200,000 Mile club
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Oil burning Avensis. Flywheel is starting to wobble and the original clutch is still holding out! Would have done 1/2 a million if it wasn't for lockdown. Will be retired as soon as a replacement is found as the bills are now constant!
My 2010 Jaguar XKR will pass 200,000 miles sometime this month. It is simply the best, most reliable, quickest car (pulleyed and tuned to about 600hp) I have ever owned of about 30 cars and 53 years of driving. It will be my daily driver until the day I can no longer drive, simply spectacular!
tberg said:
My 2010 Jaguar XKR will pass 200,000 miles sometime this month. It is simply the best, most reliable, quickest car (pulleyed and tuned to about 600hp) I have ever owned of about 30 cars and 53 years of driving. It will be my daily driver until the day I can no longer drive, simply spectacular!
Now that is a decent effort, what a way to tick off 200000 miles. Toaster Pilot said:
Nearly at 202k now and I’m really hoping it isn’t the start of its next huge maintenance cycle. Had to replace the headlight bulbs because they were utterly useless - £80 for a pair of new Nightbreaker xenons. Had two slow punctures so chucked four new tyres on as well, granted only £64 a corner ditchfinders. 
Nice!
gf15 said:
I ran my BMW 740 from 80k miles in 2006 to 215k in 2011, fantastic car, only real issue was water pumps, it needed 2.
I replaced it with 2005 BMW 650 (4.8 litres of v8 loveliness) from June 2011, bought for £15k to Dec 2019, sold for £3200. When I sold it, it had 201k miles. Unusual bits:
1: Still ran beautifully, used no oil, had no squeaks. Still felt like it had all of it's 360k horses as well.
2: Only big bill was oil stem seals, replaced at 150k miles £1500.
Condition was still beautiful, these were the pictures I took to sell it on 201k miles.
I replaced it with 2005 BMW 650 (4.8 litres of v8 loveliness) from June 2011, bought for £15k to Dec 2019, sold for £3200. When I sold it, it had 201k miles. Unusual bits:
1: Still ran beautifully, used no oil, had no squeaks. Still felt like it had all of it's 360k horses as well.
2: Only big bill was oil stem seals, replaced at 150k miles £1500.
Condition was still beautiful, these were the pictures I took to sell it on 201k miles.
Edited by gf15 on Friday 24th December 14:39
Chocolatefrog,
Even at nearly 200,000 miles, it's still such a pleasure to drive everyday and look at walking away that I catch myself looking at lower mileage ones knowing that eventually things are going to break, and I honestly don't know what I could replace it with that would give me such pleasure. I have often told the story that owning the XKR made me make a decision about my 1972 De Tomaso Pantera. When I got my XKR in 2013, I essentially gave up driving the Pantera. It had always been plagued with starting problems, overheating problems, breakdown problems, etc, and the XKR could be driven so effortlessly at high speeds (and certainly higher than the Pantera) and on the track that I just wasn't willing to subject myself to the hassle any longer, and I stopped driving the Pantera altogether. Several years later, I decided that either I was going to make the Pantera a more user friendly automobile or I was going to get rid of it. After a 4 year restoration and modification (and 20 years of ownership), it is finally the reliable, drivable, luxurious sports car it should always have been. That wouldn't have happened had I not owned as great a car as the XKR. It made me expect more. And now I drive the Pantera every single weekend and enjoy doing so. Here's what I saved by not getting rid of it. Worth the effort!
Even at nearly 200,000 miles, it's still such a pleasure to drive everyday and look at walking away that I catch myself looking at lower mileage ones knowing that eventually things are going to break, and I honestly don't know what I could replace it with that would give me such pleasure. I have often told the story that owning the XKR made me make a decision about my 1972 De Tomaso Pantera. When I got my XKR in 2013, I essentially gave up driving the Pantera. It had always been plagued with starting problems, overheating problems, breakdown problems, etc, and the XKR could be driven so effortlessly at high speeds (and certainly higher than the Pantera) and on the track that I just wasn't willing to subject myself to the hassle any longer, and I stopped driving the Pantera altogether. Several years later, I decided that either I was going to make the Pantera a more user friendly automobile or I was going to get rid of it. After a 4 year restoration and modification (and 20 years of ownership), it is finally the reliable, drivable, luxurious sports car it should always have been. That wouldn't have happened had I not owned as great a car as the XKR. It made me expect more. And now I drive the Pantera every single weekend and enjoy doing so. Here's what I saved by not getting rid of it. Worth the effort!
Finally made it to the club. The first car I've had to pass the milestone is a 2004 Audi A3 3.2 manual.
Original pretty much everything apart from a couple of O2 sensors and ignition coils. Here is a not particularly interesting picture of it on a trip to Ypres a few years ago and the odometer proof. I was driving at the time it rolled over to the magic figure so couldn't take a picture of the moment itself, unfortunately. Perhaps when I get to 300,000...
Original pretty much everything apart from a couple of O2 sensors and ignition coils. Here is a not particularly interesting picture of it on a trip to Ypres a few years ago and the odometer proof. I was driving at the time it rolled over to the magic figure so couldn't take a picture of the moment itself, unfortunately. Perhaps when I get to 300,000...
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