High mileage cars for sale

[DieselDemon]

Matt-il77s said:

306,691 and looks like it





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renault-Clio-1-2-1992/1...

Would buy that in a heartbeat for the novelty. Open up the engine, refresh it and good for another 300k

[zedx19]

DieselDemon said:

Would buy that in a heartbeat for the novelty. Open up the engine, refresh it and good for another 300k

Apart from it's not the engine that's the issue, it's rust. The chassis will never see another 300k unless you're handy with a welder and metal work, or unless you fancy seeing if Renault still stock cills etc for these and want to try cutting them in.

[Sa Calobra]

DieselDemon said:

Matt-il77s said:

306,691 and looks like it





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renault-Clio-1-2-1992/1...

Would buy that in a heartbeat for the novelty. Open up the engine, refresh it and good for another 300k

That's 100% gone.

[Hub]

It's had a good innings, but its been run into the ground and is now scrap!

How can you crack a windscreen sticking on a rear view mirror? Renault build quality?

[Sa Calobra]

Renault build quality is just as good if not better on engines etc.

[S16KBW]

Hub said:

It's had a good innings, but its been run into the ground and is now scrap!

How can you crack a windscreen sticking on a rear view mirror? Renault build quality?

I did it on my Volkswagen Up its when you pull the mirror off the little ball mount, go to push it back on the bit stuck on the windscreen and the glass will blowout, Autoglass guy said loads of people do it as the mirrors don't pop back in easily at all!

[anonymous-user]

Hub said:

It's had a good innings, but its been run into the ground and is now scrap!

How can you crack a windscreen sticking on a rear view mirror? Renault build quality?

Love it, questioning the build quality on a car with 300,000 miles on the clock that probably cost all of £5k new because it has a cracked windscreen

[zedx19]

dme123 said:

Hub said:

It's had a good innings, but its been run into the ground and is now scrap!

How can you crack a windscreen sticking on a rear view mirror? Renault build quality?

Love it, questioning the build quality on a car with 300,000 miles on the clock because it has a cracked windscreen

Of which the windscreen has bound to have been replaced so isn't even one Renault would have fitted

[dan98]

revvingit said:

Forget motorway miles, try "autobahn miles".

Fancy going to other side of Germany, should take an hour or two?

In reality unlikely to arrive much sooner than a Golf, once you factor in construction / congestion holdups and many refuelling stops at those kinds of speeds.

[RC1807]

Plate spinner said:

FoxtrotOscar1 said:

Welshbeef said:

Dapster said:

OK, so not many miles in the grand scheme of things, but what a mental car to do them in! Any sane person's idea of a sensible long distance commuting barge has 900ps.







https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id...

I wonder how many super cars have higher top speeds that are in production today? Not many

Sitting at 6,500rpm in this v12 the turbos blasting but utter silence inside the cabin.
Likely quicker point to point (with autobahn) than flying & if comparing to first class miles cheaper too. Bliss.

Would love to know what sort of person owned this and managed the miles on it.

Some sort of captain of industry over seeing their industrial empire sites that did the maths vs flying first / business class I would have thought.

...but it's still the sharp end of EUR200k!

[TonyRPH]

dan98 said:

revvingit said:

Forget motorway miles, try "autobahn miles".

Fancy going to other side of Germany, should take an hour or two?

In reality unlikely to arrive much sooner than a Golf, once you factor in construction / congestion holdups and many refuelling stops at those kinds of speeds.

But would be a lot more comfortable than a Golf.

Think flying first class vs. economy...

[C7 JFW]

TonyRPH said:

But would be a lot more comfortable than a Golf.

Think flying first class vs. economy...

The value is not in being able to go 'fast' - that is merely a helpful component and a complimentary item to being able to rocket away from trouble/pull away from others.

The value is in doing so in higher comfort levels with reduced road noise.

I do a fair volume of motorway miles and the more I do, the more I appreciate reduced road noise.

[A.J.M]

Dapster said:

Forget the brave pills, you'll need a kilo of brave powder for this. Price seems a bit strong to me.



https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Bringing this back up as this car has a feature in this months LRM.

Full dealer history, which they estimated at £10,560 another £5000 or so for brakes and fluid changed, £9000 for the tyres every 30k.
It was in getting a service every 3 months at one point with the mileage.
They say with it reading 30.1mpg it would have ate nearly £60,000 in diesel and all put on the company card for the owner.

Needs some tidying but it drove really well and surprisingly, no warning lights or such on the dash.

[ATM]

A.J.M said:

Dapster said:

Forget the brave pills, you'll need a kilo of brave powder for this. Price seems a bit strong to me.



https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Bringing this back up as this car has a feature in this months LRM.

Full dealer history, which they estimated at £10,560 another £5000 or so for brakes and fluid changed, £9000 for the tyres every 30k.
It was in getting a service every 3 months at one point with the mileage.
They say with it reading 30.1mpg it would have ate nearly £60,000 in diesel and all put on the company card for the owner.

Needs some tidying but it drove really well and surprisingly, no warning lights or such on the dash.

It's still for sale and now only 8495.

[nobrakes]

ATM said:

A.J.M said:

Dapster said:

Forget the brave pills, you'll need a kilo of brave powder for this. Price seems a bit strong to me.



https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Bringing this back up as this car has a feature in this months LRM.

Full dealer history, which they estimated at £10,560 another £5000 or so for brakes and fluid changed, £9000 for the tyres every 30k.
It was in getting a service every 3 months at one point with the mileage.
They say with it reading 30.1mpg it would have ate nearly £60,000 in diesel and all put on the company card for the owner.

Needs some tidying but it drove really well and surprisingly, no warning lights or such on the dash.

It's still for sale and now only 8495.

“Offering to the market” are they estate agents?

[eltax91]

nobrakes said:

“Offering to the market” are they estate agents?

Well it is big enough for its own post code!

[ATM]

eltax91 said:

Well it is big enough for its own post code!

8,000 posts

Well done

[neverraced]

Amusingly (well, for me anyway), my lovely 2003 330D M Sport that I had from new and sold with 202k miles on in about 2011 (only a turbo and a battery non service items), is now still on the road, but with 67k miles on it at its last MOT!

[eltax91]

ATM said:

eltax91 said:

Well it is big enough for its own post code!

8,000 posts

Well done

Wahoo! I had no idea! 13 a week, not exactly prolific am I?

[edthefed]

Ive driven 2 similar Range Rovers each with just over 200.000 miles on them..both a little over 3 years old. They hid the miles very well

Edited by edthefed on Friday 19th July 19:34