What's the mileage on your car, want to see the highest mileage ..

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I have just got rid of my Ford kuga mk1, it had 200k miles on the clock,diesel. Other than issues with the pdf sensor, this has been very reliable... Before that I had To vw bora 2002 plate and managed to sell it off at 231k miles.
 
My old e39 had north of 260K on it, when looking for my V70 I saw an example with a mere 390K on it (!) mileage is nothing, condition is everything tbh.

I've seen plenty of 60k mile trucks that are wrecks, and a few million mile + examples that are still in superb condition.

My Volvo V70 D5 is nearly ran in I think, it's done 173K.....
 
146k miles. Fair few stone chips on the front, but mechanically sweet and hasn't put me wrong since day one.

Dec 2013 320D, owned since Oct 2014/8k miles.
 
I recently got rid of an Octavia that had done 245k. Kinda regretting it, I'd not been looking after it and it was well overdue a cam belt change. It got to the point where while there was nothing major wrong with it it had so many small issues that with the cambelt change it was going to cost a lot to sort out. The final nail in the coffin was a central locking issue that caused it to randomly open all the windows.
 
I had a Volvo S90 10 years ago that rolled over 200,000 miles.

My 2010 A6 is currently on 126,000 miles..
 
Had a few taxis over the years racking up big
Miles friend of mine still has my old mk4
Mondeo which is north of 450k now only ever had a clutch and flywheel fitted and a couple of air flow meters other than west and tear stuff
 
282k on 2001 Honda Insight. I’m gonna try MOT’ing in the next week after a long charge of the big 144V battery. Hasn’t moved since July 2019 :D
 
In no particular order

Personal cars
Renault 5 110,000m
Scorpio 2.5d estate, 156,000m
Peugeot 306d 217,000m
Mondeo st200d 120,000m
Orion 1.6 ghia 102,000m
Vauxhall Senetor 24v 134,000m


Work vehicles
Daf 2300 1,200,000km
Scania 530 1,400,000km
Daf 2100 1,100,000km
 
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I'm curious about lorries now - what's the reason for the relative longevity? Better maintainence? Designed and built with a higher emphasis on durability and a lower emphasis on cost? Different driving (more steady long haul, less stop-start-stop-start urban driving)? All of the above?
 
Angilion said:
I'm curious about lorries now - what's the reason for the relative longevity? Better maintainence? Designed and built with a higher emphasis on durability and a lower emphasis on cost? Different driving (more steady long haul, less stop-start-stop-start urban driving)? All of the above?
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Lower revs & stress possibly, most of the ones I drove were happy around 1,300 to 1,500 rpm, red line was around 2,200rpm
Plus they were between 8.4 & 16 litre engines.
Servicing was regular, my Scania was serviced every 8 to 10 weeks but in that time did around 3,000 mile a week.
 
Robzere31 said:
Lower revs & stress possibly, most of the ones I drove were happy around 1,300 to 1,500 rpm, red line was around 2,200rpm
Plus they were between 8.4 & 16 litre engines.
Servicing was regular, my Scania was serviced every 8 to 10 weeks but in that time did around 3,000 mile a week.
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That to an extent, the other thing is they're worth more. My old Skoda could easily have been kept going it was just worth so little that replacing it with a much newer car didn't cost much more.
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
That to an extent, the other thing is they're worth more. My old Skoda could easily have been kept going it was just worth so little that replacing it with a much newer car didn't cost much more.
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Very true, even with 1m+ km on it, the Daf 2300 unit was sold for 5k back in 2001
 
About 15 years ago I bought a Saab 9000 auto with 220K on the clock. 4 or so years later it went to the great scrap yard in the sky with just over 280K.
 
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