100,000 mile club.

[Iva Barchetta]

My Fiat had 129,000 kilometres on it when I first drove it,since had Speedo changed and now reading in miles and I've put 30,000 on it.

I make that over 100,000 miles.

Fiat didn't fall to pieces at 100K shocker....

My Cosworth had over 100K on it but that HAD fallen to pieces.

[mgv8]

My car has 57K so not much for a 1969 car.
But my bike has 58K on the clock. Now bikes are like dog years. So my question is what would that be in car miles?

[Gunk]

mgv8 said:

My car has 57K so not much for a 1969 car.
But my bike has 58K on the clock. Now bikes are like dog years. So my question is what would that be in car miles?

My theory is that you each bike mile is the same as two car miles. One of my bikes has done 55,000 miles that would be like a car with 110,000 miles

[lostkiwi]

Goatex said:

My 10 year old smart roadster is knocking on the door of 134,000 miles - 129,000 of which were put on myself. Only mechanical components of the drive train replaced have been the turbo at around 60k and the clutch at just over 100k, although other reasons for trips to the garage are somewhat more extensive... Car now in semi retirement but still drives really well.

Mine is just behind yours at 131k. Its had a new clutch and a new gearbox. Only reason for the gearbox was when the clutch failed it destroyed the flex plate and loaded the input shaft causing the bearing to spin in the housing and wear it.
New struts and springs at the front, new engine mounts, new clutch actuator, new water pump and the usual discs and pads. Still running strong and still in daily use.

[sidewayssam]

Cars are miles better now than ten years ago, and a world away from cars of the 70 ,80s, in the 1990's i sourced my dad a volvo 740 that had been used by a tarmac company as a company car,bought it with 160 thou,full service history, mint box of a car, and sold it 6 years later 230 thou, nothing ever went wrong.

I had a 1985 merc 300 see with 130 thou on it about ten year ago, and then a 420 se with 165 though, both tight as drum....great cars...

Had a vauxhall vectra diesel as a company car, hated it, but did do 68 thousand miles in 18 months in it, got 40 thou out the front tyres and 80 out the back, sure they were made of concrete... and aside from a bracket falling of the back box, nothing went wrong with it.Had 90 thou on it when it went.

[vanordinaire]

Well, it was heading for the 200000 mile club, my son headed it for a banking, now it's heading to the scrappy.

[iSore]

I can't recall the last time I bought a car with less than 100'000. They've generally all been well used BMW's with 150-200'000 miles.
Mind you, I wouldn't want to own a 150'000 mile example of anything they've made since about 2008.

[sim72]

Welshbeef said:

sim72 said:

My Mk4 Golf GTI snotter - 167,000
Mrs72's Seat Leon TDI - 128,000
Our T4 camper - 148,000
Her 1971 Beetle - only 74,000!

Apart from tyres/pads etc., the only things we've had to spend money on this year are a battery for the Golf and an exhaust for the Leon.

Oil
Filters
Air con regas
Pollen filter
Bi annual brake fluid change
Coolant flush every 2 years
Change engine mounts
Replace worn bushes
Change the shocks to refresh the handling and reduce stopping distance
Consider replacing drivers seat steering wheel pedal rubber gear knob and windscreen all consumables

It gets pricy quickly

Not when you can do most of that work yourself. The bushes / track rods / control arms (haven't had a chance to look yet) are starting to go on the Golf. That's my Xmas sorted.

Edited by sim72 on Friday 18th December 00:48

[DukeDickson]

sim72 said:

Welshbeef said:

sim72 said:

My Mk4 Golf GTI snotter - 167,000
Mrs72's Seat Leon TDI - 128,000
Our T4 camper - 148,000
Her 1971 Beetle - only 74,000!

Apart from tyres/pads etc., the only things we've had to spend money on this year are a battery for the Golf and an exhaust for the Leon.

Oil
Filters
Air con regas
Pollen filter
Bi annual brake fluid change
Coolant flush every 2 years
Change engine mounts
Replace worn bushes
Change the shocks to refresh the handling and reduce stopping distance
Consider replacing drivers seat steering wheel pedal rubber gear knob and windscreen all consumables

It gets pricy quickly

Not when you can do most of that work yourself. The bushes / track rods / control arms (haven't had a chance to look yet) are starting to go on the Golf. That's my Xmas sorted.

Edited by sim72 on Friday 18th December 00:48

However, if you can't or won't, it does. Now up to 178k in my ST with major bits like clutch & turbo all original. However, stuff does happen & every time it does, the cost creeps ever closer to the value of the car and so eBay/auction country. If anything like that goes then it will be off (unless I buy a replacement first).
I do find driving a nippy shed fun, but there are limits.

[sim72]

DukeDickson said:

However, if you can't or won't, it does. Now up to 178k in my ST with major bits like clutch & turbo all original. However, stuff does happen & every time it does, the cost creeps ever closer to the value of the car and so eBay/auction country. If anything like that goes then it will be off (unless I buy a replacement first).
I do find driving a nippy shed fun, but there are limits.

Oh, very true, but then if the Golf throws a big bill that I can't do then it'll go in the bin anyway - it only cost £600, I've had 10,000 miles out of it so it's paid for itself already.

[T5XARV]

Another 1.9 Tdi Golf here, a 2003 estate...my previous car showed this mileage and I thought I'd use this pic to advertise it. Sold immediately.
Cost me next to sod all to buy and run...super car !

[motorcars]

bimmer528 said:

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Peugeot 406 2.0 hdi executive estate 2001 model,317,000 miles without any problem atall

[McFarnsworth]

Just cracked 200.000km the other day( around 125k miles), of which 16k miles were on some of the worst roads in the world, and it's still going.

[Court Jester]

McFarnsworth said:

Just cracked 200.000km the other day( around 125k miles), of which 16k miles were on some of the worst roads in the world, and it's still going.

"Worst roads in the World" - having noticed the number plate and driven from France To Belgium this year I assume you are talking about your home country

Seriously that looks an epic adventure.

We did Motorscape Rally through Europe and back in a 240k mile 1985 Porsche 944


This year we made it back. The previous year it came back courtesy of the RAC with a failed clutch.

ps no idea why photo rotated when I uploaded it. It is fine on my phone.

[Bilkie2003]

Ive had Audi's for years.....my 'Toys' were a S3, S4 and last one was a RS6 Avant, (which had to go when I retired last April), none of which got to the 100k. Meanwhile, my wife had A4 Avants the first one reached nearly 140k without a major blip before we sold it, and the current one is up for sale at 102k (Photo), as we only need 1 car now, and living in the sticks its a SUV.
I think if cars are maintained as per manufacturers schedule, they will go on far in excess of 100k. A friend of mine has an Audi that is over 300k and still going strong.

[Hooli]

Gunk said:

mgv8 said:

My car has 57K so not much for a 1969 car.
But my bike has 58K on the clock. Now bikes are like dog years. So my question is what would that be in car miles?

My theory is that you each bike mile is the same as two car miles. One of my bikes has done 55,000 miles that would be like a car with 110,000 miles

My bike is on 106k, it's like a 106k car. The miles are the same, but then it helps to have a proper size engine that isn't doing a million rpm all the time.

[iSore]

Should add:

730i - 313'000

318i E36 - 272'000.

Volvo S60 D5 - 158'000.

No idea what the other old st in my garage has done.

[Boosted LS1]

Some years back I had a saab 9000T on about 390'000 miles. It ran well enough but body rot was an issue iirc so I scrapped it. It was a very early model. Since then I've had several that have been at about 200'000 and it's not an issue. Good solid engines with pedigree behind them. :-)

[C7 JFW]

My Golf is on 156k and is barely broken in. The previous owners avoided servicing everything for some time so I've shouldered that cost but there's no denying how much value there is in it.

The cost of fixing the car has been vastly in excess of the car, but it's got MASSES of life left in it (as this thread shows) and I fully intend to keep it going for the foreseeable future.

You can read about it here -

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Geoffscars]

My 1986 Alfa has 112000. You could say low for the year.
It's fine.
Serviced every year.
Starts stops and passes the mot every year.
Only repair in the last 4 years was wheel bearings.
Not bad for 30 years old