Just curious - I have noticed a trend recently (post-COVID) in sales ads for used cars. Increasingly, vehicles with 80-90K miles on the clock being listed as Low Mileage. Is this the new bar now for modern (better build?) cars - as compared to say 30-40 years a go when 80-90K would have been a high milage range? Or are people just doing more driving nowadays so that 80-90K is just not that much in distance terms anymore?

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Interested in the above 2nd hand car on sale by a very large (multi) dealer. It's not cheap at £16K and the dealer provides a 4 yr warranty for close to £900. I've just been asking google various things to do with second-hand cars and come across this statement by google: Reliability Survey. The Jazz did well in the small car category too, finishing in seventh place out of 19 models. Every Honda comes with a three-year warranty as standard for most parts, but the hybrid system in the Jazz is covered for up to five years or 90,000 miles. I wasn't informed of a three-year warranty as standard.

The additional costs involved for a 4-year warranty, paint protection, ... Read more

Bought an 'approved used mini' 16 plate, 33,000 miles on the clock last year in September. Paid over the odds for the protection of having it come from MINI and bought it outright with bank transfer so no helpful finance company.

1 month after buying and in less that 1000 miles, offside suspension spring snaps doing quite a bit of damage. MINI picked up the car and repaired the damage to the offside and told me that the nearside spring was also at high risk of failure prematurely and they want to replace it but wanted to charge me an extra £500 for this which I both couldn't afford and understood that if the spring snapped they would have to cover the damage anyway.

Over the next 9 months and with the car still under 40,000 miles all of the other suspension springs have snapped. I had to do the two rear ones myself as I needed the car urgently, but the final spring that went was the one the garage had neglected to repair initially. The car was back with MINI and they were arguing about whether this should be covered under the warranty or if they wanted to charge me for it, at which point I told them I wanted to reject the car. They told me I shouldn't make rash decisions like this and to wait until after the repair work was done before we talk about that, I was quite insistent about this but was fobbed off with a promise to look into the warranty side - at which point they very promptly repaired the car.

I'm obviously still unhappy with the car and have been going at the dealership that sold me the car over the past month trying to argue my case for rejection of the car but am now hitting a stone wall being told that 'the car was sold over 6 months ago and we have repaired all the damage'. I've opened a case with the ombudsman but I'm given to understand this is likely to take up to another 6 months before it will be resolved, during which time I am essentially accepting the car if I continue to use it. The dealership has offered to buy the car off me for nearly half what I bought it for and significantly below market value because 'obviously they need to make a profit on it still'. I can't take this to court as they stipulate that I need to have tried to go through an ADR otherwise they will look unfavourably on the case. I'm feeling very stuck and although I could probably sell the car privately and make most of my money back I firstly don't feel that comfortable selling a car I don't trust and I also feel that MINI should be the ones to take responsibility for this and bear the cost themselves.

Looking for any advice or bright ideas please, I feel like I've been banging my head against a wall - it's enraging that I tried to reject the car verbally but they're just trying to wriggle out of it. Read more

I drive a boring petrol Hyundai i30 which nobody wants to steal. It's been parked outside my house for at least 4 years (except when I use it !!). Just over 70 years old, retired, 5000 miles pa, insured by Aviva for at least 7 years now. No claims bonus stretching back to 1997. Clean licence until 3 points last year for 24mph in 20 limit.

Its renewal time and Aviva write: " We're sorry to inform you that due to our underwriting rules, we are unable to offer you a renewal quote for car XYX 123 this year. Our inability to invite you to renew should not be considered as an insurance refusal or cancellation and does not need to be disclosed ... etc etc."... Read more

Looking at second hand car market, there seems to be a raft of insurance write-offs that seems to offer exemplary value - low mileage, clean looking cars.

Can you advise me please if I'm being sensible by trying to go for a write-off as my car that I'd like to keep for 10+ years. The idea is that I'm not planning on selling my car for a while, and maybe having had it repaired would make economic sense - in terms of overall lower wear and tear.... Read more