Avoid selling your car to Distinct Motors via Motorway
I used the Motorway App to sell my car by auction through their dealer network. I felt I had given a fair description of my car to Motorway. My car was 10 years old with just under 46,000 miles on the clock. I had it serviced by the franchised dealer every year and looked after it carefully. It had been serviced 2 weeks earlier when it got new brake pads and a new pollen filter. Motorway classed it as 3 out of 5. Distinct Motors won the auction by bidding £6716 which I accepted. Instead of collecting the car themselves, Distinct sent an "independent professional" company to check it. They claimed to see dents in the car which I had never even noticed, and could not see when they pointed them out. They claimed Distinct would, among other things, have to respray two of the doors. This was ludicrous. Apart from one area which I had admitted to Motorway, the paintwork was in very good condition for a ten year old car and it seemed idiotic to respray the doors. Surprise, surprise, Distinct Motors used this so called "independent professional" report to reduce the offer price to £6000 and utterly refused to budge. Clearly they commissioned the report to drive the price down. I accepted, only because I wanted the cash to buy another car the next day (incidentally that dealer had already offered over £5,800 for the car in part exchange because they would have put it straight into auction). Three days after I sold the car to them for £6000, Distinct advertised it online in glowing terms at a price of £8,989. Do you really want to deal with a company which behaves like this?
