My car is 3 and bit years old and has done 55k miles – I do 20k miles a year, they say 12k a year is normal for a private driver, add in a trip to the Alps, lots of work mileage and dare I say it trips to the trail centres and it’s easy done – my car is pretty much ‘as new’.
It’s worth remembering that it’s not miles that really wear cars out – engine wise cold running wears engines much quicker than warm running – 5k miles a year doing a 2 mile school run is going to be harder than 20k miles a year doing a 100 mile motorway run. Add in the fact it’s been well serviced means it’s probably in good nick.
Suspension, brakes and ‘chassis’ wise – hours spent at a pretty constant speed on a motorway barely effects them, lots of stop-start driving and roundabouts does.
Of course people are put off by mileage – that and age are pretty much the only ‘on paper’ indication of how used a car is so it effects the value – BUT the depreciation is always higher at the start so penalty is smaller than buying a low mileage car.