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Looking at my dashboard today got to wondering who in the backroom has got the highest mileage car that is the main household vehicle. mine has 110,000 but I think this might be scoffed at.
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My 850 T5 is on just under 184k. Guessing that will be scoffed at too...
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My 52 plate Audi A4 has not long gone over 158,000 and is still doing about 20-25K a year as our main car. Its due to be replaced next November though.
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VW Passat 1.9 TDI estate, 1995. 181,000 miles.
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Can't remember the guys name (I'm sure jbif will) - 350,000 miles + in his Volvo?
Also Dave the Taxi driver.
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My 205 GTi has done about 195k; though I'm not sure of the correct mileage as I knew the odometer was at least 45k under when I bought the car many years ago. Not bad for a 'flimsy' French car that gets driven enthusiastically.
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Can't remember the guys name (I'm sure jbif will) - 350,000 miles + in his Volvo? >>
According to a bloke called DD, on this long running thread, it was Cliff Pope with 349,000 miles in Sept 2006 :
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=45...5
But according to Cliff Pope, it was 409,000 miles in Jan 2009:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=45103&...e
Edited by jbif on 02/07/2009 at 23:25
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Not the highest outright but my 2.5 yr old V70 is currently on 157k.
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According to a bloke called DD ...
well done jbif. My memory isn't, um, er, oh yes - what it was ;o)
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When I sold my Skoda Octavia last September it had 198k on the clock.
Still see it round the City now.
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....My 52 plate Audi A4...due to be replaced next November though...
Wonder what it's worth?
NB: Post landed at the end of the thread, despite my attempt to put it further up.
Edited by ifithelps on 03/07/2009 at 10:48
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NB: Post landed at the end of the thread despite my attempt to put it further up.
This should help you to see why.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=76394&...t
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158k here on my '98 Mondeo 1.8, it's still running really well and I'm hoping to get at least another 18 months out of it without anything expensive failing (just need to get round to changing the front suspension bushes as they are knocking a bit now). Not bad considering I've put 37k on it in the last 2 years and it only cost £850 at the time.
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...This should help you to see why...
It would if I understood it.
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>>....My 52 plate Audi A4...due to be replaced next November though...
>>Wonder what it's worth?
I hope I will get 1.5K+ for it! I was offered 3.5K in January this year when I nearly had a mad moment and traded it for an 07 plate MG ZT 2.5!
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My 02 Mondeo tdci is on 174k
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Until May my Volvo 240 was in daily use doing an 80 mile round commute. It got to 420,000 miles on the original engine with no attention, head untouched, but then failed the MOT emissions test.
It had started using a bit of oil, and I think this had poisoned the catalyst. As a 93 it had to pass the cat-based limits. It would have sailed through the less rigorous 1992 limits.
Everything else was perfect and the car was still running like a dream. Gearbox, clutch, axle, steering were all original too.
It lives on as a source of good spares for my new 92 model, which has only covered 212,000 miles. The first car had 180,000 miles when I bought it 10 years ago, so I personally added nearly quarter of a million miles in that period.
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Piffling compared to some here, but my 51 plate Volvo S60 2.0T has done 147,000 miles. All original apart from scheduled service items, clutch and alternator (the latter broken by incompetent servicing rather than failing of its own accord)
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My neighbour has a '98 Passat 4Motion 2.8 auto. 198k and still doing well.
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Peugeot 205 diesel at 286K. One careful lady owner who has no idea what's going on under the bonnet and is kept on the road by local independent garage.
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My 1996 Audi A4 1.8 has 226k.
Feels like it's had lots of repairs but over my 4 years of ownership it's worked out at £700 per year
Haven't changed the cambelt in that time and only changed the oil twice (dons tin hat and walks away swiftly....)
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One careful lady owner who ... is kept on the road by local independent garage.
What a lovely idea ... car sounds in good shape too.
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My 2000(V) V70 Classic has just ticked over 216,800. Still has every service at the main dealer, only has one space left in the service history, and every single quick check sheet from the services right back to the 500 mile one back in 2000.
Heads out to France on a 2000mile + Round trip... still not got an easy life, and I can't afford to replace it so it just keeps ticking along with a bit of money spent on it every so often.
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We could expand this survey to include "whose car has had the most replacement tyres, exhausts, brake pads, brake discs, springs and (before oilrag says anything!) steel sumps."
Edited by L'escargot on 12/07/2009 at 17:00
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I caught a taxi in Halle, Germany last night. Ignoring the fact that I've since found out he utterly stiffed me, taking me round town to disguise the fact that it was only 300 m to the hotel and then overcharging me (I was tired), I was impressed that his manual Mercedes C class had done 826,000 km.
By my reckoning that's 513k miles.
He spoke as much English as I do German, but when I pointed and asked if it was genuine, he replied "she's an old lady!".
Shame he ripped me off really, takes the shine off it and just leaves him as a skinflint.
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I've probably got one of the oldest cars here but also with the lowest amount of miles. 83K on a 99V. Poor thing now spends its life doing 10-30mph and ends up in pot holes on a daily basis.
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I've probably got one of the oldest cars here but also with the lowest amount of miles. 83K on a 99V.
76K on a 74 M suffix beats that one Rattle.
Bet its not the lowest oldie even then.
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I've probably got one of the oldest cars here ...........
I admit I haven't got either of them now but my first two cars were 20 years old when I bought them in 1956. It was all we could afford in those good old days ~ good old days because there were no rural speed limits, no MOT, no alcohol limit, and nobody gave a monkey's if the canvas was showing through the tyre surface. I deliberately didn't say tyre tread because the tyres had no tread ~ we had slicks long before F1 cars!
Edited by L'escargot on 24/11/2009 at 14:20
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But mine is a daily driver rather than a classic which probably sees 500 miles a a year. It must be strange to drive in the old days now, you can't even drive with a little blob on the windscreen without getting a massive fine and three points on your licence these days!
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But mine is a daily driver rather than a classic
OK then how about my mum's VW Golf with 37K on a 99V.
Really is the one little old lady owner, only used for church on Sundays sort of thing.
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blinking Volvos
& Audis
& Cliff
Sniff
I'm not going to play
s'not funny
dieseldogg, can you please stop testing the swear filter - thanks
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 24/11/2009 at 19:17
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" It must be strange to drive in the old days now,"
Er, yes, VERY strange, not to say impossible.
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I've probably got one of the oldest cars here but also with the lowest amount of miles.
You don't even come close, Rattle. My current 205 will be 20 next March (90G) and will show about 47K. My previous GTi was an 89G with 51K when I sold it. They are uncommon but not exceptional.
The Car & Classic website (I think) showed a one-owner G-reg 205 cabrio in showroom condition a few weeks ago with 13K on the clock. They were asking 5 grand ...
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I caught a taxi in Halle Germany last night. Ignoring the fact that I've since found out he utterly stiffed me taking me round town to disguise the fact that it was only 300 m to the hotel and then overcharging me (I was tired) I was impressed that his manual Mercedes C class had done 826 000 km. By my reckoning that's 513k miles.
If he does this to all his fares, that might explain the mileage!
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My 1993 Nissan Sunny has 139k on it.
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Taxis on crete mercs got 700,000klm's goodness knows how on such a small island and they run superb, im told there bought as taxis so different spec to your standard C class merc?.
Edited by Webmaster on 25/11/2009 at 00:50
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199k on our older Espace, 170k on the other.
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Question for Cliff Pope:
>>Everything else was perfect and the car was still running like a dream.
So - could it have been repaired? And if so, at what sort of cost?
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Question for Cliff Pope: >>Everything else was perfect and the car was still running like a dream. So - could it have been repaired? And if so at what sort of cost?
The break point with an old car and a vague fault is not so much the cost of fixing it, it's the cost of finding out what to fix. There is no cheap accurate method of home-diagnosing emission levels.
My hunch was oil poisoning the cat, possibly confirmed by the fact that it was a relatively recent cat, replaced because the old one had cracked. So if I knew for certain it was the oil consumption, I could have got a new engine (But cost of aquisition, fitting, etc) another new cat, but perhaps found it still failed.
But it might have been a dud replacement cat (spend another £250 just to find out?), or it might have been an ailing ECU. Or perhaps a combination of several things, all aging together?
So overall it seemed to make more sense simply to get another one of the same model (incidentally with LPG conversion thrown in) with a new MOT. The source of swappable spares has already far outweighed the possible expenditure on "might have fixed it" repair attempts.
With hindsight it was a mistake buying a 1993 car instead of a 1992. Mechanically I'm sure it would have easily reached 500,000 miles.
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Taxis on Crete mercs got 700,000km's
I think this is common on many relatively remote islands. On the Azores the taxis also have huge mileages, I believe because the cars started life in Lisbon, or on the mainland anyway.
Perhaps more worrying, I recall a taxi journey on Crete where the speedo was under-reading by about 30%, and it was showing about 90 (k) ...
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The last taxi ride I had in crete, I had my eyes shut in fear so no idea of how fast or mileage
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The last taxi ride I had in crete, I had my eyes shut in fear so no idea of how fast or mileage
O yes agree with that..............LOL
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Crete has been my holiday destination of choice for many years .
Last year I had a motor cyclist cut across in front of me causing me to brake sharply - he did not see me as he was busy driving one handed whilst texting with the other.......
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I was in a taxi in Zug in Switzerland a while back, it had 200,000 km on the clock. I chatted to the driver and he told me it had been round the clock once and had actually done 1.2 Million km. Car was a Mercedes W126 S-Class with a six cylinder petrol engine. Thankful lack of diesel cars in Switzerland.
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didnt some geezer do a million miles in a volvo? i think they gave him a new car
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He gets a mention in HJ's FAQs -
37. MAKING A CAR LAST: Can you give ten tips to extend the life of a car?
Better than that, I'll give Irv Gordon?s ten top tips. Irv is the owner of a pristine 1966 Volvo P1800 which he has driven more than 2,800,000 miles.
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