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Newer with higher mileage or older with lower mileage?
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whichever was better maintained and not from the land of salt
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Higher. / Newer
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As long as the seller can provide me a stack of bills and the full service history, both.
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Newer with high mileage gets you in the door for modern safety equipment. Good stuff there!
Older? That’s an emotional thing.
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Newer higher mileage:
1) Decent chance the owner just did lot’s of highway driving.
2) Seals, gaskets, and other rubbers/plastics deteriorate more from age than use.
3) Newer cars normally have fewer owners.
Edit: 4) With newer cars the engines are practically guaranteed to last over 150k anyway.
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Hey! I hear “patina” is cool now.
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Unlike those twats I’m living it by neces..
Shit! I’m a hipster?!
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Depends how high/how old. I’m not interested in anything over 200k miles, but I also know the worst thing you can do to a car is not drive it.
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My thoughts as well, just curious to see what other oppo’s think.
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2008 with ~225k vs 2000 with ~125k.
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Hmmm, that’s a tough one. 225k miles is more than I’d like, and 2000 is older than I’d like for a DD. I’d say in general I’d take the 2000 as long as it isn’t all rusty. A 2008 is still nine years old and had an extra 100k miles on it
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What if the said car was a Toyota Avalon? I mean my current DD has 265k miles and is 19 years old.
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Yeah, it definitely depends on the vehicle. An ‘08 Avalon I’d be comfortable driving with 225k miles on it, and I wouldn’t touch a 2000 Audi with 125k miles on it with a 10' pole. I was just answering in general to give you an actual answer, instead of “eh, it depends” :)
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Also have you had any luck finding a Roadmonster replacement?