What's the highest mileage driven in a single car

[MK5 Escort]

Privately, my annual mileages are pretty low. I've calculated I've covered around 51,900 miles in eight years of driving - making an average of a pitiful 6487 a year. Quite embarrassing, really.

 

I've done 17,500 in my current car, which is the most I've ever done in any of my own cars. It spends the working week just pottering back and fourth to work. Depending on what route I take, it covers around 50-55 miles a week. Most of the mileage comes from my weekend runs out and occasional trips away.

 

My Brother had an early Toyota Avensis 1.8GS on an 'R' plate about five years ago. He bought it as a trade-in around the back of a main dealer for not much. It had 52,000 on the clock and only one owner from new. He travels a lot with his work (his current daily commute is in the region of 140 miles) and sold it three years later and had done 143,000. It never missed a beat and with his mechanically-unsympathetic driving, that's some feat... Full respect to the Japs.

 

My father got his second mk5 Escort company car when it was 18 months old. It had already covered 64,000 miles in that time. The previous keeper travelled from his house in Oswetry to the Hoylake depot every day, then add in any site visits or appointments he'd made. In that time he also had four months off sick when the car hardly moved...

 

Our sales rep once told me in a previous job over ten years ago that he once covered 164,000 miles in two years in a Rover 620 GSi. I didn't have the heart to ask him how many head gaskets he went though to cover that ...then I remembered isn’t that a Honda unit?

[mnde]

I've covered approx 42,000 in the GSA since December 2001. Now done 147K, but currently resting as my BX is back in the game! (because I decided it required less servicing/work for the MOT).

 

Mark.

[r.welfare]

I used to chop and change my cars every 6 months/10k miles or so, but there have been a few exceptions - I did around 30-35k in 18 months in my '84 Prelude, 20k in the white 405TD and 25k in the recently departed 405 estate. Took my '99 Accord from 17k to 67k in three years. 25k in 11 months in a new Saab 9-3...delivered with 70 miles on the clock. Oh, and I did 5k in the first eight weeks in the Avensis before handing it over to my wife.

 

Highest recorded mileage on a car I've owned was 247,000 on one of the 405TD estates, the one with non-matching wing and rear doors - and it drove the best out of the lot!

[Richard]

My dad took the Volvosaurus from 14k to just short of 200k, probably more because the speedo was intermittent when i got it.

[MrDuke]

My parents and I, between us, took an '82 Accord from 60k to 180k, over several years. We only changed the oil twice basically, if it was still translucent, we didn't bother. Epic, epic engine, and still very much missed.

[Rusty Pelican]

I could probably do the least milage covered in the longest time ,

52,000 miles in 23 years in my Singer

As for highest it would be my Commer , 95,000 miles in 18 years :

My Beemers done 62,000 from new since 1986

My Audi 80 sport had 214,000 on when i sold it and my Audi Quattro 174,000 , not much of either of this was mine though

Basically

[pogweasel]

Lots of driving going on here.

 

How. And why?

I mean, my job means I -have- to go out, you can't bring the site to me. I guess on average I do 20-25k a year for work in my shitty van, then 3 or 4000 in the car for pleasure, and Er Indoors 6-8k in her motor...

But all these folk who do 'normal' jobs that just entail desks, staplers, MEETINGS and other boring tosh and still manage to rack up vast mileages... there is something wrong in society...

[scaryoldcortina]

Good question, and I havn't the foggiest. The cortina turned 38,000 earlier in the week, it had 32000 when I put it on the road 3 years ago so that's about 2000 a year on what is often my daily drive. I do drive lots of other cars, but my total annual mileage including work is probably only 10k if that. Mind you, if the weather is nice I sometimes leave the car at the garage and walk home. It is 2 1/2 miles by road, or less than a mile over the fields, that helps keep it down, I suppose. Nice walk too