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    Low Mileage Vehicle Value

    in Buick - General

    Posted · Edited by rickton (see edit history)

    On 1/9/2018 at 1:08 PM, NTX5467 said:

    By observation, "daily driver" and "daily use" can be highly variable descriptions of use.  Each with their own levels of impact upon the car's body and such.  I highly suspect that most in here might purchase that low mileage older car and treat it with respect and kindness, which it deserves.  Others might pay the same money and run it into the ground, just because they can, treating it as an appliance and little more.  When it "dies", they get another car and go on.  "One nice car" that was used, wadded up, and thrown away.

     

    The later Regal became the Lacrosse.  Same car, nicer trim.  This was before the current-style Lacrosse replaced the prior one.

     

    When I bought my 2005 Impala three years ago, it was priced at about $4500.00 with 85K miles.  I originally thought of keeping it a few years, then trading for something newer with more ultimate value.  It needed the instrument cluster replaced, but I worked around it until it quit working.  Normal items like the water pump, fuel pressure regulator, and power steering pump needed replacement over the next year of so.  Then the flywheel cracked.  With the engine on the chain, a new oil pan gasket happened, plus the intake gasket issue, while it was hanging there.  8K miles later, the new flywheel cracked so that meant a new torque converter.  Then an ignition coil failed, which was replaced along with the plug wires and plug wires.  Add a 4 wheel brake job, front end alignment, and tie rod ends.  Oh, and an a/c compressor and a/c control module.  The fan is noisy on cold mornings, so that's somewhere in the future.  A good bit of this happened after 150K miles.  Knowing that, getting a car with miles past that might mean that all of the expensive stuff has already been done, by somebody else!  Or I take the $3K "high retail" price and put another $10K with it for a newer car with fewer miles and lots of things that are yet to fail.  

     

    One way or another, you're going to spend money.  Just a matter of when and how much.  ONE thing I spent more money on that I might have otherwise, but the set of Michelin Primacy MXV4s have been great!  Makes that ole Chevy act like a Cadillac on the road.  AND after about 100K miles, very little wear.  Good performance in wet and icy conditions, too.  THAT was good money spent well, to me.

     

    Sometimes, the owners of these older nicer low mileage cars might set the price at normally "too high" levels to make sure the ultimate purchaser will take care of the car and appreciate it for what it is.  IF you really want it, see if they'll negotiate.

     

    Enjoy!

    NTX5467

     

    How's the wet traction of MXV4s? My friend is selling his used michelin tires and I'm thinking of getting them instead of buying new ones and since there's a good amount of tread left on them.

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