Found this car on the marketplace listed as a Ford Fusion Energi, but it’s clearly not that model – haha. The car’s in good shape with new brakes and a recently replaced front control arm. It has 57,000 miles, and I negotiated the price down to $7,200. It even comes with winter and summer tires, so it feels almost brand new to me!
On the test drive, I got 43mpg, which is a huge improvement over my truck’s 11mpg. Since I live in rural Alaska, I’d normally have to pay around $2,000 just to ship a good car up here.
What do you all think? Is this a good deal? What’s the going price for something similar in your area?
My 2013 is at 194k. Hopefully she will see 250k🤞. I’m actually having trouble literally as I post this with my coolant leaking but that’s only been my issue since owning mine since 2018 at 83k.
How did your transmission act after 200k? What shape is it in now? Drivable? I’m at 213k 2017 hybrid titanium. Currently, my transmission still feels smooth but not as good performance as pre 100k.
Rowan said:
How did your transmission act after 200k? What shape is it in now? Drivable? I’m at 213k 2017 hybrid titanium. Currently, my transmission still feels smooth but not as good performance as pre 100k.
Under maybe a little over half throttle I would hear a very slight whine for probably the past couple of years. When the trans was cold, shifting from 2nd to 3rd also in the past couple of years it would hesitate slightly to actually shift but when it warmed up it would shift just fine. The past few days it would stutter constantly under acceleration sometimes for a few seconds until last night I parked and there was a very noticeable whine coming from it. Tried driving it to work this morning and it wasn’t having it. RPM’s jumped up as I was hitting the gas and I just watched the speedometer drop 3 miles away from home.
Rowan said:
How did your transmission act after 200k? What shape is it in now? Drivable? I’m at 213k 2017 hybrid titanium. Currently, my transmission still feels smooth but not as good performance as pre 100k.
Hybrids have a totally different transmission (CVT). They have been known to go into the 100-200K range as well.
Complexity in design requirements and accommodations for the 1.5L, 1.6L, and 2.0L (which are all turbocharged EcoBoosts) have led to reliability issues, unfortunately.
The only naturally aspirated engine offered for the Fusion from 2013 to 2020 (the final model year) was the 2.5L, which is Mazda-derived and often rightfully lauded for its reliability.
Pace said:
Body looks good, why not just get it replaced? Cheaper than a car payment.
It’s an 11 year old car. Rust, dry rot, decay.
The not discussed topic… as you said. (Especially for me - rust/rot will be the death of my non-garage kept 2014 over mileage (107,000). I think people pay too much attention to mileage and not other factors.
@Oaklan
My car before this was an older ‘low mileage’ gamble. An absolute disaster. People don’t consider the gaskets, bearings, bushings, wiring, tubing, seals… it’s all slowly breaking down.
mine’s 9, only has 69K on it. Luckily most of its life in FL, now in TN, and hopefully no snow/salt to/from Christmas-New Years up to CT 
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