What's the highest mileage driven in a single car

[Station]

Not total mileage, but the mileage you have completed in ownership.

 

Today I worked out I had driven the equivalent of nearly once around the world in my Whizzkid. That's about 16,000 more than is comfortable, I can't believe it.

 

I bought my Astra in 2004 at 30,000 miles, and now have over 150,000 on the clock. I haven't exactly been anywhere!

[dollywobbler]

Bought the 2CV with 89500 on the clock. Now has 75000. So, 85500 miles in something with a 602cc engine (though the original engine had a 10,000 mile break last year - back in with no work other than tapping a new thread for the inlet manifold!). Edit - that's in ten years, so a low annual average actually. Mind you, it's been in pieces for some of that time...

[messerschmitt owner]

took three BXs from 35-40,000 miles all the way up to 190-200000 miles each!

 

had a merc 230te which I took from 190k to 250k

 

have taken my smart roadster up to 78000 miles from a hundred on the clock.

[Station]

I'm still on the original spark plugs on the Astra. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

[seth]

I've done something like 80,000 in the Oxford. 18,000 of those were in one year!

 

But the Herald has now been in use for much longer. Something like 110,000 on that now between Mrs_Seth (the majority) and me.

[dollywobbler]

My BX has done 13,000 miles since September. That actually puts it fourth in my all time record, behind a Daewoo Matiz (12 miles to 18,600), a Pug 306 DTurbo (40,000 miles) and the 2CV.

[mouseflakes]

I'm always amazed at the mileage many private cars seem to rack up these days. The most we've ever put on one of ours is the 45,000 miles we've added to our Saxo dizzler, in the eight years we've owned it. Perhaps we need to 'get out more'?

[GJR 11L]

Hmm, back in the '80s, I bought my Ice Blue '72 Dolomite Auto, like the one I run now, but not brown. That had just been shipped in from Cyprus and had only covered around 30,000 from new. When I sold the car in the early '90s, the total mileage was 191,000 and, in all of those miles, even the head gasket never needed a change.

At 211,000, the fella who'd bought it from me asked me if I'd care to decoke and generally check over the engine for him, 'cos he was paranoid.

I stripped the thing down to the bare bones, but even the timing chain wasn't showing any signs of distress so its tensioner, the shells and the oil pump were replaced with new.

 

The current Dolly's heading the same way, I bought the car at 40,000 miles and, in less than two years, have taken that up to nearly 70,000 with no problems beyond one HGF at 45,000.

 

Conversely, the Volvo 144DL that I bought when it was showing a mere 138,000 miles was re-engined at 220,000 on account of terminal main bearing trouble, in spite of my having given it very frequent services.

 

Conclusion: early '70s BL tin lasts better than Volvos of the period.

[Tayne]

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[seth]

Well, I live in Scotland

[wuvvum]

I don't think I've ever done more than about 8,000 miles in any of my cars.

[Tayne]

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[Pete-M]

I did close to 60,000 miles in a Lincoln Towncar, that's probably got my personal record.

 

30,000 miles in six months in a Mk5 RS2000 is the highest concentrated amount of mileage I've done in one car.

 

1400 miles of towing in a 3.9 Range Rover Classic in three days (including one 22hr and one eight hour ferry. is probably the longest "only get out for coffee, fuel and the bog" stretch. If I wasn't on a ferry I was driving.

 

700 miles across Europe in a starship mileage, on the border of being overladen, N reg, non-turbo, LWB Transit Mk Something in 12 hours a year ago today.

 

Planning 1000 miles in a day very soon. Quite probably in the 3.5 SD1.

[Mike D]

I bought my 323F V6 in Oct 2003 with 39000 on the clock, sold it in 2006 with 98000 on. That was with my 25 mile round trip to work every day, and then 3 or 4 140 mile round trips to Nottingham every week.

[CortinaDave]

I am currently knocking up 200 miles a day in a mk4 cortina having got a new job and not bothered my arse moving house yet - how long ill get away with that before it goes tits up is anyones guess. So far so good.

[Pete-M]

I am currently knocking up 200 miles a day in a mk4 cortina

Impressed. I've done similar in Mk2 Granadas about 8 years ago, and Cortinas 18 years ago, but as long as it's kept tip-top I don't see why one wouldn't keep on doing that for years. Plenty did as cabs. I can think of far worse moderns to do that in.

[mk1_4dr]

The escRot has carried me over 40k in 4years.

Not bad, but its only average mileage I suppose

[ChinaTom]

We should probably expect some monster mileages from USA and possibly Australian friends. Larger countries etc. If we are just considering the cars, then my old Kia Carnival (Sedona) used to constantly do the north-south motorway runs here in China and racked up 78,000 miles in 11 months. My west-east vehicle (Pajero) finally left my ownership 2 weeks ago with 441,644 km (276k) on the clock and I know for a fact that it had been clocked when we bought it.

 

A friend here has a 4x4 Delica which he uses for west-east purposes (going west means mountains, going north means mostly flat motorways) which is over 500k km now; but like my old Pajero, it is on it's umpteenth head now.

 

I once saw 720,000 on the odometer of a Toyota Crown - not really so surprising when you think it was 12 years old and the nearest large city was 1300 km away. I think I recall an Ebay ad for a 420k mile Honda Odyssey - Japanese cars seem to be good for such mileages.

[Albert Ross]

I once had a 1987 2.3 diesel Sierra that had 270k miles on it...... also a 1988 LHD 205 with the 1.7D in it, showing 390k kilometers.... one owner cars, both of them....also a 1985 305 1.9 Estate with nigh on 320k miles..... Good engines these French things!

[Volksy]

My old 205 GLD had tipped 200k when it died, a 100 mile return commute certainly racked them up.

 

The highest mileage car ever is a Volvo P1800 owned from new by a chap called Irv Gordon in the states, it was on 2.6 million miles in 2007, but news of it has been quiet of recent.

[Cavcraft]

Had a Sharan TDi which had 412,000 miles on it, think it had been a taxi once.

 

Most miles I ever did was probably in an Iveco Cargo I used to drive, must have done about 170,000 miles in that.

It would probably have been 250,000 odd had it not been an Iveco and broken down all the time.

 

Hard to say most miles I've done in a car that I've owned as I usually have at least two so chop and change at random intervals, but think I put about 20,000 miles on a Cortina Mk5 and about 30,000 on a Cavalier SRi.

 

Currently probably averaging about 125 miles a week in the Astra.

[Father Ted]

At one point working on the District I could easily notch up 260 miles a day (my catchment area was from Garstang to Knott End and included the whole Fylde coast) as I remember in one year I added 30,000 to m BX. Not a vast amount in some peoples eyes but rather a lot in my eyes.

Now I notch up just 8 miles a day.

[Vin]

Most miles I've put on a car is my current daily.

 

Fiat Brava. Bought it at 4 years old in 2004 with 40k on the clock. It's now on 195k.

[Mr Lobster]

I put about 90k on a Renault Twingo about ten years back. Otherwise most my big mileage stuff gets changed very frequently as I do about 150 miles a day to work and back.

 

R4 is lucky to do more than about 2000 per year, SEAT was on 40k as bought three years ago and on 60k now. Likely to increase considerably in the next few months though.

[gtd2000]

I've done a few miles over the years I suppose..

 

The '79 Celeste racked up about 40k in my hands

My '86 Pony was around 33k

My old '85 Nissan Bluebird would have been 40k

My '86 Corolla AE86 was fairly low at 15k

 

I helped my GF's mother buy a car in Florida about 5 years ago, we found a 1999 Ford Escort 2.0 with a mere 26k on the clock owned by a 90 year lady called Veronica who was going to share cars with her "new" boy friend so decided to sell hers

 

After buying the car (which was like new!) I was looking over the paperwork I noted that in the 6 years of ownership she had racked up a total of 6k going back and forth to Publix! Turns out she had bought the car when it was 1 month old - and it had 20,000 miles on it!!!! The car was sold 2 years ago when she bought a new Honda Fit (Jazz). It was a cheaply built car but it was perfectly reliable with great fuel economy - returned 32MPG around town consistently!

 

Going back a few years, I was in an Austin Montego taxi in Galashiels, in the late 80's and caught a glimpse of the odometer - 167,000 miles and the car was only just a year old!

[GJR 11L]

32MPG

Impressive for a US Gallon. That's about 38½ mpg in the UK.

[gtd2000]

32MPG

Impressive for a US Gallon. That's about 38½ mpg in the UK.

Yeah, I thought it was excellent!

 

Build quality was very similar to my old Proton Persona but it certainly did not live up to the old Fix Or Repair Daily jokes

 

My mothers Mazda 121 DB managed 32MPG (IMP) on average! and her current Kia Picanto gets around 36MPG (IMP) on average

[scooters]

my weekly drive is between 800 and 1200 miles on average. I tend to do this in my own car but I also tend to change my daily driver every 8-12 weeks - the longest was my 940 Sport which I bought at 150k and sold at 190k 9 months later

 

my curent BMW 535i (E34) has done 7000 since I bought it 6 weeks ago

[strangehighways]

My Audi A4 (boring as hell) has done 9500 miles since January 2010.

[dieselnutjob]

My second car was a 1988 Peugeot 305 diesel estate.

It had 50,000 miles on it.

Eight years later I scrapped it (the body was rotten) with 209,000 miles on it.

 

My first car was an early type 305 with the 1548cc diesel engine. When I sold it had 350,000 miles but I wasn't responsible for many of them.

 

I did hear of one guy who did over 1 million miles in a 305 van. He used three engines to do it (first one, second one, first one reconditioned from memory).