60,000 on a 3 year old car?

In news:409cf8da$0$25322$ snipped-for-privacy@news-text.dial.pipex.com, DSK decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Unimportant on new stuff. Most new motors will happily gurgle along for

as long as all services were done when they should have been and you like/feel happy with the car, and seller will put a years (minimum) guarantee on it (watch small print)the 60K are prob motorway miles which means less engine wear n tear than a 30K town used car...

And as its a ford it will be rusting to nothing in 2 years, so nowt really worth worrying about engine wear/mileage!

HTH

Mark

That'll be a 2.0 ESP Focus then will it? Or are you being coy ?

Dave Baker - Puma Race Engines

I notice you don't admit what model of car this is. So is it one of the good ones like a daewoo, hyundai or proton perhaps? or is this a decent car like a Lexus is200?

If its something good then it should be run-in by now, otherwise it is probably run-out.

mrcheerful

That's not high miles in 3 years :-)

What is it??? If it's a BMW, Merc, Mondeo, Vectra etc. then we'll all say a qualified "no problem", if it's an Alfa, Renault, Fiat, Citroen we might not be so sure.

As long as it's had regular servicing, the test drive is the be all and end all. If it drives good and sounds good it IS good. Just make sure you try every electrical gadget out, and look for major nasties like overheating.

I would look at the reliability of the car rather than mileage. Which mag. puts Toyota Honda Nissan Subaru Hyundai then the VWs Newer German cars are not so good (worst was Audi TT100!) and Ford has improved recently.

Another plus is a car at the end of its life-cycle-new models sometimes have recalls and design faults I have a '89 Nissan Bluebird with 172,000 just had oil brakes and exhausts. From what I hear the Primera took 3 years to get the same reliability (brake/suspension probs)

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That's not high miles!

Anyway, generally I'd say it was a good thing - car's been warmed up most of the time, probably much of the mileage done at motorway speeds which impose little wear on the suspension etc.

No, not a problem. So long as it's been looked after.

/wonders if SteveH realises Alfa was put in there to proboke a response/

I'd hate to disappoint my public ;-)

But how do you know? If it was my own car, I'd say that it's not a problem because I know the history and servicing. But at 60k there is always the strong possibility that the car is unloaded just before a pile of essential repairs, e.g. clutch, waterpump etc. These things are not serious problems, but should be factored into the price. But if the price is right and the car is clean...

And your stalker :-)

Peter

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You don't, but for most modern cars (and I don't include Puntos here!)

OMG, unless it is an automatic avoid it if owned by a younger person. It will have been to every car cruise in Britain by now and lost lots of rubber at a local McDonalds. Completely thrashed as it isn't owned or respected by the driver. By the way you say "gizmos" on the engine you imply it is modified in some way which will invalidate the insurance policy - if any - of the current driver.

FORGET IT, it sounds like a complete tosser has driven it.

You really don't know anything about boy-racers (or posting to usenet), do you? I've never been to my local McDonalds to watch cars 'lose their rubber' but if I did I'd be very surprised to see a new-ish saloon car there. Neither have I seen a boyracer-mobile that could be described as regularly valeted or almost immaculate condition. It's also reasonable to assume that the manufacturer fitted the 'gizmos' unless you believe the ABS and traction control are modifications too?

Your post makes as much sense as saying 'avoid if owned by an older person. It will have been driven at 40mph everywhere by a man wearing a hat, at the front of queue of traffic, and never exceeded 2000rpm'.

Yeah but that would involve the owner being psychic & they could unload it at 20000.

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How so? It's only about 80 miles a day - hardly a vast mileage.