High mileage!!

[Mr A Lawrence]

In 2009 I bought a 08 skoda Octavia with 19k on the clock, sold it 18months later with around 30k back to Mitchell's skoda, Cheshire oaks.

 

Saw it a few months ago in Chester with taxi plates on it.

 

Just been on .gov mot checker and it's now got 252k !!!

 

Was rattling a bit when we saw it but looked good body wise.

[chaseracer]

"Nicely run in, m8!"

 

[fordperv]

I was speaking to a chap earlier who was telling me about his daily scimitar and how it's done 500,000 miles it's no longer on its original engine though it runs a 2.9 12v on gas, he was really enthusiastic showing me around it, he was a really nice bloke

 

[Kiltox]

I have a 324k mile Audi A6 1.8T (currently off road because the cat is blocked but otherwise OK), 180k mile 06 Fiat Panda 1.1 (awaiting new engine due to feckless previous owner running it with a coolant leak) and a 151k mile Scenic II petrol automatic (surprisingly unbroken, perhaps record breaking)....

[sierraman]

High mileage is no indication of condition. I've driven cars with 200k on the clock that felt better than those at 30k. As said in another thread saw a 06 Vectra genuine FSH with 191k on clock for £500. I'd have bought it like a shot, the guy owning it had clearly used it daily to do 30-35k a year from the previous tests and thus maintained it accordingly.

[twosmoke300]

"Which is nothing for one of these" every back street traders advert for some shonky ex taxi they have with moon and back miles

[sierraman]

By the same token I looked up my fathers old Megane, purchased new in 2001, did 100k in 3 years sold in 2004, passed an MOT last month according to the Gov site with 92k on the clock. No doubt in 2005 sometime it had a haircut of about 60k...

 

Nobody with any sense unwittingly buys an ex taxi these days, it's usual blindingly obvious - holes in bumper, fucked seats in back, hinges hanging.

 

Mileage shouldn't be too much of a concern providing it's been looked after, likely to be more reliable than something that's done 3 miles to a station and back daily for 5 years without so much as an oil change - but it's done 38k so I'll charge the earth for it!

[Lacquer Peel]

I've driven Kangoo vans with 300k+ on the odometers, they were a bit more rattly than the newer/fresher ones but still went surprisingly well.

[bub2006]

Escort van had just rolled onto 260k on the a19 not long before the crash. God I miss that rattly noisy old bitch

[themildbunch]

The odometer stopped working at 262k on my 1z engined Audi 80 and that was back in 2008. I've got no idea what it is now but probably well over 300k

[mat_the_cat]

they were a bit more rattly than the newer/fresher ones

 

Is that actually possible?

[fatharris]

I have a friend who just purchased an E92 320d coupe. He banged on and on about what a deal he got, £6900 and only 49k on the clock.

This was until I showed him the MOT history for it and two years ago it had 172k.

He wrote a letter, got £5k back and got to keep the car.

[SiC]

I have a friend who just purchased an E92 320d coupe. He banged on and on about what a deal he got, £6900 and only 49k on the clock.

 

This was until I showed him the MOT history for it and two years ago it had 172k.

 

He wrote a letter, got £5k back and got to keep the car.

Fair play to the dealer for doing that. Sounds like they got stiched up as much as your mate. They could have refused and dragged kicking+screaming to the small claims court, where they go broke and not pay, etc...

[Guest Hooli]

It's nowt to some of these figures but I'm beginning to think my bike is run in at 108k.

[HMC]

My GTV indicates 193k, I'd love to say its only had ' routine servicing' which I suppose it has, in that the engine seems to have routinely been pulled to bits. And a respray, and more engine work, and repeat..... The previous owners were kept busy! On the other hand my 188k 166 v6 really has just got along with just servicing, thumbing through the paperwork.

[colino]

A couple of points that have to be re-emphasised is that most modern cars are very hard wearing and lap up the miles and the MOT checker is exactly that.  A record of the MOTs that a car has had, nothing else.

We still have an unusually high level of company and lease cars in this country and when they come to being sold on for the first time, before any MOT is applied for, that is when the real high milers have their (first) haircut.

Unless you are buying with a full service history (with receipts, not just a stamped book) and an iron clad warranty on miles, the test is still on condition, not the newness of the plate or what it says on its MOT/service book.

I bet there are thousands of "bargains" parked on suburban driveways that are nothing of the sort.