Highest ever recorded mileage?!!
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i had an Octavia TDi with 297, 000 Miles on it, i was gutted when the engine started ticking badly so close to the 300, 000 figure!
Some fellow wanted it even with no power and sounding like a tank (more than usual), seen it driving around a few weeks after still the same so in my mind it got to 300, 000. I still maintain it was a great run about for me with the number of motorway miles i was covering.
I'm sure i read somewhere that there was a car still on the road with half a million on it ... might have been on PH i read it actually?
Some fellow wanted it even with no power and sounding like a tank (more than usual), seen it driving around a few weeks after still the same so in my mind it got to 300, 000. I still maintain it was a great run about for me with the number of motorway miles i was covering.
I'm sure i read somewhere that there was a car still on the road with half a million on it ... might have been on PH i read it actually?
A little bit more than a half a million : http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2010/07/worlds-...
)homerjay said:
That is 174 miles per day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year for 44 years!! Now I'm not saying the Guinness Book of records has been had, but.............Bonnie12 said:
homerjay said:
That is 174 miles per day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year for 44 years!! Now I'm not saying the Guinness Book of records has been had, but.............Alfa numeric said:
Bonnie12 said:
homerjay said:
That is 174 miles per day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year for 44 years!! Now I'm not saying the Guinness Book of records has been had, but.............
I've heard mercedes do the same thing with a million-miler of a taxi driver, and put the car in a museum
volvo said:
Irv Gordon aims for 3 million miles in his Volvo P1800
American Irv Gordon - driver of the highest mileage vehicle on the road, a 1966 Volvo P1800 - has just turned 70. No he aims to reach an unmatchable record sometime in the next three years.
The two-seater sports coupe P1800 was presented at the auto show in Brussels 1960. Production started one year later, so 2011 the P1800 celebrates its 50 year anniversary. Almost 46,000 units of the famous Swedish sailor Pelle Petterson designed model were produced in various versions until production finished in 1973.
"I used to think I'd park it in a museum where people will get to enjoy seeing the car that beat the odds - all with the same engine, same radio, same axles, same transmission and of course the same driver,"
on the same ENGINE American Irv Gordon - driver of the highest mileage vehicle on the road, a 1966 Volvo P1800 - has just turned 70. No he aims to reach an unmatchable record sometime in the next three years.
The two-seater sports coupe P1800 was presented at the auto show in Brussels 1960. Production started one year later, so 2011 the P1800 celebrates its 50 year anniversary. Almost 46,000 units of the famous Swedish sailor Pelle Petterson designed model were produced in various versions until production finished in 1973.
"I used to think I'd park it in a museum where people will get to enjoy seeing the car that beat the odds - all with the same engine, same radio, same axles, same transmission and of course the same driver,"
good work 
http://www.volvocars.com/intl/top/about/news-event...
Edited by y2blade on Thursday 26th August 13:40
I have it in my head, although I've not searched it, that some [American?] chap was given a new Saab by Saab as he'd clocked up 1,000,000 miles in his old (owned from new) 99 ?
I think this may hark back to a comment that EVO contributor Simon George made about his original Murcie, now on 150k or so miles, and if he clocked a million in that, he'd like a new LP670-4, please?
EDIT: just re-read the link for that P1800!
'kin 'ell - my 480ES struggled to get to 85k before I scrapped it when it was only 10 years old!
I think this may hark back to a comment that EVO contributor Simon George made about his original Murcie, now on 150k or so miles, and if he clocked a million in that, he'd like a new LP670-4, please?
EDIT: just re-read the link for that P1800!
'kin 'ell - my 480ES struggled to get to 85k before I scrapped it when it was only 10 years old!
Edited by 5potTurbo on Thursday 26th August 13:43
5potTurbo said:
I have it in my head, although I've not searched it, that some [American?] chap was given a new Saab by Saab as he'd clocked up 1,000,000 miles in his old (owned from new) 99 ?...
Three brands I heard/read similar stories about:
Mercedes
Volvo
Saab
All about million-milers getting offered new cars for their old one.
alsem said:
I remember a story from a guy from turkey who had a taxi firm, he put over 4.000.000 miles on a Mercedes that was bought new and driven 24 hours a day for about 23 years, then Mercedes bought his car and put it in a museum and gave that man a brand new Mercedes!
http://www.worldcarfans.com/104092910195/proverbia...
Edited by Aviz on Thursday 26th August 14:35
BOUGHT A REAL NICE VW CADDY VAN
LIKE 4 YEARS OLD
260000 MILES NOT WARRANTED AT AUCTION
FELLOW TRADERS WOULD NOT TOUCH IT..SWEET RUNNING AND NICE ON BODY..DRIVERS SEAT GOOD.STEERING WHEEL OK.
BOUGHT IT.
PAPERWORK SAID ONE OWNER...THOUGHT JESUS HE MUST OF LIVED IN IT..
PAPERWORK SAID LOCAL...SO CALLED MY PAL AT VW IN PETERBOROUGH,GGAVE HIM REG NUMBER...HE KNEW THE VAN..ALWAYS IN HERE TOLD ME..
WAS ON 4 YEAR FULL MAINTENANCE CONTRACT WITH VAN WHEN SERVICED... EVERY TIME IT WAS SERVICED THE NEW LOAN VAN CAME BACK WITH 4500 MILES,,,A FEW DAYS LATER...
PRINTED OUT REAMS OF SERVICE HISTORY AND CAM BELT HISTORY...
TRUE MILES TWO WEEKS BEFORE PX FOR ANOTHER NEW ONE.....486,000 MILES....SOLD AT AUCTION AND SOME PIKEY TRADER HAD CLOCKED IT TO STILL HIGH MILES..
WE KEPT IT FOR YEARS,IT HAD AIRCON SO WE LOVED IT...LOOKED AND DROVE LIKE 80,000 CARED FOR MILES.
THINK WE WORKED OUT THE VAN HAD DONE 18000 MILES SOME 7 DAY PERIODS...MUST HAVE HAD 2 OR 3 DRIVERS SURELY..
I WOULD HAVE ANOTHER FOR SURE.
LIKE 4 YEARS OLD
260000 MILES NOT WARRANTED AT AUCTION
FELLOW TRADERS WOULD NOT TOUCH IT..SWEET RUNNING AND NICE ON BODY..DRIVERS SEAT GOOD.STEERING WHEEL OK.
BOUGHT IT.
PAPERWORK SAID ONE OWNER...THOUGHT JESUS HE MUST OF LIVED IN IT..
PAPERWORK SAID LOCAL...SO CALLED MY PAL AT VW IN PETERBOROUGH,GGAVE HIM REG NUMBER...HE KNEW THE VAN..ALWAYS IN HERE TOLD ME..
WAS ON 4 YEAR FULL MAINTENANCE CONTRACT WITH VAN WHEN SERVICED... EVERY TIME IT WAS SERVICED THE NEW LOAN VAN CAME BACK WITH 4500 MILES,,,A FEW DAYS LATER...
PRINTED OUT REAMS OF SERVICE HISTORY AND CAM BELT HISTORY...
TRUE MILES TWO WEEKS BEFORE PX FOR ANOTHER NEW ONE.....486,000 MILES....SOLD AT AUCTION AND SOME PIKEY TRADER HAD CLOCKED IT TO STILL HIGH MILES..
WE KEPT IT FOR YEARS,IT HAD AIRCON SO WE LOVED IT...LOOKED AND DROVE LIKE 80,000 CARED FOR MILES.
THINK WE WORKED OUT THE VAN HAD DONE 18000 MILES SOME 7 DAY PERIODS...MUST HAVE HAD 2 OR 3 DRIVERS SURELY..
I WOULD HAVE ANOTHER FOR SURE.
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