Who's running the highest miles?

DullGreyGuy

motorguy said:

Genuinely curious as to whos running the highest miles cars in here.

My Golf 1.6TDI is 2014 and has 156K on it.  When i mention the miles i usually get a "oh wow thats high" type of reaction from friends and family. 

I'm sure if i went to sell it something would "take it off my hands" for a nominal sum, but it feels like a wee car that would do 250,000 no problem.

Can't remember how many miles it was but my Dad used to do crazy mileage and we kept his car after he died and when we went to trade it in they said "wow thats high mileage" but they didnt know:

1) It had already gone around the clock 
2) For over a year the dash disconnected so wasnt recording mileage

He was a bit odd in not liking staying away from home so would often do a long late night drive home only to go back to the same place the next day. His most silly one was going from the midlands to Aberdeen but when getting to about Carlisle realising he'd forgotten something so turned around, then back to Aberdeen and back home again... over 1,250 miles in a day

LightFlare

How long untill someone comes along and tells us their supercar had 250k on it 🤔

Goudy

Grumpy_chap said:

I am not so sure that the latest ICE cars are always as durable.

I can't understand that.

Every since the first internal combustion engine car they have got better, more reliable and able to be driven further and further.

Why all of a sudden have they started becoming less durable?

DullGreyGuy

LightFlare said:

How long untill someone comes along and tells us their supercar had 250k on it 🤔

Ours was a Ford Sierra Sapphire so definitely a supercar with its 2.3L diesel engine

Grumpy_chap

Goudy said:

Grumpy_chap said:

I am not so sure that the latest ICE cars are always as durable.

I can't understand that.

Every since the first internal combustion engine car they have got better, more reliable and able to be driven further and further.

Why all of a sudden have they started becoming less durable?

I guess my comment needs clarification.  The fundamental engine is just as durable - it is the equipment added to achieve improved emissions that seems more problematic in my experience - EGR valves, DPFs and such like.

CliveOfIndia

Bigwheels1111 said:

I used to use Rover 218 & 418 diesels for mini cabbing.
They had 100k on them at least when purchased.

It's funny you should say that.  Many years ago when I was made redundant I did a stint at mini-cab driving, and that's exactly what the outfit I worked for did.  Buy Rovers with > 100K on them and run them for quite a good time afterwards.  When they eventually died, their mechanic stored them in his garage so he had a ready supply of spare parts (obviously all being the same cars).

Pretty much all of my own cars have been high-mileage.  I always buy used, usually with 50, 60, 70 K on the clock, and run them for several years.  My current car has got 150K on it with no signs of anything major looming (touch wood!).  The car before that was a Peugeot 208 diesel that had 180K on the clock when I sold it.  Out of curiosity I had a look online about a year later, it was still taxed and MOT'd so presumably still running around somewhere.

The highest miler I've ever been in was a Rolls Royce (yes, genuinely).  When I got married a friend of my dad said he'd be happy to chauffeur us (we were on a tight budget, he did it for nowt as a favour for friends).  He had a beautiful old Roller (don't ask me what model it was, but it was very old).  I did notice when I looked at the dash that it had 250K on it, and it drove like it had just rolled off the production line.  Mind you, I guess those things tend to get maintained regardless of cost.

henry24

Had someone come to do a job where I work and he had a Citroën with 320000 and told my partner who said her son had a Renault that has 478000 miles 

ididgetwhereiamtoday

FlorayG said:

Is that high? Wow. All of my cars reach that easily

You have a fleet of cars?

molerat

WellKnownSid said:

Photo of my FIAT Marea Weekend hitting 300k (km) on the clock - sold it about two years later with a shade under 400k - around 245k miles.  Alternator replaced at 340k.  Original clutch but the clutch pedal fell apart at 380k.  

My next door neighbour's E-class diesel was on 600,000km - also on the original clutch.

Pah, spring chicken

subjecttocontract

At the other end of the scale my Mercedes only did a total of 856 miles last year.......but it's beats walking.