Selling your car for export from Enschede through our network abroad

Think of the diesel you have driven to work for years, an ex-lease car, a company van your business is replacing, or a car with damage you no longer want to repair. A mileage above 200,000 km is no problem; those are exactly the cars our partners look for. The car does need to be from 2008 or later.

Unsure whether yours qualifies? Send the details anyway. It costs nothing and you are not committing to anything.

Start with the details of your car: registration number, make and model, year, mileage, fuel type, condition and any damage. You can enter these in the form at the bottom of this page, or send them by WhatsApp together with photos. Clear photos, including of any damage, make the assessment easier.

We then pass the car on to our network of car companies abroad. If one of them makes an offer, you hear it from us. If you say no, that is the end of it, at no cost.

It helps to know exactly what we do. We do not buy the car and we do not make an offer ourselves. The offer comes from a car company abroad; we simply pass it on. Whether an offer comes in, and how much it is, is up to those companies. That is why we do not quote amounts in advance and cannot promise that an offer will come.

For you as the seller, the service is free and without obligation. The buyer pays for the export papers and, if needed, export insurance with white plates.

When a car is sold to a buyer abroad, it is not transferred into the buyer's name in the Dutch register. The RDW advises that the buyer exports the vehicle in their own name, and we arrange that at our desk in Hengelo.

You receive the indemnification certificate (vrijwaringsbewijs), proof that the car is no longer registered to you. Your Dutch obligations for insurance, the APK test and road tax then end. The buyer receives the export documents: the export certificate, also called registration certificate part II, and the registration card with a corner cut off. If the buyer drives the car to its destination, they also need export insurance and two white export plates, which we arrange at the desk too.

The transfer needs the same papers as any RDW export:

As the seller, you mainly bring the registration card with its tenaamstellingscode (the registration code that belongs to the card), or the old paper parts, and the yellow plates, which are handed in at export. The ID needed is that of the person in whose name the export is arranged.

Studying or working at the University of Twente or Saxion and heading home without your car? Selling it for export can be an alternative to driving it yourself or selling it in the Netherlands. Start in good time, though: we cannot predict whether or how quickly an offer will come in.

Would you rather take the car with you after all? Then you export it in your own name, with white plates and temporary insurance for the journey. Our page on export papers in the Netherlands explains how that works.

In the form below, ‘Sell your car for export’ is already selected. There is no upload field, so send photos with the WhatsApp button in the form, or by email. Want to talk it through first? Call or send a WhatsApp message; advice and help are free.