Most failures related to high mileage are caused by the major drivetrain components and their accesories. The engine with it's maintenence-heavy items such as spark plugs, water pump, pulleys, belts, hoses, sesors, coolant, large 12v auxillary battery, etc. are all gone. Since you are doing the conversion without using the original transmission, you had all of the wear-out issues from that gone as well. Since the Insight doesn't have a body or frame that will rust to the ground like other cars, mileage or year won't matter on that and without the components that commonly leave people digging under their hood, what are you looking to avoid replacing. All thats left are tires, brakes, and suspension components, which the suspension will likely need upgrading since it isn't designed to carry much over its standard weight and the tires and brakes could be shot on a car with just 60,000 miles if those items were never touched, so I wouldn't even consider those. Wheel bearings are something I'd probably take care of anyway since I'd have the whole car apart, although I don't hear much about their failure, or really any failure on the parts that you will have left behind when ditching the engine, transmission, and associated ICE accesories on these cars. I guess I don't know what the mileage was on the car, but what is it that you are worried will wear out on it? I'm sure the person selling it on craigslist is going to sell it for less than the asking price, hence the best offer part that is put in there and you are at less than half the price you are looking for and will more than likely replace anything you might have problems with for less than the difference.
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