Mileage

How many miles has your Cougar done?

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Well, from my experience I've had good luck with the low milers I've bought. Bought the Cougar roughly 3 and half years ago with 60,500 on it, and now it's sitting at about 79,000. In that time it's needed a fuel pump, power steering cooler, windscreen, two tyres and a service each year. And that's it.

That's no drop links, bushes, brake pads, discs, anything (I'm sure this is all on the horizon!)
 
charliecd001 said:
high millage motor way cars will allways out last low millage pootlers.
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That's a nonsense(n)

I've just turned 64000mls full history 14 services 12 main dealer stamps. And your telling me that a 14year old mondeo doing 30000mls a year (and that's being kind) will out last mine?
 
shaggy said:
That's a nonsense(n)

I've just turned 64000mls full history 14 services 12 main dealer stamps. And your telling me that a 14year old mondeo doing 30000mls a year (and that's being kind) will out last mine?
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Perfectly likely.

Engines especially do not like low-mile use. Motorway engines are smooth as a babies bum and go on and on if you keep the oil clean. They regularly get nice and hot and motorway cruising at 80mph is mechanically must more sympathetic than stop-starting in town. Most importantly for the Cougar and Mondeo is that a motorway car will generally keep a clutch intact for many (potentionally hundreds of thousands) more miles than a town car; one of the most keen reasons these cars are thrown away.

Turn fuel over a lot faster too, and motorway cars don't much suspension components anywhere near as quickly as town-use cars.

No logic to it, but I'm sure some will agree if you take an old, low-mile car and start driving it "properly" they usually just fall to bits lol No idea why but it's an oft mentioned phenomena in automotive circles.



Cars in constant fast-road use do not tend to sit about long enough to rot half as badly either.
 
shaggy said:
That's a nonsense(n)

I've just turned 64000mls full history 14 services 12 main dealer stamps. And your telling me that a 14year old mondeo doing 30000mls a year (and that's being kind) will out last mine?
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You make a fair point - there are certain wear items that a car doing around 5K miles a year won't need where a 30K miler will. But it's also true that it depends on how those miles are spent. And rubber doesn't care how far it's traveled.

My original unspoken point was that a high-mileage fleet car maintained on schedule and to the letter is a better proposition than a privately-owned low-miler of the same age.

Yours might be immaculate and I expect it probably is. You're an edge-case owner that gets main-dealer servicing and that's not the norm. But in general, a buyer shouldn't be put off by high mileage. "One lady owner - used it to go to the shops" raises major alarm bells to me.
 
You both make some good points. My point is that there's more to the life span of a car than mileage alone.
But then we just have to look at the poll. 6 cars over 150 000 vs 19 cars 50000 - 75000
 
well 154320 im at...been a wax oil fetish for me anywhere i can get the stuff under there :) had her since 2003, what did i pay for it ? :)

not many if any mods cam kit and pullys done at 126,000

clutch at 118,000 sports clutch rare to find im told but grips nice.

and i did the air con stuff and the usual breaks drive shafts and stuff wear and tear things

was a rep car for dial in london

did a lot motorway stuff. original miles was 79,000 2 year gold warranty.
 
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