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high mileage

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mcghee

The talk recently about pre 1990 cars started me thinking about some of the cars I've had in the past, and the milages they clocked up. I've had a peugeot 309 with 168000, a carlton cdx with 235000, a saab with 200000, a 205 with 512000, and to top that a friend sold a saab recently with 785000 miles.
 
I was on a frigate that did 5.4 million miles, when it was up for sale we put a sign on it sayin "for sale, second hand cathederal class frigate, 5,4000,000 miles, one lady owner.

Nigeria bought it for a very cheap price and we chucked in a cat class frigate for free.
 
Interesting question/observation that Craig, just made me realise my five year old Honda CRV has just hit the same mileage as my 50 year old Hillman Minx convertible - 56,000
 
Yes Martyn it's frightening how quick the mileage rattles up. Regarding an earlier question of what had been replaced, in the cases of all these cars, not a lot. The Saab I still have, all original other than rear brake pipes, shock absorbers, exhaust, & clutch. 205 much the same story but with head gasket replaced. Carlton similar story eventually let down by ECU. On the flip side of the coin, I had a Mitsubishi L300 which broke the gearbox at70k, and died completely at 152k. I now have a Nissan Vanette which blew the head gasket at 50k, broke the gearbox at 85k, and just had a propshaft at 120k. So it's not all rosy.
 
Would just like to add that Volvo have been running a high mileage club in many countries for a number of years. It is now available in the UK and rewards owners with a badge at 100000 miles and every 100k after that. The record is I believe a documented 2 million miles for which the proud owner received a new Volvo. Maybe Volvo were trying to tell him something,like 'don't keep the damm cars so long, we need the sales'. needless to say this record was on an older 'battlecruiser' Volvo.
 
Yes those old Volvos were something else.A friend of mine had a 264gle a while back which was hit head on by a Ford escort.The Escort bounced off into a field, the bumper fell off the Volvo. Seriously, the Volvo drove afterwards and the Escort had to be cut apart, couldn't have overtaken into a worse car.
 
Even our old 'hate figure' Mr Clarkson was lost for words when on one of his shows they all drove various cars at 30 mph into a brick wall. Guess which car demolished the wall and then drove away? Yep, the old Volvo 740. All the others, Audi's etc were 'killed' dead, and the wall stayed upright.
 
come on, let us here it for the old 'battlecruisers'. and yes, I have one. It is now part of teh family.
 
As a partime agency driver (it helps to pay for caravanning) I get to drive all sorts of rubbish lorries, but the hardest-worked one was an MAN which worked in Asia for ten years as an artic,clocked up 1,200,000 kilometres,then was shipped back here,extended into a six-wheeled plant transporter with winch and crane,and when I last drove it, had a further 300,000 ks on the clock. Aside from routine maintenace, all it had ever had were three clutches! And it still drove very well.
 
the vehicle i was driving last night is 24 years old and has covered over 4 million miles, i had near 800 passengers on board and i was doing 125 mph back from london, and it is still expected to do round about 600 miles a day. good old british engineering, reliable and built to last, not like this new rubbish virgin have unleashed on us.

The highest milage car i have had was diesel peugeot 205 which covered 184.000, my lowest milage car is my current one, my seat alhambra tdi which is seven month old and has just 4000 miles on the clock, but then it has spent the last 3 month in the garage and its still there since they cant fix it.
 
the vehicle i was driving last night is 24 years old and has covered over 4 million miles, i had near 800 passengers on board and i was doing 125 mph back from london, and it is still expected to do round about 600 miles a day. good old british engineering, reliable and built to last, not like this new rubbish virgin have unleashed on us.

The highest milage car i have had was diesel peugeot 205 which covered 184.000, my lowest milage car is my current one, my seat alhambra tdi which is seven month old and has just 4000 miles on the clock, but then it has spent the last 3 month in the garage and its still there since they cant fix it.
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I commiserate icemaker. I have a Seat Leon (not for towing) I purchased new just over a year ago. The car is great but the dealer back-up, and sales if truth be told, is appalling. What's wrong with yours?
 
I had a mark 4 cortina that had 125000 on the clock a rover 820si that had 158000 on it when I sold it and it was only 5 years old. A proton 1.5gls aeroback with 70k on it that was 2 years old. My wife bought a 1.3 escort with 127k on it when it was 3 yrs old, my current car is 4.5 years old and will hit 100k in the next month and tows my van quite happily. Years ago I knew of a transit van that spent its life driving to scotland and back and had over 800k on the clock and still ran like a dream.
 
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