The low buying price should more than compensate for any repair work needed.
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L\'escargot.
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You do not replace Injectors just because they have clogged up,they can be quite easily cleaned.I think it needs a closer coat of looking at.
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I don't really buy this 'low mileage equals problems' line. Sorry HJ. I have repeatedly bought fairly old but low mileage cars - not all Hondas - and have not, so far, had any of the problems some people think are inevitable.
My fingers are crossed, of course, because I'll be off on a longish jaunt in a week or two with the latest one!
On the other hand, I saw a thread on here the other day that talked about company cars - the sort you are supposed to buy because they have only done 100k motorway miles - being thrashed mercilessly up and down the country while not being properly serviced because they will soon be sold on.
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It depends how the low mileage is accumulated. A 7 mile trip once a week is better than 1 mile every day. There's an old lady near us who drives her VW half a mile to church on a Sunday, then back home. She keeps her car immaculate, hardly does any miles. Trades it in for a new one every few years. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, the engine never gets up to normal temperature.
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The low mileage excuse does not make sense - gunge/blockages or other faults caused by a lack of use in the fueling system would have presented in the first few tankfulls since you bought it, not 2,500 miles. Diesels in particular (because of the nature of diesel) should be far less prone to a lack of use.
My father had a hobby grey Fergie, diesel. It usage was very irregular (because he spent at least six months at sea each year, and I was too young to drive it), so he when came home, he put the battery on charge, used it for an hour or two a few times, parked it, and then went off again for a few months. It's still going strong.
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