Longevity of engines (Looking for a 2nd car)

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:47 pm

Lots of high milers out there and plenty of 4 year old cars that have been doing 25k per year.

Would it be safe to say that if I bought a 100k car I would expect another 80 out of it ?

e.g.

BMW 320d
BMW 330d
Merc 250d
Rover 75 CDT

Naturally the rest of the car is going to be aging, what would be the top 5 things I am looking for ?

SP (cheers Robin you have me hunting 330ds now and I may have found one...)

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:52 pm

Sanjoy wrote:Would it be safe to say that if I bought a 100k car I would expect another 80 out of it ?

Honda Accord, good for a quarter of a million miles.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:30 pm

Sanjoy wrote:Lots of high milers out there and plenty of 4 year old cars that have been doing 25k per year.

Would it be safe to say that if I bought a 100k car I would expect another 80 out of it ?

e.g.

BMW 320d
BMW 330d
Merc 250d
Rover 75 CDT

Naturally the rest of the car is going to be aging, what would be the top 5 things I am looking for ?

SP (cheers Robin you have me hunting 330ds now and I may have found one...)

BM's I guess should be good?

Rover 75 named after the average age of it's owners

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:13 pm

I'd stay away from BM diesels with more than 100k on the clock. That's when they start to cost you serious money. Especially the 330d or 530d.

HTH

Dan@JPS

hiscot · Post by **hiscot** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:18 pm

I have a mk 11 mg cdti its got a older version 2.o bmw diesel and its a brilliant car
tows brilliant good on fuel quite nippy handles great all the toys and not the dowdy 75 looks, best car I have owned so far inc jag bm merc ect

ps the bits that can fail are bmw ones ie fuel pumps & rad fan
autos 10 mpg less I get 45+ mpg
known in taxi circles to do mega miles without probs

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:12 am

roadboy wrote:I'd stay away from BM diesels with more than 100k on the clock. That's when they start to cost you serious money. Especially the 330d or 530d.

HTH

Dan@JPS

Luckily ours has 30K on the clock and we do 5K a year in it, so I think the car will fall apart before the engine.

Robin

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:26 am

Sacked my 10k budget to get a 1-2k shed now...."have you forgotten we are getting married in 7 months..."

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:47 am

You can still get a high miler petrol beemer for £2k.

mrbennybennett · Post by **mrbennybennett** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:38 am

Sanjoy wrote:Sacked my 10k budget to get a 1-2k shed now...."have you forgotten we are getting married in 7 months..."

Sanjoy

hows about a cracking 03 corsa active 1.0

- only 17K on the clock, full service history, air con, alloys , metallic blue.

Its the girlfriends car but never gets used as she just uses my type R, she is looking for about £3,750 ish for it but would certainly do you a deal on it. Not the fastest beast in the world but v economical and low insurance.

if your interested let me know, its only up the road in Morningside if you want a look

anthony

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:57 am

mrbennybennett wrote:
Sanjoy wrote:Sacked my 10k budget to get a 1-2k shed now...."have you forgotten we are getting married in 7 months..."
Sanjoy

hows about a cracking 03 corsa active 1.0 - only 17K on the clock, full service history, air con, alloys , metallic blue.

Its the girlfriends car but never gets used as she just uses my type R, she is looking for about £3,750 ish for it but would certainly do you a deal on it. Not the fastest beast in the world but v economical and low insurance.

if your interested let me know, its only up the road in Morningside if you want a look

anthony

Cheers for teh offer but do not think it would be best suited for teh hack to the south of France with the bike in teh back.

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:03 pm

hats off to Alix's old L-reg Toyota Carina E. 100k miles on it, sold it to my mate for £50 and he's got another 10k out of it. If that's what a 12-year olf Toyota engine can do, I'd imagine an Avensis from 6 years or so ago would be better still and would cost feck all in comparison to a prestige german marque.

Think outside the box old bean

Mixed thoughts on a Rover, my K is great

but the old man's old 800 Sterling blew up twice in 3 years and needed 3 new aircon units

dlogan · Post by **dlogan** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:10 pm

Sanjoy
I might have something of interest that perhaps may be for sale, in maybe a few weeks time?

Pmd you the details.

Dave

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:22 pm

ha ha 'i managed 100k'

if you want serious miles buy a volvo.....

mine is on 221500 and still going strong.......(i hope)

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:33 pm

my seat ibiza engine (VW) took 101,000 miles of my abuse. You really cant expect any better than that.

mac · Post by **mac** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:38 pm

Might have V70 for sale soon

Mac

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