I guess it depends on what you qualify as "track" days. Do you mean auto-x or road course? Auto-x I wouldn't even bat an eye at. They're pretty easy on cars, and a person who rags on their car on the street every day will do more wear. If it's been tracked a lot on a road course, that's another story.

 

Not sure I would agree with that. In auto-x the car is being tossed around constantly and running through the rev range more frequently. About the only thing I think a road course would be harder on is the brakes and tires, both of which are consumables anyways.

Either way, I would be fine with it assuming it checks out on everything else.

 

Almost every car on the road is a used one, you have no idea how they were driven, just what kinda shape they are in now. my car has 61,000 miles on it, 99.9% of them mine and one track day, so what? I would buy it again in a heart beat. I have a 04 as well.

 

Have you done either autox or a track day? This point of view seems uninformed.

Autox, 1st to 2nd, high revs lots of tire wear.
Track day mostly 3rd and 4th, some 5th. Hard on brakes.

 

I wouldn't hesitate.

 

I have a tracked car for sale

I wouldn't hesitate to buy as long as it has been regularly maintained. My CR has seen a ton of track time, and just hit 100k, no problem.

 

I actually thought autox would be slightly harder on my car. Tire wear, and more lower speed launching to get good starts.

 

If the owner is upfront with what happened with the car, I wouldn't be worried about the history. In fact you might be able to find out what they think should be the proper upcoming maintenance. My past RSX, I knew where it was hit and everything that was broken, and every single little maintenance item and every mod and I think that car was basically bullet proof still. If you knew what happened, I wouldn't hesitate to buy.

 

It wouldn't factor into my decision at all especially since you mentioned that the previous owners seems to be knowledgable and knows what they are doing. As mentioned above, I would take it for a test drive and listen/check for the usual items the same as you would for any other car.

 

I've done auto-x, never taken my car on a road course. I don't know, I guess it depends on what you're worried about. A road course would seem harder on the car because you'd be WOT for longer and harder, due to the higher speeds (3rd and 4th like you said). Auto-x, you're generally not WOT for extended periods of time, and it's usually at most 2nd gear which are short bursts. Auto-xing.. the "run" is likely to be over before any overheating (if a car has cooling issues).

Anyway, bottom line is I wouldn't be worried at all if a car was auto-x'd occasionally. I'd be much more concerned with how people drove on the street as that's the majority of the time it's driven, and where the wear will be done. A person who has a lead foot likely does a lot more wear on the car than a car that's tracked occasionally. Also, is tire wear really worse on an auto-x? I always thought road courses were much harder on tires and brakes, due to the fact that they're considerably longer, and the heavy braking.