High mileage

[Cavcraft]

The more miles it's done the more work it will have had and the more it must have been looked after. Nothing would put me off if the price was right.

[Bobthebeard]

All down to the individual car really. I have owned cars with over 200,000 miles that were great, some that had much less were rubbish. Yes, if a car has got to 300,000 it must have been a good one, up until it wore out and needed moving on! Equally a low mileage town car, rarely serviced will be a money pit.

No definative answer.

[hairnet]

You lot have clearly never owned a PSA 1.6 diesel close to 100k.

If I was buying an car that had a ticking time bomb engine like that, low mileage every time and start planning on when to move it on.

 

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if you mean the modern one used in fords we have two 14 connects with that engine one has 78k and its never give trouble the other is 48 only cos it got t boned

[sierraman]

One way of looking at it is if something's doing 500 miles a week someone has depended on it and thus channeled time and money into ensuring its maintained properly.

[steveo3002]

plus if its made it to 200k or whatever with no scrapes and dents , interior still good then its been taken care of 

[artdjones]

My wife's 2005 C5 1.6HDi was bought with 158000 kilometres on it but had just had the dmf and timing belt done.I had proof that the dmf had been done because it had been up for sale a few months before as needing a dmf done.The car now has 247k on it(about 153k miles) and I must admit I've been thinking something serious will go wrong ever since we bought it.Still on the original turbo and dpf.So overall not too bad.It's always had the correct spec oil though and always had the change done early.

Still wish we'd kept the Xantia though.

It's for sale at the moment with 210000 miles on it and looking as good as ever.

[Roverageous]

Mileage doesn't bother me at all. If I buy a low mileage car I tend to expect a few things have to be done - high mileage cars tend to be ready to plop the miles on without worrying too much about rubber parts.

 

Example - 15 year old Rover 75 with 58,000 miles on: Needed drop links, top mounts, tyres (due to cracking rubber - plenty of tread on), engine mounts etc...

 

OF COURSE this is all subject to previous history, maintenance and general condition. I wouldn't buy a 150,000 mile car with no record of an oil change / list of MOT fails every year.

[rantingYoof]

SnrYoof has just bought himself his retirement present, in the form of an XF 3.0d. It's only just two years old and has 75k.

 

Right at the start of the search, I was struggling to convince him that he needed to look for something that had averaged 20-30k per year, as this would very likely be in better condition, relatively speaking, than something that had done 5-10k per year as a drive ornament.

 

After he'd had a look at what a DPF was, and what happened to modern diesels if you did less than around 10-15k per year (especially short journeys, or slow ones), he was very quickly convinced.

 

The 20-30k per year car will have been driven by someone who needs to drive long distances for a purpose, and so would have been thrown at Jaguar every 10-15k for a service regardless of the time interval. It would have got everything needed, even minor advisories.

 

The 5-10k car would have been driven every few days across town and back, and might have not even been serviced "because it hasn't reached the interval yet".

 

Before this came along he looked at a 2005 XJ 3.6 V8. This was a bloody marvellous thing. However, it had only done 12k in the last five years, and the guy had not had it serviced once, pretty much for that very reason..."the intervals are 12-16k".
 

Granted, this might not be the opinion shared by everyone, but if I was running a 290hp luxury barge which I wanted £8.5k for, I'd want people to open the service book and see at least one or two stamps, just so they know that Jaguar have seen the car in the last few years to make sure something not necessarily mileage dependant hasn't gone phut. If SnrYoof had opened the service book to see five stamps in there, with bills, I think he'd have just bought it on the spot. It was absolutely immaculate...on the outside.

 

When I was searching for what is now the S60, I saw a 2004 Mondeo 2.0TDCi with 45k on the clock. I rang to check it wasn't a typo. It wasn't. Ford TDCis aren't known for being being tremendously problem free, but FUCK IN THE EYES an example that'd been clogged up to that extent.

 

 

Leggy is good.

[Cheggers]

I'm currently in Barcelona on business, and have just been driven back to my hotel in a Prius taxi...with 427,000km on the clock!!

[fatharris]

I scrapped my 75 with 260k+ on it purely for an electrical fault, the engine and box were still cracking.

 

Then I bought the ZT with 80,000 less, and oh dear.

 

The 75 did many more miles, but it was cherished and looked after.

 

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