100,000 mile club.

[miniman]

Garlick said:

Just sold my 123k LS400 and it didn't have one creak or rattle.

Ready for another £100k

Bloody expensive service if you ask me.

[ewenm]

The Caterham odometer claims just over 11,000 miles, but it only has 5.1 digits and has been all the way round the clock 80,000+ of them mine.

[ClassicMercs]

Mercedes 190e and S124 220E - both at just under 150k.

There is a 300D locally showing over 500k - actually just short of 1M km as its a left hook import.

[Chicane-UK]

My Corrado VR6 is on 185,000 miles and still goes like a beaut Engine suffers from a bit of piston slap from cold and until it starts to get a bit of heat into it though..

[Tunku]

Garlick said:

Just sold my 123k LS400 and it didn't have one creak or rattle.

Ready for another £100k

Bloody expensive...

[miniman]

ewenm said:

The Caterham odometer claims just over 11,000 miles, but it only has 5.1 digits and has been all the way round the clock 80,000+ of them mine.

My Dolly Sprint reads 16,000 ish. Could be 116,000, 216,000, 316,000...

[f1nn]

My company Insignia was delivered in late July 2010, and has just clicked over 82k.

One of the rear tyres is original and is still on 2.5mm!

[Welshbeef]

Would people buy exotic cars with 100k plus on them ?

Ie 996 TT
Ferrari etc?

Or are these driven hard and worn out?

[RikZR]

My 52 plate MG ZR 105



Still as tight as anything! Who said k series were unreliable?! :P

[Stedman]

the_lone_wolf said:

Stedman said:

Don't.

Out of interest, why not?

185bhp/400Nm --> 220bhp/525Nm sounds like a nice upgrade

All great numbers huh? Until you realise they ruin DMFs, clutchs and turbos on that model. And those are the 'better' remaps!

Have you seen how much a clutch and DMF is on your car?

This is all from friend's experience. Plenty of info' on volvo forums if you have a look

Enjoy the barge as it is

Back on topic

[ewenm]

Welshbeef said:

Would people buy exotic cars with 100k plus on them ?

Ie 996 TT
Ferrari etc?

Or are these driven hard and worn out?

I'd want to see they had been looked after by a specialist and I'd expect to get a significant discount by being a "rare" purchaser who isn't scared off by mileage. I'd probably go for Porsche over Ferrari for reliability on big miles.

[Dogwatch]

Bought a 2yo Cavalier 1.6 in 1990. Bog standard repper which stayed in the family for 12 years before the tin worm and a rear-end bash saw it off to the scrapheap. Was still mechanically fine at well over the 100k mark but was always maintenance heavy - oil and filter every 6 months, annual service and tune-up plus regular under-bonnet jobs. Daughter was always confident enough to drive it all over the county - once she had mastered the manual choke!

[Japveesix]

My FTO has now done over 130,000 and the engine is still utterly reliable, sounds lovely and pulls well.

Had a few minor other issues (seized rear calipers being the main one, plus a bit of rust starting in places) but in general it still seems pretty good to me. I'd have no problem buying another car with over 100,000 miles on it.

[the_lone_wolf]

Stedman said:

All great numbers huh? Until you realise they ruin DMFs, clutchs and turbos on that model. And those are the 'better' remaps!

Have you seen how much a clutch and DMF is on your car?

This is all from friend's experience. Plenty of info' on volvo forums if you have a look

Enjoy the barge as it is

Back on topic

I have looked into the process, rather than stare starry eyed at the numbers...

Couldn't find any people who had remap related reliability issues, age perhaps, exacerbated by thrashing a remapped car possibly?? But didn't find one owner posting about issues related to the mapping that wouldn't already be present in a standard car... I don't rag the car, 99% of the time I drive it like a proper Volvo driver, I even have a flat cap

And yes, having had a new DMF and clutch fitted last week I do know what they cost... I also know what a new turbo will cost me down the line, but I can easily fit that myself...

[Paraicj]

Sold my 1.4 petrol Seat Leon with 156k on it. It leaked through both front doors and had a few dings, but was mechanically sound.

[Jimmy No Hands]

Chicane-UK said:

My Corrado VR6 is on 185,000 miles and still goes like a beaut Engine suffers from a bit of piston slap from cold and until it starts to get a bit of heat into it though..

I've just bought a 165k mile Corrado.

This gives me hope (apart from the slapping)

[bigee]

ewenm said:

Welshbeef said:

Would people buy exotic cars with 100k plus on them ?

Ie 996 TT
Ferrari etc?

Or are these driven hard and worn out?

I'd want to see they had been looked after by a specialist and I'd expect to get a significant discount by being a "rare" purchaser who isn't scared off by mileage. I'd probably go for Porsche over Ferrari for reliability on big miles.

Not sure if deemed exotic,but,my Cayenne Turbo has just clocked 249k miles....full OPC history.All good.

[kiethton]

bigee said:

Not sure if deemed exotic,but,my Cayenne Turbo has just clocked 249k miles....full OPC history.All good.

I hate to think of that fuel bill....

[E38Ross]

Welshbeef said:

BeirutTaxi said:

With frequent oil changes and mechanical sympathy 100k isn't too much on a well designed modern engine.

The highest I've come across is a 530d with something like 600,000 miles on it. So far it's needed a new turbocharger and that's it. Impressive!

600k with nothing but routine standard services... Plus one turbo is very good going. He certainly got value out of that



I wonder if car makers will stop increasing durability else they will sell fewer as people and companies run them for much longer.

the 530d in question was ONLY ever used on LONG trips (and i mean long...cross-continent rather than cross-country). it very rarely did any town work and spent its life travelling around Europe on motorways for some business thing i can't remember. i don't find the mileage particularly impressive to be honest as long motorway driving isn't strenuous at all on an engine.

i reckon 10k per year of mixed driving over 20+ years puts much more strain on a car than 200k over 5 years for example. highest mileage car i've personally driven was around 230k on a 1989 (or 1990??) BMW E34 535i....it was still going strong but to say it felt tight as a drum would be a bit of a lie!!

my E38 is on around 126500 miles now and to be honest, it feels fine. only looking to keep it another year or 18 months but i'm sure it'll be fine then too.

[Gruber]

175k on the M5 and 186k on the Merc W124.