Is this a good buy and Element resale?
Looking at replacing my current hunting/camping/bad weather 1999 Subaru Forester with a Honda Element.
The one on Facebook near me is a 2006 manual with 220k miles for $5k. He’s owned it for about 60k miles and hasn’t done anything beyond oil changes and the clutch under his ownership (as he has said it hasn’t needed anything) and has mostly just been used for long highway runs back home but doesn’t have service records from the prior owners. If the car looks clean after I do a deep look around and a long test drive doesn’t make any issues apparent, would it be a good buy at that price? Would it be able to go another 100k? I’m quite mechanically handy.
Also, there is a chance in about a year I’ll be taking a job in Europe and would have to sell it. It’s not definite but possible. If that does happen, would the resale of the car be pretty close to what I’d be buying it at with another 15k miles? As in the resale would stay pretty strong?