Extremely Low Mileage? What is this dude smoking?!

[P50]

In my books EXREMELY low miles is less than 10k.

I'm not interested in the fact it should have 360k on the clock. Thing's been round the world 3.5 times!!!

Prize numpty large.




http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Immaculate-fully-restore...

[Zippee]

I disagree, 87,500 miles on a 31 year old car IMHO is extremely low. Works out less than 3k a year.

[ImDesigner]

I agree, that isn't low mileage. A car of any age with 87,000 miles on the clock will have mileage related imperfections. IMO the whole point of advertising a car with genuinely extremely low mileage is to highlight that it will be showroom fresh, thus making it worth a premium due to the rarity.

[Perd Hapley]

Don't know why he's boasting about the mileage in any case. At that age, it's all about condition, and I'm sure there are lower milage sheds out there.

[Bacon Is Proof]

Zippee said:

I disagree, 87,500 miles on a 31 year old car IMHO is extremely low. Works out less than 3k a year.

Yep, very low mileage.

[P50]

Zippee said:

I disagree, 87,500 miles on a 31 year old car IMHO is extremely low. Works out less than 3k a year.

Utter nonsense.

It is low for it's year on an average basis. But its mileage is not extremely low in a relative fashion.

[obob]

P50 said:

Zippee said:

I disagree, 87,500 miles on a 31 year old car IMHO is extremely low. Works out less than 3k a year.

Utter nonsense.

It is low for it's year on an average basis. But its mileage is not extremely low in a relative fashion.

It is, relative to it's age the mileage is low.

[Downton Mini]

Zippee said:

I disagree, 87,500 miles on a 31 year old car IMHO is extremely low. Works out less than 3k a year.

I agree with this it is low milage when you take in to account its age

[Ved]

Buy a 2 week old car and it has 20,000 miles on it. It's high miles.
Buy a 2 year old car with 20,000 miles on it. It's average miles.
Buy a 5 year old car with 20,000 miles on it. It's low miles.

Not exactly a tricky paradigm.

It's a very good looking car that just needs some TLC on the plastics.

Edited by Ved on Thursday 8th September 14:38

[Bacon Is Proof]

P50 said:

Zippee said:

I disagree, 87,500 miles on a 31 year old car IMHO is extremely low. Works out less than 3k a year.

Utter nonsense.

It is low for it's year on an average basis.

What he said, so not utter nonsense.

I'd go so far as to define mileage as miles covered per unit time, otherwise you could just say "low miles" and there would be no confusion.

[bluebear]

OP is a idiot

[The Moose]

bluebear said:

OP is a idiot

+1/Like/Thumbup etc :P

OP - Have a look at 3 year old cars for sale from South Africa and then come back and have a look at that GTI...

[JB!]

That will sell for that sort of money.

[Crow555]

I went through a phase of looking at classic VWs (mk1 GTi's, VR6 corrados) and finding one with as (relatively!) low miles as that, let alone unmodified (you can only imagine how many have been degrilled and 'slammed'). £6k is very reasonable money for that car, I'd have thought.

[BriC175]

No, I'm sorry, it's not extremely low mileage. It's low mileage for the age, yeh, but not low mileage in general, which is what 'extremely low mileage' means.

BMW E39's... would you call an 80,000 mile 10 year old 530i low mileage? No. But in comparison to other 530i's it is low mileage. Not the same thing.

Also, I wouldn't say it's particularly hard to have a car of that age with similar mileage. Whilst it may average 3,000 miles a year, in real terms, it was probably more like 5,000-10,000 in the first few years, and then gradually less and less as the car becomes less reliable and more collectable up to the stage where it mostly gets left in a garage, and used maybe 300 miles a year!

[Bacon Is Proof]

BriC175 said:

No, I'm sorry, it's not extremely low mileage. It's low mileage for the age, yeh, but not low mileage in general, which is what 'extremely low mileage' means.

That's the crux of the matter; there is an obvious difference of people's definition.
Who's to say who is right?

FIGHT!!!

[sim16v]

Reading the advert, even with that mileage, it doesn't sound that fantastic.

Rear arch repairs, sills and front wheel arch in 2009 prior to a full respray suggest that it was a bit of an old rust bucket at one time.....

[Leptons]

P50 said:

Utter nonsense.

It is low for it's year on an average basis. But its mileage is not extremely low in a relative fashion.

Are You the guy from the wheelchair thread!? That is NOT a wheelchair.

[stuttgartmetal]

Low mileage, not extremely low mileage.

The thing that makes this car is that its a non sunroof model.
The Mk1's suffered badly with rot in the roof, and a subsequent wet floor and ensuing rust.
Clean car, but restored.
Id want it clean unrestored personally.

[JoeMk1]

stuttgartmetal said:

Low mileage, not extremely low mileage.

The thing that makes this car is that its a non sunroof model.
The Mk1's suffered badly with rot in the roof, and a subsequent wet floor and ensuing rust.
Clean car, but restored.
Id want it clean unrestored personally.

For £6k?