I’m 16 and starting to look for my first car, and me and my bf somehow got into a whole debate over mileage. I  personally would not buy a used car with over 150k miles unless it was really cheap, i am aware  mileage isn’t everything and maintenance history matters, but if I’m choosing between two similar cars and one has 70k and the other has 150k, It would make more sense for me to choose the one worth 70k.

His whole argument is I’m scared of high mileage and that cars don’t just fall apart at 100k, Then he brought up my dream car being a LexusRX350 and said I’d probably buy one with even if it has 150k miles, which i think is  different because properly maintained Lexus can go up to an extremely high mileage, and even though I’d still want to know the service history on it

But honestly, I feel like his whole argument about cars is kinda irrelevant to me because he literally got his dream car which was a kia k5 for his seventeenth birthday and he got it brand new as a surprise so he didn’t have to shop around for a used first car or worry about buying something with a ton of miles so I feel like he wouldn’t know nothing about this cause it’s a completely different situation 😭

Now I’m actually looking for my first car and we’ve been going back and forth about this forever. So i actually want to know in Am I being too picky about mileage, or should I stick to my rule?, I don’t really have any help from my family in this situation because my mom doesn’t know about cars,so What do I do?



I’m 16 and i’m trying to buy my first car, but my bf thinks I’m being picky about mileage, what do I do?