Big mileage Vs Age

HarvestMoon

Hi all, long time reader of forum but first post!

Wanted to canvass opinions on following:

I have option of purchasing a 3 year old Passat TD company car with approx 100k mileage, in good condition and has full service history, my annual mileage is not that high, say 10-15k.

Would the high mileage put you off the purchase?

Matt Simis

HarvestMoon wrote: »

Hi all, long time reader of forum but first post!

Wanted to canvass opinions on following:

I have option of purchasing a 3 year old Passat TD company car with approx 100k mileage, in good condition and has full service history, my annual mileage is not that high, say 10-15k.

Would the high mileage put you off the purchase?

Mileage directly isnt the problem, its wear. And thats a lot of wear.. 33k a year?!

pajor

Matt Simis wrote: »

Mileage directly isnt the problem, its wear. And thats a lot of wear.. 33k a year?!

i would agree. you'd probably want at least a car thats 5 years old for 100k+ on a diesel. A lot less for a petrol

Seperate

Are you sure it's 100k miles? The clock on them would be in km's and 100,000kms is more reasonable then 100,000 miles.

If it is 100,000 miles, then you'd be looking at renewing alot of suspension parts, as well as other wear and tear bits and pieces.

It all depends what price is put on the car too, i guess.

danbohan

Matt Simis wrote: »

Mileage directly isnt the problem, its wear. And thats a lot of wear.. 33k a year?!

33k a year on a diesel car is a lot of wear ???,

HarvestMoon

The mileage is 100k in miles not kms. It is a UK car. The price is attractive and my own mileage at present is not huge but don't want to end up with a load of maintainance issues either.

Matt Simis

danbohan wrote: »

33k a year on a diesel car is a lot of wear ???,

Read the whole sentence:

Matt Simis wrote: »

Mileage directly isnt the problem, its wear. And thats a lot of wear.. 33k a year?!

dnme

100k miles over 3 years or 5 is the same amount of wear surely? just done a bit quicker....no? plus the benefit of a newer car (3 years old instead of 5).

Absurdum

it doesn't matter if it's 100k over 3 years or 10 years imo once it's been well looked after

voxpop

Its probably been driving on motorways all its life, so the wear wouldnt be as bad as a similar car in Ireland. Id be looking at the service history for what suspension parts have been replaced.

Matt Simis

dnme wrote: »

100k miles over 3 years or 5 is the same amount of wear surely? just done a bit quicker....no? plus the benefit of a newer car (3 years old instead of 5).

No it isnt. How would you feel if you did your next year's worth of walking you will do in the next week instead. Its the same distance in total, but the rate of deterioration on your muscles, body etc would be vastly increased.

Very high miles per year also means lots of road time in all conditions compared to a more even spread of environmental exposure.