Used question of the week: "Is it wise to buy an opportunity for an elderly person?"

In the preamble, you will apologize to me the illustration photo, but I must admit that it is the image that came to my mind when I started to think about the subject.And the Citroën has a typical image, without forcing the cliché, of "Papy car".

What is not cliché either is that the "old people" flow a lot of ink on the canvas when we approach the automotive subject.

For some would have to prevent them from driving, bringing them a "technical control", thereby understand regular medical visits.They are for some responsible for all the ailments of the road...

And yet, they need, like the others, to move, and are mainly owners of a car, which they are led to resell.

However, for some, buying a used car from an elderly person, represents a real boon.But for others, they are cars to avoid.But between popular beliefs and reality, there is sometimes a difference, and in the end: is it a good idea?

So we weigh the pros and cons.

Benefits

They are in fact quite numerous

NEW, and high -end cars

It is a fact, even if it is sometimes contradicted by the impressions, retirees have a fairly high purchasing power, and buy more new cars than assets, and in general models higher -end, withhigh finishes.The average age of premium brands buyers is there to prove it.

In fact, on average, an opportunity sold by a "senior" will quite often be a first hand, and with a high level of equipment.This remains an average of course, there will always be the retiree "who did not need air conditioning!".

Few kilometers

If "young retirees" are often those who travel the most kilometers, sometimes even more than assets, rediscovering free time and travel, over 70s, and this will crescendo with age, run lessless, even very little.It is not uncommon to find as an announcement cars sold by retirees who are 10 years old, but only 40,000 to 50,000 km on the counter.

And that, in terms of the rating, it helps, even if the price is increased by the miles less compared to the average.

Cars not abused with driving

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The "old car" that we see starting cold and leaving for first without passing the second before the red zone is an image of Épinal.Overall, the cars of the elderly are conducted calm and serene.The passion of the first years is far behind, and the retirees are generally less in a hurry (I have said in general).Suddenly, on average, their cars, when they are sold, have not undergone too much abuse to driving.Sweet accelerations, braking that is just as much, chances are the different parts, wear or not, have been preserved.

Well -maintained cars

As we said, cars are often bought new and well equipped, but they are also on average well maintained.Indeed, retirees generally follow the maintenance recommendations to the letter, and go to the garage for the slightest problem.This results in a well -filled maintenance book and stacks of reassuring invoices.

The inconvenients

They exist but are more difficult to assess.

A car that has not rolled "normally".

This is the main criticism that we make to the retired car.They drive calmly, but sometimes "too" calm.And under these conditions, their car gets used to a "grandpa" conduct, and would then have trouble accepting a more "vigorous" conduct.

It is a difficult aspect to assess.Indeed, how to know, after 10 years of traffic without having exceeded 110, or without having rolled in town, how will a self -driving behave in other environments or in a more muscular way?

How will react to a more intense solicitation of the pieces that have not been requested for years?Difficult to say, even if testimonials from buyers of this type of opportunity go in a negative direction.It's like asking a non-sport to make a marathon overnight after 10 years without having done sports.

With the difference that a car is not a living organism, but a mechanics.And we can say that modern cars can today change the driver and to be driven without suffering too much.Which was less the case of cars until the 1990s-2000, for which, for example, running-in was important.

In fact it must be considered that an opportunity sold by a senior was in running.And that it should not, if purchase, use it immediately as much as possible of its capacities.You have to go gradually.

A body not always nickel

We have cited the good general interview with the occasions of retirees.But in some cases, for those who have the least means, it is the body that will have suffered a little and will not have been rehabilitated, because the interventions on this aspect are the most expensive.

Indeed, if they have fewer serious accidents than assets, benign clashes are as numerous, or even more from a certain age, when cognitive capacities drop (view, hearing).And it is not uncommon for the "touch" to leave traces.It is not the kept hunting of seniors, so much so, but one observation again.

The balance sheet

Overall, you will understand, the advantages prevail over the disadvantages, when one is interested in a occasion sold by an elderly person.Auto often from first hand with a history and a stack of reassuring invoice, mechanical preserved generally, sometimes premium model, low mileage are as many positive points as uncertainty on the future behavior of the car after years of quiet driving cannotcounterbalance.So our advice is to go for these occasions, most often excellent.

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