Q: Would you purchase a car with 389,000 miles?

well would you? OMG POLE

If it’s under $300. fuck yes. I bought my audi for $200, and it probably had over 300k. Atleast, it did when I was done with it. Ha.

fixed that for you.

I’d buy it, if it was cheap.

No way

Has the motor/transmission been replace at least once?

^on that topic, there is a guy on TDIclub who has over 400,000 miles on stock clutch and front brake pads :jawdrop: wish it were that easy!

thats alot of highway miles…

I would in a heart beat. if some one has that many miles means they took really good care of the regular maintenance or there one lucky sob.

I also drive a car with over 300k :shrug:
there is also a guy I use to work with who has a suburban Z71 taho 2000ish with over 350k I would buy from him if he ever gave up its super clean

if it was given to me, maybe… buy, no way

300k is NOT unheard of. I have a few customers well over quarter mil. I have one who is at 460,00. Stock engine, third tranny.

But I probably would hesitate to buy something that high.

edit: Check out valvoline’s 300,000 mile engine warranty.

http://valvoline.com/

Depends on the car and person who owns it. There are a lot of variables.

Typically, no. It’s usually not worth the headaches that come with a super high mileage car, even if you get it for super cheap. No matter what there’s always a risk of things just letting go because they are so used. Regardless of how well they were taken care of.

not likely, but i can’t say for sure without having a specific example.

you gonna tell us what you’re looking at q t?

For $20 bucks so I could strip it for parts sure? For a lot of money or for a daily driver? Nope.

It would depend on the vehicle and, more importantly, the price

Depends on the vehicle…I think it’s a case by case thing. I know of a guy that has 1.4 Million miles on a Dodge truck w/ the Cummins. The shortblock of the engine is still factory, never been apart.

I think after 100k its a crap shoot, you could buy a sound 110k car and have the tranny drop months later, or buy a 200k mile car and have the same problems. after 100k I dont care what the ODO said Im going to look it over carefully and decide on what i feel and see. mileage means nothing.

Some of the oil field guys here at work have mad miles on their work trucks.

This one old man has a Silverado that will be one year old at the end of this month and he has 78K on it. His last truck was a 2004 silverado with 402K, original motor/tranny/rear end, a tree fell on it. I pulled up the top with a fork truck, and it still drove great.

Another younger guy has a 1 ton silverado with 325K on it, it think it is an 05. He has gone through 8 sets of tires and a bunch of oil changes and the truck still looks great.

I think we sell most of our used trucks with 250-400K miles for 3K-8K bucks still.

Not unless it was a well-maintained diesel.

lyndon?

Yup! He logs all his fuel fill ups and the mileage when he fills up. Maybe I’ll ask him for it and graph it. I think he said he averages about 1mpg better after he brakes the 100K mark on trucks. He still gets awesome MPG numbers for driving a truck.

One of the many MKII Supras I bought for parts had 490k on it, best running one I had before I rebuilt mine.

SO my answer is YES