Should You Trade Your Car in or Sell it? Pros and Cons

When the time comes to get a new car, one of the first things that many people think of is how much they could get in trade-in value for exchanging their old car at the dealership.

In some cases, however, the car you want to trade-in is not working, so you might ask yourself, should I trade in my nonrunning car at the dealership, or would I be better off trying to sell it in order to maximize the amount of money that I’ll get for it?