Miles

[mick]

In about 50 miles my odometer will read 200,000. If it's possible I'll get a photo.

It's the furthest I've ever driven a single vehicle.

What's your record?

Mick

[MJB]

We've just traded-in a tractor that in engine hours had done the equivalent of 650,000 miles.

[petrochemist]

I had a 1977 Toyota Celica GT that had ~82,000 on the clock when I brought it. I took it round the clock & back to 85,000 before passing it on for professional restoration.

Short of your 200,000 but it was only used for social/domestic motoring, work always arrange a car for business mileage.

[andy]

Probably about 35,000 or so but all on the same oil! It was my first car and I figured I'd crash it before before lack of servicing became an issue. 6 years later....maybe should have changed the oil occasionally.

[geoffr]

Currently, in a single vehicle 85,000 miles.

[gezza]

Apparently there is a 1966 Volvo 1800s that has done over 3000000 miles

[davem399]

My current wagon, which I’ve driven from new, is approaching 110,000.  It was my works lease car which I then bought at retirement.  In the first couple of years, I was doing around 20,000 p.a., since then, quite a lot less.

[andy]

Jan 26, 2023 10:28:21 GMT gezza said:

Apparently there is a 1966 Volvo 1800s that has done over 3000000 miles

This one....

[nickr]

Jan 26, 2023 10:38:54 GMT davem399 said:

My current wagon, which I’ve driven from new, is approaching 110,000.  It was my works lease car which I then bought at retirement.  In the first couple of years, I was doing around 20,000 p.a., since then, quite a lot less.

I'm in a similar situation, but it's only done about 84k. Still, as I worked for a motor manufacturer for many years, most of my (ridiculous number of) cars never got beyond 10k. It's actually a pleasant change...

When I ran the Customer Relations department, we had a letter from a customer thanking us for how reliable his car was, having done 500,000 miles without a snag - which was a very pleasant change from the usual tales of woe. I sent t to the office of the group president, who thanked me, arranged for the customer to visit the factory his car was made in, and generally made a fuss of him, which was also nice. They told me the most miles one of our cars was recorded at was 2 million km and still going, and that they had offered that customer a new car, but she turned them down because there was nothing wrong with her existing car. 

Doing that job was extremely stressful, but also made me worried that my car might explode at any moment, as as department head, the only cases I ever saw were the very worst ones. Taught me an awful  lot about assessing evidence correctly.

[zou]

I got my dad's old car and it was on 199,nnn when it was written off by a minor prang caused by someone driving into it whilst parked. Had been really looking forward to getting it over 200k.

[stevewmh]

Getting old and a few miles behind it though it does all I want it to do 

Old Golf tdi, 


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[mick]

Jan 26, 2023 12:21:51 GMT zou said:

I got my dad's old car and it was on 199,nnn when it was written off by a minor prang caused by someone driving into it whilst parked. Had been really looking forward to getting it over 200k.

My car is worth almost nothing (big diesel and very high mileage) and I live in fear of even a minor prang because almost anything would cause a write off and I REALLY don't want that.

Mick

[zou]

Jan 26, 2023 14:21:54 GMT mick said:

Jan 26, 2023 12:21:51 GMT zou said:

I got my dad's old car and it was on 199,nnn when it was written off by a minor prang caused by someone driving into it whilst parked. Had been really looking forward to getting it over 200k.

My car is worth almost nothing (big diesel and very high mileage) and I live in fear of even a minor prang because almost anything would cause a write off and I REALLY don't want that.

Mick

Yup. 10cm bodywork scrape which made no difference to its running condition.

[andy]

Jan 26, 2023 15:04:50 GMT zou said:

Jan 26, 2023 14:21:54 GMT mick said:

My car is worth almost nothing (big diesel and very high mileage) and I live in fear of even a minor prang because almost anything would cause a write off and I REALLY don't want that.

Mick

Yup. 10cm bodywork scrape which made no difference to its running condition.

Would you have been better off telling the insurance company that it wasn't your car that was hit?

[willien]

Cannot compete on mileage but I did keep my Mondeo (last but one car) for over 14 years. Cost me £5,600 at 3.5 years old and 38,000 miles so it did not owe me anything. 98,000 miles when I got rid of it and I was still working for all but the last year of ownership.