Old, high mileage cars?

mercmanricky

100,000 miles may have been considered high 10 years ago, these days it's at least 150k if not 200k.
My dad runs a mercedes breakers yard and thus sees many cars that people can't sell because of the mileage.
Last time my motor had problems i borrowed a diesel merc from my dad with 760,000miles. Original engine, 3rd automatic gearbox!
That car is only 9 years old, meaning an average of over 84k a year. Has been very well maintained and rewarded the owner for it!

skiddlydiddly

natalie1974 wrote: »

OH and all the other Subaru Impreza owners we know all drive under the 3000 revs till oil temp is warm then drive normally and then when OH and his mates pull up on the drive they just leave the cars running for a minute then turn them off . Very noisy though when you have several Impreza's just sitting there running . I have heard about these systems , wonder if they are any good or just a waste of money when you only need to leave it to idle for a minute ?

I have a turbo timer on mine.Its an old HKS one and you just press either 1,3 or 5 minutes and can remove the key and it will still run.It just works off the handbrake switch so when you take it off the engine will cut.The idea is you aren't cutting off the oil supply to a red hot turbo spinning at 100,000 rpm which would just cook it over time.

I don't tend to use mine anymore though, I just drive gently for the last mile of the journey and that does the same thing.I have a roller bearing turbo and you can still hear it spinning for a minute after the engine is off anyway, even if I've only moved it 5 yards.

Edited to add: Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh fell into the thread necromancers trap.

KingElvis

My Rover 2.0TD is on 100k + and going as good as ever, keep oild changes to 5 or 6k and most modern cars will go on for 200k at least.

hartcjhart

being an older car the engine will be less 'fragile' than the newer type,

as Anewman says regular service is the secret,why do you think that there are taxis in london that have done over 500,000 miles

Inactive

hartcjhart wrote: »

as Anewman says regular service is the secret,why do you think that there are taxis in london that have done over 500,000 miles

Because they take the longest route from A to B..:D

( Sorry )...;)

hartcjhart

Inactive wrote: »

Because they take the longest route from A to B..:D

( Sorry )...;)

I know I think Ive been in some of them:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Stigy

manda1205 wrote: »

I had a fiesta do 152,000, might've gone further but it got wrote off, so will never know. It does depend on how you look after it and it may go to 200k. Its not unheard of, although usally diesels will go further than a petrol. How much was pretty cheap? If you paid cheap money ie £300 then Id expect it to last me a year maybe 2 max, in which case it doesnt matter. It'll keep going as long as you service it and look after it well.

I know this thread is old (only just mind, I just saw somebody else say it was old, lol).

It's actually a bit of a myth that diesels last longer, or at least it would appear that way. I think it's just that more people have driven their old diesels much further and on longer trips etc, solely because of the economy benefits. Although not as relevant these days!

I've had many old cars with higher mileages. I've had 26 cars in 10-years of driving, what can I say, I get bored, lol. I had a 1996 'N' 1.8-litre petrol Mondeo that had 200,000miles on it and it didn't miss a beat!

A company I used to work for had a 1.6-litre petrol Focus on a 51-Reg that had about 212,000-miles on it until it was involved in a RTC and was written off. They also had a Diesel Focus on an 03 reg that is still going now, and when I left it was on about 280,000-miles on its first engine. No doubt it'll be on about 300,000-miles now!

davidjwest

I had an old Nova (1989 reg) do 220k by the time it was 10 years old with no major issues, it did go through exhausts almost every year but at around £50 a chuck I wasn't too bothered. Serviced it myself but other than that worst problem was cam belt snapping but that was only just over £50 to fix and didn't cause any major damage to the engine.

Currently running a Mondeo 2.0 TDCi with 135k on the clock, 6 years old, done 36k this year and just failed it's MOT due to a blown sidelight and headlamp alignment being out. The sidelight blew the day before the test, typical!

mercmanricky

@ Stigy, it's no myth, older diesel engines with mechanical injection and no turbo will run and run with very little maintenance, easily outlasting petrol engines. It's inherent through the design and build of them.
These days there is less difference between the design of diesel and petrol engines, but the main thing that will now give problems is the ultra high pressure diesel injection rail system or the complicated electronically controlled turbo systems.

Lirin

14-yr old daily driver has 131,000 miles on it- sounds fantastic, and no major problems- the one issue I can see is the body looks like it's going to give well before the engine.

Previous cars (petrol and diesel) I've had have managed upwards of 200,000 easily, and my parent's old car is going still at 300,000 (though not road-worthy- body's giving).