Well as I said, I would be talking about selling the car, and it was such a hassle trying to get rid of it.
When we arrived in Cairns we spent the first couple of days advertising it. Poor Thomas spent the best part of a day on a 'scenic tour' of Cairns. He walked around the whole town centre placing an ad in every window he could. I joined him for the last bit, and by the time we were finished we were completely exhausted, especially due to the awful humidity.
We got a couple of people interested, and they had a look at it, but we had a problem, we were going to the reef for three days. So one person made us an offer, and said he's take the car when we got back, but by the time we were back, he'd found another car! We had only two days to get the car sold in time to change the registration from SA to Queensland. We went to some dealers, but the best offer we got was about $500, and considering we bought the car for $3500, that wasn't a good deal.
We made one last ditched effort to sell it privately, and one guy said he'd buy it for $2000, but when we found out that you had to buy a completely new registration, instead of changing the SA one into Queensland registration. So the guy said he'd buy the car for $2000 minus the cost of the new registration. So we sold the car for $1600.
It was such a shame that we couldn't get any more for the car. We would've tried to get a higher price, but we just had to get rid of it, as we were leaving Cairns a couple of days later. But looking on the bright side, the car (which became known as the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing) was a reliable way of getting everywhere, and it didn't let us down at all. It was cheaper than renting and you had more freedom than if you travelled via public transport. So overall it was worth it. I miss that car! Thomas and I saw the whole East of Australia from Adelaide to Cairns in it, and we travelled 8750kms!
Also, it was good that we got some money for it, as every year Cairns Council pick up heaps of cars that were abandoned by backpackers who couldn't sell them before going home!
The last part of my trip was to Cape Tribulation, which is in the next entry...
When we arrived in Cairns we spent the first couple of days advertising it. Poor Thomas spent the best part of a day on a 'scenic tour' of Cairns. He walked around the whole town centre placing an ad in every window he could. I joined him for the last bit, and by the time we were finished we were completely exhausted, especially due to the awful humidity.
We got a couple of people interested, and they had a look at it, but we had a problem, we were going to the reef for three days. So one person made us an offer, and said he's take the car when we got back, but by the time we were back, he'd found another car! We had only two days to get the car sold in time to change the registration from SA to Queensland. We went to some dealers, but the best offer we got was about $500, and considering we bought the car for $3500, that wasn't a good deal.
We made one last ditched effort to sell it privately, and one guy said he'd buy it for $2000, but when we found out that you had to buy a completely new registration, instead of changing the SA one into Queensland registration. So the guy said he'd buy the car for $2000 minus the cost of the new registration. So we sold the car for $1600.
It was such a shame that we couldn't get any more for the car. We would've tried to get a higher price, but we just had to get rid of it, as we were leaving Cairns a couple of days later. But looking on the bright side, the car (which became known as the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing) was a reliable way of getting everywhere, and it didn't let us down at all. It was cheaper than renting and you had more freedom than if you travelled via public transport. So overall it was worth it. I miss that car! Thomas and I saw the whole East of Australia from Adelaide to Cairns in it, and we travelled 8750kms!
Also, it was good that we got some money for it, as every year Cairns Council pick up heaps of cars that were abandoned by backpackers who couldn't sell them before going home!
The last part of my trip was to Cape Tribulation, which is in the next entry...
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