Part exchange · Dorchester, Dorset
Part exchange your car in Dorchester.
Bring your car in against anything on our forecourt. No adverts, no strangers at your door, no four weeks of time-wasters — you drive in with one car and out with another on the same day.
Want a figure for your car?
Ring us with the registration and the mileage and you will get a guide figure on the phone. Nothing to pay and no obligation either way.
What a part exchange figure really is
A part exchange price is a trade price, and it will be lower than you would get selling privately. We are not going to pretend otherwise.
What you are paying for is everything that does not happen: no advert, no photographs, no strangers at your door on a Sunday, no test drives with people who were never going to buy, no arguments about a fault three weeks later. For a lot of people that is worth the difference. For some it is not, and if your car is easy to sell privately we will tell you so.
Outstanding finance is not a problem
If there is money still owed on the car, that is completely normal and we deal with it every week. We get the settlement figure, pay the lender directly as part of the deal, and the difference comes off the price of your next car.
If the settlement is more than the car is worth — negative equity — we will say so plainly and show you the numbers rather than bury the shortfall in the deal.
How we arrive at a number
Three quick questions on the website get you a guide figure. That figure is a guide and nothing more, because nobody can value a car they have not seen.
The real offer comes when we have looked at it: condition, service history, MOT history, tyres, how it drives, and what cars like it are actually doing in the trade right now. Then the number does not move again.
What makes a car worth more
A full service history and a stamped book. Two keys. The original paperwork and handbook. A long MOT. Tyres with real tread. A clean interior — it costs nothing and it changes what a car feels like.
What does not matter as much as people think: a dent you were going to fix, a mark on an alloy, a service that is slightly overdue. We have a workshop. We would rather take the car as it is and sort it ourselves than have you pay retail prices to tidy it up first.
We will buy the car even if you are not buying one
You do not have to take a car from us. If you just want to sell, ask anyway — if it is the sort of car we can retail, we will make an offer.
Where to find us
- Address
13–14 Wyvern Buildings, Grove Trading Estate, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1ST - Phone 07857 904070
- WhatsApp 07857 904070
- Email mchvcarsales@gmail.com
- Monday to Friday 09:00–17:00
- Saturday 09:00–15:00
- Sunday closed
We are on Grove Trading Estate in Dorchester, a few minutes from the town centre, and we regularly look after cars from Weymouth, Bridport, Blandford and the villages in between.