S/O Cars-if you have a reliable car with over 100K miles

Subarus are great cars. My son's 03 Forester has 180k.

My 00 Honda CiVic has 114 k

Our 06 Odyssey has 174k

All are running like tops, so I can recommend all.

The best way to get a good car is to put out feelers and let people know.

2004 Honda Pilot with 180k miles and going strong.

He definitely needs to take it in to get it looked at. He doesn't have anyone to bail him out if he gets swindled. It's not much money to have a mechanic give it a look over.

Ds just bought a new car, initially he was looking for a Subaru in that price range. The problem he found was so was everyone else. They sold so quickly he couldn't get one. They are certainly sought after used cars.

Accords and Civics get stolen like crazy here where I live, so I wouldn't buy one of those just because of that. Subarus are great but like others have said, hard to get hands on one. My DS drives a 1500 Chevy truck single cab and has about 200k miles on it. The money we have put into it has mainly been my DS's fault (he had a minor accident).

Where do you live? Here in wa st, used car prices are outrageous.
Back east he can buy a a lower mileage car for a really good price.

we recently traded in our 2005 Town and Country mini-van with just under 200K miles.

We got DD a 2001 Ford Ranger that was about his price range last summer - DS bought a 1978 Ford F-150 a few years ago with low miles (42k original) for about $2500 but ended up replacing the engine a year later....still even with the new engine, that was still about $5k total. The nice thing about it is that it's all mechanical so he could do a lot of work on it himself (although not the engine)

We have a 2006 Honda Accord with about 160,000 miles on it - have not had to make any repairs.

We also have a 1998 Honda Accord with about 260,000 miles on it - we have had to make a few fairly inexpensive repairs in the last couple of years.

Honda Accord for sure.

I bought my current Santa Fe after driving my brother's older one that rode beautifully. He has done regular maintenance to it and nothing else.

2008 Honda CR-V 150,000 miles on it.  My husband drives it from Dallas to Houston all the time.  We are about to replace the shocks and struts on it...but we have had no other issues with it. 

I sold my 14 ur old Toyota 4Runner with 178K miles...still worked great, I was just ready for an upgrade and we needed more towing power.

I'm on my 2nd Hyundai Elantra-they have terrible resale value, but that also means you can get used ones pretty inexpensively, lol

super reliable car that just needed the typical maintenance stuff (oil changes, tires, brakes, etc) when we finally retired my 1st one, it had 250,000 miles on it. the one I have now is pretty new, so only has 50,000 miles on it. Any other owners I run into always talk about how reliable it is. Toyota quality, but Hyundai price-IMO. I love toyotas as well, but you also pay more for them, generally speaking

I just traded in my 15 year old Chevy Blazer - it had $169K miles on it and was still very reliable.  I traded it because I felt like it was time - I was religious about getting it serviced every 3 months, getting the tires rotated every 6 months and such and never had any trouble out of it.  On the last check up, I was told that I was going to need a new a/c compressor (or something like that) soon and it was going to need a new catalytic converter soon and I just didn't want to put that much money into a car that old so I decided it was time to trade.  I did think about it a lot and almost decided to go ahead with the suggested repairs - probably would have gotten another 2 years at least but my heart told me it was time.

It was a very good car - never had a days problem with it!