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

my daily drive is a 1966 vw camper. its gone round the clock several times.

 

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Got a feeling my dad's Golf III is sitting on just under 200K....

Scrapped due to failed car, or looking for something new and couldn't get any money for it? It's one of the cars on the hit list for next year

 

My focus is still a baby, 05 plate and not even done 35k yet!

 

My peugot 205 was about 90K, then had a rover 214, blew the engine around 70K, green rover 25 had 35k then rolled it, silver rover 25 had about 40K, now my Civic type R is sitting on shy of 47K, be needing its 50k service soon

 

mileage here is measured in KM. My parent's van died at around the 350,000 to 375,000 mark. (safari/astro vans last a long bloody time) It threw a piston so they scrapped it and bought a elantra.

 

Volvo 740 on 300K, had a new autobox 2nd hand at 115k after a brick bounced a wrecked the original.

Most the engine was rebuilt at 200K on the cheap, all original parts since 1986, 20 years on.

We suspect the car had been around the clock once already, being that it once was a rep car, then a taxi. Good friend that runs a volvo specialist garage was amazed when he did the re-build.

Car then became a too expensive to repair when the front end needed more work, suspension, brakes and engine needed another overhaul.

we knew it was a mistake to scrape that old boat.


My current volvo 440 is nearing 150K, anything that goes wrong i blame the renault bits! and when it goes well i thank the volvo and porsche engineers!

the body work will go on this one before anything else.

Its either another volvo after this one, or a saab turbo for a change. I am a volvo purest at heart, but modern ones have too much ford in them now.

 

johns been speaking to us from beyond the grave all this time??

my civic 1.6 is on 105k but bought a new car this week, its still running v well just got sick of it, and was kind of afraid if i kept it any longer no one would be interested in buying it

i do believe its more to do with how you drive it tho, although someone that lives near me killed an suv thing by never driving it at over 20mph so its all about finding the line. as long as its not always driven at fat out

 

Actually I think it depends more on how a vehicle is maintained rather than how it is driven. I do 3000 miles between oil and filter changes. Proper washing to remove under car crap, especially in winters.
All fluids checked at least weekly. Hydraulic fluid losses from clutch or brakes means leaks. Follow up!

In the warm weather clean that engine, oil leaks are easier to spot.
Flush and reverse flush that radiator. Crap goes away. New coolant once a year.

I have built street machines that were capable of entering car shows. Detail it your self.

My wife Marilyn has drummed into me a saying: "Soap is cheap"

My favorite saying from the show car circuit is:

"If you can't change your sparkplugs in your suit, it's too dirty"

Dirt hides things.

 

On the other hand, if you clean stuff too rigourously, you can wear it until it's out of tolerances
Keeping on top of damage is a biggy. If you catch a crack while it's minor, you can work on preventing it spreading. When you get your piston flying into the cylinder head because a conrod has gone, it's too late....

 

75 Dodge 3/4 ton Sportsman Van. Before I gave it away it had 250k on it. The odometer was replaced in the '80s -Original engine, and it still ran great. It even passed it's last emissions inspection.
I will confess it went at least 100k without being washed. It had moss growing on it.

 

just under 100k (really it was like 99897...) in my (now deceased) 1999 Ford Escort. It has served me well for 10 years. Never got washed since I moved to NC, had moss on the bottom portions of the bumpers. Stock everything, only thing that was ever replaced was the obvious stuff (battery, etc.). Head gasket blew about 2 months before it died. Note to self: do not take your car to rednecks who think they can fix it because they are a "mechanic". Got a 98 Honda Accord now, and its over 100k and still going like a champ (even though the dude who we bought from lied out his ass about everything... says it wasnt in an acident but the front frame is bent like it wrapped around a pole, and part of the left body has been replaced, so yeah, not too thrilled about it.. checked carfax and got nothing... but it runs, looks good and goes to point a to point b and mighty quick so it works...)!

 

Wow some of you guys give up easy. I have only sold 2 of the 10 cars that i have owned the other 8 died. most of them over 150K. But i think my Dad holds the record of anyone i know he had a Geo Metro (little 3 cyl deal about the size of a sardien can) that untill a deer commited suicide had over 750K. He drove it to work every day 70 miles each way 6-7 days a week. P.S. that was not the first deer to attempt suicide on that car.

 

correct me if i am wrong but in a geo you can a) swerve on the highway and still stay in your lane and b) touch all the windows without moving out of your seat?

 

god i dont have the patience for all that. i check the oil once a month/3weeks and my oil would get topped up that way, id only do a complete change every 10k with spark plugs and filter. my new astra has a diesel engine and the manual says it can go 20k between services so i cant see myself doing it any earlier than that.

3000 miles would be maybe 3 months driving for me so def couldnt see myself doing that often, not in a fit. i have taken spark plugs out at 10k and looked good as new

lifes too short its just a car if it breaks it can be fixed, i do look after my cars well i just wouldnt go to those extents. if the manual says every 10k im gonna go with that, its probably conservative anyway. not saying im right, id say your regime is way better i just couldnt keep up with that. id say anyone that bought a car off you never had any probs with it tho

 

just gone 250,000KM will probley get rid of it at 300k
been changing the oil every 5000KM since it got past 200k

 

I had a 94' Chevy Corsica that I hit 3 deer in. The first two didnt do much damage, but the third caused something in the transmission to take a crap. Something about going from highway speeds to nearly a crawl must be bad for those. lol. I'd own a Corsica any day, that was an awesome car (it had a 3.1 V6 and could really haul, and I got 30+ mpg all the time). When I got rid of it the engine was still in good shape too.

 

I have a 63' F-100 that I'm pretty sure has rolled the odometer more than once, so 100kmiles X? Orginal motor, rebuilt of course, straight six with 3 on the tree'. Still runs, still pulling stumps out on the farm.

 

i still stand by the milleage never counts, its the driving style that dose.

I steer clear of small engined cheap little cars here in the Uk, because they all seem to have been driven hard, really trashed.

Thats why cars such as volvo's, BMW's and many other brands from europe tend to live long lives is because there never trashed hard.

If i was to give it a boot full in 1st and 2nd off the line i would be hitting the national speed limit with in a matter of seconds, with 100mph coming up fast in 3rd.

Where as my girlfriends cilo, give that a kick off the line and by the time 3rd comes round i am only doing 40-50mph.

short trip driving is the killer for all cars, most trips under 5 miles dosen't allow the engine to warm up enough, which means oil isn't spread around nicely causing bad wear to the engine over time. Plus people dont stop and let the engine idle before switching off. Some argue its not needed, but it sure as hell keeps my cars running for longer.

 

that and what type of engine you have... my old 4 cyl escort would only push about 45 in 2nd (manual) and the honda (v6 auto ) can do about 86 before redlining in 2nd... god i love V6 engines now

 

So the volvo engine that lasted about 2 weeks at WOT wasn't thrashed hard?