Used expedite van milage

kg · May 18, 2016

Pretend for a moment that you are interested in purchasing a 2013,2014,or 2015 used expedite van. At what milage would you consider the van to be "too used" for you to buy.

For sake of discussion engines involved would be only diesels and big block gassers.

Just wondering

Stay safe
KG

Opel2010 · May 18, 2016

If Ford or GM, it wouldn't bother me if it has 300K miles. The rest of them (Dodge, MB) are out of the equation...

Turtle · May 18, 2016

300,000, 200,000, 100,000, respectively. Cut those numbers in half if no maintenance records, or if the records show haphazard or lackadaisical maintenance.

scottm4211 · May 18, 2016

My last van had 819k when I bought it. However it was purchased from the original owner who is not only an oddball but very proactive with maintenance. It's been great. (Chev 6.0)

geo · May 18, 2016

if you can't see maintenance record's no matter how many miles are it stay away from it

brokcanadian · May 18, 2016

scottm4211 said:
My last van had 819k when I bought it

Miles or km?

Most I bought used was 279000 miles, it was an expedite truck...went to a million and I scrapped it, no reason other than if something finally broke, where would I start? Engine and Trans was all original

Point being, if it's an expedite truck, high mileage is ok...my last van I bought at 80,000 but it was a city maintenance truck...in all honesty I think it was pretty used up at 250000 when I parked it for sprinter

brokcanadian · May 18, 2016

Opel2010 said:
If Ford or GM, it wouldn't bother me if it has 300K miles. The rest of them (Dodge, MB) are out of the equation...

Dodge I understand but why Sprinter?

Moot · May 18, 2016

I sold my last van, a Chevrolet, 6.0 with 819,759 miles to a foreigner who is expediting with it. Last I heard it was still running strong but he painted it yellow.

MikeDamone · May 18, 2016

brokcanadian said:
Dodge I understand but why Sprinter?

Why Dodge? Whats wrong with the Promaster?

brokcanadian · May 18, 2016

MikeDamone said:
Why Dodge? Whats wrong with the Promaster?

Forgot about the promaster

think I'm older than you I was thinking Ram Van.

Opel2010 · May 18, 2016

brokcanadian said:
Dodge I understand but why Sprinter?

They break down too often, expensive maintenance...

brokcanadian · May 18, 2016

Opel2010 said:
They break down too often, expensive maintenance...

My sprinters new to me, time will tell. Buying a 2005 I'll have the money for spare parts, and I've got the experience for fixing...take care of your vans people, I'll want them about 10 years from now

To original post about 200,000 in one of the gas sixes and 400,000 in a diesel, more would be too much

scottm4211 · May 19, 2016

Moot said:
I sold my last van, a Chevrolet, 6.0 with 819,759 miles to a foreigner who is expediting with it. Last I heard it was still running strong but he painted it yellow.

It's still white, and the body is pristine. Good thing your brother in law Jerry from the Chev dealer in White bear Lake (Go Bears!) talked you in to the True Coat

Moot · May 19, 2016

Ya, goot ting! I'm from Chaska!
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Slo-Ride · May 19, 2016

Much better picture of that Chevy dealer. For some reason Ninatic and Google found it to be of significant value to the game.

Windsor · May 21, 2016

Moot said:
I sold my last van, a Chevrolet, 6.0 with 819,759 miles to a foreigner who is expediting with it. Last I heard it was still running strong but he painted it yellow.

I think he lives in it now and parks it under an old bridge in Detroit. So sad!