Expected life of the Fit?
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From: Lizella, GA
Expected life of the Fit?
I owned an older 2007 Fit for 5-6 years and was very happy with it but sold it in great shape when it hit 230k miles just due to a variety of non mechanical issues that were starting to creep up. I figured I'd get more while it was still in great shape than waiting another couple years.
Either way, now I'm back in the market and really like the newest Fit's but people around here seem to think they're made of gold and want a ton of money for them unless they have high miles. Since $7-10k seems pretty standard for cars with close to 200k miles on them, could I get 300k out of these cars or will something serious give out before then? I can do pretty much any work needed but I'm not a fan of rebuilding transmissions and I really don't like pulling engines out of newer cars to rebuild them.
Either way, now I'm back in the market and really like the newest Fit's but people around here seem to think they're made of gold and want a ton of money for them unless they have high miles. Since $7-10k seems pretty standard for cars with close to 200k miles on them, could I get 300k out of these cars or will something serious give out before then? I can do pretty much any work needed but I'm not a fan of rebuilding transmissions and I really don't like pulling engines out of newer cars to rebuild them.
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All used cars are expensive now and have been for the past few years. You can still find deals, but if you're trying to compare the best price you'll pay for a given car today with the best price you would have paid for a car with the same age and miles five years ago you will be disappointed.
The expected lifespan of any car depends on how it is/was treated, where and how it is/was driven, and a bit of luck.
1) Proper and timely preventative and required maintenance should equal a long service life. This might mean different things for different vehicles. For example, I frequently see posts here about issues with the direct injection engine on the 3rd generation Fit which require maintenance that wasn't required for a 1st or 2nd gen Fit. Skimping on maintenance will cause more and more serious issues to develop.
2) Highway vs city miles vs gravel roads, winter salted roads vs non-salt areas, "adult" driving vs living your life 1/4 mile at a time.
3) You can treat your Fit like a priceless Ferrari and still lose it in an instance to an inattentive driver or suicidal deer.
My dad drove a couple Buicks from the 1970s and 1980s, a Ford Escort from the early 1990s, and a Ford Escape from the early 2000s until they each had 250K-300K miles. In each case the ultimate lifespan of the car was determined by Midwestern salt rather than the still functioning drivetrain.
If those cars could do it, any new car should be able to, but no one can say whether any specific car will.
The expected lifespan of any car depends on how it is/was treated, where and how it is/was driven, and a bit of luck.
1) Proper and timely preventative and required maintenance should equal a long service life. This might mean different things for different vehicles. For example, I frequently see posts here about issues with the direct injection engine on the 3rd generation Fit which require maintenance that wasn't required for a 1st or 2nd gen Fit. Skimping on maintenance will cause more and more serious issues to develop.
2) Highway vs city miles vs gravel roads, winter salted roads vs non-salt areas, "adult" driving vs living your life 1/4 mile at a time.
3) You can treat your Fit like a priceless Ferrari and still lose it in an instance to an inattentive driver or suicidal deer.
My dad drove a couple Buicks from the 1970s and 1980s, a Ford Escort from the early 1990s, and a Ford Escape from the early 2000s until they each had 250K-300K miles. In each case the ultimate lifespan of the car was determined by Midwestern salt rather than the still functioning drivetrain.
If those cars could do it, any new car should be able to, but no one can say whether any specific car will.
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All used cars are expensive now and have been for the past few years. You can still find deals, but if you're trying to compare the best price you'll pay for a given car today with the best price you would have paid for a car with the same age and miles five years ago you will be disappointed.
The expected lifespan of any car depends on how it is/was treated, where and how it is/was driven, and a bit of luck.
1) Proper and timely preventative and required maintenance should equal a long service life. This might mean different things for different vehicles. For example, I frequently see posts here about issues with the direct injection engine on the 3rd generation Fit which require maintenance that wasn't required for a 1st or 2nd gen Fit. Skimping on maintenance will cause more and more serious issues to develop.
2) Highway vs city miles vs gravel roads, winter salted roads vs non-salt areas, "adult" driving vs living your life 1/4 mile at a time.
3) You can treat your Fit like a priceless Ferrari and still lose it in an instance to an inattentive driver or suicidal deer.
My dad drove a couple Buicks from the 1970s and 1980s, a Ford Escort from the early 1990s, and a Ford Escape from the early 2000s until they each had 250K-300K miles. In each case the ultimate lifespan of the car was determined by Midwestern salt rather than the still functioning drivetrain.
If those cars could do it, any new car should be able to, but no one can say whether any specific car will.
The expected lifespan of any car depends on how it is/was treated, where and how it is/was driven, and a bit of luck.
1) Proper and timely preventative and required maintenance should equal a long service life. This might mean different things for different vehicles. For example, I frequently see posts here about issues with the direct injection engine on the 3rd generation Fit which require maintenance that wasn't required for a 1st or 2nd gen Fit. Skimping on maintenance will cause more and more serious issues to develop.
2) Highway vs city miles vs gravel roads, winter salted roads vs non-salt areas, "adult" driving vs living your life 1/4 mile at a time.
3) You can treat your Fit like a priceless Ferrari and still lose it in an instance to an inattentive driver or suicidal deer.
My dad drove a couple Buicks from the 1970s and 1980s, a Ford Escort from the early 1990s, and a Ford Escape from the early 2000s until they each had 250K-300K miles. In each case the ultimate lifespan of the car was determined by Midwestern salt rather than the still functioning drivetrain.
If those cars could do it, any new car should be able to, but no one can say whether any specific car will.
Some engines are well known to have oil starvation issues when raced so they can last a long time when driven normally but are pretty much guaranteed to fail after a rather low number of track days. Some automatic transmissions on many smaller, cheaper cars are so prone to failure that they can barely make 100k miles under daily driving and the junk yards are wiped clean of them because no one makes a rebuilt kit since they just aren't worth the effort. This effectively makes the car worthless once the transmission dies. Do you know of anything like this?
In my eyes Honda's are reliable because they can tolerate a lot of delayed maintenance without too much of an issue and then they begin to show some signs of needing attention but if you ignore those signs long enough, it will bite you. Meanwhile, BMW owners say their cars are reliable if you do all the preventative maintenance....aka replace everything at a set schedule before it can fail but then there are things that shouldn't need changing that act up and drive you insane. Any nuisance issues that will bite you out of no where?
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