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

Discussion in 'General' started by Brooxy, 13 Oct 2009.

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  1. Chris_Waddle

    Chris_Waddle Loving my new digital pinball machine

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    My last car was a BMW 320cd coupe sport. Had it from brand new (leased), went back after the 3 year agreement with just over 148,000 miles on the clock. Still felt as good as new.

    Saying that, after 3 weeks of taking delivery I got smacked up the backside by someone not looking. The police thought he was still doing around 80 when he hit me, I was stationary. The car was off the road for around 3 months being repaired (the repair bill was £4000 less than the write off cost).

    If it hadn't been for this little shunt, I might well have bought the car off the leasing company.
     
    Chris_Waddle, 20 Oct 2009
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  2. _crazy_crazy_

    _crazy_crazy_ mi mum say's that i'm special

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    well my opel corsa is currently with 205 000 km
    and my volvo 740 gle turbo diesel is with 1 283 000 km and last weekend i had the first problem my radiator got loose and hit the cooling fan ...
     
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  3. Stickeh

    Stickeh Help me , Help you.

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    My little minis done about 115k miles now, 97 on the original engine and the rest not. haha.

    Edit: it was sent to the scrap heap once, back on the road at 87k or so.
     
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  4. Burnout21

    Burnout21 Mmmm biscuits

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    yeah but your not telling them that the current engine is dead, and a new one is on its way!
     
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  5. Stickeh

    Stickeh Help me , Help you.

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    Yeah so...its 4th engine in 3 years? lol....

    What i dont tell is that im insured to do only 3k miles a year...and ive covered probably 10x that...
     
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  6. shigllgetcha

    shigllgetcha Minimodder

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    oo im telling
     
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  7. Stickeh

    Stickeh Help me , Help you.

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    Well its not provable, ive changed the clocks over from the originals that stopped at 97k
    to ones that read 67, so if anything the insurance company is confuseeeed.com.
     
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  8. gar

    gar Minimodder

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    A taxi in my town has a rover 400 diesel with well over 400,000 miles on it. It's got a 2.0 turbo diesel, which is actually a wartime engine called a perkin's van engine. I have the same engine in my rover, and it's only young with 113,000 miles on it. The other day I towed an astra coupe nearly 50 miles and was getting 50 mpg on country roads. The torque out of the car is just amazing, has as much as my 2.0 petrol and allot more low down!
     
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  9. shigllgetcha

    shigllgetcha Minimodder

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    haha f***'em
     
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  10. Xir

    Xir Modder

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    I guess we should be differentiating between european cars and our american friends that do 60 mph with a >3 litre engine ;-)
    Also between diesels and petrols.

    I'm on 255000km (about...160000miles?) with a 2 liter FIAT coupe :D

    Not bad for an italian petrol driven car.
     
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