Pete-M Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 This week I've been shuffling cars around for a local garage. Mainly 12 year old Mondeos. They don't drive as badly as you'd imagine. scdan4, NorfolkNWeigh, worldofceri and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Plenty of tlc to get to that mileage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, Bren said: Plenty of tlc to get to that mileage. TLC ? Try the bare minimum as and when it is required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I doubt a mondeo would get to that mileage on minimal maintainence - unless it is on its 3rd engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 It will have been a taxi. Working vehicles like that get what they need when they need it and absolutely nothing else because time in the garage is time not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 They were cabs, yup. All on original engines I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I did a bit of cabbing back in 1986, and the company I worked for ran Ford Orion (non turbo) diesels as their fleet. Two had over 350,000 recorded miles, one 450,000 and a few approaching 100,000 I know the majority of the cars were running from 06.00 to at least 02.00 the following day The cars were shite to drive, with knackered seats and no performance. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said: Ford Orion (non turbo) diesels The cars were shite to drive, with knackered seats and no performance. So they were factory fresh then? Vince70, GeordieInExile, timolloyd and 8 others 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 minute ago, Supernaut said: So they were factory fresh then? Because I was part time, I was alway allocated one of the three high mileage ones. They were "B" and "C" registration 1.6 L's and the red ones had paint as flat as a witches tit as they were put through the car wash every day. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 35 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said: Ford Orion (non turbo) diesels The slowest car I have ever driven was an Orion 1.6D. absolutely glacial performance and a nasty rattly old pile of shit too. Also not that economic I found, as you had to drive it with your foot welded to the floor at all times. It was affectionately known as the Bunion. A truly awful heap of vehicle. Peter C, Iamgroot, Vince70 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daviemck2006 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 The highest mileage car I ever drove was a peugeot 806 2.0hdi which was a taxi from new to 10 years old. When I left the taxi firm that owned it it was one 500000 miles, on its 2nd engine original gearbox and a replacement interior out of another which was written off at a mere 4 years old and 220000 milesSent from my SM-T585 using Tapatalk timolloyd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Norman Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Isn't taxi-ing the best way to appreciate a modern diseasel? Sits at 1700rpm for weeks on end and hardly ever gets cold started because it hardly ever gets shut down for more than an hour. A good cabbie has sussed how to drive with minimal impact on his car so he's not shelling out for repairs. Gentle acceleration, never braking unless absolutely necessary and looking far enough ahead to pick out gaps and lane swaps so they don't get caught out and have to slow down. Taxi drivers drive like no-one else. Up here the private hire chariot of choice is the Skoda Octavia. 400k miles not uncommon before the council's 7 year old maximum comes into effect at which point they end up on Gumtree for a few hundred quid. Pete-M and Vince70 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 What is the council licencing dept obsession with vehicle age? Condition is all. Shite Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Those Mondeos will easily take 3-400k on original engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1duck Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 5 hours ago, Spiny Norman said: A good cabbie has sussed how to drive with minimal impact on his car so he's not shelling out for repairs. Gentle acceleration, never braking unless absolutely necessary and looking far enough ahead to pick out gaps and lane swaps so they don't get caught out and have to slow down. Taxi drivers drive like no-one else. Guess all the cabbies up here are shit cabbies then, ragging it off the lights because the 4 gps's havent warned them they are in the wrong lane so they have to cut someone up, slamming on and swerving to the side of the road to drop off/pick up punters. Never braking is fair, especially as they cut across traffic in manoeuvres that should see anyone elses licence revoked. Looking just far enough ahead to see the GPS screen in front of them, whilst treating the car as a rental, because most of them are driving for a cabbie firm and it's not their car so they don't give a shit. I agree they drive like no one else though ? Tyredout, paulplom, Popsicle and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Repair costs are less an issue than the average man in the street, if it costs £400 for a turbo swapping then so be it as it’ll earn that back over a good weekend. They’ll also have a stash of bits from the dead ones, some near me have their own garage as well. You’ve also to remember these cars are usually run round the clock, no cold starts, just drivers swapping shifts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 4 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: What is the council licencing dept obsession with vehicle age? Condition is all. I got an email from my licensing authority yesterday, saying they are temporarily lifting the age requirement due to the Covid situation . I can’t be the only one who’s car hasn’t turned a wheel in 3 months. My plate is due in July and I probably won’t renew, first time that’s happened in 27 years, although maybe I should plate my 23 year old E430, mmmm... HMC, timolloyd, Jerzy Woking and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 My friends dad runs a cab company so his first car was a cast off - a six year old Mk2 Mondeo 1.6 Aspen (yeah, petrol) in Leeds taxi colours. It had done 320,000 miles and it was absolutely hanging - my main memory was that it had no second gear so you had to rev the tits off it in first and go straight into third. Eventually third went as well and it got replaced by a K11 Micra, which felt like luxury... Peter C, Brodders and 1duck 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 7 hours ago, Spiny Norman said: Isn't taxi-ing the best way to appreciate a modern diseasel? Sits at 1700rpm for weeks on end and hardly ever gets cold started because it hardly ever gets shut down for more than an hour. A good cabbie has sussed how to drive with minimal impact on his car so he's not shelling out for repairs. Gentle acceleration, never braking unless absolutely necessary and looking far enough ahead to pick out gaps and lane swaps so they don't get caught out and have to slow down. Taxi drivers drive like no-one else. Up here the private hire chariot of choice is the Skoda Octavia. 400k miles not uncommon before the council's 7 year old maximum comes into effect at which point they end up on Gumtree for a few hundred quid. That really doesn't happen in Bristol with most of the private hire cabs! Especially on the night shift shuttling people back from the centre to suburbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 5 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: What is the council licencing dept obsession with vehicle age? Condition is all. Easier to arbitrarily enforce, I suppose. I've never had a car with properly decent mileage in it - I feel like that makes me less of A MAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 Highest mileage car I've driven was an Octavia 2.0 TDi L&K. A cab in Shropshire from new it had 740k at 10 years old on the original engine and box. It had the cams replaced at 400k miles. Turned out the driver used to shuttle airline pilots around the UK, normally doing Telford, Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted, Birmingham, Manchester, Telford most days of the week. It drove really well, was clean and tidy other than a massive stonechip collection and the coating on the window and light switches having worn off. It had the big elbow blister all taxi Octavias get on the driver's door trim, but the leather seats weren't even that saggy in it. Genuinely drove like a sub 80k mile car. The owner was fanatical about servicing it, every two months it had a full service and anything that needed doing was done. I've driven 30k mile ones that felt worse. The owner lived in a huge house, but doubt he spent much time there. 1duck, Rave, Brodders and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 62 plate actros in today for oil leaks. warch, Shep Shepherd, HarmonicCheeseburger and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 That's km innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 15 hours ago, Talbot said: The slowest car I have ever driven was an Orion 1.6D... Try a 'tired' 435cc 2CV! Next on our list after the racer and the Dyane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 That's km innit?Nope. If you zoom in it says 'mi' next to it. sutty2006 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lwk22 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 hours ago, sutty2006 said: 62 plate actros in today for oil leaks. Yeah work in Bristol as a TC running National Express coaches, our 12-plates are on that sort of mileage too (showing around 1.2 million kms). They’re all tired but are all like Trigger’s broom to keep them going. paulplom, BorniteIdentity and Shep Shepherd 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Pete-M said: That's km innit? Nope that’s miles. KMs were about 1191600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 hours ago, chaseracer said: Try a 'tired' 435cc 2CV! Next on our list after the racer and the Dyane... I'm not sure if it was a 435cc model, but I have driven a 2cv with very low compression and almost no grunt. It would probably be a close-run thing between that and the Bunion mentioned above. It simply didn't accelerate. At all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldofceri Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Last week my Kia Sorento nommed it’s gearbox. I’ve done 130,000 miles in a smidge over two years. Odometer stopped at 188,000 but actual mileage now is 222,000. Engine is fine so I’ll see about replacing the ’box when funds allow. Jerzy Woking, SiC, loserone and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Jebus. That's serious mileage considering it'll have been towing for most of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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