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Highest Mileage Car.. post your mileage

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#1 ·
I thought it might be intresting to know what the highest mileage car is on the forum :)


i'll start it off:

1995
Laguna
106,000
 
#580 ·
Lol.. at least they kept it in the family :crazy:

I don't suppose you have any details of the LPG system fitted? - EG part numbers?

I am told my Autogas that its not actually a legal requirement for it to be fitted by a certified installer but most insurance companies insist on this. In theory you could DIY it and get it certified. I've yet to double check on the legal aspects but if correct, it would make driving a lot cheaper.
 
#595 ·
2001 Megane 2.0 IDE 68,300miles and I tell you what thats high for an IDE engine most seem to get scrapped at 50,000... just like mine is going to be in few weeks time if any one interested in buying and spares only... Excellent condition Megane Convertible leather interior, in Yellow, alloys, a/c, hood in excellent condition let me know £1500 engines pants though! Fuel pressure regulator has gone yet again.
 
#601 ·
My dad once had a skoda fabia and that had 435000 on the clock and still drove well.
A mates toyota Carina had 198000k highest Milage car I've driven/owned was probably the nova red top, it read 299998 on the clocks but that was before the 1.0 12v was replaced with 2.0 8v lol.
My current car, Clio 1.8 16v reads 125328 but had an engine rebuild 10k ago and new gearbox 1k ago.
 
#604 ·
A related question my wife and I have is: how long will our automatic Scenic, August 2001, go on for? It has clocked up all of 51k miles in 10 years and seems to be running well, although there have in the past been transmission problems, now cured. We maintain it well mechanically, but have never attended to dents, scratches or falling off hubcaps. It has become more reliable with age, probably like its owners. Any thoughts on how long we might keep it, or any tips on how to prolong its life? Thanks.
 
#607 · (Edited)
Hmm... my megane is the highest mileage vehicle I've owned, and it's just squeaked past 98,000 miles before starting the current death rattle.

I'm sure if it was a little higher mileage for its age (11 yrs), suited my needs a little better (slightly shorter & slightly narrower to better fit in my garage*, slightly longer geared so it doesn't bend your ears off on the motorway**, slightly easier for a home mechanic to work on***), and oh hadn't been run into by an idiot such that it's now a write-off, it'd be more worthwhile doing the repairs and it'd easily last as long again... but for now I'd be chuffed for it to make it all the way through to 2012 and 100k. That was always my initial "if it manages that, I won't care any more" point anyway, as that'd represent 3 years motoring for £1000 plus about as much again in repairs, far cheaper than my friends who are still paying down £10k or more on what were brand-new Fiestas, Ibizas, Fabias etc.

* my bike is insured as being kept in the garage, and as it's light enough for two strong pikeys to lift onto the back of a transit flatbed after bolt-cutting the security chain, you can bet that's where it's going to sleep; but the heads of the residents association of my new home are somewhat forthright on the site rules regarding cars being kept in the provided garages... so everything has to get crushed in there, and even a fairly compact Meg-I is just a few centimetres too porky for this to be a comfortable proposition.
** I tried, oh god how I tried to get something with a wider ratio box when the old one started to give up the ghost (the torque band is so wide that having 4th = current 5th and 5th = 25% higher, with 1st-2nd-3rd being more spaced out would not cause performance issues), but thanks to the mongolian cluster-love-in that is renault gearbox coding, all I could ultimately get was a straight replacement. 75mph at 3500rpm is nightmarish. Worse even than my Polo which was geared for 70 at 4000rpm, because that at least was engineered to not get properly loud until 131.1km/h...
*** There are important components on this car that have barely a screwdriver blade's clearance which on previous ones I could easily reach past - IE a whole arm's width of working space or better. It makes things kind of difficult, and e.g. requires removing half the freakin' engine just to get at the cambelt tensioner. Puts the garage bills up quite a bit as well, even though they probably already have all the stupidly specialised tools (e.g. camshaft locking thingy... why couldn't the shafts have stuck out an extra millimetre so I could just use a couple metal rulers spaced by a pencil? They wouldn't have fouled on anything, are usually covered by plastic guards, and I haven't got a metal-bashing workshop available to me).
All this together makes the possibility of intergalactic mileage somewhat reduced.
 
#608 ·
2007 Clio MK3 with 50,612 at present.

Hopefully it does as well as my dad's Y-reg Skoda Octavia SDI which has just went past 507,000 miles.(pics to follow).
Amazingly, it's never broken down since the day he bought it new, even after the engine came off its mount whilst driving along a horrific road in central Edinburgh. Parked up, off to garage, engine lifted back on to its mount and new bolts fitted - car back to normal.
The paintwork however leaves a lot to be desired.
 
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