Dear Nairalanders,

I found a car I am interested in buying; a 2003 Camry. The car is about 11 years old with a mileage of 214,530 .
The dealer's price is 1,350,000 naira.

I am at loss at what to do? Please advice. Do you think it is a good buy or is the mileage too high?

That's a pretty high mileage for that car if it has a service history I will advice you beat the price down a bit. That car should have an average mileage of 15k miles per year? i.e 15000 x 11years = 165000miles

Most importantly run a vin check make sure it isn't accidented.

Cheers.

No good my brother, walk away it worth about half that price. There are better cars out there costing less

There seems to be a problem with people assuming that high mileage means bad car, which has made a lot of dealer to roll back their odometer reading. Over 50% of dealers do this.

@OP, even if you see a low mileage car it does mean the odometer was not rolled back except you do a VIN check on the car. It's very difficult to see an actual 2003 model car driven over 10year and the mileage is less that 100K.

When our sienna was bought the vin result came back with odo reading of 298... But the dealer rolled it back to 85000 removing 200000 plus miles.
The engine is still very sound and very fast so high mileage doesn't mean bad engine just make sure it has a good service history

My colleague bought his 2003 Toyota Siena at about 200,000 miles, and it's upto 3 years now, no issues with the car. He always travels to Lagos/Abuja with the car. High mileage does not mean bad engine. BUT, LOOK WELL BEFORE YOU LEAP.