Any high milers on here?

Joe_Horner

Just popped out to check my '96 Pug 405, he's on 204440 but I ran him for around 1500 miles with the speedo disconnected last year cos it was a pig to reconnect after changing a couple of dash bulbs:



The 804 on the trip meter is what the last £100 in fuel has given me in general driving - most trips under 20 miles on country roads and usually pretty well loaded (the back seats haven't been upright in over 9 months). I make that about 46mpg average, which I'm happy with

Before anyone asks, he gets a filter and whatever oil's cheapest at the time (preferably under £10 / 5l) every 6 - 10k depending on when I remember.

Does need a couple of glow plugs to cut down the white smoke on startup, so may treat him for Christmas.

darkmatter101

Joe_Horner wrote: »

whatever oil's cheapest at the time (preferably under £10 / 5l) every 6 - 10k depending on when I remember.

Under £10 for 5 litres of oil? !

Retrogamer

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Just popped out to check my '96 Pug 405, he's on 204440 but I ran him for around 1500 miles with the speedo disconnected last year cos it was a pig to reconnect after changing a couple of dash bulbs:



The 804 on the trip meter is what the last £100 in fuel has given me in general driving - most trips under 20 miles on country roads and usually pretty well loaded (the back seats haven't been upright in over 9 months). I make that about 46mpg average, which I'm happy with

Before anyone asks, he gets a filter and whatever oil's cheapest at the time (preferably under £10 / 5l) every 6 - 10k depending on when I remember.

Does need a couple of glow plugs to cut down the white smoke on startup, so may treat him for Christmas.

Does it use an XUD engine as well?
The early diesel engines were one of the few things Peugeot done really good back then.

Joe_Horner

Yep, XUD proper diesel with Bosch mechanical injection. As simple and reliable as it gets, and not that much less efficient in real life than the modern cyber-doodats with all those ECUs to argue with

eta: To be honest, I've always preferred the Prima from that era. Ok, it sounds more like a diesel but my old Monty would give close to 70 on a motorway run if I kept the speed steady and legal!

The_Loan_Stranger

I had a petrol Landcruiser that i sold with 174000 miles on the clock, not particulary high i know, but it had probably towed a trailer for at least half that mileage, driven across foot deep muddy fields, pulled Range Rovers out of ditches and then as a treat it would be jet washed and then driven to the South of France, and in all the years i owned it i only ever needed to put a new back box on the exhaust once, and a new battery in the really cold winter about five years ago, and it never ever missed a beat or let me down!

Joe_Horner

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Under £10 for 5 litres of oil? !

Yep, usually says something like "F1 20w50" on the tin. Lubbly stuff if your engine isn't some over-highly-strung piece of junk that was never designed for the real world

cubegame

My Ford Fiesta (2003) with it's 1.3 Petrol engine passed it's 200,000 mile mark this evening.

Joe_Horner

cubegame wrote: »

My Ford Fiesta (2003) with it's 1.3 Petrol engine passed it's 200,000 mile mark this evening.

Is that the one you tow everywhere behind your motorhome???

If not then good going for a small petrol!

cubegame

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Is that the one you tow everywhere behind your motorhome???

If not then good going for a small petrol!

Behind my bike!

It is good going though....I'm not too fussy about changing the oil that often either. And how lovely never to have even changed a cambelt!

jimjames

Zola. wrote: »

My 2002 VW Bora has just ticked over 205,000 miles. Thankfully all going ok.... hopefully stays that way!! It will probably be due a timing belt change next summer (been 4 years since I bought it and I have stuck 50,000 miles on it).

Absolutely no point in selling it, so I plan to do the annual services as normal and see how far it can go!

Anyway, can any of you beat my 205,000 ?

I'm some way ahead! My 2002 VW Golf has 248,000 at the moment. My last Golf was sold with 192k, I never expected to get one with higher miles! Old photo taken few months back

http://vw-golf-mk4-tdi.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/vw-golf-highest-mileage-tdi.html

Volkswagens PD TDIs rock!