The car is always more important than the dealer. But its done 33k a year is the bottom line, Its obviously been worked hard but they are built for that. Obviously been a fleet car of some sort to do that sort of mileage and they're usually well maintained and everything done on warranty etc so you can in a sense write off the first three years of its work. Go and have a look at it mate, you wont know until you do :)

The price is very tempting-but it does reflect a rather high mileage. 4 years is a funny age for a high miler since most lease cars are on a 2-3 year lease. If the car was previously a lease car for 3 years and subsequently had one private owner who got rid after only a few months-I would be very wary.

Sorry, no knowledge of the dealership.

Thanks for info ,Cheers

The price is very tempting-but it does reflect a rather high mileage. 4 years is a funny age for a high miler since most lease cars are on a 2-3 year lease. If the car was previously a lease car for 3 years and subsequently had one private owner who got rid after only a few months-I would be very wary.

Sorry, no knowledge of the dealership.

Bit out of date there unthrottled. Most fleets have moved to four year leases over the last decade for several reasons:

1) Cars last longer these days before they start to throw expensive problems and warranty periods are commensurately longer.

2) Money's tight these days and fleet managers are told to wring whatever they can out of the fleet.

3) More fleet cars are given as perks rather than as the traditional repomobile running up spaceship miles than ever before. Thus getting four years before the milage limit comes up is the rule rather than the exception. Also here, the migration of the average fleet car from being a petrol one to diesel means the milage limit also tends to be higher.

Four years or 100,000 miles (and often more than that) is the norm now in my experience.

trouble is when you try to sell it ,couple of years on it may have 160-170k miles.not only will value drop but very few would consider that car.look at like this.nearly 5 year old car,over 130k miles for £7995...doesn't sound tempting now.

This is a lot of miles even for a quality car, I would look around a bit more personally. I recently sold an 07 plate A4 Avant for not too much more than half of this with less than half the mileage. I would say that for another £1000 you should get the mileage down to say 70K ish and this would have a big effect on the cars state of wear.

Thanks for info Cheers

Edited by Avant on 18/07/2011 at 22:24