Highest miles engine

Firestar_3x said:
Do you feel safe driving alone at night, knowing at any min it could burst into flames and leave you down a dark country road alone?
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Don't be stupid, that happens at 100,000 miles.
 
cars dont seem to last long here due to MOTs

I went to China and sat in plenty of high milers.

one 600,000km GM people carrier
250,000km Toyota Landcruiser, worrying thing was it was 2.5 years old, and it was basically brand new, as in I thought it had done maybe 50-60k


and the best was a 690,000km VW santana taxi. It was still useable, still a fair bit of life left in it,but the kind of life it had :eek:
 
agw_01 said:
My Dad has a P reg Rover 820 with 294,000 miles on the clock.

Took us from Bolton to Loughbrough and back this weekend with absolutely no trouble. Cracking car that!
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that really is an incredible score. has it ever had the head off etc?
 
Used to own a Toyota Carina II with 250K on the clock (No major engine work done to it). Was a great car really it never let me down once! :)
 
Matt82 said:
that really is an incredible score. has it ever had the head off etc?
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Not to my knowledge. It has full service history and there's nothing in there about a headgasket change or skim etc.

Starts first time, every time and uses very very little oil. It's in very good condition too!
 
Our climate kills cars. They rust, the bushes corrode etc. The bottom line is that any car will go on forever it is just that there reaches a point where it is cheaper to replace the car than carrying on fixing it. Go to Havana if you want to see plenty of million mile 1950s American cars, that really is something special. So many old cars due to the difficulty importing new ones. I took a ride in a Chevrolet taxi with 4 million on the clock. The best thing was that I asked him how often he changed the oil and he said he had never changed the oil, just kept topping it up :eek: So that just goes to show how much rubbish people talk when it comes to oil.

I have driven Army Land Rovers with 350'000km on the clock and they have felt not much different to new ones, but still pretty bad!
 
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My Landrover is just coming up to 150k miles, dad Colorado is around 120k, had to use a clapped out courtesy car Peugeot 405 diesel that had managed 250k all they had.
 
So, is the general concensus that as long as a car has been well looked after, high mileage is ok? I will admit, my dad and I have always been weary of cars whose mileage total works out more than 12k a year.

On a related note. would anyone still consider a 2001 seat leon 1.6 car with 98k on the clock still ok?
 
Don't understand peoples logic behind the, omg run away from a car if its done more than 50k...

Fact is if its done more that the average 12k a year and is a big car odds are its spent its life on a motorway, which is far easier for a car to cope with than 8k per year banging up and down around town with the kids inside.
 
DB_SamX said:
So, is the general concensus that as long as a car has been well looked after, high mileage is ok? I will admit, my dad and I have always been weary of cars whose mileage total works out more than 12k a year.

On a related note. would anyone still consider a 2001 seat leon 1.6 car with 98k on the clock still ok?
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wtf?

Well I would certainly pay a lot less for a car with 98k than one with 50k but everything has its value and saying something is 'ok' is entirely subjective!

So your Dad wouldn't buy a year old car with 20k on the clock? Because that would definitely be broken beyond repair!

In my experience dealing with cars the problems that cause them to die are rarely to do with the engine.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Do you feel safe driving alone at night, knowing at any min it could burst into flames and leave you down a dark country road alone?
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Oi

I had an Uno with 185000 + on it before I scrapped it. And I didn't scrap it because of the engine, it was the bodywork that was going..... !
 
tbz_ck said:
Oi

I had an Uno with 185000 + on it before I scrapped it. And I didn't scrap it because of the engine, it was the bodywork that was going..... !
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Not that suprising since the engine was made out of ex WW2 tank parts, however the bodywork was made out of the finest quality tracing paper :p
 
i think the mileage thing is simply due to people not knowing much about cars and a lower mileage is a simpler gauge than actually opening your eyes and looking at the actual condition, because most people dont know what theyre looking at.
 
laissez-faire said:
wtf?

Well I would certainly pay a lot less for a car with 98k than one with 50k but everything has its value and saying something is 'ok' is entirely subjective!

So your Dad wouldn't buy a year old car with 20k on the clock? Because that would definitely be broken beyond repair!

In my experience dealing with cars the problems that cause them to die are rarely to do with the engine.
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I meant: say a car 6 years old, 6x12 = 72k. So, higher than 70-75k would merit second thoughts.
 
ok then, before you read this thread, what, in your opinion, what bad about a car that had done 13k (or more) miles a year?

ive never understood safety by numbers, thats all. thats like 70mph is legal and safe, regardless of whether its sunny or snowing.... but 80mph is bad regardless.
 
There's an article in this week's Autocar about a bloke with a 250k 1.8 diesel focus (non-direct injection version). He says it sounds like a tractor but that its reliable. Biggest expense was £1,000 to replace a fuel pump.
 
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