100k miles

philstar

My car is approaching a major milestone, one hundred thousand miles on the clock.

Does it affect the value of the car? do buyers have a hang up about it?

tossy

It depends on so many things.

100k miles in how many years ?
Type of engine ?
Service history ?

philstar

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11 years old
1.1 petrol
regular - DIY

tossy

philstar wrote: »

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11 years old
1.1 petrol
regular - DIY

Make and model ?

100k on an 11 year old well maintained Yaris for instance wouldn't put anyone off.

punisher5112

Is it a Peugeot

philstar

its a Mitsubishi Colt with no previous major issues

Atlantic Dawn

There would be no point offloading it just because it hit 100k miles.

Musketeer4

04 Nissan Almera
Bought 2 years ago for € 1,100 with 107k miles on the clock.
Now has 140kmiles on.
Cam sensor blew last year, €100 to replace.

Going strong. No intention of changing car as long as it keeps going.

I hope people are pernickety about 100kmiles + cars. That means more good value cars for me!!!

biko

philstar wrote: »

Does it affect the value of the car? do buyers have a hang up about it?

For some yes, for others no. There is no rule about this as long as car is in good shape.

Tbh, you won't know for sure until you try to sell car again. For me mileage isn't an issue but for others it may be.

Notch000

car with 150-200k miles would have me scratching my head, they would want ot be cheap and treat it as a bit of a lucky dip, 100k is just broken in for most stuff

CorkMan_

Notch000 wrote: »

car with 150-200k miles would have me scratching my head, they would want ot be cheap and treat it as a bit of a lucky dip, 100k is just broken in for most stuff

In my opinion a car that makes it to 200k miles in Ireland is a looked after car :pac:

Musketeer4

Exactly.

My previous car was a 1999 1.2 Punto SX85. Nice nippy little car. Bought in after leaving cert in 2004 with 38k miles and finally let it go to the scrapper in 2013 with 260k miles on it. Mechanically it was going perfect, and outwardly it looked perfect but the sills were eaten to shít with rust so it was no longer economic to repair.

I always looked after it, mechanically and cosmetically as I liked it as it was my first car.
Drove it the length and breadth of the country and was sad to see it go.
I used do all my own maintenance and it was well serviced. Even with 260miles on it it was starting and running like a clock.

Suspension in them were soft though and I went through multiple sets of wishbone and swingarm bushings and one set of shocks. They are consumables though.

Believe it or not, it never let me down, ever.(as in konked out and left me on the side of the road)
Which is a lot more than can be said of my sisters Passat and her later 141 A6 which have suffered numerous breakdowns and in one case left her stranded immobile on a roundabout.

Fiat do not deserve their bad reputation. My ole punto is back up of that. Simple, straighforward and reliable if cared for.

fryup

^^^ Re: sisters cars

so much for German reliability :cool: