Anything to be aware of when selling a Tesla?

[regner]

I am going to be selling my 2020 M3 SR+ next month. I really don't want to but due to work and some personal stuff I will be moving from Vancouver to London.

I have never sold a car before. Every car I have previously had has been traded in when buying a new car. So I am going to be figuring that out but I was curious if anyone had any experience selling a Tesla before and if there was anything special to be aware of.

 

[Watts_Up]

From some previous comments, when selling your car to a third party the transfer of ownership by Tesla takes some time, may be a week.

If the new buyer want to use a supercharger and you closed your account, the supercharger will deny the charge payment.

The advice is to set your Tesla account with a gift card with with a small amount, instead of your credit card,
and to let the new user using your payment during that time, may be you might need to create a guest account?

The other issues regarding Tesla would be the warranty transfer, the Premium Connectivity and the FSD option.

 

[Tam]

....anything special to be aware of.

There's a menu in your car's display to revert all settings to the manufacturer's original settings which wipe out all personal settings like favorite locations, Homelink, phones' Bluetooth...

 

[Vawlkus]

London Ont, or London England? It’s a fun road trip from BC to Ont.

 

[DMC-Orangeville]

From some previous comments, when selling your car to a third party the transfer of ownership by Tesla takes some time, may be a week.

If the new buyer want to use a supercharger and you closed your account, the supercharger will deny the charge payment.

I just sold mine 3 weeks ago. I transferred the car out of my mytesla account, and named the new owner. The new owner set up an account with mytesla, and 5 minutes later he got an email from Tesla confirming the car was in his account.

We tested it 30 minutes later at a Supercharger (I had free lifetime Supercharging), and it worked flawlessly.

 

[dj_gon]

I just sold mine 3 weeks ago. I transferred the car out of my mytesla account, and named the new owner. The new owner set up an account with mytesla, and 5 minutes later he got an email from Tesla confirming the car was in his account.

We tested it 30 minutes later at a Supercharger (I had free lifetime Supercharging), and it worked flawlessly.

Hi, I'm thinking of selling our SR+ privately also... Where is the best place to do so? Autotrader? Kijiji? FB marketplace?

 

[DMC-Orangeville]

Hi, I'm thinking of selling our SR+ privately also... Where is the best place to do so? Autotrader? Kijiji? FB marketplace?

Well..........
My son "convinced me" to sell him my car, at a very reasonable price....so I didn't go public. He also got my snow tires, HPWC, winter matts, second UMC (long story), extended warranty, and free Supercharging. I wasn't going to sell it for another year, but, I did get him out of ICE, and into an EV. Now I have no EV....waiting for delivery of new Audi etron......

I have sold a few cars on Autotrader in the past. No issues

Plus - another option might be to sell your car to Favorit, or Shift Motors, both of whom buy and sell a lot of Teslas - usually buy at a much higher price than Tesla will offer. They're both in the Toronto area. Also, Favorit is a TOCO sponsor, and may have a deal for TOCO members.

 

[dj_gon]

Well..........
My son "convinced me" to sell him my car, at a very reasonable price....so I didn't go public. He also got my snow tires, HPWC, winter matts, second UMC (long story), extended warranty, and free Supercharging. I wasn't going to sell it for another year, but, I did get him out of ICE, and into an EV. Now I have no EV....waiting for delivery of new Audi etron......

I have sold a few cars on Autotrader in the past. No issues

Plus - another option might be to sell your car to Favorit, or Shift Motors, both of whom buy and sell a lot of Teslas - usually buy at a much higher price than Tesla will offer. They're both in the Toronto area. Also, Favorit is a TOCO sponsor, and may have a deal for TOCO members.

Thanks. Let me get the car appraised then see... hopefully, it wouldn't be nearly as disappointing as the estimate from Tesla.

 

[Biscuitman]

Well..........
My son "convinced me" to sell him my car, at a very reasonable price....so I didn't go public. He also got my snow tires, HPWC, winter matts, second UMC (long story), extended warranty, and free Supercharging. I wasn't going to sell it for another year, but, I did get him out of ICE, and into an EV. Now I have no EV....waiting for delivery of new Audi etron......

I have sold a few cars on Autotrader in the past. No issues

Plus - another option might be to sell your car to Favorit, or Shift Motors, both of whom buy and sell a lot of Teslas - usually buy at a much higher price than Tesla will offer. They're both in the Toronto area. Also, Favorit is a TOCO sponsor, and may have a deal for TOCO members.

Sorry to see you leave Tesla, I have enjoyed your posts.

 

[DMC-Orangeville]

Sorry to see you leave Tesla, I have enjoyed your posts.

Thanks for the comment

I still follow TMC. I'm a Starlink beta tester (and I love it)
My son, the new owner of my old S85D, lives in Ottawa, and he's now on this forum, and is a member of the Tesla Owners club of Ontario. There will be a chapter in Ottawa, as soon as Covid is done...and I might pop in for the first meeting. I should have my etron by then (I hope).

I just resigned as the Club Secretary, but I'm still helping out. We need to get garbage cans into the Ottawa SCs, and I might drive them out too. Excuse to see the grandkids

 

[regner]

London Ont, or London England? It’s a fun road trip from BC to Ont.

England, so not such a fun road trip

 

[regner]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I appreciate every bit of information I can get.