On an average the life of a petrol car will be around 12–14 years and diesel car's life will be 8–9 years. Mostly people sell their cars when it becomes old. Still, the life of car gets completed by the owners, let it be 1st, 2nd, 3rd or any other number of owner.

In Kms, an average petrol car can easily be run till 1.10 Lakh Kms and Diesel car can run till 1.5 Lakh kms. The only condition here is, the car must be driven well and carefully.

Well the legal life of a Car in India ranges from 10–15 years. Cars which uses petrol as fuel has a legal life of 15 years and cars which uses diesel as fuel has a life of 10 years. A car can easily complete its legal life if serviced properly on time and driven well by drivers. Also, driver need to take care of car's outer body that it wouldn't be damaged while driving through sharp turns in narrow streets. People shouldn't revv the engine of car unnecessarily. Each damage and repair must be done at time. Following these guidelines, car can easily complete is cycle of 10–15 years depending on fuel type.