Buying Outlander with 50K Km in One Year | Perth

d39833 on 17/06/2019 - 19:24
Last edited 18/06/2019 - 15:59 by 1 other user

Hi guys,

I'm looking at few cars at this dealership. All of them are 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander LS AWD MY18.5. These cars have done between 45-53k km. Assuming the they are around 1-1.5 years old, 50k km is a lot. I'm assuming it's a lot of country, long distance driving.

Should I be weary of buying one of these cars because of the high number of km on the in just one year?
Could these be rental cars? If they are, it is bad?

UPDATE

I called the dealer up. He said that they are all fleet cars.
These cars are priced at ~25k.

There is another car, same model that has done 14k km, but priced at 29k (4k more).
Is the additional 4k more worth it?

UPDATE 2

I went to have a look at the log book.
One batch of cars are Ex-Avis (Perth Airport). The log book says that it was serviced privately by Avis
The other is Ex-Thrifty (Sydney). This was bought over from Sydney. The log book says that it was serviced privately by Thrifty.

Both were serviced at the recommended intervals. How do you know what done service wise?

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  chillybags on 17/06/2019 - 19:31

  +1

  Obviously have no idea about the condition of this car, and not much of an idea about mechanics but i drive 50k Km per year. It was 50km each way to work each day and 250km each way back to sydney on the weekends. I took really good care of my car and got it serviced every 10k km, so every 2.5months. 100km a day on the high way (@100kmph) nonstop would probably be better than 20minutes in stop start traffic in the city.

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  [Deactivated] on 17/06/2019 - 19:40

  -1

  Obviously fleet cars.

  You're in WA.

  Mining vehicles.

  They've been in the mines.

  The mines are very caustic.

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    chillybags on 17/06/2019 - 19:46

    +3

    They might be used by people driving to a mine on public roads, but I’ve worked at 5 mine sites and have never seen an outlander used on a mine site. It is not durable enough and wouldn’t last. Almost exclusive Toyota vehicles are used on the mines themselves.

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      [Deactivated] on 17/06/2019 - 19:47

      I was thinking just that.

      … and then I was thinking, "maybe that's why they've got early retirement".

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    theHMASfriendship on 17/06/2019 - 20:48

    There are no outlanders on mine sites.

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  spackbace on 17/06/2019 - 19:45

  They'd be fleet cars. SilverChain etc.

  The main thing is to make sure they're priced right, and that you won't further rack up the kms, otherwise before you know it the car has reached 150,000kms and resale is shit.

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    d39833 on 17/06/2019 - 19:54

    I called the dealer up. He said that they are all fleet cars.
    These cars are priced at ~25k.

    There is another car, same model that has done 14k km, but priced at 29k (4k more).
    Is the additional 4k more worth it?

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      spackbace on 17/06/2019 - 19:55

      +2

      Go look at them and see for yourself. See how much recon has been done, how the paint and fabric looks etc.

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        d39833 on 18/06/2019 - 15:59

        UPDATE 2

        I went to have a look at the log book.
        One batch of cars are Ex-Avis (Perth Airport). The log book says that it was serviced privately by Avis
        The other is Ex-Thrifty (Sydney). This was bought over from Sydney. The log book says that it was serviced privately by Thrifty.

        Both were serviced at the recommended intervals. How do you know what done service wise?

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  Euphemistic on 17/06/2019 - 20:20

  +1

  IMO 50k isn’t much. I’d be looking at resale, ie if you plan on keeping it for a long time and don’t do a lot of kms then when you sell it will have average kms. Alternatively if you do heaps of kms and plan to keep it for a long time it won’t be worth much anyway. If you turn over cars every few years, extra kms will cost you $ on resale, but you might have saved the difference anyway.

  50k in one year probably isn’t that bad if the car is in good condition and the right price.

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    d39833 on 17/06/2019 - 20:30

    On average I do 10-14k per year.

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      Euphemistic on 17/06/2019 - 20:39

      That’s not heaps. Considering the car has probably 30k more than normal and if you do 5k less than average it will take 6years to get back to average kms, but each year you own it will be 5k closer to average.

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  altomic on 17/06/2019 - 23:40

  sounds like toowong mitsubishi in Brisbane

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  Austaurean on 18/06/2019 - 08:17

  +2

  also make sure it has had any services that were due, even about to be due, and hopefully even the interval ones between the required ones..
  Will help with resale and knowing that it has had fresh oil etc regularly is always good.