Doesn't count as you garage yours for several months of the year

:sun:

not really mine is a 06 and its 17500

i aint psychic...:peek:

Mine is low milage at 86k on an 06 plate

Not a Fabia vRS but my S1 106 Rallye is on a M plate and has 84k

Extremely low mileage

My vRS is a 06 plate and 63k

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My 06 plate vRS is on 38k now (bought it just short of 34k in May)

My 1980 Mini which I sold earlier this year had only 89k on the clock from new!!

My 06 plate vRS is on 38k now (bought it just short of 34k in May)

My 1980 Mini which I sold earlier this year had only 89k on the clock from new!!

I just got owned!!

Mine is a 55 plate with 28,000 miles on clock. Its kept garaged overnight and only used at weekends.

The work van is just too handy!

Mine, 56 plate. 40054miles (Daily driver)

SWMBO's wee yellow Suzuki, 54 plate, 13800 miles (It's more for decoration than driving!)

29.5k

Mine's a 55 plate with 31k, I brought it 7 months ago with 25k on from a dealer, one previous owner FSH. What sort of price are the low mileage ones going for at the moment? From a quick glance on autotrader, a good condition 56 plate with low mileage looks to be about £8k.

think would struggle to get 8k.

think would struggle to get 8k.

Agree. Paid 8k for mine (SE) in January.

8k is dealership price for late ones after they add on profit margin. I'd expect 1000 to 500 less on a good day. Less if you needed to sell quickley.

At the end of the day it's a five/six year old, old model, warm diesel hatchback.

Just an alternative spin on this thread. For the same age of car I'd rather keep MY car with its miles (80k) than a low mileage example of unclear history of how it got it, over such time.

I would never trust low miles as an indication of "health" of a car.

Some numpty might have owned it and ragged the car from still to 100mph without warming the turbo. It could even have been tuned and track raced ?

My car has been driven motorway miles, putting much less stress on the car for the longer journeys its done.

So with good servicing probably more comparable to someone doing 40k over half or less of the distance I do

Just as important a question, how many vRS regularly drive only 10 miles or less in a journey, and how long does the car spend on those miles in urban vs motorways ?

My 54' Reg is on 86k FSH, I'm the 3rd owner but I shall only be putting 3k a year on from now till I sell it.

Short journeys don't do them any harm providing they are warmed and cooled and not ragged until up to temp

Yeah the do, because of exactly that point, they don't get warm. Even more so being a diesel. If I use my car for work 9.8 miles 15-20min, it's not even warm when I turn it off. If that was the only work it done its never get warm, and wouldn't be any good for it. Itd have nice low miles tho! I'd have a car with average miles over one with mega low any day

Matt

Yeah the do, because of exactly that point, they don't get warm. Even more so being a diesel. If I use my car for work 9.8 miles 15-20min, it's not even warm when I turn it off. If that was the only work it done its never get warm, and wouldn't be any good for it. Itd have nice low miles tho! I'd have a car with average miles over one with mega low any day

Matt

I do a six mile journey to work each day and my car Is fully warmed up a few mile befOre I arrive so I don't know why yours isn't?

I always make sure to take her out for a good run on weeks were she might not get one

Neither do I. I'm talking oil temps not just water temp. I know all is well with the engine, it takes more than a few min to get the engine up to temp. You take it for a run, as do I which is fine. But a car with mega low miles more than likely wouldn't would it.

Matt

I do a six mile journey to work each day and my car Is fully warmed up a few mile befOre I arrive so I don't know why yours isn't?

The gauge only shows water temp, not oil. Get an oil gauge fitted and I'd expect it'd tell you differently! My RX-8 & Polo can show as 'warm' after 2.5 miles, but no way are they warmed properly after sitting at 20mph in traffic!

(As proof of this, took the Polo for an MOT today after 2 months of standing. Gauge said it was warm, so they tested the emissions - it was ten times over the limit! It had only gone straight to the centre (no tax) and wasn't properly warm. They warmed it some more, ragged it round a bit and sat it on the forecourt revving like mad, tried it again and it passed.)

Edited 27 August, 201114 yr by TriggerFish

Neither do I. I'm talking oil temps not just water temp. I know all is well with the engine, it takes more than a few min to get the engine up to temp. You take it for a run, as do I which is fine. But a car with mega low miles more than likely wouldn't would it.

Matt

Yeh I agree about the mega low miles car, I drove one with 7000 mile was an 06 plate and was barely faster than my 1.2 16v Clio. Seriously!! Lol it had sat for about a year! I also drove one with 118000 mile which drove like it was new before I bought my 56 plate with 71k

I don't have an oil temp gauge buy I have mostly dual carriage ways to work so the car is running at a decent speed and revs for most of it so I'd say my oil temp wouldn't be far off what it should be

The gauge only shows water temp, not oil. Get an oil gauge fitted and I'd expect it'd tell you differently! My RX-8 & Polo can show as 'warm' after 2.5 miles, but no way are they warmed properly after sitting at 20mph in traffic!

(As proof of this, took the Polo for an MOT today after 2 months of standing. Gauge said it was warm, so they tested the emissions - it was ten times over the limit! It had only gone straight to the centre (no tax) and wasn't properly warm. They warmed it some more, ragged it round a bit and sat it on the forecourt revving like mad, tried it again and it passed.)

Yeh I don't have an oil temp gauge but most of my journey to work is spent up to speed so the engine should be fairly close to temp

We've got a 1994 Felicia at work with less than 130 miles on the clock.

mines 71,000 on a 54 plate, about 10k per year.

That's simular to mine. 04 with 71K on it. I bought it almost exactly 5 years ago (Sept 06) and it had 37k on it. I don't do that many miles.

My previous car would beat every one here. When I got it in 1997, the 1981 car had a genuine 15,000 miles on it. It finally went to the scrapy with 70k miles, 9 years later, (25 year old).