So, what's your mileage?
Discussion
A great and rather surprising response from the PH massive! Thanks you lot! It seems many are happy to divulge the steps we will go to save spending on a new car!
Anyway, it also shows that there are many of us with old smokers that are certainly NOT adding to the eco-mentalists view that motor cars are causing global warming! If our high milers are anything to go by it seems we are more likely to be helping the environment (even those with V8's!) I can now wear my 'V8 - I'm doing my bit for global warming' t-shirt with pride, knowing it is all true! I wonder how long the average Toyboata Pious will last for. 50k miles before the celebrity/film star that owns it wants a new one?
Anyway, it also shows that there are many of us with old smokers that are certainly NOT adding to the eco-mentalists view that motor cars are causing global warming! If our high milers are anything to go by it seems we are more likely to be helping the environment (even those with V8's!) I can now wear my 'V8 - I'm doing my bit for global warming' t-shirt with pride, knowing it is all true! I wonder how long the average Toyboata Pious will last for. 50k miles before the celebrity/film star that owns it wants a new one?
Current daily is an 06 plate BMW E46 320Cd.
Bought it in December 2008 with 14,853 on the clock, just turned over 134,853 earlier this month.
Thought the diff was away at the end of last year with the rumble so swapped to using my MINI for 6 months, turned out just to be a wheel bearing
So 5 and 1/4 years useage, 121k miles added by me. Its not worth much now so no point changing, also the longest I've ever run the same daily driver. Comfortable and nice place to be for 25k miles a year.
Bought it in December 2008 with 14,853 on the clock, just turned over 134,853 earlier this month.
Thought the diff was away at the end of last year with the rumble so swapped to using my MINI for 6 months, turned out just to be a wheel bearing
So 5 and 1/4 years useage, 121k miles added by me. Its not worth much now so no point changing, also the longest I've ever run the same daily driver. Comfortable and nice place to be for 25k miles a year.
My diesel Vectra's still going strong and turned 177,000 yesterday.
My father's old petrol 405 was traded in at 220,000 and we've run a BL Princess similar distances without trouble.
The reward has to go to Jonny at Bookatrack who recently sold one of his rental fleet Caterhams with 156,000 reliable trackday miles on the original Rover K-series. They're pretty much indestructible if you thrash them, just don't drive like Miss Daisy (or a Golf).
My father's old petrol 405 was traded in at 220,000 and we've run a BL Princess similar distances without trouble.
The reward has to go to Jonny at Bookatrack who recently sold one of his rental fleet Caterhams with 156,000 reliable trackday miles on the original Rover K-series. They're pretty much indestructible if you thrash them, just don't drive like Miss Daisy (or a Golf).
inman999 said:
99t said:
Octavia VRS 125k
Vauxhall Monaro 219k
Saab 900 T16S 222k
How is the Monaro holding up? Vauxhall Monaro 219k
Saab 900 T16S 222k
From the drivers seat it genuinely feels like it has done perhaps a quarter of its true mileage.
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