"Autoshite High Mileage Club" - Memberships Available!

[Heidel_Kakao]

On 31/05/2021 at 10:35, crad said:

thats must've been round the clock already surely, otherwise thats madly low!?

Nope just not used very much. The engine isn't officially run in until 3000 miles....

That's 1203.4 miles, an average of 24.068 miles per year 😀

[Heidel_Kakao]

The Sportcross has more miles on it than my 1991 Volvo 940 but it drives like a new car, how the do the Japanese do it? 😀

[twosmoke300]

Good engineering and decent materials ?

[trigger]

Here's a good one going through the BCA auctions tomorrow... 

Looks pretty tidy, drivers seat is a little shinny but not worn out

Probably done around 100000 miles right? Wrong! 

That's right, almost 400000!

https://www.bca.co.uk/lot/N886UUX?VehId=78814958-4ab8-4446-ad0c-edda098f2c5c&FromSearch=true&searchQuery=q=&bq=&sort=MileageDescending&missingMileage=True&awaitingAppraisal=True&page=0&extraFiltersActive=true&returnTo=N886UUX&promoAppliedSets=&Source=Search&vrm=N886UUX

[bunglebus]

Impressive. Must be a pretty small pool of potential buyers though, other than people on this forum 

[Tommyboy12]

Can I submit my latest acquisition with 281k on the clock 😂

[BorniteIdentity]

2 hours ago, trigger said:

Here's a good one going through the BCA auctions tomorrow... 

Looks pretty tidy, drivers seat is a little shinny but not worn out

Probably done around 100000 miles right? Wrong! 

That's right, almost 400000!

https://www.bca.co.uk/lot/N886UUX?VehId=78814958-4ab8-4446-ad0c-edda098f2c5c&FromSearch=true&searchQuery=q=&bq=&sort=MileageDescending&missingMileage=True&awaitingAppraisal=True&page=0&extraFiltersActive=true&returnTo=N886UUX&promoAppliedSets=&Source=Search&vrm=N886UUX

That’s had a tougher life than the wife of a repeat offender.

Sometimes these things pop up and have clearly been loved to get so far. However, in this case, I think it’s had shit welding on top of shit welding; whatever it’s needed it’s reluctantly had. Cheaply. 

If I had an account I’d probably bid. 

[loserone]

Hopeless

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Ah. Shit. I forgot to update... 

[trigger]

https://www.bca.co.uk/lot/WF10OMH?VehId=e09b73c6-fc3c-4c67-9f69-001aa69a747a&FromSearch=true&searchQuery=q=&bq=&sort=MileageDescending&missingMileage=True&awaitingAppraisal=True&page=0&extraFiltersActive=true&returnTo=WF10OMH&promoAppliedSets=&Source=Search&vrm=WF10OMH

447000 miles on this badboy, 141000 of them miles before its first mot! 

[Mrcento]

My Civic is on 186,000, i haven't submitted it until now because it is low mileage v the 217k Vectra it replaced....

[Metal Guru]

175 000 is my record   , Ford Orion 1.6GL 1984 new - 1991. Only car I’ve ever replaced a clutch on.

[horriblemercedes]

My BMW hasn't even reached 210k yet (it will soon) so I don't think I can contribute yet. I used to be scared of 100k but it feels nowadays like 300k is what 100k was

[reb]

High mileage doesn't scare me anymore.

This is my 3rd car over 200k, first over 300k though!

[SiC]

7 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

My BMW hasn't even reached 210k yet (it will soon) so I don't think I can contribute yet. I used to be scared of 100k but it feels nowadays like 300k is what 100k was

Our A4 will be at that in a week or two. After last weekend 500 mile drive, I think its on 209600 odd. Need to remember to take a photo for this thread when it does tick over.

[paulplom]

October the 10th

@Kiltox's audi A8.

[Fumbler]

Spring chicken compared to most on here.

[SiC]

On 12/14/2021 at 8:02 AM, SiC said:

Our A4 will be at that in a week or two. After last weekend 500 mile drive, I think its on 209600 odd. Need to remember to take a photo for this thread when it does tick over.

Just remembered I need to update this thread...

2100032 miles

Mrs SiC was driving along the motorway a few days before Xmas. Glow plug light started flashing - on VAG this is an engine fault. But weirdly no bonging or warnings on the display.

She phoned me to ask what to do. As it was driving fine, I told her to carry on.

2 minutes later, I got another call to say she lost power on the slip road and it died without being able to restart.

When it got home, I read the codes to find "Low fuel rail pressure". Not good.

Checking under the fuel pump metering valve...

Was this horror of metal flakes. These are mushed so finely that they will have circulated through the rail, into all the injectors and back into the tank. Clogging not only the rail, injectors but also sticking inside the fuel pumps as they contain magnets for the motor.

Hence its around £3k in new parts or around £1k-1.5k in second hand parts to fix that. Apparently a common problem on 2008-2014 era Bosch CP4 pumps and affects many brands.

 

So time for me to hand in my membership card, as I'm out! Shame as everything else was working absolutely perfectly. Seems criminal but a car is no use with a engine that doesn't run.

 

Over 11 years of ownership between my parents and myself.

That's the last I saw of it.

[Blake's Den]

I learnt to drive in a V reg Micra K11. It was averaging over 1000 miles a week. And not 1000 motorway miles but 1000 miles of learner driver clutch riding, gear crunching, over revving and emergency stopping. 

It still drove suprisingly well on 80k when I passed my test.

I'm guessing that the Pug 208 further up this thread was used for something similar.

[Mike D]

Trusty camper is still plodding on, mileage has slowed a bit recently as i've been using the golf for work. Had to change the clocks for the newer style as the old ones failed but managed to get them mileage matched 😁

 

Score as of yesterday:

[maxxo]

not too bad for an automatic C5!

22k of those have been done in my ownership of just shy of a year

[Popsicle]

First entry on here for the current couriering van, purchased May last year with 125k miles on it.

Need to get a wriggle on still a baby compared to some on here.

[High Jetter]

On 1/18/2022 at 10:53 PM, SiC said:

Just remembered I need to update this thread...

2100032 miles

Mrs SiC was driving along the motorway a few days before Xmas. Glow plug light started flashing - on VAG this is an engine fault. But weirdly no bonging or warnings on the display.

She phoned me to ask what to do. As it was driving fine, I told her to carry on.

2 minutes later, I got another call to say she lost power on the slip road and it died without being able to restart.

When it got home, I read the codes to find "Low fuel rail pressure". Not good.

Checking under the fuel pump metering valve...

Was this horror of metal flakes. These are mushed so finely that they will have circulated through the rail, into all the injectors and back into the tank. Clogging not only the rail, injectors but also sticking inside the fuel pumps as they contain magnets for the motor.

Hence its around £3k in new parts or around £1k-1.5k in second hand parts to fix that. Apparently a common problem on 2008-2014 era Bosch CP4 pumps and affects many brands.

 

So time for me to hand in my membership card, as I'm out! Shame as everything else was working absolutely perfectly. Seems criminal but a car is no use with a engine that doesn't run.

 

Over 11 years of ownership between my parents and myself.

That's the last I saw of it.

An 0 too many, to be pedantic?

[MorrisItalSLX]

My 1990 Corolla has now joined the 200k club, that’s 40k in my ownership.

(It’s more impressive if you ignore the fact that it is in kilometres)

[Popsicle]

As the Caddy has gone all twatish VAG on me I've been running around in the Vectra Estate most of this week, so first entry for it hitting a milestone today.

We picked this up for £1k, 2.5 years ago with 84k on it. Its hardly put a foot wrong in all that time/miles. Might fuck the caddy off and go back to this old beast, see if I can pass the 369k I put on the Zafira.

[95 quid Peugeot]

Todays membership application from me 

[adw1977]

Extra points for getting an appropriate number on the trip recorder.

[SiC]

Does the car start rolling over at 125kph but is ok if you get to 143kph?

[Sham]

Pathetic by the standards of this place, but pleasing.

 

Also, look at the ludicrously rich person with a full tank of diesel.

[Mr Laurence]

On 8/30/2020 at 4:51 PM, Mr Laurence said:

My MX5 as of today: 162,457 miles is nothing compared to a lot of the cars on this thread, but by far the highest mileage car I’ve ever owned

An update from a few months ago. I didn’t seem to do all that many miles over lockdown, but it’s starting to creep up now.  Still running just as well as it did when I bought it though and I can’t see any reason why it won’t make it to 200k