Selling your car from Deventer to the export trade: how it works

The overview below shows the cars our export partners are looking for. All of them must have been built in 2008 or later. Think of a diesel with high mileage, a car returning at the end of a lease, a van from a business, or a car with damage. Not sure whether yours fits? Call or message us for free advice.

A car company abroad can only make an offer if it knows what it is buying. Please send:

• registration number, make and model;
• year of manufacture and mileage;
• fuel type;
• condition and any damage.

Photos complete the picture. Useful shots include all four sides, the interior, the dashboard showing the mileage and close-ups of any damage. The form at the bottom of this page has no upload field, so use the button to send photos via WhatsApp, which opens a pre-filled message. Email works too. That way, the whole first step happens from home, without a drive to Hengelo.

We pass your car on to our network. If one of the car companies makes an offer, we forward it to you. You consider it in your own time and decide. If you say no, that is the end of it and you pay nothing.

An offer is never certain: the companies decide for themselves whether to bid. That is why we do not quote amounts in advance or promise a time frame.

If you accept the offer, the export transfer can take place at our RDW-approved desk at Slachthuisweg 135 in Hengelo, about 48 km from the Brink, roughly 40 to 45 minutes via the A1.

On export, the car is not registered in the foreign buyer's name in the Dutch register. The RDW advises making sure that the buyer exports the vehicle in their own name. At the desk, this means:

• you receive the vrijwaringsbewijs, proof that the registration in your name has ended;
• the buyer receives the export documents: the export certificate (registration certificate part II) and the registration card with one corner cut off;
• if the buyer drives the car to the destination country, they also receive temporary export insurance and two white export plates.

After the export, your obligations for insurance, the APK (Dutch roadworthiness test) and motor vehicle tax end (source: RDW). Read more about these papers on our page about how to deregister a car for export.

For you as the seller, our help is free and without obligation. Requesting an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing. The buyer pays for the export papers and, where needed, the export insurance and white plates. The rates are on our car export documents prices page.

Because our desk is not in Deventer itself, it pays to prepare the transfer well. Have these ready:

• the registration card with its tenaamstellingscode, or the old paper documents (tenaamstellingsbewijs part 1B and overschrijvingsbewijs);
• the yellow Dutch plates, which are handed in on export;
• the current mileage.

The buyer brings a valid passport, ID card or driving licence and provides their full address abroad. If the buyer cannot come to the Netherlands, the RDW allows a contact person in the Netherlands to arrange the export. Please call or message us about 20 minutes before you arrive.

Ready to request an offer? In the form below, "Sell your car for export" is already selected.