100,000 mile club.

[michael243]

Jimmy Recard said:

Best of luck. Mine hasn't had any of those issues (but I have heard of heater matrix floodings) and by the weekend it will be not far off 200k miles!

Mine wont make it to 200k

Going to get rid of it asap, just waiting for my insurance to drop under £1k which should hopefully be in June

[gremlin666]

Many, many moons ago I was involved with the taxi trade. 200K+ in the old '80s, mechanical, 'tractor' diesels was common place.

Knew a couple of 504s that were worked for 6/7 years each, and had 'telephone number' mileages. But the one that really went 'the distance' was the Nissan Bluebird 2.0 D LX (T12 - '86-'91). I saw company private hires that were maintained on a proverbial shoestring, that still went around the clock two or three times. And I remember an old guy, (who was an owner-driver, took it easy, and maintained the thing religiously), clocked up over 500,000 miles in a diesel Bluebird, with ONE engine, and ONE box!

Obviously something like an '80s Bluebird is going to have a lot of detractors lol, (and I suppose rightly so), but there must have been something right with them.

[T5XARV]

michael243 said:

Jimmy Recard said:

Have you sorted the water leak? Mine's been better than yours, it seems

I have taken it to the garage..they checked it (for free) and told me its one of two things

1) The heater matrix
2) Windowscreen rubber

They didnt mention the brake servo seal which seems to be the common fault

They did remove a lot of st that was under the windowscreen washer bottle, the car is looking better, seems less damp and doesnt take as long to clear the windowscreen for when I want to drive it...

I'm now vac'ing up the water in the footwell

I'm not normally pedantic. But 'windowscreen'. Three times......sheesh

[bobski1]

Seat Ibiza 1.9Tdi

Running at 170,700 & still counting.

500,000 is the target

[Ahonen]

We're an especially high mileage household.

The gf's '98 Audi A4 TDi is at 299,000 now and sailed through its last MOT with no advisories at all. I think the only issue in the last couple of years has been the flasher relay. The heater matrix is a bit clogged these days, so the heater never really gets fully hot, but other than that it plods along quite happily and still does 15k miles a year.

My Fabia vRS is just coming up to 243,000, but it has been much, much more troublesome than the A4. With the next cambelt change due in a couple of months I think it's time for it to go.

I'll add that my UR Quattro has completed 197,000 too, but that's just had a full nut and bolt restoration so it should be alright for a few years.

Edited by Ahonen on Tuesday 15th December 09:26

[mik_jg]

Motor trader with the following in stock:

'02 V70 - 131k
'02 Grand Cherokee - 113k
'03 Golf TDI - 151k
'05 X-Trail - 117k
'06 E320 CDI - 126k
'06 Combo - 130k
'07 Corsa - 105k
'07 X-Trail - 110k
'07 Astra - 105k
'08 Vectra - 101k
'08 Golf 105k
'10 Audi A4 - 126k


Most impressive high milers I've seen have been Land Cruiser Colorados that have clocked up hundreds of thousands of miles doing farm and site work; they're towing almost every single day of the week and all are on original engines

[edh]

TR4man said:

edh said:

My wife's car - A2 1.6FSI with 106k which my daughter tried her best to destroy a few months back, but I managed to find enough s/h parts to fix it

Please tell us that the image is of before you fixed it?

..and I thought I'd made such a nice job of it too

[Peanut Gallery]

Remembered my old car.. still on the first battery, engine never opened, did not use a drop of oil. Tinworm so bad the seats became detached from the car and I could stick my fingers into the A post and sills.

[MrAverage]

Do people see 100k as high milage? all but 1 of my cars has had over 100k miles. Current car i took over the threshold (now 102k saab 95).
the household has had many high mileage motors 370k terrano, 300k bluebird, 282k astra van being the highest.

[lostkiwi]

I had a Volvo T5 S70 years ago. Sold it on at 221k miles still on the original wheel bearings, clutch, gearbox, exhaust.
Only thing it ever had were front suspension rubbers, discs, pads, 3 coil packs, cambelts, engine steady bar rubber and a throttle body in over 150k miles. Even still had the original dampers and springs and didn't feel at all boaty. Not like it wasn't driven hard either.

[ATG]

275,000km on the M plate hilux ... bodywork a bit scruffy, but mechanically solid as ever. Chimaera is pushing 100k miles and no less solid than it ever was.

[scottos]

I used to get hung up on mileage a bit until I needed a cheap economical car for doing 90-100 mile round trip a day with a new job. Ended up with a mk3 seat Ibiza tdi sport that was on 120k, it was flat as a fart when I got it but after giving it a bootful all the way home it drove amazingly, sold it to a friend who carried on piling the miles onto it, no idea whats become of it now!

Currently have an e46 330cd, bought 16 months ago with 54k on it, on approximately 83k now. This one I intend to keep until it doesn't move any more, really is an awesome daily vehicle!

[RRH]

Traded my last X5 3.0d in at 192,000 miles.

Still going strong, only real issues I had were the transfer box at about 140k, and heavy tyre wear as it needed bushes doing but everything was seized up tight.

The bodywork was still excellent and everything else seemed relatively ok.

Original gearbox, turbo and engine

[griffdude]

All the vehicles in our house are high milers;

VW Golf TDI 245,000 that plugs on reliably, just had a new battery for Christmas.

Alpina D3 Touring 158,000.

TVR Griffith 107,000. Won the TVRCC class B Speed Championships the last 2 years running.

[pSyCoSiS]

My 2009 Mercedes 211 E280 CDI Sport has done 248k miles!

Still drives as tight as a drum.

Before I bought this, I was considering an S320 CDI with 400k miles, but that sold before I got to see it.

Had plenty of 530d at 280k+ plus miles - nothing wrong with them! The cars are built to last, as long as they are maintained correctly.

[kmack]

Jimmy Recard said:

michael243 said:

Not high at all but 115k on my Corsa...

Everything's started to go wrong on it now.. I've had a new exhaust system, rear wheel bearing, handbrake and a massive water leak within the last 200 miles

Have you sorted the water leak? Mine's been better than yours, it seems

I ran a fleet of x6 2007 1.2 Vauxhall Corsa's and whilst they were all serviced properly, they had a hard life. The record was 196k miles. All of them managed in excess of 160k + before giving up. Up until they went bang, they drove reasonably well. Not bad for a small engine...

Edited by kmack on Tuesday 15th December 11:48

[PugwasHDJ80]

I wish i had a photo of my old landcruiser 80 series

I took that from 140k miles to 250k miles around half of which were off road.

we did 14,000 miles across the sahara (and quite a lot of other places) and back and it never msised a beat.

Apart from routine servicing and LOT of diesel it was faultless

[fivepointnine]

My EP3 Civic Type R is at 160k miles and drives/runs as new. Its amazing how long cars last if you actually take care of them! (6k oil changes, checking levels weekly, 75k transmission fluid changes and 75k valve adjustments in my case)

[nicenickuk]

My Subaru Forester 2.5 Turbo is nudging 241,000. Bought with 40k on the clock 5 years ago......... still powerful, still comfortable ...... yes, it's had its costs but mainly associated with blasted exhaaust gas recirculation system to keep the Cailfornians happy (and we all know how THAT issue has ended!). Previously done over the 200k with a Mercedes 190 and Audi A4 Tdi Quattro.

If you get a good'un keep it. So long as they stay serviced the mileage becomes irrelevant! Enjoy - they can't lose any more money can they?

[jimjam92]

145000 and still looks fantastic