So, what's your mileage?
Discussion
Apologies if this is a repeat thread but I just saw another thread where a poster mentioned his old jap car which had over 149,000 on the clock. Seems like a keeper to me! I also saw someone on the Chimaera forum who mentioned something like 143,000 miles.
I'll start this off with.......
TVR Chimaera 450 at 90,200 miles.
Buses and black London taximeter cabriolets do not count!!
Who has done the most miles (on the same engine!) and in what?
I'll start this off with.......
TVR Chimaera 450 at 90,200 miles.
Buses and black London taximeter cabriolets do not count!!
Who has done the most miles (on the same engine!) and in what?
WOW! There are some real high milers out there and I wasn't expecting such a response to be honest (it isn't very pistonhead like as a question is it?!). It would be interesting to see what marque has the highest incidents of (genuine) high mileage with out engine changes. I am sure that there is an automotive engineering student out there that is looking for a final year dissertation idea!
Riley Blue said:
Come on... anything less than 200,000 isn't 'high miles'!
Over 100k is high (if you're buying!). However, that is an interesting point and a complete other thread subject. I bought my Chimaera with 55k on the clock. At the time it was 9 years old and my feeling was that this meant that it had spent time being driven (not a lot of miles per annum but enough to tell me that it wasn't a garage bound car) and was thus a decent bet. I have continued the annual mileage, averaging around 6k each year. If I had found a highly polished car which had lots of extras but had only, say, 15k on the clock then I would have walked away. It is clear from remarks that other TVR owners and lovers make in respect of this marque that you buy on 'condition, not mileage'. It is, however, another story when one is selling (or they are buying!)!
At what point, for instance, is the mileage too high?
Over to you ladies and gentlemen.....
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?
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