Buying a genuine 'motorway mileage' car

[ash reynolds]

This sounds simpler than it actually is, especially so since I find it hard to trust statements like 'genuine motorway mileage'.
I'm looking for a car that I can put 70-80k on over threee years without getting myself too much grief. A friend of mine bought an A3 that was one of these and it drove perfectly and didn't play up at all.

When I start combing the ad's I always seem to feel skeptical about what I'm reading but I really want to get past this and buy a genuine high miler. Many sellers claim things their cars aren't, we all know that and have been on the wrong end of deal or two.

Any tips/advice? Or anyone selling such a car?

Thanks.

[ZX10R NIN]

Budget?

Annual Mileage?

The above info will help with advice.

[ash reynolds]

ZX10R NIN said:

Budget?

Annual Mileage?

The above info will help with advice.

Fair point
I want to put 28k a year on it, and would spend up to £5k.
Diesel is prefered.

What I have been doing is setting the filters up on sites that have them so that 2012/13 is as old as I go and set mileage between say 99k and 130k.

[alorotom]

So you want to put 90k on a 100k 6yr old diesel ... am I reading that correctly??

If so I would go for something that’s cheap to repair and like what are common for taxis ... Octavia, Mondeo etc...

[vindaloo79]

If its a VAG car then they state the average speed since new on the trip computer along with MPG, mine seems to be (surprisingly low) at approx 43 miles and hour average last time i looked.

And this i would say has done majority of its miles driving up and down country 80ish traffic and conditions permitting.

Would be curious to see what a car that spends its time doing school runs actually does.

[Wills2]

ash reynolds said:

Fair point
I want to put 28k a year on it, and would spend up to £5k.
Diesel is prefered.

What I have been doing is setting the filters up on sites that have them so that 2012/13 is as old as I go and set mileage between say 99k and 130k.

I wouldn't say that an average mileage per year of 16.5k-21k qualifies as a "motorway miles" car, My car has done 77,000 miles in 27 months most of those are motorway miles but then that's 34k per year.

I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for in the age range/mileage that you've targeted, you need to look at cars with 70k-100k at 2-3 years old those are the motorway mileage cars.

[DressedToKill]

vindaloo79 said:

If its a VAG car then they state the average speed since new on the trip computer along with MPG, mine seems to be (surprisingly low) at approx 43 miles and hour average last time i looked.

And this i would say has done majority of its miles driving up and down country 80ish traffic and conditions permitting.

Would be curious to see what a car that spends its time doing school runs actually does.

Mine isn't school runs per we, but it only does local journeys through town and the occasional A road to 6 different places of work and back, max 20 mile journeys but often much less. States an average speed of 18mph

[ZX10R NIN]

What I'd do is find a decent sensible mileage car that will take another 150k not look for one with a 100k already on it.

Something like these:

CLC 200/220cdi

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Ford Focus Titanium

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Astra Elite/SRI

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Giulietta Veloce

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

You could buy any of these & then just run them until they drop, I'd say you'd be changing every four years with that mileage.

From the above the CLC Giulietta & Focus would be where my money would go.

[rix]

I have recently bought a 10 year old mondeo 2.0 tdci. £1300. 257k!! so far put another 3k on it and its just brilliant. have spent £300 on an alternator but if anything approaxhing its value needs doing it will go in the bin. very refreshing! it had 120k on it by its first MOT so must have seen a lot of motorways!

oh, and its a titanium x donchaknow... more toys than anything ive owned many many times its value!

[nichio3478]

We bought a 2008 Mazda 6 estate 2.2 diesel estate for my wife. 90,000 miles and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Sensational car.

[Mr Tidy]

ash reynolds said:

Fair point
I want to put 28k a year on it, and would spend up to £5k.
Diesel is prefered.

What I have been doing is setting the filters up on sites that have them so that 2012/13 is as old as I go and set mileage between say 99k and 130k.

If I was looking to put that sort of mileage on a car I'd go for older but lower mileage - good luck anyway.

[ash reynolds]

ZX10R NIN said:

What I'd do is find a decent sensible mileage car that will take another 150k not look for one with a 100k already on it.

Something like these:

CLC 200/220cdi

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Ford Focus Titanium

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Astra Elite/SRI

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Giulietta Veloce

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

You could buy any of these & then just run them until they drop, I'd say you'd be changing every four years with that mileage.

From the above the CLC Giulietta & Focus would be where my money would go.

Thanks for your time on putting that list together, going to have browse of that little lot....

[was8v]

You want something 3 years old and 200k+

My neighbour does just under 100k a year, company changes car at 2 years old.

He has had big Jags, Mercs and BMW.

I have no idea what happens to these cars, they are still like new when he changes. I rather suspect they go to auction and get clocked.

However, he drives down the same 15 miles of country roads I do to get to the motorway each day.

At 6 years old you might be buying a taxi.

Edited by was8v on Saturday 30th June 08:46

[talksthetorque]

I always put one of these in this type of criteria. I had one so, yes, confirmation bias, but - leather, cruise, Nav, 50 mpg, parts bin special so cheap bits if issues.

SEAT Exeo 2.0 TDI SE (Tech Pack) 5dr
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

All the stuff you need for doing the miles.