What’s the highest mileage car you have ever seen?

Abcryan123

Just watched the CarThrottle a4 video and curious to see if anyone has had a higher mileage car (540,000 miles)? Would you buy a high mileage vehicle?

The highest I’ve seen was an Octavia 1.9 on DoneDeal with over 900k km on it.

vandriver

I was in a taxi on Lanzarote with 980 k km.

Scienceless

09 Tucson commercial at work has 455k kms done. Passed cvrt last month no problems.
That's alot of mileage I think...?

biko

Abcryan123 wrote: »

Just watched the CarThrottle a4 video and curious to see if anyone has had a higher mileage car?

So what was the mileage on that car?

Abcryan123

biko wrote: »

So what was the mileage on that car?

I’ve edited the post now, thanks for pointing that out

CoBo55

Abcryan123 wrote: »

I’ve edited the post now, thanks for pointing that out

I thought the aptly named Myles was an Octavia or have they found a higher mileage car?

whippet

My auld lad had a VW caddy with over 800k miles back in 2000 I think .. serviced every two weeks by himself .. the seats gave way be fore anything else.

I’ve 420,000km on my MKII Superb Combi

bladespin

Brought a Golf Plus auto 1.9 past 350k miles, hated that car but couldn’t kill it, still going too.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

whippet wrote: »

My auld lad had a VW caddy with over 800k miles back in 2000 I think .. serviced every two weeks by himself .. the seats gave way be fore anything else.

I’ve 420,000km on my MKII Superb Combi

Every 2 weeks?

whippet

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Every 2 weeks?

Yep .. the van did that mileage in about 3/4 years .. so oil and filters were changed constantly

McCrack

whippet wrote: »

Yep .. the van did that mileage in about 3/4 years .. so oil and filters were changed constantly

Are you saying the van was driven approx 5,000 miles a week?

chicorytip

03 Toyota Avensis taxi, 400,000 miles.

Duke O Smiley

590k miles on this 04 Vito

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/04-merc-vito-dsl-minibus-nct/26808218

Casati

McCrack wrote: »

Are you saying the van was driven approx 5,000 miles a week?

That seems a lot but I could see how some vans doing stuff like Pharma deliveries from Dublin to distant towns could be doing massive mileage with multiple drivers

whippet

McCrack wrote: »

Are you saying the van was driven approx 5,000 miles a week?

Close enough to it .. 2/3 lads drove it on shifts for 6 days a week ... it was a work horse !

sweet_trip

A scanie with over 2million miles

Atlantic Dawn

Around 10 years ago a Merc E Class taxi in Dublin with just coming up on 500k miles, petrol too, car was over 10 years old but still incredibly solid on the road, driver was very happy with it. I got the impression from talking to the driver that the car was on the road 24 hours a day and shared between him and another driver.

SlowBlowin

Elon's Tesla roadster.

Glen Immal

Was in a Toyota camry taxi in the middle east. 975000km. Still felt tight. (From the back seat)

McCrack

whippet wrote: »

Close enough to it .. 2/3 lads drove it on shifts for 6 days a week ... it was a work horse !

Logistics doesn't seem plausible

I'm not saying the van can't do it but the logistics doesn't seem plausible

vandriver

McCrack wrote: »

Logistics doesn't seem plausible

I'm not saying the van can't do it but the logistics doesn't seem plausible

A security company with mobile patrols got a new VW Golf in the industrial estate I used to work in.
I knew they had only just got it a month before,and was astonished to see it already had 12,000 miles up.Very high mileage cars are easily possible with 24 hour driving.

whippet

McCrack wrote: »

Logistics doesn't seem plausible

I'm not saying the van can't do it but the logistics doesn't seem plausible

Twice daily round trips to the south west from the north east

Littlehorny

My Dad has an 05 Caddy from new and has put up 500K on it. It's the 2.0 SDI version and it's not like he has minded it either.

commited

There was a w211 e220 on Donedeal recently with 960k kms and one owner!

Tazzimus

A Carina E, clocks went back to zero. Can't remember if they measure KM or miles.
Still going too, that was 5 or 6 years ago.

RandRuns

I had a summer job in a garage back when I was in school, around '89 or' 90. A guy from Dublin came in one day with a late '70s W123 Diesel. If memory serves, he'd lost the radiator cap and was looking for a replacement. He told me he owned a bookies and a fleet of taxis, and the Merc had been his first taxi, but he now used it as his own car. The clock showed some normal enough mileage, but he told me the car had done over a million miles. He said it still had the original engine, and had one replacement gearbox. Going be the interior, I was inclined to believe him. The drivers seat had been reupholstered but the steering wheel was worn through to the metal in places, and many of the switches were worn white.

PsychoPete

Had a 93 Toyota Corolla with 432,000 miles was used as a taxi, sold it to a fella i know about 6 years ago and its still going

antodeco

Jesus, mine has down 9500 miles in 40 years. That's 237 miles a year! (In fairness, I've put 5000 of those miles the last 12 or so years

FionnK86

Setra aircoach bus with 1.5 million in 2014, still on road today.

soundman45

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

590k miles on this 04 Vito

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/04-merc-vito-dsl-minibus-nct/26808218

Finally someone backs up a claim with a picture instead of " I have 900000k on my car BS

soundman45

FionnK86 wrote: »

Setra aircoach bus with 1.5 million in 2014, still on road today.

Thread us about high mileage cars, a bus is a different beast.

McCrack

McCrack wrote: »

Are you saying the van was driven approx 5,000 miles a week?

I used to do courier work with a chap (I was just the helper, he owned the van etc.) and we were delivering stuff to a hospital in Cork. When there, there was a bit of waiting around, and we got chatting to another courier. Think it was Fast Way but could be wrong.



He was saying that his route was off the courier company, and he drove twice daily from Belfast to Cork. Not sure if he said it was a hospital in belfast or a warehouse or what, but he always went to the hospital in cork. He only had those two places. Pick up in belfast, drop off to cork, and return.



The gist of his story was that he started in belfast early in the morning, and drove to cork, and then back to belfast, which took him about 9 hours. When he got back to belfast, his brother swapped with him, and then he went home to bed.


While he was in bed, the brother did the same belfast-cork-belfast journey at night. So the van was going belfast - cork - belfast - cork - belfast every 24 hours. We never actually discussed mileage or wear and tear specifically, but thinking of it, i'd say the mileage on that van would have been astronomical.




I remember being jealous of the job at the time. Thinking how handy it was, and how it must be such easy money, but then i started thinking of how hard it would be to even just stay awake doing that all the time.

2018na

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I used to do courier work with a chap (I was just the helper, he owned the van etc.) and we were delivering stuff to a hospital in Cork. When there, there was a bit of waiting around, and we got chatting to another courier. Think it was Fast Way but could be wrong.



He was saying that his route was off the courier company, and he drove twice daily from Belfast to Cork. Not sure if he said it was a hospital in belfast or a warehouse or what, but he always went to the hospital in cork. He only had those two places. Pick up in belfast, drop off to cork, and return.



The gist of his story was that he started in belfast early in the morning, and drove to cork, and then back to belfast, which took him about 9 hours. When he got back to belfast, his brother swapped with him, and then he went home to bed.


While he was in bed, the brother did the same belfast-cork-belfast journey at night. So the van was going belfast - cork - belfast - cork - belfast every 24 hours. We never actually discussed mileage or wear and tear specifically, but thinking of it, i'd say the mileage on that van would have been astronomical.




I remember being jealous of the job at the time. Thinking how handy it was, and how it must be such easy money, but then i started thinking of how hard it would be to even just stay awake doing that all the time.

And then they talk about road safety. Speed kills. Over tiny limit in the morning. Hiding in hedges with speed cameras. Money making scams on doe on year old vans. Charging you to get the weight of brand new vans that they know full well what it weighs 1000s of times over. Persecuting delivery men over really brief parking to add to there stress. Pay a lad 80 euro a day after all this and then wondering how are there deaths on our roads? So basically we share the roads with a load of stressed out Red Bull fueled van drivers. Safety my arse

Old diesel

Renault 19 van - 400 k miles approximately.

Mileometer actually said 309 k miles but the guy whose van it was - said it had a new speedometer at 100 k miles.

Been in a Hiace with 360 k miles and the fella that does our Milk recording did 380 k miles in a Mk 3 Golf before the rust got to it underneath.

Guill

Deleted User wrote: »

I used to do courier work with a chap (I was just the helper, he owned the van etc.) and we were delivering stuff to a hospital in Cork. When there, there was a bit of waiting around, and we got chatting to another courier. Think it was Fast Way but could be wrong.



He was saying that his route was off the courier company, and he drove twice daily from Belfast to Cork. Not sure if he said it was a hospital in belfast or a warehouse or what, but he always went to the hospital in cork. He only had those two places. Pick up in belfast, drop off to cork, and return.



The gist of his story was that he started in belfast early in the morning, and drove to cork, and then back to belfast, which took him about 9 hours. When he got back to belfast, his brother swapped with him, and then he went home to bed.


While he was in bed, the brother did the same belfast-cork-belfast journey at night. So the van was going belfast - cork - belfast - cork - belfast every 24 hours. We never actually discussed mileage or wear and tear specifically, but thinking of it, i'd say the mileage on that van would have been astronomical.




I remember being jealous of the job at the time. Thinking how handy it was, and how it must be such easy money, but then i started thinking of how hard it would be to even just stay awake doing that all the time.

I know two guys doing the same route.

First guys drives Belfast to Midlands and swaps with guy 2 who drives Midlands to cork and back.
First guys turns and goes back to Belfast to pick up another load.
Every day. 6 days a week.

First Up

If you want to see high mileage, go to the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. People from those parts go to Germany and buy up old Mercedes (300,000k+) and drive them back to Ukraine, Georgia, Albania etc. to start a new life.

It's a testament to the durability of the Merc. Some cars are well over 20 years old and half a million k on the clock is nothing

2018na

2018na wrote: »

And then they talk about road safety. Speed kills. Over tiny limit in the morning. Hiding in hedges with speed cameras. Money making scams on doe on year old vans. Charging you to get the weight of brand new vans that they know full well what it weighs 1000s of times over. Persecuting delivery men over really brief parking to add to there stress. Pay a lad 80 euro a day after all this and then wondering how are there deaths on our roads? So basically we share the roads with a load of stressed out Red Bull fueled van drivers. Safety my arse

Ah I'm sure you get used to it fairly quickly, or some people would just naturally be good at it. Not a million miles away from a bus driver working full time, I'd imagine, doing Dublin-cork or such on the motorway.

AutoGuru

2006 Skoda Octavia 1.9 Tdi , 840,000 kms

soundman45

AutoGuru wrote: »

2006 Skoda Octavia 1.9 Tdi , 840,000 kms

Post a pic of the odometer maybe?

NoBread

Tazzimus wrote: »

A Carina E, clocks went back to zero. Can't remember if they measure KM or miles.
Still going too, that was 5 or 6 years ago.

They measured in miles unless it was an import, and the clock read to 999,999 so that was over a million.
I was in a 2001 Avensis Taxi in Sligo in November 2001 and saw over the shoulder of the driver that the clock had 98,500-ish miles on it. I queried it, asking is there something wrong with it - I said I was sure I hopped into a 2001 car, how could it have done that much in 11 months max, he said it's on 3 shifts. All the time going.
One of the taxi companies in Sligo ran a Carina E to well over 800,000 miles. He said it had numerous suspension component changes, a head gasket at one stage, possibly a fuel pump, but was reliable. Those things were wear and tear really. You don't need proof for a Carina E diesel though - you just know those can keep going!

blue5000

2 Avensis diesel cars here have done over 400k km. One of them put a leg out of the bed though. Suspension is what really kills them in the end, well Irish roads I suppose. Toyota don't make cars like they used to.

Tazzimus

blue5000 wrote: »

2 Avensis diesel cars here have done over 400k km. One of them put a leg out of the bed though. Suspension is what really kills them in the end, well Irish roads I suppose. Toyota don't make cars like they used to.

That's low mileage for them. My old 00 A3 had 300k miles when I sold it and wasn't a bother on the engine.
Those diesel Carina E's will go forever if you keep an eye on the perishable bits.

Covit

Local vet here with 07 land cruiser on 600k . Well serviced only ever got a clutch and the usual maintenance .

KevRossi

Personally owned was 894,000 km on a 1990 W124 300TE, it was written off. Not all of it was mine, it was a company car that we got at 240,000 km.

Plenty of W123's doing return runs like Boujdour-Dakhla (630 km return) in Morocco 5-6 days a week taking 6 passengers (3 up front, 4 in back). They should be hitting 180-200,000 km per annum, some of them have over 2 million kms on them from chatting to the drivers.

I know a delivery company in Marseille who had a few CX Tissiers back in the late 80's and 90's, they did ca 320-350,000 km per year, driving in shifts. Marseille-Paris and Marseille-Bordeaux every other day. Used to last about 5 years with one change of engine and box.

These things, standard 2.5l turbo diesel with manual box AFAIK

An Ri rua

Glen Immal wrote: »

Was in a Toyota camry taxi in the middle east. 975000km. Still felt tight. (From the back seat)

Ooh matron...

Glen Immal

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landmarkjohn

There's an ex Portugese taxi in the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart with a million miles on it... info board says Mercedes swapped him for a brand new car. It looked in decent nick.