That statement by the owner along with the odometer you pictured right away would throw up flags. Odometer says 24k, owner says 30k. I do not know of many owners of 24k cars that don't know the mileage down to the tenth. Likely a 1 or a 2 in front of those numbers. Keep looking deeper into the car and see if the overall condition warrants the asking price.Owner says it only has 30k miles, could anyone confirm this?
I get what you're saying. Miles are just one indicator among many one should consider when buying. I like the idea that a car hasn't been to the moon and back. I also like things mostly original. I also use miles as a gauge of how much wear that consumable parts will endure. Even if a driver is easy on a car, things happen and things wear over the course of 50k or 100k miles, or more.These things get totally rebuilt as well. Sometimes, the numbers on the odometer are not even relevant.
100%. Improper storage and time can wreak havoc.Time can also have a negative affect. Cars can suffer certain problems from not being used enough.
Dodge and Chrysler vehicles of the era had horrible electronics under normal conditions. That had to be an exciting survival commute.Lack of use can be a problem too. I once had a coworker who had an 8 year old Dodge Stratus (I know not much of a car), it had 50,000 km (30,000 miles) and electrically was falling apart. We were in the cold winters of Canada and his daily commute was not long enough to fully warm up the vehicle. So the built up condensation never dried up properly and just corroded everything.
I like the idea that a car hasn't been to the moon and back.
I chose my fox because of the low miles, and documentation to support it.I as well. I don't care if the car has every part bolted to the body as 100% brand new, i don't like the idea of a body having 300K miles of flex on it. When it comes to these fox bodies, I do think mileage on the body matters here because of how flexible these cars are. We've all seen how these bodies can tear on the floor panel or at the A and B pillars from flex, especially without subframe connectors.
That's why i don't agree when people rebuild a chassis and reset the odometer to 0 and later sell the car as "20K miles". It's less of an issue now due to how much 20K mile cars actually sell for, but back in the late 90's and early 2000's when sub-100K mile Foxes were common and cheap, folks would do just this. Lots of low-mileage cars really had 100K+ on the body.
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