100,000 mile club.
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Well, it didn't self destruct..
Taken nearly 14 years and I'd love to say "all it's needed is routine servicing" but we have had a timing belt and tensioner, water pump, a coil spring, battery, alternator pulley and tensioner, radiator, 2 x rear brake calipers, window regulator, 3 x door latches, 2 x boot lock actuators, an exhaust sleeve, and some welding on a sill. It all works though and returns 50mpg daily.
And as the photo shows, in cold weather it won't keep temperature once you come to a standstill.
It's a love/hate relationship. Mostly hate right now.
Edited by yellowbentines on Saturday 11th December 08:02
matt21 said:
Lordbenny said:
What a shame. Assume you don’t have it any more?Was a great car.
matt21 said:
What a shame. Assume you don’t have it any more?
Not at all, that picture was taken yesterday. It was written off earlier this year by a courier scooter rider and I was offered, amazingly, £1750 for it...or I could buy it back for £500 and get £1250. I bit their arm off for a £50 light cluster fix! It owes me nothing.100,000 miles is really not an issue, well not to me anyway, been in the club for a long time. Current cars are way past it, and cars in the past have got up to 200,000 miles rather easily.
2012 318d E91 - 138,000 miles
2009 MINI 1.4 - 144,000 miles
Both a running remarkably well, worth next to nothing but that's what I run a car for, they owe us more than resale value.
Keep up with maintenance, mainly oil services, seriously people forget the importance of a good oil regime, cars are better these days to taking neglect but they still require looking after in this respect, engines haven't changed that much over the years.
Main things like suspension gets tired, but aslong as its still safe and passes MOT'S I don't get too concerned with the odd knock here or there.
2012 318d E91 - 138,000 miles
2009 MINI 1.4 - 144,000 miles
Both a running remarkably well, worth next to nothing but that's what I run a car for, they owe us more than resale value.
Keep up with maintenance, mainly oil services, seriously people forget the importance of a good oil regime, cars are better these days to taking neglect but they still require looking after in this respect, engines haven't changed that much over the years.
Main things like suspension gets tired, but aslong as its still safe and passes MOT'S I don't get too concerned with the odd knock here or there.
Lordbenny said:
matt21 said:
What a shame. Assume you don’t have it any more?
Not at all, that picture was taken yesterday. It was written off earlier this year by a courier scooter rider and I was offered, amazingly, £1750 for it...or I could buy it back for £500 and get £1250. I bit their arm off for a £50 light cluster fix! It owes me nothing.Mines the same age and colour as yours, but on 235400 miles
the cars definitely get more interesting as you go backwards.
kharma45 said:
‘07 Clio DCI 86 as a temporary (albeit it’s been a lot longer than I envisaged holding onto it).
Owned this car twice and has been remarkably reliable for a French supermini. Cheap tax, good MPG and a good winter hack with small winter tyres on.
Of the 50+ cars i own, only 7 have under 100,000 miles. Of the low mileage cars, the youngest being 14 years old (with 15300 miles) and the oldest low mileage car being 28 years old (with 36000 miles).
The rest range from the 60's to the 00's with my 2002 Ford F350 superduty having the most miles at 345k miles.
I had a Euro 85 BMW 745i turbo which had close to those miles and it ran like a swiss clock. It was a grey market car and could have even more miles given that many had brand new speedo's that read in MPH swapped in when they came to the US.
The rest range from the 60's to the 00's with my 2002 Ford F350 superduty having the most miles at 345k miles.
I had a Euro 85 BMW 745i turbo which had close to those miles and it ran like a swiss clock. It was a grey market car and could have even more miles given that many had brand new speedo's that read in MPH swapped in when they came to the US.
1973. My mums Anglia estate. Don't know how old it was but early 60s for sure. Driving along all nice and happy when Mum suddenly yells out STOP THE CAR! STOP, STOP STOP!!
Almost crapped my Levis.
She'd spotted the odo was on 99999.
"Okay - go slow...."
Watching the magic moment when a tatty Anglebox hit 100,000. All zeroes for the second time in its life.
Nowadays cars would have to hit what? 10 million? to show all zeroes, but back then nobody expected them to last 100k. Not Ford anyway.
Almost crapped my Levis.
She'd spotted the odo was on 99999.
"Okay - go slow...."
Watching the magic moment when a tatty Anglebox hit 100,000. All zeroes for the second time in its life.
Nowadays cars would have to hit what? 10 million? to show all zeroes, but back then nobody expected them to last 100k. Not Ford anyway.
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