Few reasons why my Accord is forced to the Delhi scrap market

I will be compiling a list of parts purchased during its ownership, which can be sold online.

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The Final destination of the Honda Accord: the Mayapuri Delhi Scrap market.

Yesterday, I bid adieu to my beloved car. The final resting place for my car is a scrap market. There was cursory interest shown by a few T-Bhpians since I had posted this car for purchase on T-Bhp Classifieds, but according to my estimation, the following are the reasons, why it could not have changed hands:

1. The car could only be transferred to states where the dreaded NGT rule doesn't apply.
2. Let's assume, that someone showed interest in purchasing it, the initiation of NOC from the Parivahan website to Transfer of vehicle to another state would require both the RTOs of the buyer and seller state to work in sync. How that can be achieved without the existence of an intermediary like touts is a big question mark.
3. The intended purchase of such a vehicle for a buyer becomes a distant proposition when the on-road tax estimation in his state (percentage of (the price of the vehicle when bought minus the 15 years depreciation)); only makes it difficult for an intended buyer to go for the purchase because this cost becomes an additional burden that I presume no one would want to bear and thus the purchase becomes unfeasible.

If taking into account the above two points, it doesn't take long to realize that the so-called diktat which is implemented in New Delhi or supposed to be implemented: That if caught by traffic personnel on-road with a vehicle beyond 15 years for petrol and 10 years for diesel would lead to coughing up a fine which runs in 5-digits and even after paying that you lose the right to take the vehicle home on your own! That one is being asked to solicit the services of a towing company to bring the vehicle home, and that would incur an additional charge that one is expected to bear, and wait they won't let you go unless to set forth in detail on an affidavit that you are going to get rid of the vehicle or sell it to those anyone in those cities\states where that dreaded rule doesn't apply.

As per my understanding, when one reviews the last paragraph, thanks to that diktat: the owner of a vehicle is being pushed into a corner to get rid of the vehicle as soon as possible, and the only two ways other than the ones already outlined above are as follows:

1. If someone had an acquaintance or a relation living in any of those non-NGT cities where one can hand over the vehicle and let that point number 2 above take its own sweet time. In this situation, one is assured that the car is with a relation and no reason for the original owner to have any suspicions about the vehicle being misused.
2. For someone like me who doesn't have any such acquaintance or relation, to drive off to a scrap market and get whatever estimation one feels right and hand over the vehicle albeit after completing modalities which one feels confident that at least the car won't be misused.

While I was pursuing the above-stated point and completing the transaction, I was merely exchanging text messages with my wife on my phone remembering the good moments we had in this car.

Finally, these are some pictures I took as I was about to walk away from the vehicle once in for all

This ends my tryst with the Honda Accord.

I will be compiling a list of parts which one still has and were bought during the course of the ownership of this vehicle, but could not be used. Probably to sell those parts online.

I have removed the AD from the T-Bhp Classifieds page.

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