Question about high mileage on the car?

I'm looking at buying a 2000 Ford Explorer as 269,000 on it wondering how much life I'm get out of it with taking good care of it

200,000 miles is 'normal' anymore, with 300,000 not uncommon. If you're not going to really work it, like towing a boat, it should be OK for awhile…

American automobiles are not good vehicles. It will die before 300K.

I'm surprised it's still running now. I would NEVER buy an American automobile

There are LOTS of cars with over a million miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/..._longevity

The "good care" had to be taken care of long before you got the car.
if it has had "good care" than it might be able to go another 150,000 or more…
If it's a junker now, it will be a junker going forward.

No one can say. In my experience high mileage cars are materially overpriced as the sellers look at other cars, same make/model/year, and say if that car is 3000, I will price mine at 2500, even though it has 80,000 more miles, that is 6 more years of driving.
At that mileage level you have a high likelihood of a terminal failure, meaning something goes wrong and you call a junkyard to come pick it up, like transmission failure, frame cracking, some type of major engine failure, etc
Again, no one can say, it could be ok for another 50,000 miles. I can tell you for sure, all the ball joints, shocks, body mounts, belts, spark plugs, etc, are totally worn out.
So you are most likely are looking at putting $1000 into over the next 6 months to get those issues fixed.
If the price is very, very low, ok, if not, I would pass.

I would not buy that thing if it costs more than $500 … With fees, Drive for as long as it drives and scrap it for $300 when first mechanical failure occurs in a hope that will run for 12 months at least before that happens.

A Hunch is 100% right. If it has been looked after it should continue to run. If not it will fall apart soon. Why risk such a high mileage anyway? Keep looking and buy a younger vehicle. If it looks too good to be true it probably is.

If you're not a competent mechanic with a good set of tools and a place to work, and you don't have a couple thousand to keep in an emergency repair fund, don't even think of buying it. While a vehicle can go a lot more milers than that, it depends entirely on how well it has been maintained and how hard it has been driven. Without thoroughly knowing the owner or its past history, I wouldn't touch it if you gave me the money to buy it.

That is way too many miles and the vehicle is almost 19 years old. Forget it.

It's an F word. Some of them kaput 3 miles after coming out of the factory. Don't buy that vehicle. Way to many miles for any vehicle let alone an F word. Any vehicle with that high of mileage on it is bound to have problems. I would suggest definitely not expecting a vehicle with that high of mileage on it being your daily A to B.