Hey guys,
Just wanted some advice on buying a second-hand diesel car (Hyundai Santafe) which was driven 200k kilometres but just 5 years old. It was a lease vehicle before so that could be one of the reasons it was driven more but is it worth buying a 5-year-old diesel car that was driven more than 200k?
Are such long driven cars mechanically fine? Will it be safe to go for a long drive on such cars?
P.S. The car was regularly serviced and well maintained physically.
Thanks.
The price is around 15k but the main question is are they mechanically fine? Will it be safe to go for a long drive on such cars ?
Get an nrma safety check done.
If it's like $10-15k with full service history (every 10k km) then go for it
thanks mate, yeah full service history.
Just to reiterate, make sure the car was serviced every 10-15k and not just yearly. Servicing every 50k is too long of a gap imo
In my experience, the engine might hold out well and have plenty of life in it but everything else around it fails.
Even if it is a 2018 model, everything else around the engine will fail?
Well I had a Volkswagen Touareg (yes it’s a European car and there are those that say that’s the first issue) but the diesel particle filter (which is being referred to as the DPF in this forum) gave way. That cost me $5000 to replace. Then the injectors gave way, two of them at the same time and that was going to cost a fortune to fix so I got rid of the car. I had the car from new and I did around 160,000km when things started falling apart.
Not sure if this can compare but that’s just food for thought.
It would have to be cheap. Its a lot of kms in a short time do probaly hasnt been serviced on time every time. On the flip side, ita been run a lot so unlikely to have done lots of short trips and affected the DPF.
I have no problem buying a car with 200kkm on it, but id much rather it had closer to average kms on it - 15-20k per year.
While the motor might be fine, the suspension etc will be showing signs of wear at that age.
Hyundai have zero reported issues with their DPFs.
Have you seen it in person?
Over that length of driven time, things start to show age. Driver's seat could be worn down, so could steering wheel etc and the car just starts to feel 'tired', regardless of the mechanical condition
Also what sort of driving?
If it's been towing a caravan, that's 200,000Km of hard work.
If it's been a rep car, carrying a driver and a laptop, and only driven on sealed roads, much more likely to be easy K's.
Finally, Hyundai/Kia don't seem to have too many DPF issues, but what is your intended driving? City trips and modern Diesels can = DPF issues.
"Worth Buying a Diesel Car"
No
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No
will you be doing longer trips on it (e.g. mostly highway, long distance driving)? or just short trips. If the latter, avoid diesel just go Petrol
Is it a TM? If so go for it, great bargain.
Don't buy any diesel vehicle built after 2013
why?
New emissions standards make them expensive to service and maintain compared to petrol vehicles.
Yeah nah mate.
Lol.
A 5 year old Sante Fe will have a DPF (AFAIK they were put in 2015) so that’s something to be aware of if you’re doing a lot of short stop driving, as the DPF may not burn off.
I was in exactly the same position awhile back and asked two mechanics I trusted, they both said avoid diesels as they can be more expensive to maintain, injectors and plugs can be costly to do - I am also only doing short trips so I’d almost get tripped up by a DPF, if one was fitted.
Then again, know plenty of people with diesels with zero hassles who don’t drive much.
FWIW I think the Sante Fe’s are really nice vehicles. I’d loved to have gotten one, and rightly or wrongly I steered clear from the advice of the people I asked.
Hyundai doesn't have DPF issues, look it up before writing an essay next time.
And no one has thought to ask about what vehicle it is? Is it a car, SUV, twin cab, light commercial truck, prime mover?
If it’s a Isuzu, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, etc, it’s probably ok. If it’s a Ford, VW, LDV, GWM, I wouldn’t be touching it with a barge pole. If it’s Peugeot, Renault, Shitroen, etc, delete the thread, search for a deal on a lobotomy and see if you can purge your memory of ever thinking about it.
Right back at you.
Have you not thought to read more than the title?
Its a medium size SUV, or to be even more precise it's a Hyundai Santa Fe, it's explicitly stated in the OP!
What version?, I wouldnt be paying that for the base model, Is it AWD or 2wd, Elite, Active, Highlander?
All the MY18/MY19 diesel Santa Fe models are listed as 4X4 on demand.
MY18 (previous shape) are 6spd Sports Automatic.
MY19+ are 8spd Sports Automatic
tell us the price mate