Would you buy a 2 year old car that's done 125,000 miles?

But if its been sat on the motorway, its probly just been sat in 6th for most of its life :)

And i remember Clarkson saying on Top Gear, that Honda had never known a VTEC system failure. I would be confident that you could redline the hell out of it, and 200k miles would be easy as.

The VTEC system is only the component of the engine which adjustst the valve timing, it is not the whole engine.

-- James

My sentiments exactly. High specific output (100 bhp / litre), very high rev limit with peaky power delivery and high mileage. Somehow just rings alarm bells. I'm sure the VTEC system is reliable (it's just a set of hydraulic actuators and some wiring after all), but I was thinking more about the bottom end of the engine myself.

Dan

Yes, I would. Why would you spend an extra £5,000 on an identical car that has done fewer miles but might not be any better? It might even be worse. Intuition tell me this car has been very well cared for, but I'd certainly look at it carefully. When he comes to sell it, if he does a more reasonable mileage, it isn't going to look so bad. I don't think anybody is going to have a hard time selling a Civic Type-R especially in a few years when the price is even lower.

Dan405 ( snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yeh, right.

Ex-boss had one of the first-shape VTEC Civics as a co.car. Last seen, with some lease left, at 40-50k when the engine was going to cost Rather A Lot to repair....

The whole of which is, according to the rumour mill, hand-built from components individually selected by 2 specialist engineers in the Honda factory.

I would've thought the original owner might not have had time to seriously thrash the car in amongst the hours of long-distance driving he must have done to rack up 125K in 2 years (whatever "thrash" means anyway - how do you thrash an engine purposely designed to rev its nuts off and with more than ample power to move the car's weight pretty smartly). One might be more concerned with the rest of the mechanicals and the suspension. And, inevitably, selling it on to the potential third owner may be really tricky.

One bummer is that despite being only 2 years old, the warranty did run out