Buying an Edition 30 with 'High Mileage'

[alexperkins]

The biggest issue with higher mileage alot of the time is the psychological barrier people have when it comes to buying a car with high mileage, especially where it is 100k plus. In most cases, the car will happily go on for at least another 60k, but when people see the dreaded 100k its like an immediate no for most

[swf7y]

The biggest issue with higher mileage alot of the time is the psychological barrier people have when it comes to buying a car with high mileage, especially where it is 100k plus. In most cases, the car will happily go on for at least another 60k, but when people see the dreaded 100k its like an immediate no for most

Spot on 

[Carrera2RS]

I did 130k in an M5 with very few issues, great car. Look after and sell when the price and mileage dictates, I have 20k on my Pirelli I will probably sell when it's under 50k, or keep. Looked after modern cars are very capable of high mileages.

In Europe, the dreaded milestones are 62k miles and 124k, you can guess why ......

[RedRobin]

Thanks for the response guys! It's not really the fact the car has 56k on the clock, it's more to do with putting an additional 10k on top of that each year that worries me. The difference between 60k and 80k seems a lot larger than the difference of 20k and 40k.

....Hmm, my GTI (not Ed30) has done 93k miles in just under 6 years and I can honestly say she runs the same as she did at 40k. She is very regularly maintained though and has had many parts replaced through modifying and not due to problems. My point is that it's well known how well VeeDubs last if they are looked after. Mileage is of course a factor in the price but need not be an indication of poor quality.

[jmspear]

very interesting thread as I have just bought a mk6 GTD and am about to TRY and sell my 55 plate GTI, not a ed30 but 1 owner car - me, leather, winter pack, folding mirrors, dipping mirror, 5 door, tornado red, full VWSH till three years - 60k miles then specialist every 5k miles, always correct castrol oil, VW main dealer cambelt at 55k miles and 110k miles, currently on 115k miles, runs like a dream in good nick, few stone chips but nothing else, motorway miles every single receipt from new - everything from pads to mot's, new rev d diverter, air con pump, PCV, plugs, gearbox oil changed etc, etc. (I am OCD with my maintenance regime) Wonder whether it will sell? Am petrified that people will look at the 115k miles and say no way, yet she looks and runs like a dream! I guess it will be down to price, anyone hazard a guess as to what I should ask??

[h4rdy]

You know, whats the point of buying a car then worrying about the mileage, garaging, covering it, not enjoying it just to have it then you sell it and the next owner spanks the mileage, leaves it on the street uncovered, puts his dogs in it, smokes, never services it!

Mines done nearly 70k now and I love driving it.

Don't worry about the mileage as the average now, especially on Parkers (10k), is bullsh*t!

You buy a car for £25k never use it and halve its value, no point in that.

£14500 is way too much though, your looking at £12k max for that and that was a year ago!

[George]

Thanks for the advice all, a number of you will have seen my previous threads regarding hunting for the right Edition 30, and I shouldn't think this is the last one either.

As said before, if I was buying the car and it was staying on 56k through the duration of my ownership, I'd snap it up straight away (at a lower price of course). But I'm more bothered with how quickly 56k would develop to 80k. I don't want a car that I'm to scared to use and enjoy just for the sake of putting too many miles on it.

Once again, the search continues for the right Edition 30, time to bump my wanted thread 

[George]

If anyone is interested this is the car in question:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201120387439453/sort/priceasc/usedcars/quantity-of-doors/3/transmission/manual/model/golf/make/volkswagen/radius/1501/postcode/hr74je/page/2/keywords/edition%2030?logcode=p

This one also came up for sale last week, but it's 346 miles ~ 6 hours away! 

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2811971.htm

[Saint Steve]

Have you seen this one George??

A very good example and very high spec?

Forumite car so looked after meticulous...

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=184655.0

[George]

Thanks Steve, that one is local too! But wrong colour, gearbox and mileage is too high.

Whilst we are on the subject of over priced Edition 30s, this example looks immaculate and obviously been really well cared for. It was up for £17,850 last week, he's dropped the price but I still think it's expensive!

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2791653.htm

[Saint Steve]

^^^^ that's about 3k over priced.

And that's a private seller trying to shift above an optimistic VW approved used

[George]

I think he's just fishing for someone that will pay the excess for an immaculate and low mileage car. It's black and well over priced, so it can stay where it is :)

[stu_no_1]

I think if u do high miles buy a low milage car beacause when the milage creeps up thats when the value of ur car rockets down but if u dont do high miles then i dont see the problem buying a well serviced example just think of the miles u will do in a year add it onto whats already on and see if it puts the car over average mileage if it does id say get a lower milage car because i bought my gti for 11k with 59k on the clock sold it 7 months on for 7500 with nearly 80k miles on it so i learned my lesson and bought an 06 plate r32 with 29k miles on it im now up to 38k but its still a long way off being average milage and i could still sell it on if i wanted and get my money back but i dont plan on doing that anytime soon

[RedRobin]

Each to their own of course but I really don't understand anyone who enjoys driving a Mk5 GTI, or Ed30, getting worried about racking up their mileage. Where's the enjoyment if you don't drive it!?

[Truckie]

Echo what rr said also the whats average for someone isnt for someone else kinda thing! Dont understand your logic with the 340 mile away one, if you have 14k in your pocket and you want a white edition 30...theres one there in renfrewshire go buy it!