Searching for high mileage cars on autotrader problem

toomsie

I was talking today about high mileage motorway-driven cars being undervalued relative to a low mileage city-driven car. Unfortunately autotrader does not allow you to search for 200,000 car without 14,000 being included in the search.

I wonder if there is a way to exlude searches for low mileage cars buy using some web trickery.

timwalker

Download the app. That allows you to set min / max mileage on a search.

I'm sure the website does as well, but the app definitely does.

chrisw

I would have thought 200,000 miles was pushing it a bit.

100k to 150k would seem to give a bit more useful life for little extra cost.

Rolandtheroadie

chrisw wrote: »

I would have thought 200,000 miles was pushing it a bit.

100k to 150k would seem to give a bit more useful life for little extra cost.

I've had around 3 VAG cars bought with over 200k that have been sold on again as going concerns.
Kia Ceed on 206k too, written off at around 216k due to the OH.

forgotmyname

Bought a Rover 800 Diesel with over 200k miles, used it to tow my caravan all over the country for a few years. It was still going 4 years after i sold it.

Mondeo diesel sold with 170k on the clock and the new owner did over 60k in 2 years.

Low mileage used then a high mileage car is ideal.

With the autotrader i just stick low to high price and stick the oldest year that i want and the cheapest ones will 99.9% of the time be the high mileage ones.

Then its just finding the ones with the right service history.

toomsie

chrisw wrote: »

I would have thought 200,000 miles was pushing it a bit.

100k to 150k would seem to give a bit more useful life for little extra cost.

200,00 motorway driving is going to be better than 70k city driving in most cases.

Road humps and potholes, door dinks in parking lots, stopping and starting and reving.

toomsie

forgotmyname wrote: »

Bought a Rover 800 Diesel with over 200k miles, used it to tow my caravan all over the country for a few years. It was still going 4 years after i sold it.

Mondeo diesel sold with 170k on the clock and the new owner did over 60k in 2 years.

Low mileage used then a high mileage car is ideal.

With the autotrader i just stick low to high price and stick the oldest year that i want and the cheapest ones will 99.9% of the time be the high mileage ones.

Then its just finding the ones with the right service history.

I did think about this. I think I will reconsider this.