Practical guides on buying, selling and owning vehicles in Sri Lanka — written for people making a real decision, not for search engines.
The same model can carry a different price in three cities, and travelling for a vehicle is sometimes worth it. When it is, and when it costs more than it saves.
Almost every vehicle scam relies on hurry. The patterns that keep recurring, the sentences that should stop a deal, and how to pay safely.
A trade-in is fast and certain. A private sale is slower and pays more. How much more, and when the convenience is genuinely worth the difference.
Buyers decide whether to contact you from a thumbnail. Ten photographs, in order, that you can take with a phone in half an hour.
Most vehicles that sit unsold for months are not unwanted — they are mispriced. How to find the real number, and why the first two weeks matter most.
A first car should be cheap to insure, cheap to fix, easy to park and forgiving of mistakes. These are the models that fit, and the ones to skip.
Choosing a work vehicle is a maths problem, not a taste problem. Payload, seats, fuel, parts and downtime — and which models win on each.
A three-wheeler is usually bought to earn money, which changes every part of the decision. What to check, what it costs to run, and what to avoid.
For most riders the right bike is boring, cheap to run and easy to get parts for. Here is what that actually looks like, by budget and by use.
One is legally required and cheap. The other is expensive and pays when the car you damage is your own. How to work out which your vehicle actually justifies.
The two pieces of paper every vehicle on a Sri Lankan road needs annually, the order they have to be done in, and what happens if you let them lapse.
The transfer is the moment a vehicle legally becomes yours. What both parties need to sign, what to hand over, and why a delay here is the buyer's problem.