High mileage cars for sale

[Chalk]

350k in less than 3 years?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

[Bohally]

Civic is a typo.

Check the garage stock list here.

http://www.bristolhonda.co.uk/Used-Car-Details/use...

Somebody has added an extra 1 on the end..

[WeirdNeville]

The obsession with milage certainly seems to be a UK thing.
Over here in Austraia, it's unusual to see cars with less than 200k km's on the for sale (at my budget anyway!).

For example:
2006 ford Fairlane taxi with 900,000 km's on it!
There are loads of ex-taxi Falcons and Commodores with similar milages

Toyota Landcruiser ute with 685,000 kms, still worth £5k apparently!

And of course, the ultra milers favorite: Mercedes 300D with 641,000 km's on it. I could actually afford that one.

[Slow]

WeirdNeville said:

The obsession with milage certainly seems to be a UK thing.
Over here in Austraia, it's unusual to see cars with less than 200k km's on the for sale (at my budget anyway!).

For example:
2006 ford Fairlane taxi with 900,000 km's on it!
There are loads of ex-taxi Falcons and Commodores with similar milages

Toyota Landcruiser ute with 685,000 kms, still worth £5k apparently!


And of course, the ultra milers favorite: Mercedes 300D with 641,000 km's on it. I could actually afford that one.

Gonna take a guess that Aussie cars take a lot less stress.

Your roads don't need salted during winter so they don't rust up.

Also we do a lot of miles at like 5mph compared to cruising on a motorway.

[DukeDickson]

WeirdNeville said:

The obsession with milage certainly seems to be a UK thing.
Over here in Austraia, it's unusual to see cars with less than 200k km's on the for sale (at my budget anyway!).

For example:
2006 ford Fairlane taxi with 900,000 km's on it!
There are loads of ex-taxi Falcons and Commodores with similar milages

Toyota Landcruiser ute with 685,000 kms, still worth £5k apparently!

And of course, the ultra milers favorite: Mercedes 300D with 641,000 km's on it. I could actually afford that one.

Some pretty strident prices for Landcruisers there, even allowing for pack animal toughness. As for the Merc, nice seat covers

The UK thing presumably comes from a combination of vanity, supidity, past experience of cack, lack of need to drive workhorses, company car mentality and so on.
However, at the same time, browsing a couple of the Aus ads chucked new engine into the equation, which is cheating a bit when you chuck the impact of the weather as well.

Edited by DukeDickson on Sunday 6th January 04:14

[WeirdNeville]

Slow said:

Gonna take a guess that Aussie cars take a lot less stress.

Your roads don't need salted during winter so they don't rust up.

Also we do a lot of miles at like 5mph compared to cruising on a motorway.

I think road salt has a lot to do with it. Cars certainly seem to last the distance here.

DukeDickson said:

Some pretty strident prices for Landcruisers there, even allowing for pack animal toughness. As for the Merc, nice seat covers

The UK thing presumably comes from a combination of vanity, supidity, past experience of cack, lack of need to drive workhorses, company car mentality and so on.
However, at the same time, browsing a couple of the Aus ads chucked new engine into the equation, which is cheating a bit when you chuck the impact of the weather as well.

That's the thing though - with older higher milage cars being worth so little in the UK, a new engine will write most cars off. Very few cars are "worth" putting a new engine or a rebuilt one into at 10 years/100+k miles. £3k of engine on a £3k car? you just go and buy another. In Australia, you're looking at $5k to put an engine in a car that's probably still worth $10k minimum, so you do it. I did wonder if "new engine" was cheating a bit, but it's only the incredibly low value of cars in the UK that stops more of them having swaps at high milages.

Landcruisers are a bit of an anomaly. I don't think they have an easy life in any regards, but they do get maintained, and they do go on and on. And they keep their value. An off-road/expedition equipped Landcruiser will fetch 2/3rds of their new value at 10 years old and with 300,000+km's on it.

There are lots of other factors too:
You pay a stamp duty to buy a car privately or through a dealer, adds 10% to the cost of the car so you change cars less and keep them longer.
Less "new model" snobbery.
Depreciation is vastly lower, so an old car is still a big ticket purchase and still worth keeping on the road. They're not as disposable as a 10+ year old car in the UK.
There is no annual inspection in some areas, so you can keep your shed on the road for as long as you keep it continuously registered and it doesn't have to go "on the ramps" for inspection.
The roads (out of town) are long and straight, and speed limits are low. And of course the typical engine is a 4.0 straight six, so very unstressed and built for longevity. That said, there are plenty of unmade roads out "in the country" and I think many cars here have a hard life. They're just maintained to reflect it.

[Faxo]

That D3 now has 540k on it apparently - not bad for a 55 plate?

[rambo19]

I had a carlton which I cabbed, 480000 miles and the only problem was a noisy back axle.
Brilliant car.
Ive known cars with 50000 on the clock and fooked, ive known cars with 200000 on the clock and like new.

[BorkFactor]

These Australian cars are brilliant, I wonder how many repairs they have had during their life that haven't been classed as consumable?

Would be great to see what my E46 could really do

[NotDave]

BorkFactor said:

Would be great to see what my E46 could really do

Mate of mine uses his car for work, and it gets a hard life on account of the nature of his job as a special needs child carer..... Seat Leon 1.9TDI on a Y plate. 201k as of Friday and it's fked.

Poor thing scrapes an MOT year on year, despite home-brew mechanics and driveway late nights..... Still returns him 50mpg+ somehow and still pootles on.

Currently his list of things that need attention are:

- turbo failing
- MAF Metre failing
- 2x wheel bearings going
- Gearbox crunchy
- A fkload of bushes need doing AGAIN
- more tyres/brakes
- both rear footwells full of water
- 1 front footwell full of water
- Needs valetting big time inside AND out
- 4 new wheels as these are beyond a refurb
- new interior - drivers & pas seat are borked.

BUT nothing that stops it getting home. So since it gets trashed regularly by the special needs kids, and by him as he's renovating a house he bought........ It'll stay.

250k by 18months time he reckons. Me & mech mate have bets on how long it'll last

[CYMR0]

This one will take some beating:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-E220-2-1TD...

275 miles every single day for nearly six years... or 545k in total.

[va1o]

CYMR0 said:

This one will take some beating:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-E220-2-1TD...

275 miles every single day for nearly six years... or 545k in total.

Nice find! Show that to anyone trying to claim modern Mercs aren't built like the old ones. Could probably export it abroad where it would happily be used as a taxi until its done twice that mileage.

[CYMR0]

Same seller has an estate with 470k, a Vito with 450k, a 373k Mondeo and a Galaxy with similar mileage...

[NotDave]

CYMR0 said:

This one will take some beating:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-E220-2-1TD...

275 miles every single day for nearly six years... or 545k in total.

GTIR

have you sold your car?

[carreauchompeur]

CYMR0 said:

This one will take some beating:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-E220-2-1TD...

275 miles every single day for nearly six years... or 545k in total.

Probably in great nick if it's just been used for long-distance chauffering, but doesn't seem all that cheap to me for a boggo-spec with that level of mileage.

[CYMR0]

Another mental mileage Merc... this one has only done just under 54k though.

In a year.

And it's an SLK55.

http://www.autoscout24.de/Details.aspx?id=22523882...

The same dealer has a 45k SL500 that's done it in nine months... (so 60k pa).

http://www.autoscout24.de/Details.aspx?id=22523883...

And in case anyone thinks I'm clearly delusional and the dealer simply doesn't know where the decimal point is: there are mileometer shots of both.

Presumably a lot of that mileage has been done at 155 mph for both cars, too.

[hadenough!]

hadenough! said:

carreauchompeur said:

hadenough! said:

Cayenne turbo with quarter of a million miles

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Hmmm, very interesting, that came up a week ago for £6500... The new owner must have realised it's fecked and decided to chop it on...

Really? Saw it on the bay, it disappeared before it finished, I assumed it would appear with half the miles. Interesting.

It's back for an extra £4k

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PORSCHE-CAYENNE-450-BHP-...

[bigee]

No mention of miles.......

[hadenough!]

Nope, same car though.

[hadenough!]

hadenough! said:

Nope, same car though.

Old add


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-CAYENNE-TURBO-S-AUT...