High mileage cars for sale

[alec.e]

Spotted on Facebook, here is a XJ 2008 Sovereign with over 420,000mls.
Looks like it has worn well.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

[Jimmy Recard]

st the bed. That Jaguar looks like it's done a fifth of that mileage

[Jimmy Recard]

For the sake of argument, let's call that Jaguar 8 years old. It's 144 miles every single day of its life

[emicen]

Wow, even if it hit its official extra urban consumption figures that's nearly 50 grand in fuel at today's pump price

[itcaptainslow]

alec.e said:

Spotted on Facebook, here is a XJ 2008 Sovereign with over 420,000mls.
Looks like it has worn well.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

That would make a rather nice barge!

[Limpet]

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Hyundai are Japanese too. Who knew?!

[Willy Nilly]

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It's a modern car. People used to do that in MKII Cav's

[Accelebrate]

It's funny how almost every high mileage car is advertised as driving like they've done some notional figure under 100k.

[ChemicalChaos]

who wants a very leggy long jag?

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

[gizlaroc]

ChemicalChaos said:

who wants a very leggy long jag?

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

A £15k Jag with a quarter of a million miles on it from MotorHub or Keighley Trade or whatever name they are using this month?
What could possibly go wrong!??

[tomic]

An interesting one - 217K Mile 335d Touring

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

[anonymous-user]

So how many people actually buy these 200k+ mile cars?

[crosseyedlion]

AVV EM said:

So how many people actually buy these 200k+ mile cars?

I would if I was in the market, I've worked on and driven plenty of cars that feel very fresh at those sorts of miles, had quite a few on 150k + myself (My current merc is on 213k)

[jamoor]

tomic said:

An interesting one - 217K Mile 335d Touring

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Super dodgy though, birmingham + total hell hole.

[anonymous-user]

tomic said:

An interesting one - 217K Mile 335d Touring

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Over £5k seems a lot of money for a decade old car that is, let's be honest, most of the way to death. That's enough money to be too much to throw away on a chance, particularly if you're the sort of person who even looks at decade old 200k BMWs

[Alex_225]

AVV EM said:

So how many people actually buy these 200k+ mile cars?

I own an E320 with just over 100k on it and it's my daily car. I will admit that it doesn't feel it's age at all and if it's cared for how I look after it for the rest of it's life then at 200k it should still be a great, solid car.

Thing is, for some of the prices of the 200k+ cars in here, like that £15k Jag I can't help wondering who'd go for it? I know it's that age old quote, 'What else could you get for the money!' but that's an amount of money that can get you a hell of a lot of Jag/BMW/Merc/Audi that has way less than half that mileage.

Personally I'd look at high mileage cars like these as options when you want a lot of car for not much cash. Sub £5k I would say (like my E Class) I can't see why you would otherwise no matter how good the car is.

[ambuletz]

Alex_225 said:

I

Thing is, for some of the prices of the 200k+ cars in here, like that £15k Jag I can't help wondering who'd go for it?

I wonder the same thing. I wonder the same thing on ordinary cars that are super low miles. like a 10yr old ford focus for £6000 that's got under 10k miles or something.

i.e.
£3000 '00 corsa 1.0litre, 7k miles

hmm maybe that's an idea for a topic 'super low mileage cars for sale'

[Alex_225]

ambuletz said:

I wonder the same thing. I wonder the same thing on ordinary cars that are super low miles. like a 10yr old ford focus for £6000 that's got under 10k miles or something.

i.e.
£3000 '00 corsa 1.0litre, 7k miles

hmm maybe that's an idea for a topic 'super low mileage cars for sale'

That's a good point too but then there's a lot of people that like the security of owning a car whether they need one or not. My nan refuses to sell her little 1.2 Corsa, it's got 45k on it and is over 10 years old. She had the clutch replaced last year (yep one of those drivers!) and yet she now says she's too old to drive. That's quite admirable as many drivers soldier on when they shouldn't but she won't sell the car in case she wants to use it.

I can't comment too much as I have a couple of fairly average cars that have stupidly low mileage.

Thing is buying a low mileage car is appealing to many. Provided they're properly serviced, they're going to show less signs of wear and tear than high mileage cars. On average at least.

[Slow]

AVV EM said:

So how many people actually buy these 200k+ mile cars?

Not 200k+ but had several 150k+, current one is on 173k and last one was sold on 170k.

Mileage has never bothered me. Cars break, things need fixed, 200k miles is likely to have been on a motorway. Ive seen 70k mile cars completely shagged with rust winning a fight, just depends how it has been maintained really.

[pingu393]

ambuletz said:

Alex_225 said:

I

Thing is, for some of the prices of the 200k+ cars in here, like that £15k Jag I can't help wondering who'd go for it?

I wonder the same thing. I wonder the same thing on ordinary cars that are super low miles. like a 10yr old ford focus for £6000 that's got under 10k miles or something.

i.e.
£3000 '00 corsa 1.0litre, 7k miles

hmm maybe that's an idea for a topic 'super low mileage cars for sale'

I agree. My mum's car has 24,000 on a 10 yo Suzuki Wagon R. It's worth the petrol, and the tax, but someone will buy it for £500, tart it up and sell it on for £1500.

I'd rather have a 20 yo Merc with 250k any day.