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[JJ0063]

I feel like my Mk6 Golf is approaching high mileage club territory now. 2009 car and will tick on to 150k today.

Hit 160k yesterday, limp mode as a treat. EGR.

[New POD]

Hit 160k yesterday, limp mode as a treat. EGR.

10k in 7 months. Not bad...

[JJ0063]

10k in 7 months. Not bad...

It earns its keep!

 

EGR is £300+ For the part plus labour. £75 to have it mapped out and a £4 eBay blank.. being done next month when I’m less skint.

 

[fordperv]

Its still a relative youngster mileage wise but i hit my target for the saph yesterday evening

 

Happy 200,000 miles

 

[Tamworthbay]

So what’s the most folk have done in a year? The most I have managed is just over 30k on a VFR750F when I was 24, I lived on it that year and was commuting to Bracknell from Warwickshire for a few months which helped bump up the miles. Most in a car is a mere 25k. One of my mates is a electronics service engineer and he swaps his company car in every two years and they always have 100-120k on them.

[Guest Hooli]

I think my best was on my GSX14, I managed 35k one year on that. I don't think I got off it much.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

In 1982 for a few months, I rode my Honda 500 Eurosport from Covent Garden to Buxton every Monday,

Wednesday and Friday night , to deliver artwork. The round trip was just about 350 miles and it was getting serviced every 3 weeks at R.A.T in Goswell rd( service manager had a Matra Bagheera) .

It dropped a valve at about 40k miles at just over a year old, it was parked in the MD"s shed on Wimbledon Common as he was asset stripping the company to shut it down, maybe it's still there ... OYE92Y.

Anyway, I was given a Granada instead and became a chauffeur, the only thing I've done since. A 35 year career defined by a Plastic Maggot valve failure.

[Eyersey1234]

My best is 17k in a year, usually 14-15k so not especially excessive

[brandersnatch]

About 200 miles a day. Ipswich to that London, ride around a bit with paying passengers then back home. Bike, Yamaha FJR1300, has 138,000 or so at the moment.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[hairnet]

most on the bike was 23k on year

 

do 15-20 on it mostly

 

just bought new shite with 162k on it - will now be lucky to do 3k a year in it

[BorniteIdentity]

Anyone who commutes to work, particularly early in the morning as I do, will quickly realise you see the same people at the same time in the same place on your journey.  You make up names for them, and even mumble to yourself "oooh he's running late" if you happen to see him on the A414 rather than the A1.

 

Every week, I see this dude in a Mk4 Golf GTi.  He lives in the next village to me, but often overtakes me some 30 miles down the A1.  When I realised he's doing similar mileage to me, I decided to have a perv at his MOT history.

 

 

I love how similar the mileage is each year!  I think he's doing North London and back Mon-Fri but nowhere else.  Purely a commuting tool.  I'm not often surprised by high miles; after all it's far far better for cars to get properly hot each journey.  What I AM interested in, is how this  would have fared like for like over the years against the equivalent diesel.  Repairs vs Fuel efficiency etc.

 

Anyway, well done "Golf Dude"

[Mike D]

End of last years mileage total for the van:

 

 

Daily BMW is getting sold next week so it will be taking over sole duties

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I probably do about 25K a year.  When I got my Golf it was on 48,000.  Now it's on about 112,000 and I got it in May 2016.  So fair mileage.  Will probably be less now that I live closer to work.

 

Regarding seeing the same people each day, my drive to work is half-an-hour drive down a B-road.  I see the same five or six people each day, including one chap that used to work with me but doesn't any more going to his new job.  There's an hilariously barried Rover 100 and a MKIV Golf hatchback in anthracite grey that has French-style yellow headlamps.

 

I quite like it.  I also see the same people walking to work each day and catching the bus.

[warren t claim]

I can't wait for 2021 when I can post on this thread shortly before roffling the 200k Ionoc

[warren t claim]

I was talking to one of my passengers who's a mobile security guard and he covers an area stretching between Crewe and Barrow-in-Furness northwards. He shares a van with another guard. His Transit Connect covers just under 5000 miles a week! 700 miles a day. Seven days a week.

[Guest Hooli]

I bet that only gets cold when in for a service!

[warren t claim]

I'd certainly consider buying a van off them if I needed one. No weight carried and pure motorway miles whilst being serviced on schedule. A high mileage bargain IMHO.

[trigger]

Another monster mileage car in the BCA website, this time a VW Sharan which averages over 100k a year...

 

 

 

 

I'm guessing it's a ex-taxi with its 6 monthly mots but look at the mileage between them!

[Shirley Knott]

Anyone who commutes to work, particularly early in the morning as I do, will quickly realise you see the same people at the same time in the same place on your journey. You make up names for them, and even mumble to yourself "oooh he's running late" if you happen to see him on the A414 rather than the A1.

 

Every week, I see this dude in a Mk4 Golf GTi. He lives in the next village to me, but often overtakes me some 30 miles down the A1. When I realised he's doing similar mileage to me, I decided to have a perv at his MOT history.

 

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I love how similar the mileage is each year! I think he's doing North London and back Mon-Fri but nowhere else. Purely a commuting tool. I'm not often surprised by high miles; after all it's far far better for cars to get properly hot each journey. What I AM interested in, is how this would have fared like for like over the years against the equivalent diesel. Repairs vs Fuel efficiency etc.

 

Anyway, well done "Golf Dude"

The GTi will likely cost £100 more a year to tax and they usually do circa 25-30mpg Vs 45-50mpg on the diesel models, on 25k a year (Ignoring insurance and maintenance differences) it's probably upwards of £1500 more expensive I'd guess.

 

He probably ought to think about changing it for a TDi, that being said the 1.8T will be far nicer to drive.

[Landy Mann]

I missed 380k but here's the JDM yo! Estima camper on 380300km around 236k miles and feeling it.

 

[myglaren]

 

Always miss the critical mileage - usually 'cause son has been out in it.

This time it was me daydreaming.

[Tetleysmooth]

I'm not even up for a gong at a paltry 183k my V70 has done. Pah !!

[JJ0063]

Golf hit 163k today, I fitted a second hand eBay EGR as I was skint and it's been sweet since. Love this car.

[chaseracer]

144k on the Blingo, and I've done all but 8700 of those.

 

176500 today.

[ruffgeezer]

A re-entry for me with the Volvo back on the road again as of today with a fresh MOT and 307k and counting!

[SiC]

Our '10 reg A4 ticked over to 179k last weekend.

[Norbert]

Pug (206 1.4 HDi) clicked over 225000 yesterday..... 15 years to the day since it hit the road. 15k/yr for 15 years.... precisely.

 

I love it when maths comes together.

 

Not only that,but I'd driven Mrs_N's Streetka over the 100K mark 15 minutes earlier as well.

[BorniteIdentity]

Pug (206 1.4 HDi) clicked over 225000 yesterday..... 15 years to the day since it hit the road. 15k/yr for 15 years.... precisely.

 

I love it when maths comes together.

 

Not only that,but I'd driven Mrs_N's Streetka over the 100K mark 15 minutes earlier as well.

 

What a day.

 

What. A. Day.

 

Those 206’s are supposed to be very very frugal on derv amirite?

[SiC]

Not only that,but I'd driven Mrs_N's Streetka over the 100K mark 15 minutes earlier as well.

Did they put a 5 digit counter in the StreetKa like the other Ka's? Must be one of the last cars that only had 5 digits.

[Norbert]

What a day.

 

What. A. Day.

 

Those 206’s are supposed to be very very frugal on derv amirite?

 

Very. 60mpg easy, 70 if you hypermile a bit on this particular car.

 

Admittedly a good 80% of this car's life is spent on the motorway at 50-60mph - which it is *ideally* set up for. Driving in town all the time would get a bit frustrating as the gearing is very tall for a sub-70bhp car and the gap between 2nd and 3rd is large.

 

The trouble with such high economy is that it spoils you for virtually anything else. Mrs_N recently treated me to a Cherokee 2.5CRD (Did I mention I love Mrs_N?) and I drove it to work for a couple of days thinking "Where's all the fuel gone? I need to stop *again*?" then working out I was doing 30mpg - really good for an older Jeep in a bit of traffic but fuel-soaking by the standards I'm used to.

 

Mrs_N was impressed that the Streetka actually showed "100000" on the display - being used to older fords she was expecting a reset to "00000" even though it's a digital readout.

 

I still can't catch your Avensis though.....

 

EDIT: Looked like I answered SiC's question before I'd even read it