Advice please on selling a MOT failed Motorhome

Try advertising it exactly as it is. Say it’s an MOT failure for spares or repair.

Local press, PreLoved, Gumtree, eBay, AutoTrader… There are lots of options including offering it to a caravan/MH scrapper.

It depends on what you want for it or are looking to replace it?if a dealer wants to shift something it might be worth asking

Have you compared the repair cost with the estimated value? Have you considered if the repair cost will provide some acceptable extra years of reasonable care free use? All worth considering in the longer term I guess.

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I am selling my 20 year old motorhome on a well known auction site and I am astounded at the price it has fetched. More than I paid for it 6 years ago! So get the work done and sell it with an MOT and I bet you won't regret it.

Out of interest and as I  may have to do similar in the not too distant future can I ask are folks bidding after viewing? What are you/have you done regarding payment?

We sold our old caravan via Caravan Club website. It was nearly 30 years old, and had a few issues, but we advertised it honestly, put a realistic value on it, and it sold within a week. We were happy to let the prospective buyer come along and have a look before committing to anything, which she did. From quite a way away as well, good four hour trip, but she did have family in area. She liked it, we haggled, she gave us cash there and then, and we even towed it to her family member not far away for an extra £50. We had communicated by telephone prior to her coming along. We sounded honest, she sounded genuine, it does happen. It the bidders unseen you need to be wary of dealing with. We had bought the van via Classic Car weekly, and did the reverse when we bought it.

Find out what “corrosion” means. If it’s a decent MH in other respects, and you like it, it might not be that expensive to repair, but you need to find out. If you choose to get rid, suggest Classic car weekly or Classic Car buyer. Both have caravan/MH sections. We got more for our caravan than we paid for it, enough to cover the restoration costs. But be honest. 

Many thanks for all the very helpful replies. In our case the corrosion is severe - the welder tried to repair 3 issues raised by MOT but could not find sound metal to work from and pointed out more areas of apparent weakness. 16 years of Northumberland winters have taken their toll! Good internal and mechanical condition might make it a good project for a welder wanting a cheap entry into motorhoming. But do such people exist? Thanks again for your help.

That’s bad luck meadow. But someone might want it for spares or the interior. There are lots of folks doing their own van conversations, who might be grateful for some of the stuff.

Almost every motor caravan is built on more or less of some commercial vehicle, and it reads as though it is this part that has fallen prey to corrosion. Perhaps your good welder could take a good condition van/pickup of the same model, or even newer, and use it as a transplant to all the good parts of the caravan.