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

im on 200,449 on the megane coupe 2001. Its about to die mind.

Andy

 

OMG all these scary numbers! ...and here's me worrying that I've put 11,000 miles on my Mustang in three years LOL.

Highest mileage car I've had was my Mondeo ST200. It only had 47k on it when I bought it, but it had 74k on it when I sold it.

 

my 86 volvo 740gle wagon died at 294k miles. b0rked tranny.

purchased in spring of '01 at 213k, drove it daily for 5.5 years.

 

My Corolla GTi got sold @ 250,000 miles and it was still going strong, the guy I sold it to put it round the banger track 2 years later with 300,000 on the clock, scrapped the car, kept the engine which is now sat in a Mk1 escort, that incidentley goes like the mythical "**** off a shovel"

 

My 206 is currently at 97k, planning on keeping it for the next 4/5 years, so will probaly get it to 120k or so then sell/scrap it.

 

I can't remember the mileage on my first car...

I have two at the moment.

A Merc 190 that have done about 250000KM and a BMW 523 that have done almost exactly the same.


I get rid of cars as soon as they have to pass MOT (or EU-control as it's called here in Norway. Even though we are actually a member of the EU... ).

I do plan on having the BMW a few years, though.



On a side note, I think I have washed my cars a total of 4-5 times... (That's divided between 3 cars)

 

Well, seeming as I can't drive yet I'll do my parent's cars.

The Freelander we have now has about 63,000 on, we will keep it for a while yet.

Dad used to have a BMW 325TD and that had about 128,000 miles on it when we traded it in for a corsa, for me to learn in. It's got about 54,000 on and I'm not selling it until I run it into the ground.

Dad also drives a recovery truck, its a 54 reg and is on about 192,000 miles. He has gone through numerous cam belts, a gearbox and a wheel bearing, but the engine is still spot on. The Italians can build one hell of a tough diesel engine thats for sure!

 

Had my punto up to 135k before the chassis dissappeared in a rust colour cloud and it was costing me 4x what the car was worth to keep on the road...

Audi A4 is currently up to 69k...

RwD

 

My Saab 9-5 is on 167000 and not using a drop of oil or water - it has had a new turbo this year though

 

Nice thread, I have always wondered about the life of newer cars, most cars that are doing high miles are a few years old. I would like to come back to this thread in a few years when cars rolling off the production line right now are racking up the miles.

I wonder if its going to be a case of "they don't make them like they used to" or if more modern materials and better building techniques are creating longer lasting engines.

It is interesting looking for minis with my mum (for my mum) and seeing that even quite new ones are really piling on the miles. A few years ago a car with 80k on the clock people would tend to avoid if they could, now it seems the norm.

 

My cars frame will rust away before the engine dies, I'll guarantee that


I saw a Cash For Clunkers (I hated that program) video where it took 3 start ups for the engine to die and it was the same car I drive everyday

 

Im on 102K in my 206.....althought I have to say I don't think it's going to go much further. 15k if I'm lucky. Awful ECUs....

 

I'm on 115k on my Punto, and although it's probably going to the scrappy soon a few minor bits in the suspension could do with polybushing/replacing and the tappets could do with resetting. Other than that it's fine.

 

milage smilage. Drive it till it falls apart around you.

 

My only car just hit 36k, though my uncle in Egypt has been driving some Russian car for so long that the mileage counter went over 999999 and is now at 400k something.

Even in kilometers, that's pretty impressive.

 

My '98 Megane is on 87k (ish) and I think she's got a fair bit of life left in her, even though she's had the head gasket replaced. My brother has an Audi 80 with 160k, and I think my parents Toyota Previa has 150k.

It's all about how you drive them, I *try* not to go over 3000 rpm unless I'm cruising in 5th, but driving like that does get boring, so on rare occasions the red-line has been met.

 

on a modern car 100k is noute.

 

My 2003 Seat Cordoba TDI has just 105k. Ive had numerour bits and peices replaced over the last couple of years. I have the original exhaust system which I'm pretty amazed at as its been logged as a issue in my MOT report for the past 3 years and still doesn't neeed to be replaced. The engine is from the VW Passat, so is very solid. The performance is pretty good as well, similar to the golf gti with the benifit of getting 50 - 60 miles to the gallon.

 

my 1994 316 has 162k on it and still going strong. Love that car to bits and probably will run it till it really is beyond repair (ie when the arches rust that is just appearing now takes over or it blows up)

 

We (I don't currently have a car) had a Volvo 850 Auto with a 2.5l engine that got to about 140,000 miles before we sold it and it had towed horses reasonably often.
That's been replaced with a now two year old Saab 9-5 which we are planning on keeping the same amount of time. It isn't as nice as the Volvo but such is life. Somehow I think the clutch or gearbox may die on it prematurely, the horsebox empty is around the towing limit of the car and by the time you have four people, two horses and a load of clobber shoved in you are around 50% over the limit

Our Citroen Picasso (late 2003) has about 115,000 miles and that is a little rattly but mostly working OK. The back lights to the dashboard are going, and seeing as it is a completely digital dashboard that is a bit of an issue, and a couple of years ago the gearbox had some issues. For some reason, the Picasso's gear stick apparently connects to the gearbox using two wires running next to each other in a duct. Over time, they somehow managed to fuse to each other meaning you couldn't get it into gear! According to the local garage it was the first time Citroen had had to supply a new gear stick connecty-bit.