What is with the obsession with the miles on a car that doesn't tell you if a car is good or not

Most 20 year old runners are faster and have more years left to run than most 50 year olds.

No, you don't know how people have maintained a car before you buy it. But if you were looking at one car with 30,000 miles, another with 130,000 miles, and a third with 230,000 miles and a psychic told you that one of those cars was going to need struts, tie rods,a catalytic converter, and a head gasket in the next six months, which one is the least likely pick?

I like it how your example is mercedes vs nissan lol, it's almost like you started this thread just to be argumentative. No,miles don't tell the whole story, but generally when I see a used Nissan I think "commuter car", "daily driver", "something that someone hasn't romped on and beat up because there is no reason to". When I see a used mercedes or any other luxury car, the chance is those miles are much harder because the person driving it had a fun car and liked to make it go zoom. Failing to understand this is somewhat akin to not understanding that there are people in the world who make less money than you. Cars don't fail all at once, when the Benz ticks over to 200 it doesn't just shut down. But every vehicle-EVERY VEHICLE-experiences wear and tear over time, and when they break it is an individual part, not the whole vehicle(duh)I don't care how excellent A+ gold star of a driver you think you are, they all break at some point, and that mileage number is the easiest way to tell how much use some of those parts have seen. But yeah, keep telling yourself that that 11 year old 3 owner Mercedes is gonna be a good buy, I bet it won't bite you in the ass.

There are some things in a car that should be replaced after certain amounts of use. As a car gets older there are probably more of these things that will need to be replaced soon. So if you have a car with high mileage, it would be useful to ask about when the last time certain things were replaced. If a car only has 10k-20k miles on it, nothing probably needs replaced anytime soon. If a car has 50k miles on it some things might be about ready to be replaced. If a car has 100k something is most definitely ready to be replaced unless the previous owner maintenance it well

If you want that your car to be in good condition, you should take care of it all the time. It doesn't matter which car you own, it depends only on the owners. So, I love more to drive new cars and it all is full of electronic components. In this case, I have a diagnostic device from https://thinkdiag.co.uk that helps to track all the errors which appear on the dashboard. I understood how to use it in some minutes and I think that everyone can use it or afford to buy it.

BucklandStephanie wrote:

If you want that your car to be in good condition, you should take care of it all the time. It doesn't matter which car you own, it depends only on the owners. So, I love more to drive new cars and it all is full of electronic components. In this case, I have a diagnostic device from

https://thinkdiag.co.uk

that helps to track all the errors which appear on the dashboard. I understood how to use it in some minutes and I think that everyone can use it or afford to buy it.

Can you tell more information about it?

Buy a Toyota. Toyota's never die.

Or buy a used car that's only has 1 owner or few owners.

Buy private party from an older person. Preferably and old woman. Older people, especially women simply don't miss scheduled maintenance.

Alan