Sell your car in Newcastle and the Hunter. Paid before pickup.

Skip the Hunter private-sale run-around

Listing a car privately in Newcastle or Maitland brings the usual run of scam messages, lowball offers and strangers wanting a test drive. You still have to be sure a payment is genuine before you hand over the keys. A trade-in is quicker, but you are negotiating with the dealer who is selling you the next car.

We are a licensed motor dealer based in Waterloo, in Sydney, and the business is run by a valuer who has priced cars since 1992. Newcastle is around 160 km up the M1 from Sydney, and you never have to make that drive. We make a genuine offer over the phone and, once you accept, pay a deposit, often the same day. The inspection happens at a time and place that suits you, the balance is paid into your bank account, and the car is collected only after you confirm the funds have cleared.

Utes and 4WDs from the Hunter

Plenty of Hunter vehicles work for a living: mine utes around Singleton and Muswellbrook, tradie utes in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, and tow vehicles bound for Port Stephens. We buy late-model utes and 4WDs of any make, including the Toyota HiLux, Ford Ranger, Isuzu D-MAX and Mazda BT-50, along with family SUVs and European models.

Tell us on the call what is fitted, whether that is a canopy, tray, towbar, bull bar or a mine-site fit-out, and anything that has been taken off. It helps us make an offer on the vehicle you actually have.

High kilometres? Send it anyway

Hunter commutes add up. Drive from Lake Macquarie to a mine in the Upper Hunter, or from Cessnock down the Hunter Expressway to Newcastle, every working day, and a late-model ute can pass 100,000 km sooner than you might expect.

We are buying cars, utes, SUVs and 4WDs from 2021 or newer with 100,000 km or less. If yours has gone past that, send it through anyway and we will tell you straight away if we can help. Our guide to selling a car older than 2021 or over 100,000 km covers your other options.

NSW paperwork in plain terms

Your main job as the seller is a free notice of disposal with Service NSW, lodged straight after the sale and within 14 days at the latest. Selling to us, you enter our dealer licence number, MD 077404, where a private buyer’s licence would go. We prepare the rest of the sale paperwork and make sure the notice is done correctly. Drive to Sydney often? NorthConnex and Sydney’s motorways are tolled, so take the e-tag out of the car and remove the plate from your toll account before collection. Our guide to selling a car in NSW has the full detail.

Collection from the coast to the Upper Hunter

The inspection happens where the car is: a driveway in Merewether, a work car park in Mayfield, a depot in Singleton or a property outside Dungog. Once you confirm the money has cleared, we arrange collection, from Nelson Bay and Raymond Terrace to Kurri Kurri, Cessnock and Scone.

Leaving Williamtown on an interstate posting? Read whether to sell the car or take it with you. Further west or north? We buy right across regional NSW too.

Company and ABN utes

A ute registered to your company or ABN can be sold to us the same way. The registered owner is the seller, so the right person needs to sign, and GST may apply if the business is registered for GST and used the ute. Read how selling a company car works before you call.