Sell your damaged Volkswagen Polo
More damaged Polos come through our buying desk than any other single model in South Africa, and the arithmetic behind that is simple: the car has been at or near the top of the sales charts since 2010, so the used parc is enormous and the accident pool scales with it. What surprises owners is how easily a modern Polo is written off — a moderate front impact that fires both airbags, splits the bumper and pushes the radiator support back is often enough for an assessor to call it uneconomical, even though the car drove away from the scene.
Get an offer on your Volkswagen Polo
Tell us what you have and send a few photos. We come back with an offer within 24 hours, collect anywhere in South Africa for free, and pay you on the day we collect.
Get my free quoteWhich Volkswagen Polo years we buy
We buy damaged Polos across the full local run, from the 2010 fifth-generation 6R through the 2014 6C facelift and on to the 2018 AW car and its 2022 update, right up to current models.
Volkswagen Polo derivatives we buy
We buy every Volkswagen Polo derivative, petrol or diesel, manual or automatic. The ones we are asked about most often are:
- Polo 1.4 Trendline
- Polo 1.2 TSI Comfortline
- Polo 1.0 TSI Highline
- Polo 1.0 TSI Life
- Polo GTI
Damage we see on the Volkswagen Polo
Front-end impacts account for most of the Polos we buy, and the combination of two deployed airbags, a bonnet, both headlamps and a crushed radiator support is what usually tips the estimate past the vehicle's value. On 6R and 6C cars we also take a steady stream of hail write-offs from Highveld summer storms, where the roof, bonnet and boot lid are dimpled but the 1.4 and 1.2 TSI drivetrains are untouched.
Whether your Volkswagen Polo has accident damage, flood or hail damage, a blown engine, or has been written off by an insurer as a Code 2, Code 3 or Code 4 vehicle, we will make you an offer. It does not need to run, and it does not need to be roadworthy.
Before you sell
See everything we buy from Volkswagen, or read Code 2, 3 and 4 vehicles and write-offs explained if you are unsure how your vehicle has been coded.