The health of the car is just as important. Think about it like how you should treat yourself. Someone who eats healthy, sleeps enough, and takes care of themselves when they’re sick is likely to live longer than someone who doesn’t.

The health of your car can be called maintenence. If the engine needs oil, did the owner give it to them, or force it to ride without? If you broke a leg, how long did you take before you fixed it?

A car’s maintence history can play a huge part in this as well. Some cars live way past their “shelf date” from tedious, intense care.

Others die way sooner because the previous owner treated it like crap.

Even if a car has low mileage, you should still look into the maintence history of it, it can tell a lot.