Worth Considering?

fatbelly

michaelro wrote: »

Where can I find those as everywhere I've looked has them at a higher price for the model I want (1.4 or 2.0 Diesel)?

Cheers

At this price level you might find your choice is between 1.6 petrol and 1.9 diesel. The 1.9pd engine is good and AFAIK does not have a dpf at this vintage

michaelro

forgotmyname wrote: »

How many miles will you do in it? Mostly short journeys? If so a DPF maybe an issue for you.

Where can you find them, Autotrader, Ebay etc.

Unless you do a huge amount of miles a low mileage car isnt worth the extra money they want for them.

High miles in short time = a car thats driven a great distance daily so few cold starts and a lot of motorway speeds. Very little wear.

Sold my 2L petrol car with 150,000 miles and it sounded better than the cars that were 4 years newer with less than half that mileage on them.

Condition is more important.

8-12k probably based on how much my current car has covered.

Appreciate what you are saying, but I'm also considering re-sale value in 3,4,5 years time. 150k MPV's will appeal to very very few people.

forgotmyname

I nearly bought an S-Max with 138k miles. But it had a DPF..

No good for my mainly short journeys. I have not looked into the DPF issue in depth though so may change my mind.

You do more miles than me so a car with 130k on will need replacing in 2 or 3 years.

But buying a car with 101k miles will see you through 5 or 6 years.

100k miles is still an issue for a lot of buyers and dealers.

99k = OK 101= too much.. Its 2000 miles difference, Thats nothing i do half that on a 2 week holiday in Cornwall.

After a set age cars sell on condition. People buy a 10 year old car and never service it. When it comes to sell it losed out to your car the same age but higher miles yet serviced regular.

I spend £2000 ish.. I dont care about the resale value. Buy a new car and it can lose more than that before you get home.

mikey72

forgotmyname wrote: »

...............High miles in short time = a car thats driven a great distance daily so few cold starts and a lot of motorway speeds. Very little wear..............

Not always true. Ours does a fairly high milage.
A lot of motorway use.
It probably does the equivalent of a normal stop start commute every day stuck in traffic on the motorway, with the tesco shoppping and the school run thrown in for good measure, then has to endure being thrashed to catch back up.
Then parked up with the turbo still glowing red.

And all the ex rep mobiles will have done the same, probably still on the original oil on the eco service.