Passat with 60k miles- too much?

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Hi
I'm thinking of buying a 2006 Passat with about 60k miles on it. I usually try to go for lower mileage when buying a car but was persuaded by the dealer that Passat's can go for 100's of thousands miles.
Am i obsessive about mileage. I mean 60k miles is normal for a 6 yr old car.
I really like the car otherwise.
Should i just get it checked out and if it's ok just get it irrespective of mileage.
Thanks.

Compton

If its a diesel I'd be worried its too little miles.

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It's petrol, sorry.

Tropheus

It all comes down to how it was maintained. Was it regularly serviced and serviced correctly? I'd rather a car with 60k miles that was maintained to one with 20k miles that wasn't.

60k miles for a 6 year old car isn't excessive.

Anan1

Mileage is only one indicator, and I stress the word indicator. 60k miles on the motorway, for example, is a very different thing from 60k hard miles around town. You need to look at the whole picture before making a decision. I assume it has FSH?

Gumbo

60k, too much?
what would you do if you bought a 40k car, put 20k on it then realised everybody else in the country would not buy a 60k car, your stuck with it then

60k on a 6 year old car is nothing aslong as it got routine maintaince through out its life.

_Kaiser_

My 06 (diesel) Passat has almost 220,000 km on it now and is still running perfectly - but then it's serviced every 3/4 months at a main dealer and does 98% motorway mileage.

As someone else said, it all depends on how it's been maintained.

Nissan doctor

take everything wrote: »

Hi
I'm thinking of buying a 2006 Passat with about 60k miles on it. I usually try to go for lower mileage when buying a car but was persuaded by the dealer that Passat's can go for 100's of thousands miles.
Am i obsessive about mileage. I mean 60k miles is normal for a 6 yr old car.
I really like the car otherwise.
Should i just get it checked out and if it's ok just get it irrespective of mileage.
Thanks.

Your obsession with mileage is a very foolish thing to enter into buying a car with, similar to the Irish obsession with year, only because its visible on the reg plate.

Mileage can be changed very easily on a car, not to mention the fact that the mileage on the car says not a single thing about how well its been maintained.....which is vastly more important then the mileage on the clock.

There are endless examples out there of cars with 100k+ and more in better condition then cars with much lower mileage.
Or a car with 100k of motorway mileage will have vastly less wear and tear then a car with 100k of urban mileage.

To answer your question though, 60k on a 2006 car is well below average(assuming its in KMS). If its in miles then 1, its an import and 2, is still bang on average.

ShadowHearth

60k miles on 06 plate would be quite low millage in my books.

In some cases having car with 100k miles is better as stuff that goes wrong around 60k-80k miles should have been sorted out.

As much as I would love to have a go at all the high millage snobs, I have to admit I noticed this thing in me too now. I always took better condition over millage. There was corsa opc for sale 07 with 99k miles. If the service history is perfect, then I know it is not an issue, but it still sits in the back of your head... For example I bought 8 year old clk200 which had 100k miles on it. And this is 5 years old car with same millage, plus I doubt a small sporty hatchback was a motorway queen...

I am going in to mind set as 100k miles is standart for 05-07 cars. Anything less is an advantage.

oregano

Slightly off topic, but I recently had a lady in with me who thought the 31000 kms on my 07 Nissan note was too high. She only had 18000 miles on her ten year old polo but it had only ever been serviced twice and was rough rough rough!

Go with Nissan doctors advice, evidence of service history makes that passat desirable, not scary...

String

If you go by the average 12k miles per year rule then it is 12k miles less than average for that year. 60k miles is good for a 2006. Not too little and not too much. For something that year I rather a bit of mileage on it rather than for example 20k mileage as it wouldnt have been driven at all which would cause more problems than a car with 80k mileage