Is there an unsafe km limit on leased cars?

[Choosey]

Hi all
Looked to see if this was covered before but could not find anything. The lease on our car is 4 years but due tot he recession it was extended. My car is around 4 and a half years old with 285,000+km. There was an issue with the car but as it is due to be changed in January I was told it would not be fixed! I had a horrendous incident on the road where the powere went in the accelerator and had to free wheel from the fast lane to the hard shoulder on the motorway - very upsetting and was shaking afterwards. This may be connected to the probelm reported 6 weeks ago. Not sure. Anyway to get back to my question - is there sucha thing as an 'unsafe' limit for a leased car that is doing a lot of mileage most days? I know the government say there is but I take that with a pinch of salt!

 

[demoivre]

Don't know in general but Garda cars are driven to 300,000km before they are considered unsafe and taken off the road. I would imagine that some if not all of them get a fair bit of hard driving though !

 

[Brendan Burgess]

What has this got to do with whether the car is leased or owned outright?

I think you are asking if there is an upper limit on the mileage of a car?

I doubt it as it would mean that it would be enshrined in the NCT.

Brendan