I bought this car used from a dealer who bought it from a Rental Company. It had 32000 miles on it when I bought it in 2004. It's now 2019 and I have 180,000 miles on it. Of course the usual maintenance, and also went through 2 Fans for cooling. This has been the best car I ever had. I will never buy a America Car again. Japan knows how to build a car that last.

I bought my 2003 Outlander on Halloween of 2002. I am still driving it as my every day car as of Feb 2nd 2019. I have 48,000 actual miles on it. I have spent the usual upkeep of brakes and oil changes over the years. This year the salt of South Dakota finally got to her and I had to replace the Gas tank/filler neck/exhaust pipe and muffler due to rust. This car has been very reliable with few and minor recalls at first. The price of the vehicle new was awesome considering I got mine with AWD. It does use oil. I change the oil spring and fall, no exceptions. It will go through a quart in about a year otherwise. I just changed the coolant this year. No cooling issues up to this point though. My heater core did need a backflush after that because I lost heat at idle. Not big deal. Mine did rust in front of the rear tires a few years into ownership. I was disappointing about that but it doesn't effect operation. It is just a cosmetic issue. I see there are some really nice ones in CA with no rust. I might buy one of those and have it shipped to SD. I am tossing that idea around. My next new car is a Nissan Rogue so I didn't go back for seconds with another outlander just because they changed the design to one I didn't like anymore.

Car is very reliable when maintained, seats four comfortably, steering arms seem to require ball joints and other misc steering omponents every two years or so. Engine runs great.