High mileage cars for sale

[Dalto123]

VolvoT5 said:

"Next MOT due 31/08/2015"
http://www.cardealerreviews.co.uk/dealership/s-h-c...
Or
http://plljas.blogspot.co.uk/

What could possibly go wrong?

Edited by VolvoT5 on Friday 22 May 11:05

[CampDavid]

Dalto123 said:

VolvoT5 said:

"Next MOT due 31/08/2015"
http://www.cardealerreviews.co.uk/dealership/s-h-c...
Or
http://plljas.blogspot.co.uk/

What could possibly go wrong?

Edited by VolvoT5 on Friday 22 May 11:05

Viewed a 60k mile Fabia VRs there. It had done double that at least. The place is a dump, most of their stock is crap. Wouldn't waste my time.

[Dapster]

400k (644,000 km) miles on an '05 Lancia Thesis. Looks pretty tidy.





http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/lancia-thesis...

[Shaw Tarse]

Dapster said:

400k (644,000 km) miles on an '05 Lancia Thesis. Looks pretty tidy.





http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/lancia-thesis...

High milage, as you wouldn't want to get out & see how fugly it is

[dugsud]

Shaw Tarse said:

Dapster said:

400k (644,000 km) miles on an '05 Lancia Thesis. Looks pretty tidy.





http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/lancia-thesis...

High milage, as you wouldn't want to get out & see how fugly it is

Horrible! Looks like a Jaguar in their darkest days ...only worse!

[Spyder5]

Not a lot left of this 50th Anniversary Defender after some poor sod has done 240,000km in it!

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/classic-auct...

[KTF]

The soft top conversion looks awful and the back seats unusable.

[BorkFactor]

What a miserable thing to do that sort of mileage in

[Dapster]

And from the land of deluded pricing we have....


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

[VolvoT5]

Dapster said:

400k (644,000 km) miles on an '05 Lancia Thesis. Looks pretty tidy.

Wow, that is like they took a bug-eyed Ford Scorpio and then deliberately tried to make it even more ugly. Why oh why would anyone buy that?

[CYMR0]

Dapster said:

And from the land of deluded pricing we have....


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Nearly 400k miles for a six-year-old car that looks pretty clean and a fairly desirable spec, at £5k.

Not saying I *would* but it doesn't seem deluded exactly.

[KTF]

Dapster said:

And from the land of deluded pricing we have....

Is the panel round the light switch meant to be like that? Looks strange if so. No idea what its actual value is but there must be a big bill waiting someplace.

[JZZ30]

Dapster said:

And from the land of deluded pricing we have....


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

I'm actually tempted, even at £5k. Where do you reckon it should be priced?

[northernmedia]

Personally I think that cars priced about right.
Looks in remarkable good order too.
I presume its spent its life driving to and from Heathrow.

[Dapster]

Ok "deluded" may be a strong word but £5k would buy you an '05 car with a third the mileage. There are a few '09 cars on autotrader at around the same money with 200 - 300k on them so maybe a bit overpriced. Never the less, it is in amazing nick for the miles.

[Fox-]

Dapster said:

Ok "deluded" may be a strong word but £5k would buy you an '05 car with a third the mileage.

Exactly, which is why 5k seems right. Some people might prioritise age over mileage. I probably would. It's only 6 years old, £5k seems like a nice enough buy. I'd rather have it than a 10 year old pre facelift one a third of the mileage.

Infact if £5k buys one twice as old then perhaps £5k is cheap

[DJP]

£5k is steep for an end-of-life motor.

[va1o]

But on the flip side £5k is probably the cheapest way into a 2009 E-Class Estate!

They become difficult to accurately value at those mileages and the likes of CAP can't provide figures.

[VolvoT5]

I know people love to say 'just run in' on adverts but the problem is 400k really is end of life isn't it....... even by taxi standards that is high miles.

Couldn't bring myself to spend 5k on it.... even with a FSH it is going to feel tired.

[BorkFactor]

Depends what the history with it is like, if it has already had the expensive bits done I reckon it could be worth a punt and have a lotof life left in it.

Wouldn't like the job of trying to sell it though!