Cars with ridiculously low mileage

[CoolHands]

my 33 year old car has 44,000 genuine miles on it, so average of 1,300 a year.

[smugglersvin]

NoNeed said:

I have just bought a w reg escort with 20k on the clock and all the previous mots to show its correct.

Thats a lot for an Escort is it on its second engine
A freind of mine bought a old company car which was a 1.6 petrol zetec lx and it had been round the clock 3 times on the original engine. But I must say there wasn't anything good to say about it by the time it got to that mileage.

It used more oil than petrol and that was a lot considering it was down to 3 cylinders so it did use a lot of petrol, but he did manage to limp it into a dealer and got £250 for it on a px.

[cptsideways]

A good few years ago (in a previous bid of car buying desperation) my car went up in smoke on the M25. I went to look at a Datsun 120y, an old boy had it & was selling it as his garage had literally fallen over onto the car. Part of the deal was to prop up the wooden garage to get the car out.

It had done 8k miles from new, this was in the early 90's & it was a late 70's car. It was like new

[Paul v8]

few yrs ago i bought my run around car, a '97 astra 1.6 8v it had done 21k in 11yrs by the one previous owner and he had it serviced and everything by the book .
1st year of ownership i did 34k miles with work

[Eddh]

There is a mint E Reg (1987 so 24 years old) Astra SRI in our works car park now and again that has 19,000 miles on it!

[trickywoo]

Rawwr said:

It's incredibly common in the world of motorbikes. You can often find 5/6/7 year old bikes with little more than 1,000 miles on them. A friend of mine bought a 4-year old Ducati 999 with 800 miles on the clock. Superbonkerscrazy.

It's also quite easy to disconnect the speed sender unit

[skyline501]

VAG TDI Repmobiles seem to morph into low mileage cars around the 2yr 11month mark.

[magooagain]

This. http://www.autoscout24.nl/Details.aspx?id=ma3cflji... I was wondering how much my spare kidney is worth.

[LuS1fer]

Lot of low mile Mustangs round - my 05 still only has 12k on it but that's down to having 3 kids rather than lacking the will.

[Dr G]

CoolHands said:

my 33 year old car has 44,000 genuine miles on it, so average of 1,300 a year.

You're winning so far!

Jus spotted you're up the road from me, if a loony in an Audi gives you a flash (the headlight kind) tis probably I!

[mazdajason]

Dr G said:

CoolHands said:

my 33 year old car has 44,000 genuine miles on it, so average of 1,300 a year.

You're winning so far!

Jus spotted you're up the road from me, if a loony in an Audi gives you a flash (the headlight kind) tis probably I!

st that not a lot at all! ABout 4/5 tanks of fuel a year?

[Downton Mini]

My 1999 Mini has 35000 on the clock this is form new and my 1969 Mini hase 45,000 miles on the clock and I believe this to be right

[Palms]

My mates mum bought a 6 month old bmw 3 series on a t plate with 11000 miles on it and at present there is only 23000 on the clock, she has put on an average of 1k a year

[BMR]

My grandparents bought a new Corsa back in 1995 (N plate). My grandfather passed away a couple of years later and my grandmother rarely used it. When she died in 2005 it had 10,000 miles on it. Actually reading some of the other posts here I'm not sure how that much mileage was clocked up on it!

My uncle got it to sell not sure how much it was punted on for.

[stackmonkey]

My first car was a mk1 Fiesta, 7 years old with only 6500 miles on it.

A few years later I bought an 83 Prelude off a friend's mum with only 36,000 miles on after 18years.

[barmonkey]

My OH's W reg Tigra only had 36,000 miles on the clock when she bought it in 2010 - it's now on 48,000.

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

1959 A35 23k miles. :

It was supported by plentiful documentation - MOTs, all of them. Affidavits from the few previous owners. Yearly garage bills with comments such as "visit customer, start car, MOT, charge battery, return to customer".
It had also been laid up for a decade or so at some point IIRC,

regards,
Jet

[nickg123]

I detailed a 1989 911 Speedster with 900km from new!!!!! (Genuine mileage too).

[djt100]

When I brought my 11year old Celica it had covered 16,000 miles form new, Always been Garaged and had full Toyota service history, original bill of sale, etc. when we took it for a test drive the guy did not know how to tilt the seat as no one had ever sat in the back!. £22000 NEW!!!

[J4CKO]

Rawwr said:

It's incredibly common in the world of motorbikes. You can often find 5/6/7 year old bikes with little more than 1,000 miles on them. A friend of mine bought a 4-year old Ducati 999 with 800 miles on the clock. Superbonkerscrazy.

I think its goes like this, pass test, buy old snotter GPZ and enjoy it, decide to buy R1/GXSR 1000, poo yourself, shut it in the garage and avoid looking at it.