After talking with a friend about buying a new car I thought I would post up here for some arguements for or against buying a higher mileage car.
So the conversation was along the lines of my friend is looking for a new car and we are on autotrader, on the drop down menu for mileage he picks upto 80k. I asked why have you picked 80k you won't get a decent motor for your budget with less than 100k mileage on . He replies cars with 100k or more on are knackered , only good for scrap !
I laughed and left him to it, we spoke to the lads in the gym I brought it up and they all agreed with him. Now we use to have a d5 Volvo s60 company car with 210k on it when we got rid of it and we had no problems with it at all was brilliant ( bought with 105k on) and missed by everyone when we sold it for a brand new toyota avensis which we had nothing but problems with! ( obviously under warranty so didn't cost a penny but was annoying).
So I want some other peoples opinions for or against , please include make , model, mileage, any problems later on and age or reccomendations. How long you've owned etc.....
Here's mine:
2004 Volvo s60 d5 2.4 163bhp
210,000 miles,
3 year ownership as pool car multi drivers,
No problems ,
Had oil and filter every 9,000 miles , ( Mechanic friend reccomended)
3 Cambelt kits,
Highly reccomend as daily work horse motorway eater.
Sean
So the conversation was along the lines of my friend is looking for a new car and we are on autotrader, on the drop down menu for mileage he picks upto 80k. I asked why have you picked 80k you won't get a decent motor for your budget with less than 100k mileage on . He replies cars with 100k or more on are knackered , only good for scrap !
I laughed and left him to it, we spoke to the lads in the gym I brought it up and they all agreed with him. Now we use to have a d5 Volvo s60 company car with 210k on it when we got rid of it and we had no problems with it at all was brilliant ( bought with 105k on) and missed by everyone when we sold it for a brand new toyota avensis which we had nothing but problems with! ( obviously under warranty so didn't cost a penny but was annoying).
So I want some other peoples opinions for or against , please include make , model, mileage, any problems later on and age or reccomendations. How long you've owned etc.....
Here's mine:
2004 Volvo s60 d5 2.4 163bhp
210,000 miles,
3 year ownership as pool car multi drivers,
No problems ,
Had oil and filter every 9,000 miles , ( Mechanic friend reccomended)
3 Cambelt kits,
Highly reccomend as daily work horse motorway eater.
Sean