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Interested to see who's happily running moon-distance mileage with no intention of trading in. I'm getting there:
Volvo V50 1.6D, 8 years old, 175,000 miles
I don't do the milage anymore, but my 535 did 250k before retiring.
Golf mk4 1.6 petrol clicked 185k today
Had a Peugeot 405 that I bought with 250k on the clock.
Sold a Peugeot 206 with just over 150k on the clock and was still going strong when sold.
I don't understand the French car bashing on the car threads, they're great.
I recently bought a Honda accord tourer with 155,000 on it. Should be good for double that. I only use it for weekends and bike transport+ holidays.
2000 passat 2.0 petrol 158k, bought just over a year ago for £100, new tyres and a fuel filter, and 2 MOTs later with a cost of £123, its running nice.
My golf is on 218000.
Just changed the timing belt and disks so that should be me for a while.
2008 Civic cdti. 240k miles.
Pug 306 estate just shy of 200000 miles. The electrics could do with a bit of TLC but other than that it's as solid as a brick shit house.
Renault 19 about 200k, Peugeot 306 about 240k, Renault master bought at about 8 years old and 30k (clearly fake) added 250k
just run in that lot ^^
Took my last Passat from 234K to 312K before selling it for £50 less than I paid for it
Only needed 1 brake caliper and alot of tyrs /oil / filters
Previous cars:
Volvo 240 GL Estate: bought with 270k on the clock, sold with 300k.
Audi 80 1.8S: bought with 192k on he clock, scrapped two years later with, erm, 192k on the clock 😆 Probably did 30k in it.
Plan to go above 150k with the current car, had it from new so should tick over that milestone in 2023 😀
Not these days as the thought of driving big mileages makes me shudder.
but from 1987-1991 I took a Ford P100 pickup truck from 6 miles on delivery to 374,000 miles when I left the firm!
In that time apart from tyres & 2 exhausts it has 1 exhaust valve & 2 clutches, the body was rotting though thanks to clattering around lots of quarries & port sites.
I virtually lived in that truck for 4 years and at an average of 18mpg I hate to think how much fuel it chomped through.
The strange thing is I remember driving from a steel fabricator in St Austell to Oban Distillery in my trusty truck over 600 miles in 1 go apart from fuel stops and feeling fine no aches etc.
These days even with super plush Volvo seats I get sore (getting old sucks)
2004 Honda 1.6 petrol HR-V 225,000 miles so far.
Owned from new. Still on original exhaust.
I saw this on Autotrader whilst looking for cheap vans.
Think Tim Peake did less miles 😯
12 year old Astra van on 198k and a younger sprinter on roughly the same. Kept the last sprinter to over 330k before selling it on.
Tbh I think any modern car that can not make 200k is not fit for purpose
210k on an 11 year old Mondeo TDCI, seems to thrive on neglect. Apart from the usual wear and tear all it has needed is a new clutch at 100k. Still on the original battery, the only time it's failed to start is when it mysteriously once lost its injector codes
Skoda Fabia 53 plate currently sitting somewhere about 171k, just fitted a new droplink and passed its MOT with flying colours yet again. Drives as nicely, apart the black smoke that all old VAG get, as my OHs 07 plate with 89k on the clock. No rush to swap it so it'll easily do even more miles!
Put around 165k on my old V70 before a tree viciously attacked it.
It fought a valiant fight, bravely laying down its life to save others and now rests in Volvohalla, supping petrol from the hollowed out wheel bearings of lesser cars.
What do you define as modern.? My pug feels pretty 90's compared to cars just a few years younger.
Mk 2 golf 8 v 276k bought with 56k.
Pug 406 that comes in work a lot, 304k as of today, she's spent the price of a few new cars on it over the past 15+ years
Still on original engine but that's about it
BMW 525d Touring (E39) 221k. Engine/turbo and drivetrain (original clutch) all fine but front wings going a bit rusty now and I've managed to smack the front bumper around on kerbs etc and it's looking very tatty. Time for a change but I don't know what to replace it with.
Good effort - I got 235k out of mine when the replacement (Austin Maestro!) gear box packed up. The only work ever done to the engine was valve stem seals.Mk 2 golf 8 v 276k bought with 56k.
Not mega miles but:
Mk1 Focus 1.8 petrol 155k retired due to sump issues. Abused from 6 months old by myself.
Vectra 1.8 petrol 163k retired with only Cat converter MOT fail. I was running it as a second car and I didn't need it anymore. It was a freebe from my Dad who was offer £300 as a trade in at 117k. I think in 47k miles after that it only needed a new battery and a minor suspension repair.
Mondeo 2.2 tdci 169k, written off by a tourist, it was still running good.
I am currently on a sprightly SAAB at 128k so I wonder how it will fair.
When I was a student I worked as a delivery driver and drove several vans with 300k + that still went fine. Mercedes and Toyota's mainly.
only occasionally drive the wifes car these days but the impreza had over 223,000 miles on the clock when I SORNed it.... and it started first time 2 yrs later when I sold it :). Well built cars for sure always felt solid.
165k Ford Ranger, on an X plate, not used much these days.
I sold our b5.5 Passat estate at about 190k on the clock. I still see it around a few years later
180k on 55 plate navara and it doesnt even have a squeek or rattle
my 8 year old vw t5 is coming to a quarter million
My brother has a Mercedes work van on 450 k second engine at 380 k original chassis and panels .... Toyota hilux on 245k his dog car so will keep going.
V plate Sprinter on 269k still in use
I saw this on Autotrader whilst looking for cheap vans.Think Tim Peake did less miles
Photo suggests 55k
When I traded my '55 plate Hyundai Santa Fe 2.0 CRTDi in, it was up around the 175,000 mile mark!
God it looked awful from the outside but it was a great car to drive, used it for work mostly and it went up some pretty rough tracks without any drama!
4 year old Octavia went back last year with 155k and never had anything done to it but variable interval services. New one hit 45k today.
160k ish (can't see the odometer as it has a temperamental earth fault) on my 15 year old 306 hdi estate. Bought it for £1k 5 years ago when I needed a car to get to the isle of Wight for work and it's just kept going. Its been abused as a farm car, diy materials moving, biking etc. Including servicing I haven't spent more than £500 keeping it on the road in that time.
159k on our freelander. Drives great and still tows the sheep trailer well but does need some consumables this year as tyres and VCU are due so wont see much change of £800 in parts.
When I was a student I had an E30 325i tourer with 230k on the clock. I bought it for £1 + towing it home and then found about £5 in change under the seat. Had been sat for months and the guy just wanted it gone. Spent £300 getting it through its MOT and taxing it and drove it for 6 months. Sold it for £350 before it drained my bank account due to abysmal fuel consumption. The roar of that straight 6 through a twin pipe exhaust made before cats were needed was addictive! Had a lovely old BMW smell, mixture of oil and the plastics they used.
420k on my 14 year old TX1 Taxi, I sold it and saw it around for another 18 months before it had to be taken off the road. Managed to get through 3 gear boxes, the Nissan 2.7L engine never missed a beat, wish I had it in my new cab.
Bought a saab 99 the (first type) 185 k on it sold with 201k on it still going well. After driving minis in Scottish winters it was a god send.
Then had a 900 turbo bought from an RAF pilot in stunning condition wit 135k on it sold it at 165 k
After that had a few Astra estates my father in laws company cars, never had one that had less that 120000 miles on it when we got them .
Never done anything other than service tyres filters belts.
Mercedes c class 175 k on it .....just goes and goes
Nissan X Trail 238k from new, sold it for a grand, its meant to be going ok somewhere close
04 plate mondeo 2.0tdi. On 181k at moment, just sailed through its Mot.
Had a Ford Sierra Estate g reg which got to 240k before I wrote it off into the central reservation. It was a ugly tank of a car but bullet proof till I destroyed it
207,000 benz powered miles on my vito. Still pulls like a train
160k on my 1999 Almera. Engine going strong but rust has suddenly got the better of it. Going to the scrappers on Saturday.
Took a petrol rover 214 up near 250,golf diesel n reg went over 250, audi a4 of the same email close to 300,transit went on 280 I think. Not hard to do.
Ford focus estate 2002 model, 240,000 miles and still going.....
The flywheel went at ~200k but otherwise no major issues. I'm looking to replace now though as the cabin fan is iffy and there'll be a load of little costs come MOT time like tires etc.
Unsurprised to see a few Volvos here. My 240 did about 160k but that's nothing.
I think Irv Gordon's 1800 is the highest mileage in the world:
[url= https://www.volvoclub.org.uk/miles.php ]Volvo High Milers Club[/url]
I've had a couple of 175k plus Volvo S60's and V70's.
The V70 only died because a barn fell on it. The S60 I sold at about 178k last year to buy the S60R and in fact I had a text if the new owner about a month saying it was still going great.
Awesome cars and will go forever if looked after.
Gone now but our Xantia estate did 243k, engine was still strong but a combination of iffy alternator, no heater fan, frayed seat belts made drive it to the scrappy - regret that now. A Devon local (with a house in France) ran his Xantia estate for over 900k! Currently running a Golf tdi with 150 plus and a Vito with 200 plus.
Not mine but my dad's old 1981 Volvo 245 was still living opposite Harry the Spiders house last time I passed. It had almost 200,000 miles on the clock when my dad sold it in 1989.
Edit: just checked the DVLA mot website and it looks like it's gone to the great scrapyard in the sky.
2003 BMW 320d Touring
175k and still on the original clutch and flywheel
173k Citroen Xsara Estate with the 2.0 Hdi, still pulls strongly, although it's a bit wallowy and some of the electrics are dodgy. 700 mile drive back from France tomorrow that I'm sure it'll do just fine.
There's a Mercedes - a [i]really, really[/i] old one in Tenerife owned by the uncle of one of my best friends.
Mercedes actually used it as an advert for how well built they are.
In 1994 it had over 1,000,000kms on it!!! 😯
Ran our Mazda 3 from 85k to 178k before trading it in. My wife wanted something smaller and was sick of me wrecking the interior with muddy bikes, so I started looking for a cheap estate. Bought a 2.5L petrol Subaru Legacy with, yup 178k on it. So for a time cumulative mileage of the two cars in the household was 350k+.
Sadly the Legacy was a bit of a money pit so now driving an 04 Focus tdci which at 151k only just qualifies for this thread.
I don't understand the French car bashing on the car threads, they're great.
I sold a 307SW with 140k on the clock. Guy came to test drive and couldnt give me the money quick enough. He was staggered that absolutely everything worked. I relied on it for work and hit every service slightly early. Never missed a beat.
I don't do mega mileage anymore (thankfully) but I can lay claim to putting 175k on a 2007 BMW 530d sport touring and then a couple of years later stuck 259k on another.
Mega vehicles.
Just serviced at the dealer, only issue with the last one was when I loaded soaking wet windsurfing gear in it and the water seeped into seats/boot and drenched the carpets.
My BMW 320d is just shy of 235k. Still purring on the autobahn. I have ambitions to get it past 300k, but fear the next MOT 😯
My van's on about 175k right now and both my Mk. 2 Golf GTi and Vx Frontera did north of 250k before they got passed on.
The golf was a keeper. I feel sad for taking on a Rover 620 to replace it.
1998 Volvo V70 here 2.5 TDi just about to hit the 230,000 mark
Recently MOT'd cost £300, and that included service and brake pads
owned for over 10 years, and it has been referred to as Hotel Volvo, for the times that it has been slept in at events, and also Battle Bus because it just keeps going.
Great car still cruises happily at 70ish and gives me over 40mpg
Swallows bikes and also i can fit my mini mal in withput having to strap it to the roof
2003 Ibiza that I got rid of in Feb, purely because we needed a bigger car to get the baby seat in.
It was on 274k miles, still on original clutch, exhaust, turbo, injectors, fuel pump etc. I owned it from Sept 2006 when it had 24k miles on it.
It took me on commutes of 100, 60, 120 and 80 miles/day over the years....
Bloke I sold it to has put chav wheels on it and remapped it to 175bhp from 130. The clutch is now slipping (no shit, Shhrlock) but he works at a clutch place so is gonna repair himself.
He sent me a text last month to tell me it sailed through the MOT...
2004 A4 1.9TDI. 191k now, owned since 100k-ish. Only ever had a starter motor in addition to service consumables and cambelts. Turns out the starter wasn't even at fault.
Front wings are looking a bit ratty so I'll treat it to some new ones shortly and had to replace a door that my good lady reversed into. Which was my fault. Obviously.
Can't see me getting rid of it until it falls on its sword now. Still looks quite pretty too
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[i]Had a Peugeot 405 that I bought with 250k on the clock.[/i]
Was that my old Mi16? Sold it with 185k on.
I've never bought old stuff, but did put 160k onto a brand new Xantia in the late-90's, managed it in 4 years (young kids so travelled rather than stayed away). Car didn't miss a beat but it wasn't in a good state when it was collected by the lease company, soft paint 😉
Civic Type-R bought new in 2002 and 157k on the clock now.
It's getting a bit rattly now but not missed a beat in all that time.
180k on my '99 avensis estate, not a lot compared to that lot up there.
Got it on 70k free from my step dad 7 years ago. It's had a new exhaust, cam belt, new boot lifters and tyres/oil in that time.
Bought a Ford Falcon in Oz with 274,000km but odometer wasn't working so could have had anything on it! Drove round the continent and down through the middle (around 30,000km) then sold it for more than we bought it for still showing 274k on the clock...probably still going
My old Saab 900 got sold with 240k miles to an enthusiast who reckoned it was good for another 100k on the same engine
P reg Honda Accord 2.2 VTEC petrol in a lovely green. Cost me £700 with 150,000 miles and all I did was change the brake pads and the oil and filter (every 4000 mies).
Went to 234,000 miles and the engine was still sweet and pulled big time. However, the back end was rusting and would have cost me more than the few pounds the car was worth. I loved that car though - I've had faster and visually more satisfying cars but that was BY FAR the best!
Mk2 Golf GTi 8v on 199,600 or something like that. Change the oil every 5,000 miles, never thrash it from cold, replace parts as they wear out or break, usually with something slightly better.
I hate it that we're facing a sustainability crisis, yet people seem fixated on newer, lower mileage cars. The absolute nadir of that particular lunacy was the scrappage scheme back in 2009 which wrote off thousands of perfectly good cars to keep big business happy.
Ditto the dedication of insurance companies to writing off perfectly sound vehicles as 'not economically repairable' on the grounds relatively minor damage rather than repairing things using common sense and pattern and reconditioned parts.
Our T5 has just been written off because of potential damage to the gearbox from a glancing frontal collision, which may or may not have caused internal problems with the box. In the real world that wouldn't be a huge issue as you can source a recon box for a T5 for £1k or so, but in insurance world, it means there might be the need for a brand new VW replacement box at somewhere north of £6k or whatever.
And Catch 22 is that there's no way of telling until repairs have been started. Which they won't do because it 'might' need a new gearbox, which would make it 'beyond economic repair' because they'd insist on using a brand new gearbox even though a quality reconditioned box would be fine.
The whole thing's a racket. As a society we should be buying less stuff and using the products we own for longer rather than getting sucked in to an endless cycle of consumerism.
Another Xtrail owner here. It's currently at 330000 kms (205k miles) and I'm going to stick another thousand on the counter on Thursday. I use and abuse it for everything and will do until the day it carks it, but i don't think I'll get it near a friend's Espace (retired at 650000 kms)
I bought my Volvo V70 D5 with 157,000 on the clock, in a year it's up to 170,000 and has just passed its MOT. The Volvo mechanic who fixes the things that I can't reckons it's good for 300,000.
Mk2 GTI 8v had 245,000 when I sold it.
Citroen BX16 went over 300,000 that was an amazing car.
Peugeot 405 Estate had 280,000 when it had an electrical fire behind the dash
🙁 that was the end of that, amazing engine never missed a beat.
Wow, this thread just shows that no one make or model will be better than another at longevity. What do we think is key to longevity? Regular oil changes, servicing, allowing the engine to warm up properly, steady driving with a thrash or two every now and then?
1990 BMW E30 318iS with 198k. Works lovely - after it's been used for a few days.... Hates to be sat, wants to be driven. Got to do the timing chains again at some point soon, but other than being on rust patrol most of the time with it, there's nothing other than consumables to ever worry about. It's a second car, so really doesn't get driven as much as it probably would prefer...
Colleague just handed his company car back with 420000 km on the clock. It's only 3 years old. 😯
V70 diesel.
Xtrail with the Renault diesel?
We have a T4 camper with 225,000 on it. Just had a new gearbox and drives like new again!
On-time or early oil changes are the key I think.
Colleague just handed his company car back with 420000 km on the clock. It's only 3 years old
If he has an accident while driving for work I should think his employer will be on a very sticky wicket.
Nope, That's almost all commuting and enjoying himself. Apparently he racked up near enough 20000 km this summer touring Europe and doing "stuff".
All he's done for three years is tyres and servicing. (and a load of fuel.)
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Xtrail with the Renault diesel?
Nope, it's a T30 so it's got the old school noisy, smelly Nissan engine.
1994 Mercedes E300TD. 230000 miles. Costs a fortune to keep going but just like it...
God this thread is depressing, I have a Vauxhall Insignificant which is horrible but it's only done 90,000 miles so no where near renewal time, mind you it puffs & wheezes so much we've christened it Ivor & hopefully it will die sooner than later
My Audi A4 Tdi 97 plate has 257,000 miles on its clock. Sadly I'm getting a van so have to let her go if anyone's interested ?