Thanks, guys. Plan on doing the carfax number, and definitely plan on maintenance. (Kat, we live in the northwest nowhere, where we have plenty floods during El Nino. You bet i'll check! too manyh deals with the mud under the dash!)Handsome mando player was a mechanic for 15 years. And i know that there are no guarantees. But hearing about 200 and 300 thousand miles is encouraging. My pretty pony car went away today....will be a teenage girls first car, she and her father will go thru and thru it for the next year, then she can drive it when she gets her liscense. Oh yeah, the reason why gas is so high in the UK is they don't have the gov artificially keeping the prices low like we do in the states.