Operations
How well-run used car dealerships actually operate day to day - inventory ageing, reconditioning, documents, multi-branch coordination, and the moment a spreadsheet stops being enough. Written for owners and managers, with the numbers behind each recommendation.
The Dealer’s Used Car Inspection Checklist: What to Check Before You Buy a Car for Stock
The money on a used car is made when you buy it, not when you sell it. A dealer’s inspection checklist for India in the order it should be done - the free online checks that take ten minutes, the document checks, the walk-around, the drive, and how to turn what you find into a price. With the four deal-breakers that should end the conversation.
Buying a Car That Still Has a Loan on It: Hypothecation, Form 35 and the Bank NOC for Dealers
Many of the best used cars a dealer is offered still carry a bank’s name on the RC. How hypothecation works, how to check it before you pay, the foreclosure-to-NOC-to-Form 35 sequence that removes it, what goes wrong, and how to structure the purchase so you never hand over money against a car you cannot transfer.
Used Car Reconditioning: How Much to Spend Before You Sell, and a Checklist That Pays for Itself
Reconditioning is the most under-recorded cost on a used car lot - and the easiest one to overspend. A category-by-category checklist for Indian dealers, the one rule for deciding what to fix, a worked example of recon spend against the price it recovers, and how to stop it leaking out of profit-per-car.
Consignment and Brokerage Car Sales: How Commission Deals Work and How to Track Them
Selling a car you never bought is one of the best-margin deals a used car dealer does - and the easiest to lose money on. How brokerage and consignment deals are structured, priced, documented and tracked, with a worked example.
Multi-Branch Used Car Dealership Management: How to Scale Without Losing Control
Beyond 3-5 locations, visibility gaps grow exponentially. Here's what actually breaks when a used-car dealership adds branches - and how to add them without breaking it.
Days in Stock: How to Measure Inventory Ageing on a Used Car Lot and What It Costs
Every car on your lot has a number that matters more than its price: how many days it has been there. How to measure days in stock and average holding period, what each extra day costs in rupees, where to set your ageing alert, and how to act on it.
Form 29/30, NOC and RC Transfer: The Dealer’s Document Checklist for Every Used Car Sale
Every used car sale in India ends at the RTO. The forms that move ownership (29 and 30), the ones that unblock it (28 for an NOC, 35 for a loan), the deadlines, and a checklist for what to collect at purchase and hand over at sale - so no car is stuck for a missing paper.
How to Start a Used Car Business in India: Licences, Capital, GST and the Real Numbers
A practical, operator’s guide to starting a used car dealership in India - the registrations you actually need, how much capital goes where, how GST works from day one, the deal structures that stretch your money, and the records to set up before the first car arrives.
5 Signs It's Time to Ditch Excel for Used Car Software
Excel and WhatsApp get a dealership started, but they break as it scales. Five research-backed signs it's time to move to used car management software - and what to migrate first.
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