Paul Y
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 The Super Fiesta (tm) had a major event over the weekend as rolled over the 200k mark in BlueWaters car park, how glamorous.... Nearly missed it so the picture is on the slip road taken by my son from the back seat before anyone calls foul! Purchased new in April 2004 for the princely sum of £6400 this has been a bit of a family feature. All my children have learnt to drive in Super, has transported the Big Block for my 56, the small block for the pick up, trees, logs, children to Uni, children back from Uni and apart from 2 years when it sat in my garage as it was surplus to requirements has braved the elements on my drive way its entire life. So far has had a clutch, 3 front springs and a pair of front legs - because I couldn’t get the top mount off to replace the broken springs, a tail pipe an alternator, front disks, a rear hub, numerous windscreens a heater rheostat a door mirror glass, due to a careless au pair, and that’s about it other than the usual service items.. A bit battered and bruised but now pretty much free motoring, wonder where I will be for 300K? So who has put the most miles on a car, not how many it has traveled in total, and where did you achieve you milestones? P.  |
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Last Edit: Jul 15, 2019 6:34:24 GMT by Paul Y
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MiataMark
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My Alfa hit 100,000 (I know nothing spectacular except it's an Alfa) on the M4 near Reading recently.  |
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1990 Mazda MX-52012 BMW 118i (170bhp) - white appliance 2011 Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TD52007 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon JTDm
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My Carlton clocked 200k a few days ago, but it doesn't mean much because it's had a few dash swaps and has actually done more.
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ovimor
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My Toyota Carina II hit 100k just the other day... But its been no rush as a J reg. Hit 100k in my Mk3 Cortina, many years ago... Bit more song and dance about that  OVIMOR |
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Knowledge is to know a Tomato is a 'fruit' - Wisdom, on the other hand, is knowing not to put it in a 'fruit salad'!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bda4TkQhg4J I also have a high mileage Fiesta, I got mine new in 2003, that picture was on New Years Day on the hard shoulder of the M20, engine off of course (naughty I know but I had to get it), I'm currently on 361,000ish. |
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28 years on the road in company cars, no idea really, they blur. One memorable car was a circa 1993-ish Nissan Sentra 1600 SE in South Africa that did 163k Km or 100k miles in under 2.5 years and only took service items. Paul Y there may have been a two ton pallet truck tossed in the rear of the Super Fiesta once. |
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Last Edit: Jul 15, 2019 7:33:23 GMT by grizz
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My daily EA Falcon has been reading 295,943 km on the odo since January last year when I pushed the button to reset the trip meter after buying petrol and something broke somewhere inside. At the last wof (mot) before we bought my wife's BG Laser it had 258,000 km on the odo. It's now knocking on the door of 445,000. We've replaced the clutch (not long after we got it), the radiator, the cam belt (due again any time soon), driver's seat belt, fuel filter, dizzy cap and rotor (due again cos it's now running like a haunted sh1thouse but our auto sparky is struggling to get the correct parts), sparkplugs (twice I think), and she's worn out a sh1tload of tyres but it's not rusty and it's worth next to nothing so we'll just keep using it. Pic taken one lunchtime on a country road near my office on 17th October 2017.  |
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Last Edit: Jul 15, 2019 8:41:36 GMT by igor
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Hmmmm. I'm a bit annoyed at the moment. I fixed my speedo recently which stopped working a few weeks after I bought my car. When I first insured it the mileage reading was 69000. No idea how accurate that might be but a piece of paperwork that came with the car seemed to question it in terms of it being quite an old piece of paper which was only a few hundred miles short of where the reading was at the time of my purchase. Almost three years later it's still at 69000. So a couple of weeks ago I replaced the speedo cable. I assumed that somehow the speedo cable might be responsible via various little gear wheels for accumulating milage on the mileometer. But that still doesn't seem to be working. I have a speed reading. The trip logger still works, but the mileometer doesn't go around. So I can't enjoy any mileage milestones at all.  I really wanted to experience the thrill of tipping the mileometer too 100k somewhere, even if it is a wildly inaccurate reading. |
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Jul 15, 2019 10:08:14 GMT
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Took this of my Jag a few months before selling.  Loved that car and was in half decent nick when I sold it. DVLA says last MOT was passed at 93000 miles but that expired in feb so I expect it is now baked bean tins. |
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Jul 15, 2019 20:47:24 GMT
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80085 are always worth a look eh goodoldluke?
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v8ian
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I have 160000 miles on my Tiguan, most of that done in the last 3 years (145000)
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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I assumed that somehow the speedo cable might be responsible via various little gear wheels for accumulating milage on the mileometer. But that still doesn't seem to be working. I have a speed reading. The trip logger still works, but the mileometer doesn't go around. On my Vauxhall from the seventies, that's exactly how it works. The speedo cable drives a central shaft, which goes up to the speedometer cup which drives the needle. From the base of that shaft, a gear wheel turns another shaft that lies across the back of the speedo housing, in turn that drives another vertical shaft which, via a gear at the top, drives the odometer and trip meter. So if your speedo works, the trip meter works and the odometer does not, that suggests the problem is either in the gear wheel driving the odo, or in the odo part itself. If photos of a completely different make (probably) of speedo will help, give us a shout and I'll start a thread with them in. |
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I assumed that somehow the speedo cable might be responsible via various little gear wheels for accumulating milage on the mileometer. But that still doesn't seem to be working. I have a speed reading. The trip logger still works, but the mileometer doesn't go around. On my Vauxhall from the seventies, that's exactly how it works. The speedo cable drives a central shaft, which goes up to the speedometer cup which drives the needle. From the base of that shaft, a gear wheel turns another shaft that lies across the back of the speedo housing, in turn that drives another vertical shaft which, via a gear at the top, drives the odometer and trip meter. So if your speedo works, the trip meter works and the odometer does not, that suggests the problem is either in the gear wheel driving the odo, or in the odo part itself. If photos of a completely different make (probably) of speedo will help, give us a shout and I'll start a thread with them in. 100% what droopsnoot said, if the speedo works but the odometer doesn't the problem lies in the speedo head itself. The 2 sections work by different methods, the speedo by magnetic induction and the odo by gearing, so it's perfectly possible to have one without the other, either way round! All cable driven speedos (apart from a handful of "chronometric" speedos on very old british cars and bikes) work the same way, regardless of shape, make or age.
Steve
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Cheers fellas. Useful to know and understand. I doubt I'll be visiting this little niggle though for some time , if ever, so no further effort on your part required Dropsnoot but thank you for the kind offer. I was just disappointed that the odo didn't participate in a "fix one, get one free" scheme! |
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Jul 16, 2019 10:50:42 GMT
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Like MiataMark I accumulated 100k in my Alfa, a 156 V6, in 2017, in the next village on the way in to work. It's done less than 600 miles since. I bought it in 2011 with 82k on. |
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MiataMark
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Jul 16, 2019 11:30:05 GMT
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Like MiataMark I accumulated 100k in my Alfa, a 156 V6, in 2017, in the next village on the way in to work. It's done less than 600 miles since. I bought it in 2011 with 82k on. There's something stupidly heroic about getting an Alfa past 100K even though it shouldn't be any more of an effort to a Ford, BMW etc. I'm waiting for the Discovery to hit 150K now. |
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Jul 16, 2019 20:40:29 GMT
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My 1964 Volvo Amazon 122S estate had accumulated 129000kms when I bought it (LHD imported) in 1982 and I put a further 130k on it before I sold it in 2011.
But I never bothered marking milestones, there must have been a few, but even the combined total of 260K is chickenfeed to an Amazon! However, i'm happy to report that it's still racking up miles (or kms) for it's current owner in Germany.
I've not had another car anywhere near as long as I had that one, so consequently no other big mileage milestones either, but I must have seen the magic 5 zeroes come up at least a dozen times in a long and varied car history!
I did once have a MkIII Cavalier with over 650K miles on the clock, but they were not my doing, it had a past life as a taxi!
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ChasR
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Jul 16, 2019 21:45:44 GMT
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I've done 300,000 miles a couple of times. They were mostly Mondeos mind you that were family owned. They include:
-A Mk3 Mondeo 2.0 Ghia X ; A blown diff stopped that from going to 400k; I broke it for spares at 387k
-A Mk3 Mondeo 1.8 LX : I sold that on due to a crank seal leak. It drove very well. It was annoying the leak wasn't spotted when the clutch was done at 325k
I've driven a 450k 52 plate Vectra for a short while. Strangely, but not surprisingly, it was not the worst car I'd have driven
As for the performance cars
-944 Turbo was on 180k. It was far far bette than my 120k example.
-M3 is now on 144k and rising
The Merc is supposedly on 57k now and the Mondeo is on 172k, and rising rapidly.
So yes, I cover some miles!
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Rob M
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Jul 16, 2019 21:59:55 GMT
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Well I bought a 2003 Toyota Hiace at the start of the month and it is sitting on 238,000 miles.
Ok, I never took it there myself but....
I have never owned anything with that kind of mileage on it and drives like it has only done 50,000 miles.
I have now become a fan of the mega miler club.😊
Bangernomics may well be the way.
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