advice needed please!!!!

[saxo_boi]

i am looking at buying a vauxhall astra, sri, 1.8, 52 plate (2003), its just been serviced and had the cam belt changed, its mint inside and the bodywork is perfect but its done 87000 miles, its going for about �4500, loads of people are telling me not to because of the mileage but im not convinced, just wondered what you would do?

[spaced]

its done 29k per annum, thats alot! Think about it, in 3 yrs you sell it only have done avergae milage of 12k per annum, when you come to sell it, it will have done 123k.

Plus its probably a fleet car (thus the high milage and it being an astra) and being a fleet manager I know how these cars gets treated. Personally, I would stay WELL away from this one mate. The old astra is ugly anyway.

[Loosehead]

With that milage it's worth about �3500, if you can get it for that it's probably be ok. Bear in mind though that fleet cars do get robustly treated but on the good side they are serviced properly on the button.

[homer75]

Doubt very much if you would get it for �3500 The price seems ok and if it's done a lot of motorway miles they will have done the car no harm. That model is nice to drive and they are ok cars.

[bob57]

for �4500 you would get a car of same age with less mileage

you should look for a car with 6k-12k per annum also listen to your freinds as they have probably come across the query before

best advice is to look around

[erimus1]

go to the autotrader website and join (free) - then do a national search with the same sort of details so you can compare prices - I find that this is a lot better than some of the price lists like Glass' Guide or Parkers because it tells you what the cars are actually being sold for, and not what the industry thinks they should be sold for.
Hope this helps.

[stormin]

Would any reasonable person buy an Astra Sri and then drive it gently. It sounds like a young persons fleet car and despite the perfect service history it likely to have been driven hard. You do sound overly keen so the best advice would be to get it professionally checked. The money spent now could save a fortune in the future.