[Apples12]

Brothers a4 (2007) bought at 90k, part ex-ed for his f10 at 290k miles

I had a Mk6 golf bought at 92k, part ex-ed at 174k

Prior to that had a Mk5 TDI, bought at 120k, sold at auction at 212k

Currently in a 2013 f10, bought at 33k, currently sat at 142k!

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by JustChris

2.5 years thread bump. Impressive. How do people resurrect these, via a search for highest mileage car?

Originally Posted by Wills2

I watched Interstellar at the weekend it's simple people are watching you from the 5th dimension that's how they find them.

Great for me... with all these old threads of mine my score thingy still goes up despite only being on here very sporadically these days!

[Craig-SM]

Mk3 Mondeo estate I sold with 130,000 miles on it, 100% reliable
The Mk3 Shogun - the dog car - currently on 138,000 miles. Other than tyres, suspension bushes, brakes and a battery, which are all consumables, it's been 100% reliable too.
320d is only around 60,000 but won't be kept to go high mileage.

Lowest mileage was a Skoda Octavia VRS, only around 33,000, it was was garbage with poor build quality, squeak and rattles with electrical gremlins for the added frustration factor.

[JustChris]

Originally Posted by Tengocity

Great for me... with all these old threads of mine my score thingy still goes up despite only being on here very sporadically these days!

Rep Whore!

[agentorange]

My first cars came from the late 60s, so having one that lasted past 100k was an achievement. First car was a Viva on 94k. Ran well so long as I remembered it burned oil and topped it up regularly. Sold it to a guy for his wife to use at 115k going great. He then blew up is own car so he started using it to thrash from Worcester to London. According to a mutual mechanic friend, the husband was a mechanical sadist who never checked anything. Motor seized hard on the M40 leaving black lines behind the car until the gearbox cried enough. Rumour control said he was flat out when it happened.

I am currently driving a 14-year old SUV with only 64k on it. Gotta love the desert for the lack of rust, although it has killed the rubber bumpers on the bonnet so it rattles.

[Scoobyd]

My 53 plate E46 330ci vert is on 137k now and is still my daily driver. Had it for 13 years and counting and although regular little repairs crop up through the year it's never been anything major so here's hoping she's got a few miles in her yet!

I've got a great local indy, have only ever run it on V Power and that 3 litre straight 6 is still a lovely thing... silky smooth and sounds lovely... even if I do get overtaken by 320d's now!!

[cinders]

The first car I bought when I was 17 was a 1986 MK2 Golf GTI 8V with 190,000 miles on it. I kept that car for 8 years and sold it with 250,000 miles on it. Great, solid car.

[delorean175]

Originally Posted by JustChris

2.5 years thread bump. Impressive. How do people resurrect these, via a search for highest mileage car?

I wouldn't think 2.5 years was all that long but, this is an F30 forum after all. lol The oldest F30's are like 6 or 7 years old now. I once resurrected a 10 year old thread on the e28 forum, the amazing part was the amount of people who responded as if no time had passed at all. lol This place will be like that one day.

[JustChris]

Originally Posted by delorean175

I wouldn't think 2.5 years was all that long but, this is an F30 forum after all. lol The oldest F30's are like 6 or 7 years old now. I once resurrected a 10 year old thread on the e28 forum, the amazing part was the amount of people who responded as if no time had passed at all. lol This place will be like that one day.

I'd expect no less in a Delorean

[Broncho]

I’ve owned high mileage cars in the past because I couldn’t afford a low mileage one.

Times have changed, I have 2 69 plate cars, one has done 1500 miles and the other 400, mileage is but a number though.

[isleaiw1]

Originally Posted by Broncho

I’ve owned high mileage cars in the past because I couldn’t afford a low mileage one.

Times have changed, I have 2 69 plate cars, one has done 1500 miles and the other 400, mileage is but a number though.

Yes but you live in Liverpool. I hear that really rich people don’t have new cars as they have better uses for money and don’t need to impress the neighbours..

Shame...

[Broncho]

Originally Posted by isleaiw1

Yes but you live in Liverpool. I hear that really rich people don’t have new cars as they have better uses for money and don’t need to impress the neighbours..

Shame...

You try far too hard sausage.

[RENT-A-GOAT]

Golf mk5 GTTDI bought new sold with 150k was a belter no issues

Golf mk5 R32 bought with 23k sold with 50k incredible car had a few issues sold due to unwanted attention & an attempted break in for it's keys. Was sold in as new immaculate condition & new owner had written it off within the 1st week.

Passat B6 bought with 14k sold with 80k loads of issues the had enough point was corrosion due to bad design & Manf defects

BMW E91 bought with 20k sold with 98.7k faultless car

My old man had a transit Luton for the business deliveries (high end furniture) which had from new had been around it's clock and sold with 78k on its second time around. There were tears all round when that went as it was faultless.

[MikiPav711]

I have never seen this mileage on the forum before and was wondering if anyone has come close?

This is my first post ever so I’m sorry if it’s off a little

[Tengocity]

An old thread!

I do t have that car anymore, but I sold it to a friend who has now taken it to 137k miles and it's still going strong. Nothing more than regular servicing.

[anielsen71]

'00 E46 330d with 336.000 Miles on it when I sold it.
'06 E91 330d with 325.000 miles on it when I sold it.

Both tweaked and tuned. E46 blew a turbo at 188.000 miles
E91 never missed a beat. Tuned with down pipe, inter cooler and hybrid turbo

[Ennoch]

I find it a novelty when I have a car that's not got over 100k on it! I've had plenty over the years that aren't, but all the cars I've kept for more than a few months (I bought and sold quite a lot of interesting things quickly like the 3dr WRX, GT4 Carlos Sainz etc) have hit 100k easily in their life with me.

A selection;
'96 Fiat Bravo (first car), bought at 60k and sold at 110k after 1.5 years
'97 Vauxhall Vectra ST200, bought at 90k and sold at 150k after 2 years with cracked suspension turrets and everything hanging out of it. Admittedly I had blown the engine and replaced the 2.5 with a 3.0 and then a 3.2, but what do you expect with a 19yr old who had access to a workshop and knowhow?!
'95 Mercedes Sprinter 208D, bought at 190k with a rebuilt engine, sold at 315k with no synchros left in the gearbox (that was fun doing trips to Europe). Paid £500 from a mate, sold for £500.
'05 Skoda Octavia vRS Mk1. Bought at 30k and sold at 150k. I think it went through coil packs pretty much as a service item but aside from that all it got was a replacement cat and a set of dampers in that time.
'02 Honda CRV Mk2 - was my dad's from new, I got it at 150k 5 years ago and it's now on 190k. It's not lost any value in the last five years and aside from a cracked alternator it's never let me down. I've driven it from Scotland to Chamonix and I've slept in it many, many times when going away winter climbing,
'03 Impreza - bought at 50k 7 years ago, did 15k a year for the first three years and then since getting the Honda it's averaged closer to 2k. Still over 100k now which isn't bad considering how it gets driven and that it's mapped to 300bhp. This one ain't getting sold.
'02 Range Rover TD6. Yes, the one with the chocolate gearbox. Bought it at 140k and did 20k in 9 months before selling as the fear of it eating its third gearbox scared me!

Some of my cars I definitely would have got rid of much sooner had I been paying someone to work on them when they went wrong. But when you're able to fix stuff for the cost of some basic parts I'm quite happy to keep them, I mean they're basically depreciation free motoring. The Honda has cost me about £600 in parts over the last 5 years, including tyres, which is pretty reasonable. I've never been worried about them breaking unduly, although the Honda did go through a period of 18 months when I first took it on where it broke lots of little things.

In Europe they don't seem to get as hung up on mileage, probably because the big birthday is 100k km which is clearly a ridiculous mileage to get scared of. As it is, I suspect that in this country a lot of the fear of big mileages comes from people having to have the latest thing to impress their neighbours, and that as soon as anything goes wrong they must get rid of it (based on work colleagues and neighbours). Most people don't look after their cars properly either which won't help...all mine get looked after as though they're a new car and still get proper parts fitted as well as the paint kept in good nick. None of my neighbours believe the mileages my cars are at which says it all to me but then these are the people who swap out at the local car supermarket every few years because they're uphold at services! The easy access to cheap finance deals in this country have to help sway people into just swapping their car out once it needs to get any work done to it - you only have to look at how many relatively new cars are fitted with utter ditch finder tyres which if you extrapolate out to all the other service items it's no wonder some cars die before their time.

In contrast to all these old cars, my dad's replacement for the Honda was a Christmas tree spec'd Evoque with the then new Ignesium engine. In the first 36 months it had 38 trips to the dealer and 10% of its mileage was spent driving the 160 mile round trip to the local dealer in Inverness! Three steering racks, airbag control units, ABS problems, leaking windscreen, many, many reversing cameras etc. Maybe by the time it hits 10 years old it'll have a reliable collection of replacement parts on it...

[Wills2]

Originally Posted by Tengocity

An old thread!

...

[planemad]

Father in law brought a T reg (1999) Peugeot 406 in 2008 for £500.
It had 400k mls on the clock, was an ex taxi and owned by a group of drivers where they run shifts using the same car.

He did another 90k before selling to a guy on eBay where is sold it for £470.

[jackstrath]

Old thread indeed!

I have the psychological 100k mark in my head, and was proved right with my 335d....

Bought it at 60k and other than the normal 335d things happning in the first 10k it was trouble free, and because of that i kept it past 100k. Then 114k came...... It then needed glow plugs for the second time, glow plug controler, swirl flaps needed blanked, EGR cooler shat the bed and final straw was an oil leak.... this all happened in about 4 months. On the grand scale of things the car had cost me very little to run but i thought it might be a sign of things to come so sold it.

[Soul_Glo]

Originally Posted by ....,,,,..,,..

Vauxhall Carlton - 175,000 miles from 15,000 or so when bought.

Only a few bits and pieces during its life, brilliant motorway cruiser.

Yes I probably would, however I am not sure with the high reliance on software if you could keep many cars to a high mileage unless doing crazy annual mileage.

@mrsbrigand

Your husband is sorely missed on the forum please smoke him out of his fox hole and tell him his VW R is an overhyped car.

[flashollie]

v reg passast estate bought it with 80k on it sold it for £500 with 240k on engine still brilliant. it was mapped too.

Then a brief flirt with Mazda 6 that I never liked felt to tinny.

then E61 530d e bought with 90k sold with 180k. was faultless but for a dirty egr valve at 100k.

Now on the 335d touring from 5k which is likely to go 2025 ish til 100k at 30k now when I'll be getting something petrol m340i touring or M 3 touring I think before the only option is electrical. Keep that for ever as potential classic......