Car has gone past 175 000 miles.

neil.woos

Hello all,

My car has finally passed the 175 000 mile mark. It is a '07 reg 2.0 TDI Audi A3. Still drives like a new car, no rattles or squeaks in the interior when going over bumpy roads. The engine still pulls like a train, gearbox is smooth as silk (although recently had an transmission change), still on the original turbo, second cluth (Audi main dealers fitted a new one around 130k). The car was always serviced annually, at the main Audi dealers a little over 100k miles and thereafter an independent Audi specialist. I also carry out oil changes between services too.

What I find amazing is that at least 40% of the total mileage were done on London stop and go traffic. Wear and tear is accelerated in such conditions but the car is still running like new.

I'm not advocating that "Audi" makes good cars, but its a testament that any car that is well taken car off will last a long time.

Here is a pic of my odometer:

https://flic.kr/p/xz5Xu1

HappyMJ

Average of 90 miles per day 5 days a week 48 weeks a year over 8 years. Quite impressive I wouldn't want to be driving so much.

enfield_freddy

or 9 hrs a day for 7 days a week , to get from 100,000 to 175,000 in " London stop and go traffic".


or was the photo taken in a taxi coming home from KFC

Horizon81

Someone tell his nurse he's still awake. Long past watching Jeopardy at 5pm.

bugslet

I had a Nissan Bluebird that I battered up and down the motorway, when I was drving for a living. Broke down outside Cardiff once and needed a butterfly valve squirting with some WD40 at about 160,000 miles. Then blew a head gasket at 201,000 by Halifax.

I was, and still am, manic about servicing the vans and trucks, the Bluebird never really got serviced, treat it like rubbish and it just drove and drove until it's last gasp, bless it. Certainly never saw the inside of a dealership or specialist:o.

I actually still miss it, it was a cracking car.

AdrianC

neil.woos wrote: »

My car has finally passed the 175 000 mile mark. It is a '07 reg

The car was always serviced annually
I also carry out oil changes between services too.

I would damn well hope so, given that it's averaged 22k a year from new.

WellKnownSid

Picked up a Fiat estate with 200,000km on it, later sold it to my mechanic with over 400,000km because I was bored with it and he needed a bigger car for his family. Only things that ever went wrong: alternator (burnt out one day when the temperature outside was 44 degrees in the shade) and the flasher relay (3 euros).

My neighbour's W124 300D drove like new, despite 250,000km on the clock. When I told him how impressed I was, he told me the speedo had been replaced some years earlier and the true mileage was more like 700,000.

UK cars don't tend to 'last as long' because there's no market for right hand drive cars. A ten year old petrol Berlingo with 200,000 miles on the clock would be destined for the scrap yard in the UK, but a LHD in Spain with 300,000km on the clock could be sold anywhere in Europe, probably Russia where the petrol variant is better suited.

AdrianC

WellKnownSid wrote: »

UK cars don't tend to 'last as long' because there's no market for right hand drive cars.

True.

A ten year old petrol Berlingo with 200,000 miles on the clock would be destined for the scrap yard in the UK, but a LHD in Spain with 300,000km on the clock could be sold anywhere in Europe, probably Russia where the petrol variant is better suited.

...and could quite easily have started life in France or Germany.

ChumLee

Horizon81 wrote: »

Someone tell his nurse he's still awake. Long past watching Jeopardy at 5pm.

It's a lot of careful driving on the drive on Sunday's.

daveyjp

Compared to the Mercedes taxis I was in last week its not even run in.

Lowest was 270,000 km, most were around the 500,000 km mark, the highest was a W124 Merc which had done 1.2m km. No doubt the W123s I saw had done even more.

I asked the driver of a 450,000 km E class how the car was. It drove like new and had never let him down.

They were all manuals too.

Stigy

Can't really beat VAG engines/drivetrain for reliability, although it does ultimately come down to how well it's looked after. My 2006 Golf has 175,000-miles on it also and inside it's hardly worn, unlike you'd expect of less well-built cars. It's the 1.9-litre TDI engine and it's the original engine and gearbox. It had 140k on it when I bought it around 2-years ago and since then I've had lots done, most of which consistent with the age and mileage. I do most stuff myself but have a garage do stuff such as the cam belt.

The biggest job i've had done is the Dual Mass Flywheel and clutch which cost £700ish....Clutch was still fine but stands to reason I had it done with the DMF....Smaller jobs included each ABS sensor at least once....did these myself.