Our step by step guide will help you produce a simple used car advert in a matter of minutes. You will have the opportunity to review your car advert before it goes live and check that you're happy with the content. You can easily amend or delete your car advert at any point.

Before you start it helps if you know when you're car is due for an MOT and when your tax expires as these are important pieces of information that potential buyers will want to know. Also potential car buyers like to see pictures of your car, especially if it is a used car to confirm the colour and the condition for themselves.

Your Used Car Details

You will need to know the exact manufacturer, model and version of your car along with the year it was first registered. Take care to ensure that you get these details right as it will ensure that your car shows up when people are searching using these criteria increasing the chances of a quick sale for your used car.

Colour

Although you may know the manufacturer colour name for your car, sometimes this is not the most descriptive, for example Storm or Citrus doesn't really tell a potential used car buyer what the actual colour is, so always try to add that in as well, for example Storm (dark grey) or Citrus (yellow) to help people who are browsing for a particular colour car to buy.

Car Features

You can use our tick boxes to select the features that your car has, making it even easier to write your used car advert. If there is something that is not listed or you believe is worth mentioning in more detail you can use the free text box, for example if it has upgraded alloys or heated seats or has always been kept in a garage. Its also worth mentioning if your used car has a full dealer service history with the appropriate dealer stamps as this still makes a lot of difference to some potential used car buyers.

You can look in the preview panel to see exactly what text will appear, if you want to change any of your used car details either uncheck the boxes or type new text in the free text box. If you need to change the make, model or derivative of your car use the back button at the bottom of the page to return to the previous page.

Please note that legally your car must be 'as described' so don't be tempted to stretch the truth when you're writing your car advert or when you're emailing / speaking to a potential buyer.

Photos

Our free used car advert provides you with the opportunity to upload three photographs of your car to go with your advert. We would recommend that one of these photographs is of the interior and one is a full car image from the side. Your third photo can either be one taken from the front of your car or showing a special feature, such as alloys or roof rails that you think will be important to a potential used car buyer.

The photographs of your used car should be stored on your computer in jpeg format to allow them to be easily uploaded.

Abbreviations

Due to the way the car adverts are created on motoring.co.uk and the generous word limit we provide, it is not often that you should see any abbreviations, however we've put a quick guide together for you just in case you need to look any up. Link to glossary.