Thread: Thinking of Buying This? Thoughts

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

40k in 8 years?

It could be genuine. I've done just over 15K in 27 months.

Martin

We have a 2006 Territory Ghia turbo with a genuine 60000km on it.
Andrew

I too have sold cars with low k's (recently SWMBO's 7 yo Golf with 40k on it) but that's something to crow about in the ad, not not mention.

My Mum's got a 30 yo Volvo with 30k on it. My dad a 19 yo Magna with 40k on it. Its a selling point (or have I lost the plot?)

I confese I'm am a bit skeptical about these things having had to torture myself and two sons in the last 2 years while trying to buy their first cars. 2 out of 3 cars we looked at were either a straight up con or plainly mispresented.

I can't work out if these days buyers are stupider or sellers are crookeder Pardon the spelling.

Totally, totally off topic caught up with a colleague from another mech workshop at the servo this evening and he was driving his latest aquisition. A Lexus LS400 with 870,000km on it.... 😎

Jc

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Sounds sus to me. 40k in 8 years?, no details in the ad, crap pics and no mention of a log book or servicing. Call me cynical.............

Ok - You're cynical

If he has one or two other cars, it's easy to have low KMs per vehicle. I just sold my 2007 Defender 110 (so, 9 years old) with a genuine 37,000Kms on it. I have 3 or 4 other vehicles, so the Defender only got used when needed, not as an everyday car. So sounds entirely possible to me!

Originally Posted by justinc

Totally, totally off topic caught up with a colleague from another mech workshop at the servo this evening and he was driving his latest aquisition. A Lexus LS400 with 870,000km on it.... 😎

Jc

Dont their odometers run @ +10 times so the owners rush out to buy a new one?????
Andrew

Originally Posted by spudboy

Ok - You're cynical

If he has one or two other cars, it's easy to have low KMs per vehicle. I just sold my 2007 Defender 110 (so, 9 years old) with a genuine 37,000Kms on it. I have 3 or 4 other vehicles, so the Defender only got used when needed, not as an everyday car. So sounds entirely possible to me!

Totally agree, when we had four Disco's and a Holden at the one time even though we lived in the country and did about 60,000 kilometres a year the average k's each vehicle was driven each year was very low. One year the D1 did 100 kilometres from rego check to rego check, the next year it was driven 150 kilometres in total. Last month I drove it more in one day when we moved from Goulburn to Nelson Bay then the previous 2.5 years in total.