirate out of Private car sales.
Sell your car privately for the bigger number — with a garage’s protection behind you
You keep the car, you set the price, and you sell it to a private buyer for more than any trade will pay. Above Board Cars gives that buyer everything a garage would — an independent inspection, a 12-month warranty and protected payment — so they pay a garage price for a private car, and you take the difference.
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What you get
Private sales pay more than any trade. You keep the car, you set the price, you keep the difference.
Buyers want a private-sale price but are wary of a private seller. Give them the protection a garage gives, and your ad pulls the buyers a garage’s ad does.
The buyer pays into Stripe’s escrow-like transfer account and it is released to you at handover. They know their money is safe; you know the money is real — and a buyer who has paid in is not a messer.
A buyer can have the car independently inspected through us, or bring their own mechanic. Either way, the car speaks for itself.
A private buyer has no comeback on a private seller — the warranty is what gives them one. Garage-level cover, on your private sale.
Your car goes on ukcarimports.ie, and you list it on DoneDeal too with our line in the ad.
How it works for you
Ten seconds. We show you what comparable cars actually sold for privately, and what a trade would pay, side by side.
About five minutes on your phone. Save and finish later if you have not got everything to hand.
Registration certificate and ID checked, then your car is advertised on ukcarimports.ie at the price you set.
Copy the line below into your DoneDeal advert. It tells every buyer the sale is protected.
Enquiries come through us. We arrange the independent inspection if the buyer wants one, put the warranty on the car and hold the buyer’s payment in the protected account.
You hand over the car and the keys; the payment is released the same day.
What it costs
- Payment protection through Stripe’s escrow-like transfer account: €195 per sale.
- Independent mechanical inspection: €250–500, depending on where the car is and how detailed a check you want.
- 12-month warranty: €395–495 by level of cover — the five covers are below, each with its full policy document.
- Typically sellers will include all 3 services to attract more interest and help achieve a better price and a quicker sale.
- Premium Power Train — €395 full cover details (PDF)
- Premium Max — €495 full cover details (PDF)
- Premium Plus — €495 full cover details (PDF)
- Premium Component — €495 full cover details (PDF)
- Premium EV — €495 full cover details (PDF)
Tell all your potential buyers on DoneDeal about the garage-like protection Above Board Cars offers
Put this line in your ad. Every buyer who reads it knows the sale is protected, and the link explains it to them.
A buyer who wants the detail can be sent to ukcarimports.ie/above-board-cars.
Above Board Cars is run by ukcarimports.ie. We never own your car and we never set its price — you stay the seller named on the registration certificate.