Breaking the Myth of Buying a Car With Low Miles

If you follow me, you know that I am a car

buying

specialist and for every car I buy, I actually inspect four or five a day, which is about a thousand cars a year, one of the critical inspection processes that I do when

buying

used cars is identify a car that has highway

miles

versus city

miles

. Now, if you ask most people, they will tell you that low miles is the right way to buy a used car. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's not about how many miles a car has, it's about the type of miles in this video.

I'm going to delve into why that's so important down to straight highway miles versus city miles. I'm going to use two drivers with different driving behaviors, what I call Howard Highway, which has a 50 mile one-way commute and the other is City Sue, which has a 5 mile community highway. Howard drives highway and City Sue. he is driving five miles. Now I'm using the extreme illustration where Howard would drive exclusively on highway and cities to drive exclusively in city, but it's to try to make my point of how important this really is for both drivers over the course of the duration. of the 500 mile distance you will have to cold start your car every time you get into it.

Now on the Howard Highway as you drive 50 miles you will have 10 cold starts okay 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 oops so you have 10 cold starts right now the reason it is so It's important to mention cold starts here and this is just the beginning, but it's very crucial is that cold starts are where most of the wear occurs during the life of an engine, those first few seconds before proper lubrication can reach those critical areas to properly lubricate them and reach operating temperature. Now, by the way, your city has a different kind of trip and you're cold starting your car a hundred times, a hundred times you have to do it.

Get this right, in fact, ten times more, she has a hundred times more cold starts for those five hundred miles, while the Howard Highway only has ten times more than that, it's an extreme example of wear and tear, the role of oil is to prevent the metal. metal-to-metal contact, of course, by providing a full film barrier under operating conditions; however, at idle the engine will be in a hydrostatic state and during a cold start it will not have that full film but rather a borderline lubrication and that is not ideal before. I move on to the transmission part of this presentation that I want to mention, as I have this graph on condensate burn-off events, that's what I call them.

Condensation occurs when there is intense heat in the combustion chamber meeting the cooler elements of the engine and oil. and the exhaust system now, every time that happens, it's a cycle that's a condensation burning event and in town Sue you have hundreds of these events happening right there, just navigate there a little bit over and over and over again. . It's going to have water present, it has to burn properly and the only way to burn it is to run it for a long period of time now that brings to the Howard Highway, who only has ten of these condensate burning events this This will result in a lot more oil life than Sue town, but there are other things at play here and that's what I'm going to address next, so now the transmission trans will also come into service and each of these cold starts and conjectures.

Also, it's going to be cold, it's not running at optimal temperature and it's going to have to go through a warm up sequence and in this case there's going to be a lot of cold swings here, that alone is a problem but then it adds up. to that, the fact that there will be sequences of changes that the city will encounter a lot because there is a lot of stop and go, stop and go, stop and go traffic, while the Howard Highway runs at highway speeds without many changes at 500 miles, so if you compare the number of shift sequences that have to occur, you will see that Su City will have a lot more than the Howard Highway and this will also have a lot of cold shifts, which is not a good idea.

I'm going to check the condensation. problem briefly this time we will be on the exhaust now you have the catalytic converter which then goes to the muffler and then you have the correct exhaust pipe and if the exhaust system is not properly heated to operating temperature you will have the presence of moisture there in Every time Grandma's proverbial car where she only drove it to church and back and it has very low miles on it is going to have a problem with the exhaust system because she never removed the moisture inside the exhaust system and these are NOT items particularly cheap to replace in a car, so keep in mind that another part of the wear and tear between these two drivers will be the braking sequence over those same 500 miles.

Now you can imagine the Howard Highway for those five hundred miles. you apply the brakes a certain amount of time, but usually you just go down the road and you don't have to, so we're a Sioux town, you're going to have to stop and stop with those stronger bolts all the time and that's going to equal the brake. The sequences are much more frequent in his car than in his car, now finally in the city. Sue's car is going to have issues with the engine transmission and exhaust, but there are also other things you might not think about when comparing a highway car to a city car. self driven and that includes more dings on the doors, scratches on the bumper, there will be a lot of real damage and to the tires from hitting the curbs, you will have extra wear on the seat because she will actually be getting in and out of the seat a lot more. ten times more than on the Howard Highway, you will have a seat belt, where the flashing lights will be used more, the radio, the ignition will be used ten times more, the sun visors, the suspension from potholes will be affected by sidewalk rash. .

On the window lifter wheels the list goes on and on, even things you wouldn't even think about, like the remote key control, will be used much more in the city. Sue's car than Howard's. The Department of Transportation estimates that the average traveler spends 42 hours. of your life per year idling in traffic, now that's idling and technically no miles are being put on the car while that's happening and yet you're incurring wear and tear on the engine and that's not good, now it's even Greater in the larger cities, I believe. my cars from outlying areas of the city because even if someone is taking a road trip in the city, they will find that they will still have the same type of trip that Sue has, which is stop and go with rush hour and congestion. so I completely avoid buying cars in this metropolitan area.

I go to outlying areas where people have much longer commutes and that's where the top cars are now. My clients always ask me how you know their road miles. How do you know that? you just take the word of the person you're buying from and sometimes it's at a dealership where you don't talk to the owner so you don't know and the answer is there are several ways to prove it through an inspection, in fact, I have a video on that and I'll post it here and walk you through the steps to identify the things you find in a highway driven car that you don't find in a city driven car. car, so remember there are seven steps to finding a high-quality used car.

Identifying the miles on the road is just one of them. I'll provide a link here to my ebook where I have all of those seven steps mapped out for you and them. I'll walk you through all seven step by step so you can get a great car. I'm Greg, your car. Angela, thanks for watching, please like this video if you enjoyed it. I appreciate you seeing you in the next video. you