A work mate had an ex cab today, A '95 Toyota carina e with 446000 miles on the clock . And it was stil flyin' round the gaff. He reckons he'll get half a million out of it. Can anyone top that ?

 

nope!!!! pmsl, mates dads Volvo 240 DL has done about 240K i think

 

Fook me thats a lot of pizza deliverys

 

284k...get it right


i think the old shagger has still got pleanty left in it....and im talking about the volvo, not my old man

 

 

A cabbie round here had a C reg astra deeezoil estate that he retired when it did a million miles, he sent a letter to vauxhall about it and just got a compliments slip back, he's still got it now in the garage the sad owd coont.
Ive heard my old R reg avensis has just done the 300k mark

 

yeah my dad works at a garage in hanley and the sold a k reg astra van with about 140k on it came back to be serviced with a little over 500k was a reck tho, so the guy ended up buyin another van

 

I was gonna say 270 but it sounded cheeky if i was wrong

 

mate of mines uncle has a xr4x4 thats on about 250k still going strong aswell.

wasnt there some1 on here who had a galaxy that had like 400k on it?

 

wasnt there some1 on here who had a galaxy that had like 400k on it?[/quote] Never thought a Ford could have such a long life span .

 

How about this!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=4535375819

 

i think they still got it aswell i remmeber them posting a pic up of it. said he drive like 100000000miles a day :blub:

 

f'kin ell!!!


they must have driven it 24/7 since it was out the factory


wonder what it will go for?

 

700 miles a day on average!

 

thats not far off the length of the country is it not

 

WOW I thought I was bad doing 60k - 70k miles per year (2004) , (doing it in a focus rs this year!!) LOL! hopefully only be 30k for 2005

Rich

 

at that golf

 

AFAIK, the World Record is held by a 1960's VW Beetle that has covered 1,500,000 Miles on the original Engine and Gearbox. That was a few years ago that I read that, so may have been beaten now.

AFPMSL @ that Golf. Also, why buy a fleet of R32's?? Hardly the most practical thing are they??

 

a couple of tranny vans at work are on 350k on original engine but new gearboxes.theres a sprinter on 410k but it has had a new engine.ive had a tranny van with 260k on it.the one ive got now has been round the clock(95 mreg with mondeo dash so thats 1000000 miles)dont know how many engines/gearboxes/back axles its had though

 

pmsl @ the engine size of the golf on ebay

 

We've had a 560k Xantia 1.9 at work before!

P.S.. Interesting Golf on ebay that is! - Sort of job i could do with i reckon, driving around europe in a R32

 

Mate Andys saff track car has 230k on the clock

 

Never thought a Ford could have such a long life span .[/quote]

ur rite it cant they have VW engines

 

My first RST had 245k on it when I bought it!! Needless to say I changed ALOT of parts

 

My Transit has done 1/4 million.

In it's lifetime it has had...

1 cam shaft and thrust plate
1 starter motor
4 exhaust valve guides
2 front wheel bearings
2 rear springs
2 front shockers and ball joints
1 battery
2 clutches

A company we use as a supplier had a Transit with a full service history on a wall chart which totalled over a million miles before they scrapped it with a rotton body..

 

I'd buy that golf for £0.10

 

where i worked at yorkshire traction, about 10 months since, we had a Mk2 MCW bus - on the original Gardner 180 engine, had done a shade over 2 million miles when totaled up - all out abuse and hammering from day 1 aswell

 

How come golfs are bad for high mileage?

My old corolla gti has 190 on it now, which is not bad.

 

bloke round here had a transit which reached 500k miles on original engine and fords gave him a new one scott free for being a valued customer!!!!

 

@ that Golf, surley thats not fiscally possible?

Still 2 grand with spare car not bad!! worth buying it for that!

 

My Capri has just hit 120k.... and I can just hear the bottom end knocking on tickover!!! doh! oh well, time for a cossie

 

that golf auction has ended early due to a mistake on the listing - im guessing he put the mileage down wrong!

 

Yeah trade the Tax disc in!

Winner!

 

Yeah he did that three times in the ad!

 

Focus RS!!! Nice company car!!!

 

Our Jeep Cherokee has 100,000 miles on the clock (N reg)

Not much looking at the other posts


Dave

 

ur rite it cant they have VW engines [/quote]

I should've guessed, Although my buddy has a '02 golf Gti and its been towed 4 times, exhaust manifold came away and it blew a few coils.

 

I had just under 200k on my old E plate XR3i before I blew it up.