Is 75,000 miles too high?

Tony Almeida

Im looking at a Bmw E type 05 model, 1.8tdci, .. He's looking for 8k but i think i can get him down to 7.5.. But there's 120,000 motorway KM's on it...

Should i consider it, or should i reject it outright because of the milage?

I genuinely am torn, thought i would ask the boards advice :cool:

cabrwab

no its not that high, its diesel so usually will be higher.

Once its maintained alright you'll be fine. Its little over average but not alot.

ALthough in 25000 miles it'll explode as once it reaches 100000miles it automatically happens don't you know

And id rather buy a genuine motorway mile muncher then city traffic one! But how true is that you never know

EPM

If there's a service history, it's tested and you're happy with the car then why not?

no1beemerfan

I went out and bought a car with 80,000 miles on it. 100,000 miles later she is still going strong.

Service history and how well looked after the car looks is more important than miles. Thats not that much on a 1.8 diesel engine tbh.

bladespin

Just check it's had it's cam belt/chain done, can be an expensive job.

Hal1

That's nothing. I picked up my car with 90k miles on it. As said above once checked over throughly by a mechanic and SH checks out go for it.

Tony Almeida

bladespin wrote: »

Just check it's had it's cam belt/chain done, can be an expensive job.

Yeah.. Ill ask him that now

L-M

Diesel car, 24,000 "motorway" kms a year... Nothing too major there IMO.

As long as there's some bit of a service history and you like the car, then you're singing

Throw up a link to it if it's forsale online somewhere are we have a gander

Voodoomelon

And I thought I knew BMWs, whats a "Bmw E type 05 model, 1.8tdci"?

johndaman66

Would much rather buy a high mileage car that was well cared for, serviced well and not abused rather than a low mileage one that seldom seen an oil change or any maintenance and was trashed.

Remember once seing a thread on a US forum where two identical engines were dismantled. One had 68,000 miles on it and was not cared for or maintained well, while the other had 168,000 miles on it and was always serviced when due and generally cared for and not abused. It was amazing to see how fresher the parts looked in the higher mileage engine.

By no means an absolute rule but if buying privately you could generally hazard a good guess as to how the car was treated and maintained by looking at the type of person the seller is and how maintains his property and even himself.

bigbadbear

Voodoomelon wrote: »

And I thought I knew BMWs, whats a "Bmw E type 05 model, 1.8tdci"?

I'm confused too. Did the OP mean "Bmw(Ford) E type(Focus) 05 model, 1.8tdci"
hmmmm

Gumbo

Voodoomelon wrote: »

And I thought I knew BMWs, whats a "Bmw E type 05 model, 1.8tdci"?

me too, im looking at the replies and thinking to myself what the hell am i missing?

OP, what kind of car is it?

in the one sentence you have 3 makes of cars :

1. BMW
2. Mercedes
3. Ford

veetwin

gumbo wrote: »

me too, im looking at the replies and thinking to myself what the hell am i missing?

OP, what kind of car is it?

in the one sentence you have 3 makes of cars :

1. BMW
2. Mercedes
3. Ford

Me too, I was also thinking Jaguar!

cabrwab

It was a ford focus this afternoon!

robtri

some car this...

is it a ford...

maybe a merc/possibly an old jag... or even a ford....

Del2005

robtri wrote: »

some car this...

is it a ford...

maybe a merc/possibly an old jag... or even a ford....

I didn't think they made old Jag's in 05:D