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

Will Gill said:
Had a saab with 175k on it, not even close to it's first serval interval for that marque :p
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My Saab's ticked over 157k. I put a hole in piston 4 but I think that is more to do with my driving and remap that caused that. It does need a little welding on the rear arches as well. (It originally came from Glasgow)

Personally age is more detrimental to a car than its mileage. Especially a car that is from the sea side or up north.
 
honda fr-v 2.2diesel....204 000 2007 reg
honda accord tourer 2.2 diesel 201000 2004 reg
ford modeo tdci 2.0 diesel 149000 2009 reg
ford focus 1.8tdci 110000 2004 reg

2 hondas on drive mondeo in garage with focus on my ramp in garage

1n 1983 i was working for a windscreen company and was given a brand new transit di drove it off the dealer forcourt with 6 miles on the clock.

2 years almost to the day drove it back on when it was replaced with 412000 miles on it ...gar that was almost my home for 2 years , based in swadlincote, covering anywhere from top end of chesterfield to bottom of birmingham and beyond .

best time of my life 24 hour call 7 days a week and i have to say (making the money ) hmm

replaced with a 407 merc (we called it a prison van doe to 2 small windows in the rear :)) transit carried 126 screens in 5 racks and the merc carried 192 screens in 7 racks used to get refilled every week or specials maybe 2 or 3 times a day.

memories
 
Rust is the biggest problem :( Good engines will go on and on as long as you maintain it. Though the more modern and complicated stuff isn't going to last as long.

Even if you get something with an aluminium chassis corrosion is still an issue in the UK thanks to ******* salt.
 
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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Mandatory inspections every few weeks which vary depending on the type of work the vehicle does and it’s age, legal requirement for servicing every few weeks also and a legal requirement of auditable records to be kept of repairs / servicing and inspections is the big difference between running trucks and cars.

If cars had the mandatory service and maintenance requirements of a commercial vehicle then you’d see far less newer cars on the roads, most old cars die because people won’t spend money on simple maintenance, the nearest many old cars get to annual maintenance is the MOT test.

Were scrimping this way not an option and the car had to be rigorously maintained by law ,they’d last far far longer than they do.
 
My current car Passat CC ticked over to 130k this morning.
Previous car BMW 650i was at 138k when I sold that. IS200 at 126k, Passat that was written off with 129k, 320i 122k and my first Is200 I sold that with 135k on the clock. Haven’t had a car do galactic miles yet.
 
My first car was a Renault Megane Classic with about 110k miles on it.
I got it to about 150k before it wasn't worth fixing to pass the MOT.
That car broke down a lot, absolute nightmare, couldn't afford anything better at the time.

Since then I've had a couple of Astras, but not done massive miles on either.
 
My 53 plate S60 made it to 199K miles. Bloody annoying...I would have kept it longer, but the engine developed an oil leak, and I couldn't find any garage that was willing to do the work.
Present car, 2008 Ford Mondeo is on 156k miles. Still trying to decide when to replace it, was originally going to last year, but lack of need for a car at the moment means I didn't, and I'm kind of liking having the money lying around (No, not literally).
 
Driven my E350 Cabriolet from 70k to 163k currently with just 1 fault happening in that time. The car is still (well, it probably isn't realistically, but its close) as i bought it then - even the drivers bolster on the AMG sport seats is not worn. I might change it at some point but certainly not due to its mileage, the thing still feels totally fresh to me.

Its ratio of starts to mileage is low, though. Almost every leg of a journey that the car makes is >50-60 miles long and it has spent 99% of its life on cruise control.
 
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2017 Scania R450 13.6 litre.

It’s just about run in.. :D
 
Jez said:
Driven my E350 Cabriolet from 70k to 163k currently with just 1 fault happening in that time. The car is still (well, it probably isn't realistically, but its close) as i bought it then - even the drivers bolster on the AMG sport seats is not worn. I might change it at some point but certainly not due to its mileage, the thing still feels totally fresh to me.

Its ratio of starts to mileage is low, though. Almost every leg of a journey that the car makes is >50-60 miles long and it has spent 99% of its life on cruise control.
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Same her with my car. My commute was 50 miles each way, 47 miles of which were on a dual carriage way.
 
Transporter Van recovery truck, 440k, but engine literally just died.

When I used to work on trucks, best I saw on an Original engine was a Volvo FH12, 1500000kmh
 
My E46 330ci just ticked over 190k and still runs like a champ, minus some oil burning which I need to address at some point if it doesn't die first!
 
I ran a Mondeo mk1 1.8 petrol ex-taxi for a couple of years, gave it away still running at IIRC 291.000miles - it needed a new starter motor at some point and quite a lot of oil but I did 40 miles daily while I had it it without any other trouble.

I also had a Peugeot Expert 1.9D van with the DW8 engine, slow as heck but I think it had 220.000 miles when I sold it to a farmer who used it as a mobile barrier to block off an entrance to his farm.

Also ran a Mk4 Mondeo 2.0 TDCi from 80 to 130.000 miles before selling it, according to the MOT it's just been retested at 195.000 miles and still going by the looks of it.
 
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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We used to service our units every 2-3 weeks. And they are taken off the road and repaired for almost any mechanical defect. It all helps.
 
I've never even got a car to 100k yet.

I was determined to keep my little 2010, 1.2 petrol fiesta until at least 100k when I bought it in 2016 but I changed jobs and had a child in 2017 and its only done 10k in 4 and a half years.

I can guarantee it would be in better condition if it had double the mileage. It needed a clutch and battery last year as all it gets used for is a 2 mile nursery run and the occasional trip to the shops.
 
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