What milage would you class as 'Too High to Touch'?

[otolith]

RobM77 said:

On a separate note, when buying a hot hatch like a CTR do look for service history and bills. My wife bought a CTR recently and we looked at some that had cost thousands in maintenance in recent months purely because one of the owners had skimped on servicing. We eventually found a well cared for example with a regular main dealer service history (plus interim oil changes) and it hadn't cost the owner anything to run it other than routine servicing - it's still running beautifully now and my wife loves it. To be honest, after our 3 or 4 month job of finding the right CTR I wouldn't recommend the bottom half of the market at all - more trouble than it's worth.

How are you finding it, Rob? I had a new one back in 2002 and loved it, only four cylinder engine I have any real affection for. The inconsistent steering weight and numbness I got used to, and I always liked the pointy front end and the way the line could be trimmed on the throttle.

[ModernAndy]

Lewtyper said:

ModernAndy said:

Back to the original question. The thing about the TypeR is that you have to cane it to get the power right at the top. For me, that suggests very high mileage ones might be quite engine-worn compared to other 'normal' cars ( very possible I'm wrong though).

Yes you are wrong.

OP- buy on condition, not mileage. As stated, 100k is nothing for these engines so long as they have been well maintained.

fair enough, I understand that most of the VTEC engines are very possibly nuclear-bomb proof. Perhaps I should have attacked that from the angle that high-milers may be more prone to failure than usual if not looked after well, e.g. the effects of oil starvation would be a lot worse when you're taking a car up to 8k rpm regularly rather than 5-6k. Not my area of expertise really, just thought it might be worthy of consideration.

[redtwin]

No mileage is too high if the condition of the car and the price was good enough.