Car mileage

skivenov

eschaton wrote: »

My last car that I traded in on Friday was an ex demo with 1300 miles when bought. That meant it had many 'users' but I was happy with the £6k saving on a 4 month old car.

I would have done the same again and had been actively looking at ex demo's but got a great deal on the model/spec I wanted on a new one.

Dealers have a bit of a tendancy to call their old courtesy cars "demonstrators". There was a dealer near here a few months back selling 6 of it's old "demonstrators". Weird they needed 6 demonstrators that were all the same spec :rotfl:

I'm a trade plate driver half the time, I know where low age and milage cars come from. They're the last thing on earth I'd buy!

eschaton

bodgerx wrote: »

Doesn't really clarify the "why" question.

I buy cars that fit my budget and what is sensible to loose in depreciation.

Cars are a depreciating asset; most people with an average net worth shouldn't be buying a new or nearly new car as they are waving goodbye to a stupid out of money in depreciation compared to their net worth.

I only buy cars that I can afford based on my savings. I wouldn't want to add up what I have lost on depreciation

Apart from my last ex demo car, the last time I bought a car that wasn't new or delivery miles was over 20 years ago.

skivenov wrote: »

Dealers have a bit of a tendancy to call their old courtesy cars "demonstrators". There was a dealer near here a few months back selling 6 of it's old "demonstrators". Weird they needed 6 demonstrators that were all the same spec :rotfl:

I'm a trade plate driver half the time, I know where low age and milage cars come from. They're the last thing on earth I'd buy!

The kind of car I buy is not at the courtesy car level.

Buy what you like, I do. If it makes you feel better then keep convincing yourself that my last car was an ex courtesy car.

bodgerx

eschaton wrote: »

I wouldn't want to add up what I have lost on depreciation

This.

The site being 'money saving experts', a recommendation to buy a new or nearly new car is a throw away one

eschaton

bodgerx wrote: »

This.

The site being 'money saving experts', a recommendation to buy a new or nearly new car is a throw away one

The idea of being a money saving expert is so that you can save enough money to throw away on new cars

eschaton

skivenov wrote: »

I'm a trade plate driver half the time, I know where low age and milage cars come from. They're the last thing on earth I'd buy!

Talking of trade plate drivers - I could have got my new car earlier last week if I had allowed it to be driven to the dealer from wherever it was stored in England.

I let the car wait on a transporter.

marty2be2000

I bought the 2001 Audi A8 3.7 I currently drive 2 years ago, it currently has just short of 190,000 miles on the clock and so far has cost me £60 in unscheduled repairs. Only expenses have been routine servicing and 4 tyres fixing a sticky brake calliper. The car has been driven from the UK to the south of spain and back twice, and I plan the same trip early next year.

bodgerx

marty2be2000 wrote: »

I bought the 2001 Audi A8 3.7 I currently drive 2 years ago, it currently has just short of 190,000 miles on the clock and so far has cost me £60 in unscheduled repairs. Only expenses have been routine servicing and 4 tyres fixing a sticky brake calliper. The car has been driven from the UK to the south of spain and back twice, and I plan the same trip early next year.

I bet four tyres on an A8 wasn't cheap

A complicated 12 year old German barge would keep me awake at night. Nice motor though!

Bongles

eschaton wrote: »

The idea of being a money saving expert is so that you can save enough money to throw away on new cars

I like your thinking

OddballJamie

skivenov wrote: »

Dealers have a bit of a tendancy to call their old courtesy cars "demonstrators". There was a dealer near here a few months back selling 6 of it's old "demonstrators". Weird they needed 6 demonstrators that were all the same spec :rotfl:

I'm a trade plate driver half the time, I know where low age and milage cars come from. They're the last thing on earth I'd buy!

I've been offered 'demo' cars before, generally after I've had my own car serviced and taken their car back and got asked "Did you like the demo car? Would you be interested in buying it when it gets to x miles/months old. The higher spec 'demos' are the management ones that get razzed around on the weekends.
When my mate was having his engine rebuilt on his Audi the dealer offered to sell him the top spec TT he had just spent the last month abusing as a courtesy car to him as a demo car.

It's such a scam, where do people actually think these 'demos' get the miles from? Car shows surrounded by glamour models?

Joe_Horner

Last demo car I was in was as a card-carrying squaddie on driving duties at an airshow back in the early '90s where the local BMW dealer had supplied a bunch of 730's and one 750 as courtesy cars. Obviously, they were treated with kid gloves and the respect they deserved at all times.

Did you know that you could get a 730 of that era down to single-figure mpg over an entire tank if you tried hard enough btw?