Mr-T

Buying an ex-hire car is not necessarily as bad as it may first seem.

People generally hire cars to do motorway or high mileage travelling, so the engine spends more time at proper working temp. than say a demo model would, and probably gets less stressed.

They also tend to get pressures and fluid levels etc. checked more frequently than a demo would.

I wouldn't have a problem buying one so long as it was OK cosmetically and I was made aware of the fact that it was ex-hire first.