Using the Car Arena

In order for the dealers connected to Car Arena to buy your car a small amount of information is needed. Here we'll try to explain what and why is needed to sell your car via Car Arena:

First we need your Registration and Mileage - these two allows us to identify the vehicle, if the DVLA information is correct, and generate a 'book price' for the car. This is the starting price a dealer would be looking for when trying to give you a part-ex price for your car. Usually the dealers use CAP and/or the Glasses guide.

Next we ask for a little more information - Vehicle condition, finance status, type of usage, etc...
This information is needed for the dealers to generate an 'underwrited value' - i.e. a value they can offer you for the car that is gurantteed if the information you supplied is correct.

Our next step is to ask you for any recent photographs you may have of the car, however this section is optional and can be skipped. We decided to add this section as it will help dealers give an accurate value for the car and in some cases may allow them to bid higher for the car.

The final step is to provide the car arena with your contact details. As we're asking dealers to value your car we can't just generate an instant value. We have to wait until the car dealers themselves log onto the system and value the cars they are interested in.
Dealers have to provide a value for your vehicle, which is then emailed to you, and then they will be give more detailed information should they wish to follow up the leed.

At any time after posting your car onto Car Arena though you can stop any new dealers seeing your vehicle details or remove the car from the system altogether via the valuation logon.