If you're shopping for a used vehicle, mileage is likely a top consideration. After all, when it comes to car buying, you want your used car to give you thousands or tens of thousands of miles of trouble-free transportation. And common sense seems to suggest that the fewer miles a used car has, the longer it will faithfully serve you. But with used car prices at record highs, a higher mileage car may better suit your budget. Our friends at iSeeCars give you some great info on this subject.
Is buying a high-mileage car a good idea? And since higher mileage usually equates to an older vehicle age, how old is too old for a used car? Is the lower-miles-equals-better-car correlation a hard-and-fast rule to live by? iSeeCars researchers say the real answers to these questions are a bit more complicated than they seem. Exceptions exist, and they’re not always apparent.
All this begs the obvious question: how many miles should a used car have, anyway?
To give you a better sense of what the ideal used car mileage might be – and why that’s a tough metric to measure – and when a high-mileage car might be the better buy, iSeeCars says it's done the research and flushed out the facts. It's all great info to keep in mind the next time you're car shopping for a used vehicle.
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