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Going to be doing high mileage, which car?

  • 05-02-2015 11:52am
    #1
    SoupyNorman
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    Moving to Kildare from Dublin, job is just off the m50, it'll be about a 150km round trip daily.

    Currently own a a 2010 A6 with 60,000 km on the clock. Quite afraid of rapidly depreciating the value by racking up lots of mileage on it.

    Any thoughts on what would be the best course of action to take?


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  • #2
    bazz26
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    SoupyNorman wrote: »
    Moving to Kildare from Dublin, job is just off the m50, it'll be about a 150km round trip daily.

    Currently own a a 2010 A6 with 60,000 km on the clock. Quite afraid of rapidly depreciating the value by racking up lots of mileage on it.

    Any thoughts on what would be the best course of action to take?

    Any newer car you buy will suffer rapid depreciation too. I'd stick with the A6, 60k km is very low for the year and at 5 years old it will already have suffered a fair amount of depreciation.


  • #3
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,127 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    I take it that the A6 you have is a diesel?


  • #4
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    I take it that the A6 you have is a diesel?

    Yes it is.


  • #5
    stezie
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    SoupyNorman wrote: »
    Moving to Kildare from Dublin, job is just off the m50, it'll be about a 150km round trip daily.

    Currently own a a 2010 A6 with 60,000 km on the clock. Quite afraid of rapidly depreciating the value by racking up lots of mileage on it.

    Any thoughts on what would be the best course of action to take?

    The depreciation on that car would level off now so changing it will cost you further expense.


  • #6
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    SoupyNorman wrote: »
    Yes it is.

    Perfect car to do it in then. Stick with what you have unless you want a change anyway.


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  • #7
    heroics
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    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    Perfect car to do it in then. Stick with what you have unless you want a change anyway.

    This +1

    I do about 100km a day mainly m50/n11 on my commute and I have a 2005 A6 has about 260k km on it at the moment and not a bother on it.


  • #8
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,933 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    SoupyNorman wrote: »
    Moving to Kildare from Dublin, job is just off the m50, it'll be about a 150km round trip daily.

    Currently own a a 2010 A6 with 60,000 km on the clock. Quite afraid of rapidly depreciating the value by racking up lots of mileage on it.

    Any thoughts on what would be the best course of action to take?
    150km * 5 days a week * 48 working weeks = 36000KM a year mileage. You'll be hurting the value the more mileage you clock up, but what is the alternative? Sell the A6 and buy a banger diesel?


  • #9
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,127 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    if it were a 1 or 2 year old car, I would consider selling and other options, but like you say, what is the alternative? you can get a nice 06 / 07 2L diesel, merc or bm etc and pay a bit more on motor tax, but lose far less on depreciation, then again with an older higher mileage diesel, it is more likely wear and tear items or diesel specific items will go wrong.


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