Volvo S60 D3

The joys of selling via the web. They design the site free of any freeform text, you can't specifically call anything out, only what they ask and with predetermined answers.

I did include photos of the front of the car and the steering wheel is clear to see.

Armed Forces are pretty much long since gone.

I think the US has a greater presence in Germany than the UK now.

I could contact UPS as the US mail service uses RHD vehicles or maybe a roadsweeper driver who likes driving on the right of the vehicle. 😁

The meeting this morning went as expected.

Checked the car over, checked all the paperwork, took lots of photos then said they couldn't buy it as it is RHD (no shit, Sherlock! you knew that from the photos I sent you) but they will put it out to their internal auction for 48hrs and I will be notified if anyone wants to make an offer. It looks like plan B, take it to the UK in October and get it serviced. It's still up for grabs if anyone wants it. I will need notice though to include an MOT as part of the service.

Plan C is keep it and get rid of the Focus estate which will be a lot easier to sell here.

I'm not desperate for a sale. Looking at the mileage, the car has only done 4,000 miles since I registered it here in 2016. Most of that was before I got the Focus RS in 2017. The drive to the assessment centre today tooling along in 6th gear, 2,500rpm showing 100mph and 48.7mpg.

It's valued at £4k by motorway as I mentioned at the start of the thread.

When I bought it in 2013 there was no sign of a family dog on the horizon, diesel was OK and it was my only car. From 2013 to 2016 I took it from about 24k miles to 85k miles. It then shared the ten miles each way commute with my motorbike, the bike doing the bulk of the commuting.

2017 came and I got a second car, a toy, the RS which covered 18k miles in the three years I had it. I then got the ST estate which, due to COVID, has covered fewer than 9k miles in two years.

With a forecasted 1,500-2,000 miles per year commute to the office there's a case for getting rid of both and just keeping the BEV but with everything that's going on in the world right now I'm reluctant to throw all my eggs into that basket.

To sell it in the UK I need to unregister it here, stick it on some temporary export plates, take it to the UK, declare it to HMRC to see if there's any tax due (shouldn't be as the car was bought in the UK, all taxes due at the time were paid and it has not changed owner since), get it MOT'd, stick some UK plates on it, insure it for a day once the V5 is received and tax it for a month for the hour it will be on the road to the nearest WBAC or Motorway drop off, and return the export plates back to the local admin centre here.
With all that faff I'll probably just keep it and bin the estate. The BEV is a hatchback so the dog has a space. I could get some roofbars for the BEV and put the roofbox on it, I've seen a few Dutch registered BEVs running around with roofboxes this summer.

Which car would you rather keep?
Get that decision straight in your mind and then make that happen I guess?
If it really is better to move the Volvo on, is there a friend or relative in the UK who could help?
Or, given the privations we all seem likely to face in the short term it might equally seem like a good time to get one of the two expensive cars off your drive for now!

I sold a LHD Volvo in the UK about 15 years ago to a specialist buyer/dealer. He came to view it, and paid me with cash in a large brown envelope on the spot and drove it away. He claimed that the cash was from a sale of a car the previous day to a slightly louche Manchester City football player from Bulgaria..!

HSBC sniffed at the cash but accepted it regardless.

Manual isn't a deal breaker for me, but it could be a ball breaker when someone else finds out and has to drive it.

Been mulling the finances thing over all weekend.  As usual, I know it makes financial sense to downshift the Honda, but I can't quite bring myself to to take the risk of exposing myself to an older car with potentially hidden problems again.  I could do with £5k for a new boiler, however, which is quite an important consideration.  I got tempted to go and look at his, but DSG really, really gives me the willies in terms of potential expensive faults.

www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202207057495418

Nice in light blue, I think you'll find.