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Mileage and first car

  • 09-04-2013 12:56pm
    #1
    lolilyj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭


    im looking to buy my first car, but i dont really know where to begin, i dont understand milege and if i see a car im interested in people keep telling me the millege is to high can any body help and recommend a first starter car and explain milege?


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  • #2
    sebastianlieken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭sebastianlieken


    Mileage is an indicator of how much the car has been used - and thereby how much wear and tear the mechanical stuff lurking beneath has had to deal with.

    In general, average mileage per year is around 12,000 miles* (note, this is miles)

    One thing you can do is look at the year of a car to determine it's age. Take a 2007 car for instance. You would expect there to be roughly 65,000 miles on it.

    If the actual mileage of the car was much less than this, I would be dubious that the car has primarily been used for city driving. In this case i would pay perticular attention to the gearbox, the clutch, scratches and dents around the car, and rust underneath the car (salt on city roads in winter). I would also want to see a complete service history as it means the car has been driving with a cold engine quite a bit (most engine wear happens in the first few minutes of starting a car)

    If the actual mileage is significantly higher than your quick calculation, you could assert that the car has been driven mostly at higher speed (on national roads, motorways, etc.). This kind of driving is generally very easy on a car (as long as it has a capable engine - by which I mean 1.4 litres and up).

    I might be veering off topic here...

    Anywho, most people will tell you "high mileage = bad, low mileage =good!" Mileage and/or Year are NOT the be all and end all of the condition of a car. They are merely an indicator.

    in general:
    diesel engines are more capable of dealing with large mileage
    Larger capacity engines are more capable of dealing with large mileage

    i.e., I would sooner trust a 2.0 litre diesel engine with 100,000 miles than I would a 1.2 litre petrol engine with the same mileage.

    ...

    There's far too much to write about this, and i'm getting myself all flustered... try a different approach...

    you post a link to a car you like and we'll try tell you as best we can if there are too many miles on it.


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