Thank you for the input. Those hotshot’s run a-lot of miles. But yeah i am thinking that its still a half ton truck kinda but its not the size of a tacoma. It drove nice the fella that had it just used it to drive to the golf course and back so not tough miles and kept it in a garage.
Low miles is not always a good thing. A lot of short trips are, in my opinion, worse than higher miles where long drives were common. I would rather buy a high-mile vehicle if I knew that it had been used on, say a long commute, as long as it had been taken care of and serviced regularly.
Many short trips means that the car was started and stopped more frequently, and quite likely there were many times during those stop/start cycles that the engine was not allowed to come up to full temperature before being shut off. That creates a lot of wear.
Also, it seems that those types of drivers see that they should change their oil either according to the factory recommendations, or even if it was at the minimum of 3,000 miles (according to Jiffy Lube, right?) that it went a long time (not miles though) before even the oil was changed. Oil degrades with age as well as with wear and contamination. 6 months or 5,000 miles! There's my opinion for you. And I put less than 10,000 mi/year on several different cars that I drive.
There, there's my 2 cents against low mile vehicles.
Dan.
