[Frank in MD]

This is a silly question, obviously if you're willing to buy a car w/ miles, whatever miles the car may have isn't really an issue. If 100 miles is a real problem then you probably would not buy the car anyway, right? Complaining about miles on the car is simply a ploy to get a deeper discount than you're already getting.

Now it isn't lost on me that car enthusiasts are a different breed than your typical car buyer. I'm sure some of you would not buy the car if it has more miles than you would like, and that's fine. I respect people more for walking away from a deal if the car isn't as they would like more than those who act like miles are an issue in order to get another five hundred chopped off the top.

So, what is fair, as it relates to discounts, when a customer complains about miles? The answer with the most agreement here seems to be 50 miles is ok, more than that and the car should be discounted.

So in the guise of fairness, let's use lease penalties. Those penalties are asessed on whenever the mileage is higher than agreed upon lease termination. If said car has 50 more miles than you would like, using the normal .20 per mile penalty, that would garner you a whopping ten bucks.

Hardly worth it if you ask me. Of course the real issue is most people would ask for $500 off which would be the equivalent of 2500 miles.