Motors What's the highest mileage you've let a car get to?

Evenin' all

I've noticed in my 2 years of motoring, that over here in blighty, people seem to keep cars till 100,000Miles, and then replace, selling the old one cheaply.

The question I come to ask, is how far do you push your car? My current highest is 108k, although I'm thinking about getting a diesel next year and pushing it to the 250k point.

At the moment my Polo is just shy of 90k, and I'm only going to replace it as I want something a tad larger. If possible I'd like to keep the Polo for the missus to use for work (if she'll take it), as it has nothing wrong with it, and I doubt it will next summer.

 

My brother truck has close to 200,000 miles


My SUV only has around 75,000 miles on it, I hope I don't have to get rid of it until at least 125,000

 

My dads last 2 cars did nigh-on 200k. Both Volvos. The first of this pair, a 760GLE, was only disposed of because the propshaft was getting unstable, at.. 185k? It would have been uneconomic to replace, so we got a 940SE... not as luxurious, but it went well-ish (2.3 for such a heavy car... not good on accelerating!), until we went to my grandads 90th birthday party. Last year. On the way back, we were just getting to Monmouth when we started getting detonation. Temperature gauge was off the scale. I said 'Go in these services, now', but my dad carried on. There's some traffic lights on the dual carriageway, just by a junction into Monmouth. And the engine siezed. 150 miles from home. At 198500..ish... miles. So close... yet so far. Rest of the journey home was in the back of an AA truck, 940 bobbing along happily on the bed of the truck...

I'm hoping to get a Volvo 360, I'll happily consider a Volvo engine up to 150k with no problems (to purchase and get 3 years out of). Other engines I wouldn't want to purchase beyond 100k, without further research. (Volvo once ran an engine for about 2 weeks, on the rev limiter, continuously, to see when it would go. Impressive stuff!)

 

my car (2000 megane) is currently on 115k. Won't get rid of it for some time though since it runs fine, has had very little wrong with it, parts are incredibly cheap and it still does well over 40mpg

its also been in the family since new so I know its history and don't expect I'd get much for it

 

My Volvo 245 (1983) has 287k on it now and running strong. The only issue it has it the push button od is disconnected due to some angry driving on my part.. happens, what can you do. I would purchase a properly maintained Volvo over just about anything else.

 

My '96 Ford Explorer is at 260k or something like that. Still runs strong.

 

Not many miles actually. I tend not to keep cars that long. My 2006 Hyundai gas has 41K miles. Before I died in 2005, I used to lease a lot of cars for 12K miles a year on 3 year lease.

I did get my 89 Geo Metro up to 80K miles before I retired it and made a drag race car out of it.

 

so that's how you know so much about cars, you've rented almost everyone known to man

 

Even rented several of these for weekend picnics.



Dad I and I rented 2 one weekend and 'picniced' at the old Thunder Valley Dragstrip in South Dakota.

 

you have now idea how much I hate you right now

 

What! We stayed within the weekend mileage limits. Hertz didn't pick you up, that's them other guys.

It's just a Ford. You young guys should really really have been there to know how uncomfortable American muscle cars really were. Seats like Mum's ironing board. Noisier than an 1st Gen iPod inside. Radio was an option! A Subaru WRX, ANY EU Focus( ours are POS), Peugeot 205 are much more comfortable.

john

 

but they're not badass like the stang

 

First car was a 1988 Toyota Corolla that went the distance at 440,000KM before the exhaust system rusted away to nothing. Original engine. Second clutch. first clutch went at around 390,000KM

 

My cars explode and or die before I 'sell' them. Its insanity (to me) to get rid of a car that only has 100K on it. If I found a car sitting at 100K with a decent price, I would be a happy camper. I have a Honda sitting at 129K and still very strong.

I've had cars with over 200K on them before as well.

 

Well, i am on my fourth car now.
Mileage at point of selling/something happening was:
Silver 2007 Polo 1.4i Hatch: 8000 km (bought new - sold after a year)
White 2005 Golf V GTI: 48000km (bought at 45000 - sold after 6 months)
White 2005 Volvo S40 2.4i: 101000km (bought at 95000, accident with a sleeping person one year after buying caused the *everything* to die in that car)
Red Fiat Bravo 1.4T 110kw Dynamic: bought at 27000km, now at 30000km, 3 months down the line.

 

My Vauxhall Nova (which looked like this for anyone over the pond) reached around 175k miles before the offside chassis leg rotted through right next to the rear beam pivot. Although it was mechanically sound, I decided enough was enough.

 

Peugeot 306 DTurbo 180,000 miles, (scrapped)
Ive now got the V5 bora thats at 75,000. Ill probably keep it for a little longer but when it gets to 90-100,000 ill be letting it go.

In the early 90's my dad had a merc 190 2.5 diesel and when he got rid of it, it was just shy of 350,000 miles and nothing had ever gone wrong with it! wish cars were still built like that

 

my previous Mk2 Golf (16v) was on 189,000 when it went to the great scrapheap in the sky. The engine was still great, far better than my current one, it was just that several dodgy accident repairs had rusted away and left the shell like swiss cheese

 

My 2001 Toyota Corolla is now at 275k and still going strong, the only real issue I've had with it was the water pump impeller decided to wear through the casing dumping all the coolant on the deck.

 

I had a Renault 19 for my last year at uni that I bought for £450. When I gave that up it had 139,000 on the clock but I suspect it was a little more as it had a switch under the steering while that stopped the milometer. It probably was used for shady dealings previously as i did buy it off a guy from Liverpool