Maximum millage? for buying second hand car ? what should it be ?

Netwizard

Karen_taris wrote: »

This is a debatable topic.

What is the highest millage car you guys have purchased ?

and did that high a millage car give you any problems?

Highest mileage car I purchased was for £100 and had 190,000 miles. Best £100 I ever spent.

Car looked like new inside, took 2 of us down to Le mans in perfect comfort with a fridge in the back! Owned it for 2 years and only ever spend money on servicing.

Sold it on for a 500% profit :beer:

Strider590

Think you should also apply a minimum mileage to this question.......

Anything less than say 8k miles per year and you could be buying a time bomb.

catwoman73

Karen_taris wrote: »

This is a debatable topic.

What is the highest millage car you guys have purchased ?

and did that high a millage car give you any problems?

A 13 YO Audi for £150 with 210 000 miles on the clock, but needed another £150 of suspension parts to get it back on the road.

Sold it 2 years later for £400 with 230 000 miles and the only thing it needed in that 2 years was tyres and a fan belt. I wish I had hung onto it but needed a more presentable car for work.

I replaced it with a 3 YO car that was ex company car with 100 000 mostly motorway miles and it cost about 30% of the new list price (20k new and I got it for just over £6k). Had it for 18 months without a minute's trouble and its sailed through 2 MOTs.

Prothet_of_Doom

My dad's old Sierra Estate had £2K spent on it between 90K and 110K which included Shocks, Gearbox, rear axle, and brakes.

He got it from new and took it to 180K. He offered it to me with 70K on the clock and I decided it was too big, but it proves that service history, and a set of bills, is worth more than miles alone.

BeenThroughItAll

I took a 197K mile Transit in PX against my <100K mile BMW 528i Sport. It had no history or evidence of any kind of work, but it had been owned by a greengrocer then a valeter and was the mintiest ~200K Transit I've ever seen. It ran beautifully and I sold it after 3K miles at just over 200K for a profit.

Also had a 227K mile old Subaru Impreza which I took as a partial PX and used throughout winter. Got me everywhere and everything worked, cost me nothing apart from some lockwire to re-attach the rear bumper which was falling off.

hewhoisnotintheknow

i sold my peugeot estate with 330 on the clock to a guy that delivers stuff long distance, i still see him using it. buy on condition not mileage

bigjl

Karen_taris wrote: »

This is a debatable topic.

What is the highest millage car you guys have purchased ?

and did that high a millage car give you any problems?

Jaguar XJL Nov 2011 bought last month with 90k miles.

Volvo V50 2008 2.0d bought with 101k on it at just over 3 yrs old.

Mondeo 130tdci 2005 bought with 80k odd on it, 3 yrs old and sold to a mate well north of 200k in it.

Pug 405 GLX td 1995 bought with 250k on it, mostly motorway, was just over three yrs old and i put another 70k on it, seen it six months later being used ss a minicab on the Old Kent Road.

That are ones that come to mind at the moment.

All were largely troublefree.

Maintenance consisted of lots of oil and filter changes and anything else when it came up which wasn't much, one cambelt a coupe of multibelts and lots of brakes.

vaio

Karen_taris wrote: »

.......What is the highest mileage car you guys have purchased ?

and did that high a mileage car give you any problems?

I paid £7.5k for a 150k miles Audi, currently on 225k with no problems.

forgotmyname

Rover 800 Diesel. Bought with about 230,000 miles. Towed the caravan all over the place for a few years and it was still taxed 5 years after i sold it.

snowcat75

Never bought a work truck with under a 80K on it, had a Mazda B2200 pickup that I dropped a S/H engine in at 220K and ran it onto a further 300K the donor engine came from a truck I found abandoned in the nettles when on a job and cost me an hours labour to get the truck. Mechanical s were so simple me and a pal changed it in an afternoon.

7 years ago I bought a Vauxhall brava for £900 (actually built by izusu) with around 90K on it ran it to 160K than sold it for £2200 only put a new alternator and changed the oil in the whole time I had it.

Now have a relatively modern Terrano van (03), with 88K on it, did buy it with a known clutch issue witch wasnt expensive but a child birth job to change, on a cold February day.

Haven't always been lucky mind bought a maestro van in the 90s for £300 with 100K on the clock which was a dog, had every conceivable issue know to man, tin worm that even as a fabricator made me wince, I remember taking it in for an MOT in the days of the tick box test sheets, inspector put a big line through the braking and steering sections of the test and told me that if I took it before he finished the test he wouldn't charge me.

My wife's on our third Subaru Impreza first was bought at 80K and sold with 200K, generally they only ever need oil filters and lots of brake parts... Latest one was new, but only because I managed to get a grey Import from Cyprus for the same amount of cash as the S/Hs we were looking at.....