CarMinders - Our Services - Car Buying, Selling, Tyres, Service and Care

Carminders offers a variety of services to meet the needs of car owners. Our services are designed to enhance the pleasure of your car ownership and to ease or eliminate some of the associated stresses that can occur.

Selling a car

Trading in your car to a dealer may be a quick and convenient way to dispose of it but is usually a ‘costly’ option, because a dealer will offer you a 'rock-bottom price, which is usually less than what it can get by disposing of the car to a wholesaler. Of course, the key aspect on a trade- in is the 'change-over' price, and you may still decide to choose this path if you are satisfied with the 'changeover' price for your replacement car.

Alternatively, you may want to sell your car privately, but you are reluctant to try because you are inexperienced in or even intimidated by this process. CarMinders offers a cost effective service to manage the process of selling your car privately. We can help you to establish the realistic market value of your car, and arrange for it to be detailed prior to being presented for sale, to optimize its appeal to private buyers. We can then market the car and negotiate on your behalf with interested buyers to achieve the best possible sale price. We can then complete all selling formalities and paperwork on your behalf.

Used cars
Finding a sound and suitable second hand car can be a tedious and time-consuming process. CarMinders can help you to identify the criteria for your preferred car and can then help you to find and investigate competitively priced cars. We can arrange to have the condition of cars checked and negotiate with the seller for appropriate price adjustments to cover the identified necessary repairs.

New cars
There is now an enormous and perhaps overwhelming range of new car models on the Australian market. CarMinders can help you to identify a car that meets your needs and can search for the most cost effective offer from the relevant dealers. If you have a car to trade in, CarMinders can help you establish the value of your trade in, to ensure that a dealer does not take unfair advantage by offering you a significantly undervalued trade-in price during purchase negotiations.

Are you paying too much to keep your car adequately serviced? Is your car being 'over serviced', having regard to the use that it gets? Are you paying for an expensive 'major' service, when a cheaper 'minor' service is only needed in the light of the distance it has travelled since your last service?

CarMinders can suggest a service level that is appropriate for your car’s use, and which is designed to maintain its condition. We can also help you to select a service provider who is approachable and cost effective, as an alternative to some of the 'up market' and expensive service facilities of major brands or car dealers.

For more information, please read our article on Car Service and Maintenance with CarMinders

If your car is equipped with expensive tyres, Carminders believes that you may not need to replace them with the same expensive set, if your regular driving environment doesn’t justify it.

CarMinders can help you to choose a tyre that is suitable for your use; for example, it may not be necessary to buy a set of fragile 'high speed' rated tyres if the bulk of your driving is done on potholed suburban streets that are heavily limited by speed restrictions

Suburban water restrictions have forced many car owners to use mechanized washing facilities attached to fuel outlets. Such facilities may use abrasive brushes that can damage your car’s expensive paint surfaces. CarMinders can suggest the services of specialist car detailers who provide a full range of services ranging from routine washing and interior cleaning to full detailing in preparation for a sale.

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