Good idea to buy car with 177k in the clock ?

JP08

I've bought high mileage cars in the past. Some things respond well to regular use, some don't.

A car that's done a lot of cruising speed motorway miles will probably have a better condition engine and gearbox than a lower mileage local runs all its life alternative. However the suspension will have done far more work, the fuel system will have had a pro rata amount of crap put through it, coolant system will have worked all those extra miles. There's a lot on a car that wears proportional to mileage.

Mr.Generous

I was going to say that I could see this mileage as genuine, You own a few transporter vehicles and do airport runs, when you buy a new one the oldest vehicle in the fleet gets put on standby and is only used in an emergency or very occasionally if really busy. Thus its annual mileage drops like a stone. When you get another new one you sell of the previous spare.

But if the speedo was broken it may well have stopped recording mileage. But then again, used car dealers, politicians and estate agents tell something in common that rhymes with pies...

Stoke

JP08 wrote: »

I've bought high mileage cars in the past. Some things respond well to regular use, some don't.

A car that's done a lot of cruising speed motorway miles will probably have a better condition engine and gearbox than a lower mileage local runs all its life alternative. However the suspension will have done far more work, the fuel system will have had a pro rata amount of crap put through it, coolant system will have worked all those extra miles. There's a lot on a car that wears proportional to mileage.

I'll agree with this. My previous car was a Lupo SDI. Original gearbox, original engine, 173k miles when i sold it, and indeed, it was definitely a car that needed regular long trips. It didn't like not being driven at all.

shaun_from_Africa

forgotmyname wrote: »

Not just Gumtree though, and they dont seem to know where they are. Are they in London or Bradford?

There's no reason why they couldn't have cars in both locations.