used car low mileage hard to come by these days?

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Didn't it used to be the case that for a little bit more cash you could get a car with pretty low mileage, even when looking in the 3 to 5 year old bracket? It just seems to me now that this isn't possible any more, at least in the types of cars I look at.*

Either that or the price differential between a low miler and an average miler at the same age has got way bigger.

Every time I browse the used car market on autotrader I am left thoroughly disappointed. The market for anything less that £10k is dire, totally dire.


* type of car I look at is large estate petrol with good power.
 
Large powerful estate at new is what £23/24k+?

What are you wanting? I'd expect most 3/5 year old examples at 10k to be 80kM +

Though saying that a quick search shows a VRS Skoda at £10k, with 50k on the clock.
 
Also depends on what you mean by "large". Finding say an A6 or 5-series petrol will be almost impossible, Audi stopped making them about 2-3 years ago (I forget exactly), and whilst BMW do offer petrols, almost nobody buys them.
 
I much prefer petrol myself but with a big Estate I think discounting diesels is a bit silly. Especially modern ones.
 
You want a large low mileage powerful estate that's 3 to 5 years old and under 10k?

There's your problem right there. Try looking under 20k.
 
Even at £20k there are few.
I had a quick look at 5 Series Touring's the other day and decent 530ds M-Sports are pushing over that ....for pre-LCI models.
Same for S-Line Black A6 Avants with the crappy auto.
 
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You're getting old where you think you should still be able to buy 4 pints 4 packets of scratchings and a glass of white wine for £10
 
depends on what kind of cars you're looking for I suppose, but they're definitely still out there.

My car was relatively low milage when I bought it last year, 2008 reg, 43k miles at that point :)
 
I noticed the other day none of the used car garages on my way to work have anything under about 4 grand or so and a lot more cars over 20 grand. Most of my life they'd have stuff in like the 700-13000 range and the odd 20000+.
 
Rroff said:
I noticed the other day none of the used car garages on my way to work have anything under about 4 grand or so and a lot more cars over 20 grand. Most of my life they'd have stuff in like the 700-13000 range and the odd 20000+.
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I also noticed that my local used car dealers cars start at around 8.5k (And that mainly small cars like fiesta's , polo's, golf's etc)

It £9,000 just for a 2 year old basic 1ltr fiesta http://www.trustfordguernsey.co.uk/used-cars/1435/ford-fiesta/
 
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Cars last a lot longer these days, so the 3 year old car market is dominated by high mileage users who buy new. Especially for certain segments.
 
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NooBish AbbZ said:
depends on what kind of cars you're looking for I suppose, but they're definitely still out there.

My car was relatively low milage when I bought it last year, 2008 reg, 43k miles at that point :)
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Thats a lot older than the OP states he is looking for and you dont mention what your car is either? :)
 
Maccapacca said:
You're getting old where you think you should still be able to buy 4 pints 4 packets of scratchings and a glass of white wine for £10
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I would hate to be young these days with just Half a pint of lager costing around £3.25 in a pub :eek:

Me & my mate went into a pub a few months ago and it cost us £6.50 for just 2 bottles (275ml ea) of becks blue alcohol free lager...
 
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Fully appreciate its lack of supply thats the cause, and the problem seems only to be getting worse.

There are 16,248 estates nationally on AT.

Selecting petrol takes it down to 4,085.

Selecting automatic takes it down to 1,474.

Selecting newer than 2009 (still 6 years old) takes it down to 584 cars.

Of these, only 10 Honda's, 15 BMWs, 108 Fords, 4 Volvos.

There is only one 2.4 Honda, a 45k miler from 2009 at £9.5k. Not exactly quick either, but very nice. But there is one of them.

Of the 108 Fords, there are only 4 Mondeos, 3 of which are under 100k miles but which are 5 and 6 years old (at £7k, £8k and £9k).

Of the 4 Volvos, there are 3 V70s and one V50. The V50 is a 6 year old car and is a fiver short of £10k.

And those are the only cars worth having out of all those estates IMO.

Obviously I'm well behind the times, but not being able to spend £10k and get something pretty decent? Seems scandalous.
 
No one buys petrols anymore. I think it's beginning to go up nowadays but certainly in the last 10 years it was very much diesels over everything else.
 
mjt said:
No one buys petrols anymore. I think it's beginning to go up nowadays but certainly in the last 10 years it was very much diesels over everything else.
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True but academic really as he isn't going to be buying powerful low mileage 3 year old diesel estates for under 10k either. Infact under 20k is an ask!
 
mjt said:
No one buys petrols anymore. I think it's beginning to go up nowadays but certainly in the last 10 years it was very much diesels over everything else.
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Yeah. And it's a real risk to buy a 4 to 6 year old diesel. Prob be better buying a 13 year old one than a 6 year old one.
 
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