Low-mileage cars
Low mileage is a selling point but not always an advantage. A car that has moved little for years often shows the same ageing as one with twice the mileage — just in different places: rubber hardens, brakes rust, fluids age with time rather than distance. The best candidate is therefore not the car with the fewest kilometres but the one with the most plausible ratio of age, mileage and servicing.
What matters
- Around 15,000 kilometres a year counts as normal use. Markedly less usually means short trips — harder on the engine, exhaust and battery.
- On a car that has stood: check tyre age by the DOT code, look at the brake discs for rust lips, and ask when the brake fluid and cambelt were last renewed. Both age with time.
- A service book with yearly entries despite low mileage is a strong sign — it means someone serviced the car by time rather than by distance.
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