Engine Management Light and selling a car

[glenny67]

hi, I have a fiat doblo for sale and it's proving very hard to shift. On the advert I have mentioned there is an engine management light on but I have since found out it's probably due to a faulty motorised throttle (p2107 from diagnostics).

Would I be better off including the detail on the advert about the faulty throttle particularly if it's relatively easy/cheap to fix?

At the moment it only says on the advert that the engine management light on and I think that is putting people off.

thanks

[heraldic]

If it's cheap and easy to fix, then fix it cheaply and easily.

The fact that you haven't suggests to buyers that it will not be cheap or easy.

[glenny67]

Fair comment! I am just spending so much on selling the car I am throwing money at it and going to take a massive hit anyway so just want to get rid now!

[andyiley]

Very few people would buy a car with something as potentially expensive as an EML/ABS/ESC warning light on.

Either fix it or you will be as you say spending just as much on re-advertising it.

In my experience it is NEVER worth selling a car with known faults, the first thing anyone will think is that it must be expensive, or the seller would have fixed it.