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My ageing pug is heading towards 200K and to be fair it is still going strong. It needs a bit of TLC electrically but mechanically it is sound, in fact I am about to stick a new cam belt in and keep it going. I think I will actually shed a tear when it finally gives up. So what motors have you had that just won't die and what silly mileage did/ have they have.?
220k on a 1998 scooby (mostly me had 45k when i got it) alot of petrol but a lot of fun.
Got rid of my 03 plate Ibiza TDi about 4 weeks ago.
It had 271,500 miles on it. I bought it at 3 years old with 24k miles on it so put most of them on it myself.
Still on it's original clutch & flywheel, exhaust, turbo, injectors etc.....most expensive new bit it had was an air con compressor at about 180k miles that cost £500 fitted, including the system re-gas.
The aim was to treat myself to something newer once it reached 300k miles, but a baby arrived at the end of October last year & with it the realisation that both our cars were too small to be practical.
So, the old faithful got sold & we've now got a Citroen C3 Picasso to replace it.
Gutted to see it go, but it had served it's time. The bloke who bought it off me didn't sound like he was going to treat it quite so well. He text me a few days after buying it to tell me he'd found a small coolant leak but had fixed it with Radweld...... 😥
I have a VW Passat Estate, 05 plate with 211k on the clock, it's just keeps running and I love driving it. I've just given it a new clutch before christmas at great expense so I am not getting rid of it anytime soon. I treat it like dirt inside, (had 2 bikes in it all up and down this country and over to france) but look after it mechanically.
'Only' 170k on a diesel Peugeot 205. Engine still went like stink but decided to move on when I leant over the engine and my hand went through the bodywork.
had 250+k on a Vauxhall Frontera. It still ran, but had issues with the ECu that caused it to lose power. And a leaky heater matrix. And a blowing exhaust. And rusty brake pipes.
My old Mk2 Golf GTI had nearly that much on it when I passed it on. That was pretty much mechanically perfect though. It did leak though.
The Rover that had 260k on was properly shit. The engine was genuinely shot and it had huge issues with the windows, sunroof and the electrics. I was glad to see it go and amazed I got 250 quid for it.
mazda 6 2.0 petrol 03 reg, 174k on the clock. Dad had it from 40k, then to me from 150k. Thing that'll finish it off is rust, £500 of welding for MOT last year, but its mechanically sound so hard to think about junking it at the moment.
A MK1 Golf GTi 1.8 with 260,000. I bought it at 250,000 for £400. On the way home from buying it the clutch went, which the previous owner replaced at his cost. After that 10,000 miles with only a basic service. My mates all had MK2 16Vs - up to 70 mph it was noticeably quicker, at which point not surprisingly the 16Vs were quicker.
Had a Mercedes estate c270 52 plate
230000 odd miles sold it on to the Russian mafia - it got exported
225K on a 98 Renault Laguna diesel. Failed its MOT rather spectacularly a year, a crash and 5K miles after I sold it.
I've had (in the past now) 2 x BMW 530d Sport Tourings, both black, both with towbars and roof racks.
So,
Car 1 - 179k FSH, flawless machine. Drove as good at that mileage as it did when I drove it home form new. Px'd for car 2..
Car 2 - I Liked car 1 so much I bought another when Px'ing, 246k, FSH, flawless machine. Only issue I had in all that time was the iDrive update and the boot locked shut.
Both cars towed a Mumm30 (racing yacht) and Melges24 (another racing yacht) around Europe and the Uk to compete. I used to fill the car up with sails and kit and all manner of tools and rig fittings and got all that in and a couple of ugly fellas and one very sexy girl in it as we traveled around.
I ruined car 2's interior due to chucking wet windsurfing kit in it, that dripped onto the leather on the passenger side creating stains and soggy bums.
Amazing cars.
My BMW 320td just turned over 169k miles this morning. I'll take it to 200k if I can.
My VW T4 Caravelle is on 224k (ish, I can't quite remember).
I once had an E38 735i with 240k miles on it. That was a great car while I had it, but it turned up on ebay with a broken gearbox about six months after I sold it.
I saw a T4 for sale recently that had c. 600k miles on it 😯
2003 golf TDi estate 216k
Straight through the last two MOTs and about to give it a new timing belt and water pump.
next stop 300k
had a mk3 fiesta we bought at 98k.... and sold it at 248k....
It had to go when i went to jack it up and jack went through the jacking point....car stayed on the floor
It seems my my Audi A4 is a sprightly youngster at 138k
I had a bmw 320d e90 2005. It had a measly 118k when we sold it. The engine was still fine but the rest of the car was dropping apart around it. We decided to sell before it needed more than it was worth spending on it just to keep it going.
BigButSlimmerBloke - Member
It seems my my Audi A4 is a sprightly youngster at 138k
Almost tiome to remove the "running in" sign from the rear window
Honda Civic 2.2CDTi went past the 200k mark last week. Apart from consumables the only thing that has ever gone wrong with it is an ABS sensor that went last month. £140 all in to replace.
Last car (Ford Focus) gave up at 205k when a con rod went and the one before (Citroen ZX) lost an argument with a tree at 210k.
Mk2 Golf - 110k
Mk4 Golf - 125k
T5 - 125k and running.
Don't really want to get if the T5 for a good while yet, what's the tips for attaining interstellar mileage?
Work car has 206K on the clock - 56 reg Mondeo TDCI.
Still runs pretty well, just looks tatty!
I drove a 1988 petrol Volvo 740 GLE from 1998 until 2003. The only reason I sold it is that I left Canada for the UK.
When I did, it had 320k kms on it, and when I spoke with the friend I sold it to, he was still driving it 3 years later back and forth between Saskatchewan and Ontario for family holidays. That's 3000 kms each way over the Great Lakes.
Both my high milers were the same engine 1.9 diesel in a Citroen BX and a Peugeot 405 The Citroen had 290,000 on it and after I sold it carried on for another 30,000. The Peugeot had 240,000 and suffered an electrical fire behind the dash that wrote it off. The engine was sweet still.
Both were great cars.
My 2002 a4 1.9tdi had 250,000 when I sold it this year. Had it from new. Original clutch, flywheel, exhaust etc. Only had routine servicing. I got a text from the new owner months later to say it was still going strong and how delighted he was with it.
We also bought a t5 caravelle last year. 3 year old with 180k on it which has also been faultless in the 10k weve subsequently put on it.
1989 Astra MKII 1.4
Friend had minor prang in it at about 140K.
I straightened the bonnet, replaced the wing and put in a new headlight.
I used it as a stopgap motor for another 134K.
Used it as service barge for rally car.
Competed in a production car trial, numerous navigational scatters and a road rally (21st on Starlight navigational).
At some point the cam belt snapped. 😮 It cost me about £10 to replace it, with no other damage. 😀
At 274K, with every body panel a slightly different shade of red, I gave it to fiancées young nephew as a banger racer.
It rather surprisingly did very well winning a least 1 event IIRC.
So he scrapped the shell and used the engine in a Corsa in the 1.6 hotrod category - apparently the torque produced suits the tracks (not having to rev the nuts off it).
As it still wouldn't die, he's rebuilt the engine (again) and it's going into another hotrod - this time he's going to have it rolling road tuned to be more competitive with the hot 1.6's
Mk 4/golf 130k still got it
Mk 2 golf gti 8v 229 k, took it to 134k sold it bought it back at 210 sold it at 229 and last I heard was on 280
Decided we need a second car again, so I've just bought a 1999 Suburu Legacy estate with 178k on it to complement our soon-to-be-replaced 2004 Mazda 3 that has, yup, 178k on it. Bought the Mazda at the end of 2008, one owner, 85k. We probably won't quite have put 100,000 miles on it before it gets traded in.
Sold my 03 Passat last April with 198k still drove fantastically when I sold. And then a mate of mine sent me a photo of it passing him on the M62 going towards Hull at Christmas so it seems it's still going. Great car that was.
1995 Defender 300TDi, had 160k on it when I sold it 10 years ago - I believe it is still running as sold it to a family friend.
1996 Discovery 300TDI - Head gasket went at just short of 150k.
Fitted new head, didn't realise the overheating had cracked the block, engine expired again a week later - was towed to the garage and became a victim of the scrappage scheme.
Years ago my first new company car, a Xantia TD. Did 160k in four years. Only had one problem, one of the suspension units failed at +100k, recovered and fixed within the morning.
Also took an 405 Mi16 to 150k and my last new company car was a petrol Vectra that did 75k in two years with zero issues.
Current car has 90k and at now only doing 15k pa should last longer than I need it for.
I was in a black can in Edinburgh recently that had a sticker in the front reminding the driver that the next service was due at 625k miles.
Just bought a Citroen Xsara estate with the 2.0 Hdi 110 engine on 166k. Hoping to easily take it over 200k in the next couple of years. It's pig ugly and looks like a proper old giffer car but drives nicely, has heaps of room for bikes, does 55mpg and only cost £500. Some of the electrics are a bit dodgy but mechanically it's sound.
Some impressive mileages racked up here.
Barely run in by some of the responses here, but my 03-plate BMW 320d did 120k in 4 years and still drove like new, having had nothing more than routine servicing and tyres during that time. According to MOT history it was never put through another MOT, so I can only assume it was crashed or stolen.
On another note, what is the likelihood of today’s modern diesels covering 200k+ mileages, or will they have all been scrapped at 6 or 7 years old due to failed DPFs,dual mass flywheels, EGRs etc.
my t4 is on 217k and the gearbox is v noisy - i'm sellign it on ebay currently. the motor is as sweet as though.
wife's volvo is on about 160k, the odo stopped working about 3 years ago.
brothers vito is on 200k and seems as good as it was @70k
my old hiace went well over 200k and then got sent to nigeria apparently
this one makes me chuckle
my folks owned this thing from about 1983 to about 1993, and they still see it around town from time to time:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56252091@N03/6517301487
I looked up the MOT history, and the mileage on the clock has been exactly the same at every test for the last 10 years 😆
EDIT - i see from the post above that this fault still afflicts certain Volvos! haha
I just px'd my 54 plate VW Touran at 150k. Looking at these mileages, I should've kept it. Although we have spent a bit on it in the past, it will probably still be going long after my 'new' 57 77k Nissan Pathfinder has exploded....
170k on my 52 plate Passat 1.9 diesel. I'm trying to think of an excuse to get rid, change for change sake. But it's such a great car. Has never not started 1st time.
had a mk1 vectra (2.0 D) as a company car that did 170k in 3 years with absolutely no issues at all... then again it was mainly motorway miles (natch) so it shouldn't really have had any issues
GF's Fiesta is on 120k, I'd like to say it's barely run in, but she's not one to check the oil very often, so the rate at which it needs checking is exponential in relation to how often she doesn't check it and it runs low 🙁
My MG Midget is (apparently) on about 130k, it's 3rd engine rebuild, numerous gearboxes, second chassis and body, etc etc. They don't build them like they used to.
Currently driving a
52 plate Megane with 130K
And a
03 plate passat with 190K
@doris5000 - is that Volvo going up Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury?
certainly is 🙂
you another shropshire monner?
217K for a Rover 200 SD (written off in a crash) did 82K in it's first 2 years as a police car before I bought it for 1/3 list.
198K for a Rover 200 SDi (powersteering died, person i'd gifted it to scraped it :picard: )
180K for a Mondeo 2.0L TDCi.
@doris5000 - is that Volvo going up Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury?
certainly isyou another shropshire monner?
Around Stretton and the Long Mynd when I'm not up at uni.
Wow, this thread makes me think I should just take my 06 plate with 78K down to the valets..it should be good for another ton...
Love that yellow 245!
Had a 240 myself til recently. Fairly low mileage at 165k. Rust killed it in the end.
Peugot 205 diesel 180K miles.
Peugot 205 diesel 303K miles
Current Toyota Corolla diesel is on 285K miles
I ran my old T4 up to 290k before sudden catastrophic head gasket failure sent it to the scrappies in the sky.
We've got a 2004 Doblo with 160-odd thousand on it, which is barely run-in by some of the numbers on here!
I once had a Xantia 2.0 petrol in which I did 155,000 in 4 years. Sold it to my BIL who took it to 225,000. One clutch and a seal in the Hydro-thingy suspension in all those miles. No rust, interior looked like new. Those poor quality French cars, eh? Same engine in a company 406, 98,000 in 18 months. Never missed a beat.
Technically not my vehicle but work lorry, 06 plate, has 974,223k on the clock.
my brother had a 2000 audi A62.5TDi Quattro Sprot he bought in 2002 with 50k on the clock. a few year later he gave it to me with 90k on the clock. i gave it back to him a few years later with 150k on the clock. he drove it until 2012 when someone smashed into the rear of it...mileage was close to 300k.
my other brother had a 98 honda accord 1.8 which he bought in 2000 with 20k on the clock. he got rid of it finally about 3 years ago...mileage was again touching 300k
Vauxhall Omega, finally scrapped at 280,000.
Everything was worn out, it'd had enough.
Finally hit by a bus outside Crumpsall Hospital.
Far more reliable than the Doblo that has replaced it, which is pretty much worn out at 70,000.
@doris5000 - is that Volvo going up Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury?
certainly isyou another shropshire monner?
Around Stretton and the Long Mynd when I'm not up at uni.
winner! i used to love getting up around there on my bike, er, before you were born by the looks of your username! haha!
(still ride the same bike 😳 )
2005 plate Passat 1.9tdi 130.
230000 when i gave it back to the company last year. Never once missed a beat. Unbelievable car.
2010 megane coupe 146K
2004 Megane 198K
2011 Alfa romeo Giulietta 149K on her
I don't do low milage lol
winner! i used to love getting up around there on my bike, er, before you were born by the looks of your username! haha!(still ride the same bike )
It's such a great place for riding, to live within pedaling distance of the Long Mynd/Hopton/Eastridge/The Clees/Mortimers Forest is fantastic. It was only when I moved to Leeds for uni that I realised how lucky I am with the riding straight out of the door at home (although Leeds ain't bad).
You're assuming right about my age too, I'm really not too old.
Just acquired a T4 with what is says is 178k of the clock from a mate (although changing the dials at 130k ish means there's about 20k missing!)... ex-aa, battered and loving it 🙂
I bought a Merc 250D ex taxi out of the local paper which had 440K miles for £250, ran it for 2 years and put another 25k on it before the exhaust fell off (only thing that went wrong), cost of replacing was more than it was worth. A nice Latvian man bought it off me for £500, loaded it on his transporter which seemed to full of similarly aged German cars. Had a few other newer Mercedes since but none were as reliable as that old 90's non turbo diesel one.
97 Audi A4 Tdi (purchased off here) which is at 253K, brill car as its my work vehicle/bike carrier/dog carrier. Cruises sweetly at 80mph and loves Shell nitro diesel.
Old company banger was a '51 plate Citroen C5. On the MOT checker it had 178K on it.
Our old '05 Focus TDCi has 167K and is still running.
I remember as a kid that cars with 100K on them were knackered and either rusted to death or spat all their oil out.
Sold my sprinter last year with 330k on it. My current Sprinter and Astra vans are comparative spring chickens with 186k and 190k on them respectively.
Currently got:
2008 Civic 2.2 CDTi - 207k miles.
2004 Civic 1.7 CDTi - 139k miles.
51 plate gt tdi pd, 243k from new and all me ... completely bomb proof
so far 🙂
My 2003 Trafic 1.9Dci is still going strong at 402k. Had a new clutch and gearbox repair, but everything else is original.
01 Passat 1.9tdpd. Bought at 246k , sold at 312k for £50 less than I paid for it. Needed 1 x brake caliper, and that was about it, and a fair few tyres and oil changes.
Never let me down and was one of the best cars i have ever owned.
Now running a V70 which is on 178k , so just run really.
This is convenient. Which would stw go for?
http://www.auto.com/cars/subaru-impreza-2_5i-2006-jf1gg67626h808728
http://www.auto.com/cars/volvo-v70-1998-yv1lw5582w2450975
Lower mileage but old vs high mileage and newer
I had a Citroen Dyane that I saw tick over 100,000. That's approx. 750,000 in dog-miles.
There was an office/factory/sandwich run around when i did a short contract in the mid 90's. Already had about 100k miles on it then, was back there for a meeting about 6 or 7 years ago and the bloody thing trundled past the window of the conference room. Still doing the same job. Probably on its 25th clutch going by the way the apprentices used to drive it when i was there. I reckon the engine must have been running about 12 hours a day. And the seat rails moving almost as far as the car itself......
Personal record was an astra i bought one year to get me from Kent to various races in france and belgium, paid about 250 quid for it with near enough 150 thousand on it, right rusty dog. Ran it for a year or so, sold it on for 150 quid having done another 60 odd thousand.
Unfortunately, i'd not had the cash to service it, just put fuel and oil in it. Quite a lot of oil towards the end. 😳
Some brilliant comments on here. Current xc90 has 110,000 so obviously still running in and a mk2 1.1 fiesta I had as a student sold with 189,000 was a great car. Well actually it was a bag of nails but seemed like a great car at the time.
Just sold my wife's Mk4 Golf GTi, as it was starting to be a bit of a pain to start, 188k.
Bought it for £400, sold it for £550. Literally did nothing to it in 2 years.
My 04 Passat is barely run in with 146k on it. Although it's got a grumbly gearbox which is going to need replacing soon.
My uncle had a Toyota Corolla, which he ran as a taxi. It had over 200,000 miles when I spoke to him; I asked him how often the oil was changed, expecting him to say every 10,000 miles or so.
It's been done twice, he said........
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My old Audi A6 C5 shape 2.5tdi, original clutch. 2nd hand gearbox @250k
Eventually sold at around 285k for £320 on the bay... bloke who bought it was going to use the engine for his A4!
Current A6 C6 shape 2.0tdi currently has 207k on it, but not convinced it'll match it's predecessor..
1994 Mercedes E300D. 227000, has had quite a lot done but still lovely to drive.
Sold our Mondeo with 220k on it which had gone through a few consumables, but still going strong, wife was fed up with such a big car.
Loan car from the garage is somewhere well beyond 300k, it's a VW Bora.
Had a transit at a summer job, came secondhand with low miles, but pretty hammered, saw some mileages 3 times over the next 6 years as the odometer was only 5 figures.
Tractors count hours running rather than mileage, know of one contractor machine that nearly made 700hours in one month.
My Honda HR-V bought new in 2004.
Just sailed through MOT with no problems. Still on original exhaust.
213,500 miles so far. I do the oils and filters now at normal intervals. Just about to have the cam belt done..
Not an exciting car but I have no desire or need to get rid.
Aiming for 300,000 miles. Currently doing 25,000 per year so not having an easy life.
My Fiesta is 3 1/2 years old and just turned 92k.
Vans 15 years old and just turned 123k. Been nowhere compared to the Fiesta.
Took my f-plate Sierra 1.6L estate through to 312500 miles. Original clutch was recklessly changed at 275000 as a gearbox linkage pin had failed, there was another 5-10000 miles on that clutch. Still have the camshaft and front plate in the garage.
Then took a 1.8 Zetec focus estate to 245000 miles, then sold for scrap, but still good enough to get a speeding ticket six months later.
Regular servicing and mechanical sympathy keep cars running happy.
Got 2 2005 320Ds, both done more than 150k and both completely original. They get an annual service irrespective of the mileage and they never let us down.
2004 Mk3 Mondeo sitting on 166k and still going very strong and in good nick externally too. Our other car has done 130k.
The Mondeo may have to go in favour of an auto soon. Doing ever increasing amounts of largely unavoidable travel where congestion is an issue (business and school holidays) and getting a sore knee and hip on the left side when I have a really heavy week in the car. Rather drop some money on a new car than store up trouble for my retirement. If we change it someone will get a super cheap well loved car.
doris5000 - Member
this one makes me chuckle
my folks owned this thing from about 1983 to about 1993, and they still see it around town from time to time:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/56252091@N03/6517301487I looked up the MOT history, and the mileage on the clock has been exactly the same at every test for the last 10 years
EDIT - i see from the post above that this fault still afflicts certain Volvos! haha
That's kept in garages by my old work, the old boy that owns it takes it out fairly frequently.
Regular servicing and mechanical sympathy keep cars running happy.
Much like a bike.