High mileage cars for sale

[va1o]

It's well above average. I was doing 20k up until recently, some of the people I were working with did 25k - 30k visiting clients etc. Have a friend who runs a fleet of taxis don't think they do much more than 30k a year.

On the flip side my current daily driver 61-plate has only done 5.5k

[slippery]

The type of taxi fleets you are referring to are probably the ones that spend their life in and around town centres etc. The airport run type operators do way more than that, but probably harm their cars way less in the process!

[slippery]

Edited to remove a post that landed in this thread by mistake!

Edited by slippery on Thursday 6th December 14:26

[CYMR0]

1k miles/week isn't that hard in a field role.

Six cylinder makes me think that it probably wasn't a cab.

Hell, a friend of mine has started a field engineer role and has done 10k since October, in a rental Corsa.

[va1o]

CYMR0 said:

Six cylinder makes me think that it probably wasn't a cab.

Probably some kind of chauffeur type business then, rear seats look worn so its presumably had people in the back. 6-cylinder/ auto is always the optimum spec for those type of cars

[carlove]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...
61 plate, 110,696 miles. Their website says the same miles and being a Skoda Superb it is possible. It is petrol though and if it was doing that many miles in a short space you'd think it'd be diesel.

Actual mileage or a mistake?

[va1o]

Bloody hell, they picked the 1.8 petrol over a diesel to do 110k miles in?

Will assume that one is a typo and should be 11k!

FV61 numberplate looks like ex-Europcar anyway

[BorkFactor]

Excellent posts, that Audi looks quite hard used!

I am trying to work out if the Skoda is a typo or not, passenger seat and pedels look a bit worn, but they could just need a good clean. Does seem a bit daft to buy a 1.8 TSI rather than a diesel to do that sort of mileage!

[GC8]

My father bought one of the last, if not the very last Citroen DSs imported in 1973 (PFA 150M). When he sold it one year later it had covered approaching 100,000 miles!

Better than most minicabs - he was a well-travelled company director.

[0llie]

06 Passat with 369k on it. Replacement engine about 70k ago.

Was bought new by a cabbie

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-VOLKSWAGEN-PASSAT-S...

[carreauchompeur]

Cross-posted, but this epic £4k M5 with 200k looks like a cracking buy:

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

[VinceM]

My 2008 Jag XF 2.7d has 120k on it. Cost of car, plus one new tyre, bumper respray (some tt hit it) and private reg stands me in at less than 10k. Similar cars with lower mileage still retail for up to 6-7k more.

[lord summerisle]

Sold our 2001 2ltr SAAB 9-5 with 185k miles on the clock. 90k were in our ownership over 7 years.

Current '04 9-5 Aero has 140k miles on it (put 10k miles on it over the summer)

And my '95 MX5 is coming up on 167k miles, used to rack up alot of miles in that car (around 500miles a week for a couple of years) but slowed its usage when i was car sharing.

[va1o]

0llie said:

06 Passat with 369k on it. Replacement engine about 70k ago.

Was bought new by a cabbie

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-VOLKSWAGEN-PASSAT-S...

Nice find, will probably still fetch quite a good price I'd imagine as bids already on £1.6k

[sparks_E39]

carreauchompeur said:

Cross-posted, but this epic £4k M5 with 200k looks like a cracking buy:

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

That's awesome, I hope someone buys that and looks after it properly.

[IanRubie]

How about a 408k mile Land Cruiser with a claimed full Toyota history?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Land-Cruiser-Amaz...

[slippery]

IanRubie said:

How about a 408k mile Land Cruiser with a claimed full Toyota history?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Land-Cruiser-Amaz...

Those Land Cruiser Amazons have to be one of the strongest workhorses you could ever buy.

[va1o]

at the price

I'd rather take a gamble with a leggy Discovery 3 or L322 Range Rover

[LouD86]

slippery said:

IanRubie said:

How about a 408k mile Land Cruiser with a claimed full Toyota history?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Land-Cruiser-Amaz...

Those Land Cruiser Amazons have to be one of the strongest workhorses you could ever buy.

Fully agreed! We have seen a Prius with close on 300k here at work, still going strong! Guy will change at 500k, which is fair!

Well maintained, moderns cars, just seem to keep going.

[slippery]

If I took a car to 500k, I think I would find it hard to part with it. I'm certain I would have to satisfy my morbid curiosity over how far I could take it!