Qashqais £3,000 for 2013 or £4,000 for £2015

[howaylee]

Hi everyone -
I’ve spotted two Qashqais for sale near me.
A 2016 ULEZ Euro 6 model for £4,000.
The other isn’t ULEZ, but similar stats: a 2013 mode for £3,000.

Both have c.125,000miles on the clock and long MOTs from the same garage.

I do approx 20,000 miles per year.

Assuming I like both, would you recommend paying an extra £1,000 for something a bit newer?

I’m just thinking that in 4 years or so, whatever I buy will have 200k on the clock and possibly nearing its end anyway.

Thanks in advance - although I’ve been driving over 20 years, my knowledge isn’t the best of cars, I tend to only buy one once every few years and get someone else to fix them!

[Chucky-egg]

2016 would be the newer shape? We’ve had a 2015 (same shape) 1.5dci N-Tec+ for 8 years now as a family car. It’s coming up to 130k and has never once let us down. Several 1,000 mile drives to the southern alps, loads of holidays with a towbar carrying bikes, roof box on.

In all that time It’s had a few bits of wear and tear related suspension work and an exhaust section. Check the aircon works, as that’s the only issue we had when we bought it. They were one of the first cars to use the newer 1234yf gas I think, and it took a specialist to sort and find our issue.

It went straight through its MOT again last month. Yeah it’s boring, no it’s not exciting. But we’ve never kept a car for longer than 4 years before, and have absolutely no intention of getting rid of this one until it dies. So that tells you something!

[samoht]

It seems a 2013 would be the last of the first-gen cars, and the 2015/16 would be second gen.
I assume they're both diesels?

I guess the newer model, ULEZ compliant car would be worth at least £500 more in 4 years (even with moon mileage on both).

And I guess that the benefit of owning the newer model all around would be worth at least £125 a year for the four years.

So in this case I think I'd get the newer car.