Should I avoid buying a used car if there's a chance the previous owner was an uber/lyft/ etc driver?I keep seeing cars that are 1-2 years old that have very high mileage, usually low end cars like Civics and Corollas. One car was a year old and driven over 30k miles and already back for sale
>>29143326If you have the means to, 100%.Why buy someone else's problems?Or think about it like this, why would anyone get rid of a new car if it is working just fine. All used vehicles have issues.This board is full of broke ass retards kept calling people wrenchlet for not willing to fix things. But chances are you aren't getting any big discounts on a year old model and you STILL have to deal with issues that no one will disclose to you. Spend the extra and keep your car nice until the end. Spending money to buy problems is nigger level retard.
>>29143351Unfortunately I dont have any proof, just noticing whats on the carfax. The pro is that the car was bought and serviced at the same dealer for that entire year and now that same dealer is selling the car so all the service records are available. Just seemed odd that after a year the owner decide to sell it back to the dealer after putting 30K miles on it. and I have no way of knowing if its city or highway
>>29143326Uber car may have engine issue but guaranteed to have suspension issue.
If you drive your car 30K a year, then you either really love it or really hate it.
>>29143359Pretty sure you're seeing dealership loaner or demo vehicles. They're the cars the dealership gives you to use as you get your engine replaced, etc. Buying one would be the same gamble as buying a used rental car. People have either driven it like a grandma or they beat on it because it's a rental/loaner.
>>29143326Anon, ride sharing cars are driven by 80iq shitskins.They have a fundamental issue understanding anything mechanical.Those cars are guaranteed to be fucked.
>>29143326I actually like high mileage late model cars You get em alot cheaper at an age where it doesn't need big repairs yet, my Honda is "low mileage" at 186,000, but becsuse it is 23 years old the cat needs replaced becsuse it has code despite running fine. So mileage isnt everything, people woth similar cars to mine gave gone 540,000 miles on the original cat, that's how much the age of a car can cost you, so get a late model car if yoy can and fuck what the odometer says, get yourself a deal.
>>29143684It's not 2002 anymore. Even just 30k miles is a lot for a modern vehicle when it's got a high compression, DI'd, turbo'd and AFM cucked motorcycle engine mated to a CVT all moving a 4000lb crossover blob. Yes this applies to modern Toyotas and Hondas.
>>29143326Rideshare drivers skip on anything that isn't brakes and tyres. Oil? If i get the chance this monthSuspension? As long as nobody reports me for excessive shaking
>>29143326Just get a car with two doorsTwo door cars can't be ubersAlso bonus points because two door cars are for men unlike faggy 4 door cuckmobiles
>>29143326One thing I keep noticing about normies is how they slam the car in reverse and back into first before the car stops moving, wont even give a shit if it grinds and somehow this works with automatics too, now imagine some fag who uses his car to drive drunk morons around. The car will be stuck in a fucked up purgatory between excessive idling and start stop abuse, always reved to hell and back without the engine having a change to lubricate everything nvm warming upand civics depreciate so slowly that you might as well save up and get a new one
>>29143897My ex gf did that, she would reverse it then slam it into drive while it was still reversing. One time I told her that was bad for the car to do that she gave me this annoyed look like I just told her she was retarded. Women truly are the authors of their own misfortune
>>29143326The worst possible thing to do is to buy a used car from the past 5-10 years. Used car problems, new car shittiness, and new car prices. If you're buying a newish car just buy a new one. If you want a used car buy something 15-50 years old.
>>29143797Instead of Uber passengers it'll be DoorDashed to hell and back
>>29143995I'm trying to find a car for my mom, her current car is a 20 year old cadillac and shes really picky about her new car. She refuses to buy new so keeps looking at CPO toyotas and hondas. her budget is max 26K including downpayment, so she doesnt have too much flexibility.Shes almost 70 so this car will certainly go to me or my brother in 10 years when she stops driving
>>29143689This, 100k miles is nearing end of life for modern small displacement turdbo engines, if it's a naturally aspirated large displacement v8 with a modest compression ratio, then 100k miles is just barely getting broken in
>>29144002E39 530, the Best Sports Sedan overall that there is, or an LCI E90 335i, the last Amazing 3 Series dynamically
>>29144006Everything I've read has told me avoid old german cars because the maintenence will be insane
>>29144012E39 is still reasonable, it's the E60 and F10 and onward that's cursed. The lower trims like 530 is also far more dailyable and reliable over the high performance versions too, even the 540 is more reasonable than maintaining the m5 long term
Yes mostly because of the irregular oil changes. You should notice suspension problems on initial inspection/test drive. There is a more insidious commercial use case, however. Watch out for anything from a fleet that has oddly low mileage relative to its age. If whatever the job was involved 8+ hours a day of idling and puttering along in small areas below 30mph, stay far FAR away. I was a fleet mechanic for a university. The worst offenders by far were campus security and parking enforcement. They would put up old vehicles for auction at around the 8 year mark, no more than 50k miles on the odo, interior looked okay except steering wheel and shifter were heavily worn. Those engines were shot. 50k miles but running 8+ hours a day every day for eight years.
>>29143897Kek my mom has done this in her Sonata V6 so much and the car shutters when it's going into drive while backing up a little but the car still works, car companies need to start giving their test mules to stupid fucking women as a daily driver and see what breaks because they'll find the fuck out.
>>29144003My farming cousins have 300,000+ mile Ecoboost F150s.The 2.7L and 3.5L eco blows are solid these days
>>29144017>The lower trims like 530 is also far more dailyableI'd definitely fuck with an E39 525i 2.8L with the 5 speed manual and rack and pinion
>>29144432Fuck off brown shit skin who lives in Cali
>>29144377For every 1 good Ecoboost experience you're going to find 10 bad ones where they blew up prematurely. Small displacement engines do not belong in heavy vehicles.
>>29144443The flyover ricelet appears
>>29143351Not defending the shitvox crowd but new cars are garbage.Touch screen everything was a major mistake and do you really want a camera pointed at your face and AI disabling your car because it (thinks) youre intoxicated after you finished a 14 hour shift? Used cars beed to he cherished and kept alive for another 50 years
