Cars with ridiculously low mileage

[seopher]

My old man has a 206GTi which only does about 300 miles a year now. Don't think it's even broken 10k yet. And he bought that new when they brought out the GTi model.

[A.J.M]

In this months Landrove monthly, there is a 1972 2 door range rover with.. 540 miles on it. 540!

It has all the original stickers, books in mint condition, the carpets and seats are brand new, as are the seals on the doors etc. The toolkit has never been touched, the engine needed a bit of work to get it running as the pistons had stuck to the cylinders.

It will sell for BIG money and i hope it never gets used as it would ruin what could be the most original early range rover out there.

[Negative Creep]

My Grandad drives his mk2 Punto to Morrisons every Wednesday and to visit my parents about once a month. Each journey is about 3 miles so the milage must be insanely low. I'll probably end up with it, selling with the classic "one elderly owner, only used it to go to the shops" line. Except this time it's true

[Getragdogleg]

My 1977 Mark 1 cavalier has 47922 on it.

Its pristine inside but a bit care worn outside thanks to the last (elderly) owner bump parking it all the time.

[Baked_bean]

Mine is nothing compared to some on here but i got a 1994 metro as a first car in 2007 with only 31,000 genuine miles on it. It wasn't the best of my friends cars but it was by far the cleanest!


I ended up taking it to 100k over 3 years whilst I was at uni, it was stolen and crashed in that time. It is safe to say that it didn't look that clean when i was finished with it.

[R12HCO]

Carfiend said:

Not sure if stupid low milages are a good thing over all as it means the car has not been driven much or has had a million 1/2 mile journeys.

Ditto

[Mermaid]

J4CKO said:

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.

[williamp]

My Mum has a Mini One which she uses to drive down the road and back a few times a week. Its a 2 year old car. Just coming up to 1,100 miles...

[LuS1fer]

I think the motorway vs short trips "potential myth" started in the 80s when high mileage cars from comapnies were being flogged left, right and centre and the UK mentality was very much "low mileage is good" and thereafter we had a lot of spiel about how much better long motorway journeys were for cars and this slowly gained a foothold.

However, (a) low mile cars still sell better (b) mileages still get clocked and (c) I've never actually witnessed any proof that frequent short journeys do any real damage at all whereas tests on motor oil in New York taxis showed very little wear.

So I'll continue to buy on what I can see and hear and no "it's motorway miles" claims will hold any sway for me. Even if there were more wear, I have seen no evidence it is significant enough to make any huge difference.

[moanthebairns]

Mermaid said:

J4CKO said:

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.

to be honest, thank god for these people! some cracking finds out there!

[KingNothing]

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.

Weekend warriors.

[jamiebae]

KingNothing said:

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.

Weekend warriors.

Someone I used to work for bought himself a new Monster 600 having not had a bike for about 20 years. He put 100 miles on it the day he collected it, and when the time came for its first MoT it had covered 150 miles. He sold it soon after!

[ticmon]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

Average of 580 per year!

[Zarkingfardwarks]

My 2001 4.5 Cerbera has just over 17k miles

[DeaconFrost]

I had a Honda Civic Jordan at 6 years old with 6k miles from a Honda dealership and the week later they had another one in the same age which had done 8k miles

[With these feet]

I bought a 98 civic 5 door 2 weeks ago, fsh with 21,400 on the clock. Was doing under 600 miles between MOT's.
Had it up on the ramp last week, a little surface rust here and there but drives like its new.

[toxicfrog]

I have a 1988 Renault 21 Turbo with 40,000 miles from new. About 1600 miles a year on average!

[GT03ROB]

I have a 1990 Lotus Élan. I bought it in 1992 with 11k miles on it.

20 years later it's done 21k miles. So 500 miles a year average over 20yrs!

[twazzock]

aw51 121565 said:

I got my 309 at 22 years with 35,300 miles on the clock. It has stamps in the service book to verify the annual mileage for the first 20 years and 21,000 miles; some years it only did 700 miles...

Mine was 24 with 43k on it. Online MOT history goes back 6 years-ish and shows it's picked up 1-200 miles for a few of those then 2-3k after that (presumably with a new owner). I've already put 3.5k on it in under 4 months! Even so, when it turns 25 in March it will still have averaged sub-2k/pa.

[Loteuk]

2 owner M3 csl with under 1000 miles?