As a rule of thumb, the average car will rack up 20,000 km per year ﾗ the distance manufacturers use to determine standard warranty coverage. A seven-year-old model should have 140,000 to 150,000 km on the odo. If it has traveled considerably more, deduct cash for high mileage. The ideal answer is yes.

Sometimes your bank or credit union will allow you to look at their repo file, which lists all the cars and trucks they have repossessed and would like to sell. Often the lender just wants to recoup their losses, so you can get very good deals this way. Sometimes you can even get financing for the car directly from the lender that owns it.