Expectations of mileage on a Z3

andyglym said:
A highly polished car = less drag coefficient which = a faster car. Science fact ;) You don't see dirty F1 cars :D
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Don't forget the dust caps, apparently they make the car faster too:thumbsup::whistle::whistle:
 
Mint said:
Don't forget the dust caps, apparently they make the car faster too:thumbsup::whistle::whistle:
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Dust caps have a weight to them and dirt is additional weight and it disrupts the airflow around your car causing turbulence which in turn slows the car down. I'm convinced that @mrscalex could prove it :D
 
andyglym said:
Dust caps have a weight to them and dirt is additional weight and it disrupts the airflow around your car causing turbulence which in turn slows the car down. I'm convinced that @mrscalex could prove it :D
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It’s ok scalex could sort you a statistical excel sheet and Pingu will build you the wind tunnel with a lovely graph to prove it.
 
mrscalex said:
I do proper analyses of this from time to time. Yeah, sad I know. In fact there's a previous thread I started somewhere.

My last look at this was in Oct 17 and was based on ebay for sale mileage. My own labels of course and these are very subjective.

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Since then mileages have (of course) moved on a little. 100k remains a psychological barrier but without re-running the exercise it feels like there are materially less sub-100k cars around now and that prices are sneaking up. I'd possibly expect the 'Sensible' category to be moving towards 85k to 105k now.

I get all the arguments that a high mileage car can be lovely. But the unavoidable truth is, just with repaired write-offs, that values are normally impacted.
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Wil be interesting to see how many of those turn up with reduced mileages 2yrs later (you did keep a record of reg no, vin and mileages didn’t you @mrscalex :bag:)
 
Rha said:
145,000 MLS and someone in the trade drove it saying " if I didn't know the mileage I would have guessed around 30,000, it feels as tight as a new car". It's not what's on the clock that counts, it's how it's been looked after and maintained. Buy a car from a true enthusiast and I reackon you won't go wrong, after all I could probably have bought a coupe with around 90,000 on it and had nothing but overlooked/unseen repairs needing doing in the short term, as it is I've bought from someone that looked at everything and done it before it was troublesome.
Luck doesn't come into it as I did my homework before making an offer. Luck only came when he @Lee said YES.:eek:
My advise, if you can buy from a enthusiast and/or someone on here you'll likely get something worth having.:thumbsup:
I bought the coupe with no regrets at 144,000 MLS on the clock. Say no more.:cool:

RHA,Roy.:happy:
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Well said that man :thumbsup:
 
Lee said:
Jesus that's a whole new level of anal! =))

If we put you in a room with @Pingu I bet we could make a black hole, with your spreadsheets and his graphs =))
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=))=)) that's made my night. @Lee That's funny.....
 
Mine's got 53k on it so I guess it counts as low mileage. However, I couldn't agree more about low mileage not automatically equating to a good car as I've had to do more work than I would have thought a 50 thousand miler would need to get it up on its toes....
 
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Well I’ve got a high mileage car 151,500 Having said that I really don’t think mileage counts on it, it’s just about had everything changed on it, I think the only mechanical things that are original are the gearbox and diff. Every thing else has been changed including all body panels roof windscreen and paint and the head has been stripped and rebuilt. So my mileage dose not reflect the true car, which drives like a new one.
 
Gremlin said:
Well I’ve got a high mileage car 151,500 Having said that I really don’t think mileage counts on it, it’s just about had everything changed on it, I think the only mechanical things that are original are the gearbox and diff. Every thing else has been changed including all body panels roof windscreen and paint and the head has been stripped and rebuilt. So my mileage dose not reflect the true car, which drives like a new one.
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And a fine example of a Z3 it is too:thumbsup:. Think most of us must have drawn the same conclusions, while mileage is important it doesn't allways tell us the whole truth. Your Z would be a good buy even with the present mileage. Not rocket science to most of us on here IMO.

RHA, Roy.;)
 
Mine done 131000 highest milage car I've ever had but to be honest, I would have ended up spending the same amount so far on a car with half the milage and maybe £2000 to £3000 more to start with. Every car I buy I service it regardless of history and milage so this time round I brought that needed to bits doing anyway at a cheap price. Yes a 1 owner 20000mile car would have been nice but then knowing me what I'm like and I defo Wouldn't use ..

Mint car millions of miles and 15 prev owners..... But I can use it with out worrying about the value dropping and so far all is good as with most of the cars alot of the major parts that have gone already have and been replaced fingers cross anyway
 
Matts2.8 said:
Mine done 131000 highest milage car I've ever had but to be honest, I would have ended up spending the same amount so far on a car with half the milage and maybe £2000 to £3000 more to start with. Every car I buy I service it regardless of history and milage so this time round I brought that needed to bits doing anyway at a cheap price. Yes a 1 owner 20000mile car would have been nice but then knowing me what I'm like and I defo Wouldn't use ..

Mint car millions of miles and 15 prev owners..... But I can use it with out worrying about the value dropping and so far all is good as with most of the cars alot of the major parts that have gone already have and been replaced fingers cross anyway
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Another nice Z worth keeping or buying.:thumbsup:

RHA,Roy.;)
 
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