I'm in the market for a C6 but there has been some higher mileage C7's showing up in my search. I really like the C6 lines but the C7 interior looks much better (to me). I was originally looking between 20-30k but keeping an eye on C6's up to 40k and that's where I've started seeing a few C7's in the high 30's/low 40's. Most are in the 60-90k miles range. I tried to research higher mileage C7's but I could not find a lot of info. Anything to look out for on a higher mileage C7?

Thanks!

 

I have a C7 now...but when I bought a 6 year old C5 it had 65K miles on it...drove it for another 15 years with very few issues...and sold it when I bought the new C7. I've bought other high mileage cars & have found that the way the previous owner(s) have looked after them is way more important than physical mileage. In any case I'd get a potential candidate checked out by a trusted mechanic, and then you can't go too far wrong.

 

Corvettes are pretty solid. One thing.. Drive a C7 and see if you like it. They do drive differently. I have a C7 and My brother had a C6, we both agree the C6 was more fun to drive. I might go back to a C6 at some point when the market gets back to normal.

 

I avoid high mileage everything and anything... doubly so for performance/sports cars. Life has enough hassles I cannot avoid so easily.

 

I agree with Avanti.. Get a lower mileage C6 which should be less than a C7. I would do that all day long.

 

Interesting. I heard that the C8 had pretty bad understeer but nothing abnormal about the C7 handling. I used to do a ton of DEs in a e36m3 when I lived in CA and have driven a C5 a few times. I've driven a C6 on the street a few times but haven't even sat in a C7 yet. I thought about renting a C7 thru Turo if I do decide to go that route. Is there anything specific that stands out in the driving characteristics of the C7?

 

Almost 129k on our '14 with no real issues, other than consumable items. Honestly I'd much rather have a 5+ year old car with 60k miles on the clock than one with 5k. My experience has been that cars that aren't driven regularly will have issues. Most recent was a lady with a C6 ('08 IIRC) that was driven well until her husband passed, then the car sat. When she started getting it out again she had problems with various systems, most annoying was the fuel sensor issue (one of the two sensors would fail off erratically such that she never had confidence in how much fuel she had on board), and she ended up selling the car. (and yes, I tried everything us DIY'ers try).

Point is, a well maintained high mileage C7 should be just about as reliable as a well maintained low mileage C7 of the same vintage.

HTH, and have a good one,
Mike

 

Interesting responses

My take is this.
Buy a car you like- high miles low miles no miles.
If its used you need to test drive it and maybe have a trusted garage look it over? All cars need to be on a lift and inspected from below.
There are nice cars in all mileage ranges. There are beat to **** cars in all mileage ranges.
If you read this forum on regular basis you will come across people congratulating themselves for selling a lemon to some unlucky person. This seems weird cause I'm pretty sure they would be pissed if somebody did that to them.

Consider this.
A high mileage car just might have all the bugs worked out?
A low mileage car may not have been driven enough to work out all the bugs.

Buy what you like, drive it, take care of it, have fun with it.

 

If it was maintained properly it should be fine like any other car. But with corvettes I prefer lower miles <10k. The trade off is that I gotta pay for it and that's ok.

 

I would not hesitate to buy a C7 or any other Corvette with a few miles on it if the car has been maintained and taken care of, it's just a car. I had a C5 that had 95k on it that drove great and had no issues with it the whole time I owned it. There are a lot of very low mileage Corvette's around because a lot of people do not use them as their daily driver or primary vehicle, they are mostly just toys for people to enjoy occasionally. When buying the 15 Z06 I have now, I looked at 3 different vehicles, one had less than 20k miles, the car I bought had 47k on it. The car I bought had been street driven and garage kept and was in better condition than the lower mileage vehicles that I looked at and have had no issues whatsoever with the car and do not regret buying it. In the grand scheme of things, you can buy a nice used Corvette with a few miles that has been taken care of and enjoyed at a discount from what you will pay for a garage queen with very low miles, just depends on how much money you are willing to spend. A Corvette with 40 or 50 thousand miles sounds like a lot for a vette, but if it was a Tahoe, Impala or Silverado, it would be considered a low mileage vehicle, go figure. Corvette's overall are pretty well made and hold up as well as any other vehicle as long as they are cared for properly.

 

I would take a low mileage C6 versus a high mileage C7 in your situation.

 

As many others have said, nothing wrong with buying a higher mileage car as long as it has been properly maintained and you have it checked out by a good tech. Between the C6 and a C7, I personally would take the C7 - I just think it is the better car.

 

Have more than 979,000 miles in 7 Vettes over 31 years.... when I traded my '07 C6 with 128K on the clock for a 2011 CTS-V Cadillac the sales manager of a major Cadillac dealer in the Dallas Metroplex area bought it for his mother.... high mileage on properly maintained cars means nothing anymore.

 

I strongly agree! With the new technology on cars now and with the overdrive transmissions and the rpm's being lower on most of the moving parts, I don't see why a Corvette of any year, especially a C7 should not go well in excess of 100k miles just as any other vehicle will with proper maintenance. The C7's are pretty tough and especially one that has been garaged and taken care of should last a very long time. While I will admit, they are pretty expensive to do repair's to, so are pretty much every late model vehicle of any make and kind. Overall, they are a pretty well built car and will take being beat on occasionally without any damage. They are just not that fragile. They are designed for speed and performance.

 

That’s funny you should mention those fuel sensors because I have had 2 C6s and those O2 sensors always came on the dash. Very annoying. I think most can agree that that is the one thing that will always need to be replaced

 

What's the point on concentrating on a low miles car if the miles on it were driven a quarter mile at a time?
It's all about the way the car was taken car of and serviced. The key is to have it looked at and pass a PPI.

 

 

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I've owned a C5, C6, and my current C7. The C6 was OK, but the dreaded fuel smell repair can be costly. Luckily mine was covered by GM. The headlight lens also turn to crap eventually. My C7 has 105K miles on it and runs great. It's had a couple issues but has been a great car. I definitely would not go back to a C6

 

All depends on the maintenance and how it was treated. I’ve had cars that I tried to keep mileage off of and all I ended up doing was enjoying them less.