Yes, a truck with engine damage can be sold through truckoo – even if it is no longer driveable. Workshops with their own repair facilities, parts dismantlers and exporters place binding bids; the buyer arranges transport. The sales contract, payment and collection all run through truckoo.
Not all engine damage is the same. Whether it is the turbocharger, the injectors, the cylinder head or a seized piston – for the buyer that is the difference between a repair costing 4,000 euros and a replacement engine costing 25,000. The more precisely you describe the damage, the more reliable the bids.
What you should not do: play the damage down. A buyer who finds more at the handover than the bid was based on will renegotiate – a buyer who finds exactly what was described will pay.
The sale consists of four steps: list, receive bids, accept a bid, hand over. Until you accept a bid you can cancel at any time at no cost – and even after that you pay nothing.
Photograph the registration certificate, enter the mileage, take six mandatory photos. The listing process guides you through each photo. Around ten minutes.
Every bid is binding and valid for a fixed period. You see all bids side by side, not just the highest.
If none suits, you don’t sell – at no cost. Once accepted, there is no renegotiation.
Handover at a partner workshop or collection from your premises. Then payout by instant bank transfer. Deregistration can be added as an optional service (from 49 €).
Special feature with engine damage: photos of the engine compartment and a photo of the fault memory or the workshop diagnosis belong in the vehicle details. If the truck is not driveable, it will be collected – that is clarified before the bid, not afterwards.
The value is not measured by the damage but by the vehicle around it: year of manufacture, emissions standard, body, axle configuration and the condition of the frame, cab and gearbox. For many buyers, a five-year-old Actros with engine damage is more attractive than a twelve-year-old one with a running engine.
A turbocharger, injectors or an EGR cooler are calculable repairs that a workshop carries out for a fraction of the cost of a new one. A seized piston or crankshaft damage means a replacement engine – and makes the vehicle more of a source of parts or an export candidate. A diagnosis decides which category you end up in.
The gearbox, axles, frame, cab and body retain their full value. A refrigerated box body with an intact unit or a young loader crane is in demand regardless of the engine – some buyers buy for precisely that reason.
With Euro 6, a replacement engine almost always pays off for a European dealer. With Euro 3 to 5 the exporter does the sums: the repair is carried out where labour is cheaper, and the vehicle then runs for years afterwards.
The service book, invoices for the most recent repairs and the diagnosis of the damage turn a risk into a calculation. Buyers bid on what they can verify – not on what they hope for.
At an independent workshop a replacement engine can quickly cost you 15,000 to 30,000 euros – a dealer with in-house repair facilities pays a fraction of that and then sells the truck on. Between your repair and the later sale price lie:
The bids show you what the truck fetches in its current condition. If that is close to the value of a repaired vehicle minus the repair costs – and that is the rule – you save yourself time, capital and risk.
On truckoo, 1500+ verified dealers and exporters from 35+ countries place bids. For defective vehicles, three groups are relevant: workshops with their own repair facilities, exporters with low-cost repair capacity in the destination country, and dismantlers who sell the vehicle for parts.
These three groups calculate in completely different ways – and that is exactly your advantage. The workshop calculates the replacement engine, the exporter the repair in Romania or Morocco, the dismantler the value of the gearbox, axles and body individually. With a classified ad you usually reach only one of these groups. Through truckoo all three bid on the same vehicle, and whoever it suits best bids the most.
No. Vehicles that are not driveable are collected by low-loader. The buyer arranges the transport and the cost is accounted for in the bid. When entering the vehicle details, state whether the truck can be rolled and whether the location can be reached by a low-loader.
In most cases, no. Dealers with their own workshop repair considerably more cheaply and factor the damage in. Get bids on the vehicle in its current condition first – no costs arise until you accept one.
Then the price is renegotiated or the buyer withdraws – both cost time. So: describe the damage as precisely as possible, enclose the diagnosis and take photos according to the checklist. A known defect reduces the bid less than an unexpected one.
Yes. The process is the same as for engine damage: describe the damage, state whether the vehicle is driveable, compare the bids. For workshops, gearbox and axle damage is often easier to cost than engine damage.
On the day of handover. As soon as the buyer or our partner on site has confirmed that the vehicle, keys and documents have been handed over in full, truckoo pays out by instant bank transfer.
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Ten minutes to enter the details, the buyer arranges transport. For sellers the sale is free of charge – even when you sell.
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