What is the maximum number of miles you would have when buying a used car?

[Anonymous]

For a daily driver you want to keep a few years

[Anonymous]

3.142

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t purchase anything over 100k miles, but i’m more conservative. My brother would buy a good used Toyota even with 150k miles. We bought a 3 year old 4 runner with 80k miles on it about 8 years ago. Still running great and now up to 140k miles. Yes, we’ve had to put some money into it, but nothing close to having to replace it.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't go over 30,000

[Anonymous]

I bought my last two cars when they had high miles:

Honda Odyssey 135k
Toyota Prius 166k

No worries, man. The challenge is knowing when to let it go.

[Anonymous]

I bought my Honda Accord with 136,000 Miles. It now has 220,000 Miles.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the price. My first car was $800, and had an unknown number of miles. But it ran ok. I kept it for 8 months until I realized I (21 yo male college student) was paying 2K/yr to insure an 800 car. Sold it for 1K.

Today, I would not buy a car with more than about 20K on it -- and only if 1) it has a clean title, and 2) has factory warranty remaining.

(But, I usually buy cars that do not depreciate fast, and just buy new).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends on the price. My first car was $800, and had an unknown number of miles. But it ran ok. I kept it for 8 months until I realized I (21 yo male college student) was paying 2K/yr to insure an 800 car. Sold it for 1K.

Today, I would not buy a car with more than about 20K on it -- and only if 1) it has a clean title, and 2) has factory warranty remaining.

(But, I usually buy cars that do not depreciate fast, and just buy new).

Why was your insurance so high? Did you have full coverage?

One of the great things about driving a paid-off old beater is that you don't have to insure it. You just need liability and assume you'll take the $800 hit and replace the vehicle if you're in an accident.

[Anonymous]

Bought a 2008 honda odyssey five years ago when it had 75k miles, it's now 168k miles....although have had to put about $5k worth of repairs and maintenance in it since

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on the price. My first car was $800, and had an unknown number of miles. But it ran ok. I kept it for 8 months until I realized I (21 yo male college student) was paying 2K/yr to insure an 800 car. Sold it for 1K.

Today, I would not buy a car with more than about 20K on it -- and only if 1) it has a clean title, and 2) has factory warranty remaining.

(But, I usually buy cars that do not depreciate fast, and just buy new).

Why was your insurance so high? Did you have full coverage?

One of the great things about driving a paid-off old beater is that you don't have to insure it. You just need liability and assume you'll take the $800 hit and replace the vehicle if you're in an accident.

Insurance was high because, 21 year old with two speeding tickets.

[Anonymous]

100k. I never buy brand new cars. But wouldn’t buy a used car over 100k.

[Anonymous]

I bought a 3 year old Soul with about 70,000 that has been a great car. It was a rental car previously and had a few very minor scratches. It was significantly less than comparable models at other dealerships and has run beautifully.

[Anonymous]

The sweet spot tends to be a 2-3 yr old car under 40,000 miles, there are lots of them coming off lease and they have often been maintained well. Cars these days go a lot more miles than they used to but once you are up around 60,000 you should expect things to need fixing/replacing pretty regularly. Not for every car but on average and generally playing the averages rather than looking for the exception works best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t purchase anything over 100k miles, but i’m more conservative. My brother would buy a good used Toyota even with 150k miles. We bought a 3 year old 4 runner with 80k miles on it about 8 years ago. Still running great and now up to 140k miles. Yes, we’ve had to put some money into it, but nothing close to having to replace it.

+1 not over 100k, and prefer to keep it below 80k honestly. I bought my used Jeep at 70k miles about 4 years ago- now up to 92k miles (don't drive a ton).

[Anonymous]

Japanese cars about 40k
American and European cars 0k