100K cars subjected to our pitted, salt-encrusted, traffic-jammed roads for three wet and mouldy seasons a year end up looking like 300K in France, Japan, Aus etc.

Aussies, like Americans in most cases did not embrace the extended service fashion (and i suspect wouldn't be backward in airing their disdain judging by Aussies i've known), so their timing chains engine components and transmissions arn't on borrowed time at 100k miles.

Hilux and LC for example have a 9k service interval in the UK, also a 9k interval in Aus, but kms.

I wonder if other makes have similar discrepencies between markets.

Edited by gordonbennet on 28/07/2014 at 15:50

Not in France. To a French seller, 100k is nearly new.

300k maybe.

Yep. Japan is the only country that I'm aware of that sells cars at low mileage, due to their MOT, I don't know if other countries are similar to this.

Australia, America would see 100k as nearly new.

That answers that then! It seems 100k is only a concern to Brits...

Not that Brits woudl be othered about kms

I was talking purely about breaching the '6 figures' point on the odometer

<< That answers that then! It seems 100k is only a concern to Brits...>>

I was looking at an elderly Porsche 914 the other day which had only a 5-digit odometer, showing 18K. I presume it will have been round at least once?

I guess you'll have to look for clues besides the odometer...wear on pedals, steering wheel, carpets...how many owners it's had...any MOT mileage recordings...

I thought everyone knew ex police cars were ones to steer well clear from!