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A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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skyrover said:
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A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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How the hell does someone do 100k p.a.? The most you could do in the UK is about 40k I reckon!A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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BigTom85 said:
skyrover said:
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A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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How the hell does someone do 100k p.a.? The most you could do in the UK is about 40k I reckon!A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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120k is not high mileage.
Fattyfat said:
What's the obsession with all the high mileage threads? Seems to be common on just about every car forum.
Everyone seems obsessed by mileage and I'm not even sure its that relevant. A car thats been driven for 50,000 miles at an average speed of 25mph has had exactly the same amount of use as a car driven for 100,000 miles at an average speed of 50mph.I often wonder whether 'hours driven' would be a more appropriate guage of a cars condition, because mileage is so completely random.
In the last year I did exactly the same amount of miles in a 2.5 week period around Europe as I then did for the entire subsequent 11 months driving to and from work from cold. I wonder which had the most negative effect on my car.
The general public seem to think of the normal service life of a car as 100k or 10 years it would seem. It amazes me what a premium a 10 year old car with 30k on will fetch over a 130k example. I know which one I would take.
I've run several high mileage cars over the years, 160k+, always getting rid due to a change in circumstances or something, never a major repair.
A friend just sold a Skoda Superb with 264k on it, it was a peach. A colleague has an A4 PD130 with 205k on, and its not driven particularly sympathetically either. Another colleague has a PD100 Skoda Fabia estate, that when I hooked up my diagnostics showed it had actually done 230k, and that thing was run on nothing but fuel and neglect.
A well maintained car should do 250k with ease.
I've run several high mileage cars over the years, 160k+, always getting rid due to a change in circumstances or something, never a major repair.
A friend just sold a Skoda Superb with 264k on it, it was a peach. A colleague has an A4 PD130 with 205k on, and its not driven particularly sympathetically either. Another colleague has a PD100 Skoda Fabia estate, that when I hooked up my diagnostics showed it had actually done 230k, and that thing was run on nothing but fuel and neglect.
A well maintained car should do 250k with ease.
skyrover said:
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A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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I have had a ride in Irvs' Volvo.A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, USA, had covered in excess of 4,586,630 km (2,850,000 miles) by December 2010. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers over 160,000 km (100,000 miles) per yea
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He came to the UK some years back and, whist during half time at the local pubs annual rugby match, I persuaded him to drive around the pitch !! Lovely guy, lovely car....
Japan are 'worse' they chuck their cars after 3years almost always. Though that's largely down to their Shaken regulations. They'll even abandon them because it costs money to get rid of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVlDefKm4LU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVlDefKm4LU
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