Would you purchase this vehicle
- Thread starter Multifred
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St. Louis missouri
What service history is the big question.
Scottish Borders
Whitchurch
To give an accurate appraisal you would need to state the asking price. It is high mileage but with a good full service history if the price was right, then it comes down to what you are willing to pay.
There are many on the Forum who are good with spanners themselves. For them a mileage like this wouldn’t put them off buying. If the car had a good service history. For those, like me, who have little mechanical knowledge and very limited skills in this area it would frighten me to death. If you are going to have to pay for repairs, remember cars like all mechanical things wear with use. My advice would be to have the car thoroughly checked before handing over good money.
m4Zlik
My !personal! experience with N52B30 puts a red warning light ref mileage, especially if the car was driven to/at its limits (as I am used to drive mine almost all time). But, to the contrary, someone linked a N52B30 withstanding over 400.000 miles in good condition. Some guidance may be taken from overall average fuel consumption (if reliably available): My N5230 died from wear at 160.000 miles covered with overall average close to 15mpg, that linked N52B30 withstood 400.000miles while averaging 27mpg only!
North West Surrey