Hey guys. I’m looking at purchasing a van for my growing family and I came across a deal that seems too good to be true. It’s a 2016 Dodge Caravan for 2,900 + taxes and fees. The catch: 216,000 miles. I’m not the most knowledgeable about cars so I’m not sure if that should be a huge deal breaker or …

[image] Eppersod: I don’t know the maintenance history :grimacing: Think about it: The owner of this vehicle apparently drove it over 50k miles per year, or over 1,000 miles per week. That type of usage surely doesn’t leave much “downtime” for performing maintenance. But, perhaps it was …

As a family car, it should be reliable, and a car with mileage this high won’t be. How long can you go without the van? I would expect it to be out of service a few days each month on average. If the work hasn’t been done already, it will likely need new bushings, shocks/struts, and brakes. By bra…

It’s a real crapshoot to buy something with this many miles though most of it had to have been highway miles . So if you buy it you then have to have the plugs , brakes inspected , shocks inspected and possibly replaced , tires possibly, coolant flushed . While the Pentium V6 has generall…

[image] jtsanders: If the work hasn’t been done already, it will likely need new bushings, shocks/struts, and brakes. By brakes I mean calipers and master cylinder in addition to pads. [image] vipergg: Things like pulleys, alternator , water pump, fuel pump could go at anytime . +1 to …

I would say it depends on how many miles you drive in a year, I would not plan on getting 300,000 miles out of it, but if you drive 10,000 a year or less you can probably get your money’s worth out of it. I would like to get a compression check and see the condition of the tranny fluid, check for an…

[image] Eppersod: The catch: 216,000 miles. Stay away!

The way I see it, you have two choices: A) Budget for maintenance and repairs. How much? I’d estimate two or three thousand dollars a year. …or… B) Use that money you’d budget for repairs and buy something much newer in terms of age and mileage.

Simple, ask the seller for permission to bring a mechanic to look over the car. If the seller says “no” walk away. If yes, spend a $100 or so and get a mechanic to check this thing out. 216k miles in this short period of time is almost all highway miles unless this thing was used as a taxi.

I’m going with taxi. With that mileage someone put an average of about 142 miles a day on it every single day since 1/1/2016.

Please… Walk away from this. It is not any kind of “deal” I promise you. Any trouble free driving was already enjoyed by the previous owner…the next owner is the one who will be replacing all sorts of items that are on the verge of total breakdown… Those items will surely be…the brake system, the…

2016 Dodge Grand Caravan - HIGH MILES

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Barkydog February 26, 2020, 9:48pm 16

My dad in the olden days said look at brake pedal wear to see if it was city or highway miles.

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