How do you figure the age of your car?
By some metrics, the oldest car in my fleet is also the youngest.
Moxie has the fewest miles on her, but is the oldest by model year.
Which is more important? Miles or years?
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Mileage has different aspects, high mileage amassed in lots of long distance driving imposes less wear than start stop driving on poor local roads. Time has its own deteriorating effect. Older low mileage cars still suffer age-related failures, but overall a younger car with higher mileage is more preferable to me.
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Condition. I've seen low-milage new cars that are far worse in shape than a very old 1,000,000 mile car.
ReplyDeleteIgnore miles and age, all I want to know is if it has good compression and burns no or very little oil (lack of tinworm is also a factor for esthetics). When I sold my 2001 Jetta TDI it amassed over 250K miles and still ran perfectly given 1) I did all maintenance and 2) a lot of highway driving over 15 years.
ReplyDeleteThe car with the fewest miles on it in my household is so old it doesn't even have a computer. The newest by model year vehicle in the household has the most miles on it.
ReplyDeleteAw damn, forgot to sign that one....
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I think age is age and should be a matter of manufacture date and model year. As it happens we have two early oughts vehicles and the older one is low mileage for its year and the newer is high mileage. The pickup with low mileage looks nicer and newer despite being a year older than the car but we still consider it older on pure chronology.
ReplyDeleteShopping for a car should be based on condition rather than age or mileage unless there is a known issue with a model year or a component failure at a particular mileage.