Highest milage car!!!

[Charlie Croker]

Just wondering whats the highest mileage car you have owend or known about? i had a l reg mondeo ex taxi back in 2003 it had 283000 miles on it and not a rattle or squeak anythere. I traded it in for brand new vectra. Yes i was a stupid boy.lol.

[Pete-M]

I had a Mk2 Golf GTi that was approaching 350k when I sold it.

 

A friends mother had a 700+k Rover 213S that rot eventually killed. That thing never had the chance to cool down, it did 70k a year every year until it failed the MOT through terminal rot. Still sounded sweet, and I think it was still on the original, unopened engine.

[wuvvum]

Can't beat the Rover, but I had a Volvo 740 estate that I bought to trailer shite back from around this sceptred isle which had 338K on the clock when the fuel pump carked it. My Roadrunner had 609,000km on the tacho, but that's a lorry so it doesn't really count.

[VWPowered]

our passat has 480,000+kms my old golf had 430,000 till the speedo broke

[Cavcraft]

412,00 mile ex-taxi Sharan 'red i' dizzler. Pulled like a fucking train but had loads of problems. Sold it for over three times what I paid for it.

[Richard]

I used to drive a Peugeot 505 petrol taxi with 360k up. One of my friends claims his Rover 414 is approaching 400k on its original head gasket.

[Cavcraft]

One of my friends claims his Rover 414 is approaching it's 400th head gasket.

I believe that.

[greengartside]

One of my friends claims his Rover 414 is approaching 400k on its original head gasket for this week.

Better.

[Guest]

FATHA_WAT had a Mk 3 Cavalier from new as a company car. When the lease was up he bought it from work.

 

It could not be killed. It had about 230k on the clock when he sold it to a colleague of his, just surpassing the 225k my 306 had on the clock when I let it go.

 

About a year later the Mk 3 had 350 k on the dials when my dad's mate was rear ended by a Transit on the M62 and twatted the armco at 70 mph. He came to rest on the hard shoulder having spun across three lanes, and the rear of the car looked as if he'd done 3 laps of a destruction derby. There was nothing left recognisable other than the front passenger cell.

 

Nevertheless, when the fire brigade (who were there as a precaution) pulled F.WAT'S friend out of the car, it was still able to drag itself on to the recovery trailer. Hard as nails, that car was.

 

Steve was gutted, he only nipped out for a packet of fags.

[Guest]

[trigger]

And it's still going!

 

The vehicle details for F479 RRW are:

 

Date of Liability 01 02 2011

Date of First Registration 08 03 1989

Year of Manufacture 1989

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1994CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Heavy Oil

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour BLUE

[warren t claim]

My Tourneo had 467,000 on the clock when I bought it and it had half a million miles under its belt when I scrapped it due to bodywork issues.

[Charlie Croker]

They make my mondeo sound like a low mileage old giffer job.lol.

[warren t claim]

My Tourneo had 467,000 on the clock when I bought it and it had half a million miles under its belt when I scrapped it due to bodywork issues.

Just to put things into perspective the last six months of it's life were spent with no oil or waterpump fitted. During this time it hauled a caravan all over Wales. It did sieze every now and again but a quick 15 minute cool down or 5 minutes after chucking a bucket of water over the engine, it was ready to go again!

[Guest Tony Hayers]

Once saw a post on the Sierra forum about a Sierra that had 600k OTC, IIRC it was the CVH version.

[trigger]

Isn't there a old Volvo in America that's done over a million miles i seem to remember reading recently.

 

EDIT - Here it is, it's a 2.8 Million mile P1800!

 

http://www.volvocars.com/intl/top/about ... itemid=192

 

[greengartside]

Once saw a post on the Sierra forum about a Sierra that had 600k OTC, IIRC it was the CVH version.

I was going to say, is that the original engine? Those CVH jobbies don't like high mileage. My first car (on the road, legally occifer) was a MkV Escort, H-reg so one of the earlier ones. That had done 174,000 when I bought it and I sold it on 192,000. Apparently that's quite good for a CVH so I was told! Didn't feel like it had 75bhp. I'd say about 20 of those horses had escaped. I did have 100 out of it once. Fun times

[HillmanImp]

Isn't there a old Volvo in America that's done over a million miles i seem to remember reading recently.

Remember that being in the Guinness book or Records when i was younger.

 

Probably a bit like Triggers broom though but impressive all the same.

[Pete-M]

Once saw a post on the Sierra forum about a Sierra that had 600k OTC, IIRC it was the CVH version.

Chap I know ran two Sierras to over 600k as cabs. First was a 1.8 Pinto, second was a 1.8 CVH. Took him about 12 years to do it. He's now doing similar things to a 2.0 Mondeo.

 

His first mega-mile Sierra was a maroon Sapphire L, if memory serves me right it was E776 VOB. He bought it on around 80k and sold it six or seven years later, still on the original exhaust system. That thing was run on a shoestring, he didn't replace the rear shockers until it was on about 450k and he used secondhand ones then, only because it had finally failed the hackney test.. I think the head was rebuilt a couple of times, but that was about it. All the servicing and maintenance was done on his driveway by his mates as he's a hamfisted tw@. Somewhat amazingly, the thing actually drove quite well and didn't rattle. He sold it for about £700 - it had initially cost him £1500ish and it survived for a while after that.

 

I don't think he told the buyer how many times it had been around the clock.

[hennabm]

The little beastie below now sits with 493k on; same owner from new used initially as a driving school car and then for door to door insurance and still on the original engine and box.

The rear axle has been replaced several times now and is due for another one very shortly.

 

 

Good ole deseasel.

[Lord Sterling]

Not long back, I saw a Rover Sterling KV6 listed that had 375k under its belt and still going.

 

I once heard about a Saab 900 that had done about 500k.

[lancashireclamper]

I ran a Montego Dizzler as a taxi for a few years, gearbox finally packed up at 288.000, could have repaired it but the bodywork was terminal by then, did hear of a 1975 w114 Merc 220d still working as a private hire taxi in Blackpool well into the mid 1990's with a reputed 800.000 under its wheels;apparently the owner had said in about 1988 the next time in breaks down I'll just scrap the **cker but it never did, though he did change the oil and filter every 4 weeks, or so I'm told.

[Formula Autos]

A total cheat, but .....

 

http://cars.uk.msn.com/reviews/articles ... =149398236

[AnthonyG]

A guy sold his 1980 Volvo 244 DL to my mates garage when he bought a new XC90 a coupe of years - the 244 had around 750k on it.

[AnthonyG]

 

Probably a bit like Triggers broom though but impressive all the same.

American Volvo marathon man sayz

 

'the car that beat the odds - all with the same engine, same radio, same axles, same transmission and of course the same driver'

[Milford Cubicle]

A total cheat, but .....

 

http://cars.uk.msn.com/reviews/articles ... =149398236

I've read about it before, and it comes across as a complete sham. What kind of test is running for a million miles on a rolling road?

[MK5 Escort]

Those CVH jobbies don't like high mileage. My first car (on the road, legally occifer) was a MkV Escort, H-reg so one of the earlier ones. That had done 174,000 when I bought it and I sold it on 192,000. Apparently that's quite good for a CVH so I was told! Didn't feel like it had 75bhp. I'd say about 20 of those horses had escaped. I did have 100 out of it once. Fun times

The CVH units do get harshly treated. Look after them well and they're generally very reliable from my own experience. I've had several over the years and never really had any major issues.

 

I know a lovely mk5 H plate which is currently up to 323,000, complete with full main dealer service history, and still going strong. That's the 1.4... It would crack an indicated 110mph flat out which I thought for a 1.4 engine of it's time was impressive. It certainly won't do that now, though! It did only ever do that the once though when it was about five years old, and sprang a minor oil leak!

 

I know another 1.4 mk5, a K plate, which was just shy of 285,000 miles when I last saw it a few months ago. Again, full main dealer service history.

[scooters]

A guy sold his 1980 Volvo 244 DL to my mates garage when he bought a new XC90 a coupe of years - the 244 had around 750k on it.

he won't get remotely near that in the XC90!!

 

My old 240 DL had 375000 on the clock - same family (ours) for 20 years.

 

I sold my 940 Turbo with 185k

 

my 1990 BMW 535i has 190k on the clock and typically does 1000 per week. It has a full top end rebuild at 160k. Gear box will need looking at within the next 20k but I might sell the car to a less intense user before then

[warren t claim]

Not long back, I saw a Rover Sterling KV6 listed that had 375k under its belt and still going.

 

I once heard about a Saab 900 that had done about 500k.

Surely you mean 37.5k???

[scooters]

Isn't there a old Volvo in America that's done over a million miles i seem to remember reading recently.

 

EDIT - Here it is, it's a 2.8 Million mile P1800!

 

http://www.volvocars.com/intl/top/about ... itemid=192

 

yup - well documented - and still going - he's had it from new and does all his own servicing. That's the B18 engine - together with the successor the B20 engine - surely this old Volvo pushrod has to be the toughest engine ever...I had a B20 in my old 144 - great thing - roarty old volvo sound - you can hear them a mile away - nothing like it