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Buying Another Used Car
I am just noseying at another i10 Hyundai via Autotrader - and have seen one I like.
There is 73,000 miles on it and it says that it is over 29,000 miles excess.
It is 2015 - mine is 2011 and some how or another after clutch was fixed - I am a little unhappy with it (not the clutch) just the general car. Mine has 31,000 miles.
Anybody with motoring experience let the mileage make their mind up. Or anything I should look for. Thanks
There is 73,000 miles on it and it says that it is over 29,000 miles excess.
It is 2015 - mine is 2011 and some how or another after clutch was fixed - I am a little unhappy with it (not the clutch) just the general car. Mine has 31,000 miles.
Anybody with motoring experience let the mileage make their mind up. Or anything I should look for. Thanks
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It's not just the mileage, but the kind of mileage it has done and also does it have a service history?
I bought a car aaaaages ago that was only 2 years old ..... but it had done 69 000 miles. However it was an ex sales rep's car, so a lot of the mileage would have been motorway mileage ..... much better than town mileage where you're stopping and starting etc. It had also been serviced fully, with oil changes at regular intervals, etc.
It was cheap enough so I bought it and had it quite a few years before I sold it on.
I bought a car aaaaages ago that was only 2 years old ..... but it had done 69 000 miles. However it was an ex sales rep's car, so a lot of the mileage would have been motorway mileage ..... much better than town mileage where you're stopping and starting etc. It had also been serviced fully, with oil changes at regular intervals, etc.
It was cheap enough so I bought it and had it quite a few years before I sold it on.
ok Giz - thanks
the one I like - 73,000 miles reg 2015 - £5495 - seems to be ok regarding history - do think Autotrader (I don't know much about them) but they would like their cars to be honestly okayed.
the other one - £8825 reg 2015 - 10,000 miles again good history background.
It's a risk isn't it.
the one I like - 73,000 miles reg 2015 - £5495 - seems to be ok regarding history - do think Autotrader (I don't know much about them) but they would like their cars to be honestly okayed.
the other one - £8825 reg 2015 - 10,000 miles again good history background.
It's a risk isn't it.
73,000 miles is a low mileage on a secondhand car. It certainly wouldn't be a concern for me if I was buying (as long as the price was sensible, of course!).
My Honda Accord had 261,000 miles on the clock when I bought it at the start of the year but it drives like a dream and I'm expecting it to sail through its MOT next month.
My Honda Accord had 261,000 miles on the clock when I bought it at the start of the year but it drives like a dream and I'm expecting it to sail through its MOT next month.
Chris,
on the subject of Honda Accords,
in 2007, I bought a 1996 P reg 2 litre Accord Aerodeck (their term for the estate version), with 90,000 miles on the clock, for £990. As you have stated, it was a dream to drive, no problems at all. I decided to get rid of it in 2013 - bodywork starting to disintegrate and a problem with the airbag system. By this stage, it had over 240,000 on the clock and was still running like a dream. Excellent car.
on the subject of Honda Accords,
in 2007, I bought a 1996 P reg 2 litre Accord Aerodeck (their term for the estate version), with 90,000 miles on the clock, for £990. As you have stated, it was a dream to drive, no problems at all. I decided to get rid of it in 2013 - bodywork starting to disintegrate and a problem with the airbag system. By this stage, it had over 240,000 on the clock and was still running like a dream. Excellent car.
^^^ Thanks, Nescio.
Your post shows how much secondhand car prices have gone up!
My car was sold to me, by the mechanic who does any work needed on my cars, in exactly the same condition that he'd bought it. (It hadn't even been cleaned when I agree to buy it. The back seats were covered in mud!).
He told me that, if he was to spend time doing it up (such as getting rid of the rust around one of the wheel arches) he could easily get £2,200 for it, with the Autotrader website seeming to confirm that statement. He let me have it for £1500, which is still quite a bit more than you paid for your car!
Your post shows how much secondhand car prices have gone up!
My car was sold to me, by the mechanic who does any work needed on my cars, in exactly the same condition that he'd bought it. (It hadn't even been cleaned when I agree to buy it. The back seats were covered in mud!).
He told me that, if he was to spend time doing it up (such as getting rid of the rust around one of the wheel arches) he could easily get £2,200 for it, with the Autotrader website seeming to confirm that statement. He let me have it for £1500, which is still quite a bit more than you paid for your car!
I think I can put this question to bed. I like Mercedes Benz cars. I always look at the body and interior, check the service history and see the MOT online site for recent MOT requirements. Mileage for Mercs is not a problem. My E220 diesel cruises the motorways at a comfortable speed returning nearly fifty to the gallon. Mileage as we speak 122605 miles - so far. I was in a Moroccan taxi in Agadir recently on way to the airport and the odometer showed 256000!!
^^^ That will have been in kilometres, Paul, and only equates to around 160,000 miles. As someone who would hardly ever consider buying a car with less that 100,000 miles on it, I'd regard that as quite low. (A taxi driver once told me that they reckoned to get at least three quarters of a million miles from any diesel car that they owned).
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