The mileage thead...

[BenzBoy]

Simple question... how many miles has your retro covered?

My Benzy has done 100,000 on the nose...


When I bought it, it had 75,000 on it, so I've done 25,000 miles in her so far.
Hopefully after the engine swap / mild resto I'll be doing many many more miles in it!

My Saab has done 170,000 miles, but not much of that is with me behind the wheel as I've not long had it.

The highest mileage car I've ever owned was a Peugeot 205 diesel which had clocked up 270,000!

[ben711200]

The MX5 is at 149,000, but I have no idea what its had done in the past.. I replaced the cambelt when I bought it (just 500 miles ago) and am hoping for the best!
Goodness knows what the triumph has done, it certainly isn't the 38000 that its reading..

[bortaf]

Me cortina estate 142K, cortina EFi salloon (engine 194K) the rest is on 65K
Disco 165K (just run in really), Lucida 62K, Mk4 escort 143K, recover truck 35K, the other 3 are in so many pieces i cant tell
Highest millage i've ever owned was a cortina i bought off another cab driver that was over 500K when i got it

[Mike]

My Golf has covered 183,000 or thereabouts, but only 75,000 on it's current engine.

[Rich]

My Transporter has done about 119000 to date, from 1989
My Golf had done 219,000 when it caught fire (milage unrelated!!)
Thats nearly 5 times round the world!
I knew someone that had up until recently been rocking about in an A reg Mk2 GTI with 250,000 miles on it. Still made 90BHP on the rollers, but that killed it about a week later ;D
Still, he's rebuilding it rather than scrapping it so it'll last another 200,000 miles

Rich

[joem83]

My old E36 318is had done 183k when I sold it, ran like new. Also my old T4 had done 174k when I sold it on I did very little of the mileage myself on either.

[kee]

the fiesta has 78000 on it now, i've done 14k of them in 2 years.
my new engine has about 2k on it ;D

[fpk]

my 1600 td passat has 400 miles to go before the big 200,000 miles still plods along nicely.

[HoTWire]

Datsun has 36k

[dollywobbler]

2CV = 170,000. Bunged a second-hand engine in 6k ago while I fettle the original, but it still runs well. I've done 80,000 of those miles myself.

Mini = 60k. Had 36k when we got it...

Bond = 4000 on the clock, but previous owner reckons it's clocked TWICE, so 204,000! No way of proving that mind.

[stinkwheel]

cortina estate has done 130k the red 2CV has done 84k the dyane van has done 174k kilometers. Highest mileage car i ever owned was a BX 17 diesel that had done a documented 328k when i sold it for scrap to someone on e-bay.

[waveman1500]

Well, my 1970 VW Beetle currently shows just over 21,000 miles, but the odometer only goes up to 99,999 before it goes around again. I know for sure that it had the current front tyres at about 75,000 miles, which was back in 2003, so I reckon it would have gone back to zero around 2005. In the 35 years before that, nobody knows how many times it's been around, but it has to be at least once, so I'll conservatively estimate that it's been around between two and four times in total. So, total distance travelled is either 221,000, 321,000 (most likely) or perhaps even 421,000.

The car still has only it's original paint (and it's getting pretty thin), but has had the front-left fender and bonnet changed, as well as the wheels. Transaxle, engine and seats were replaced by previous owner, and I've put in another engine to make it a bit quicker.

[Loxlee]

mine has 120,000 of unleaded mileage which is really taking its toll on the valve seats!

[Paul H]

Volvo - bought by father with indicated 79K* back in '94

*but definately not the first time around! So at least 179K, but possibly 279K.

I acquired it in '02 with about 35 / 40K showing & it is now on 84K ;D

[surprisingskoda]

bm 160k
rat 113k odo died about 14k ago
estate 79k
tango 25k indicated
most other estelles/rapids between 25-66k
7 at 19k indicated... but its 80 years old and only has a 99.9k clock

[Deleted]

My 1st car, Ford 107E got it with 97K on the clock and when I killed it spectacularly it had done 135K. Second car, 105E Anglia had about 90K on it when I got it and is now at about 117K. 3rd car, sit up and beg Ford Popular left me with 14K on the clock, so 114K total. Not bad for a really shonky motor that can only do 50mph

[R3TR0_R0B]

My Jetta has only done 145000 kilometers in 20 years, that's only about 7250 a year on avarage.

[retrowagen1234]

my current rides:

88,000 on the mk2
23,000 iirc on the mk1


ive had:

a 18,000 mile polo before
and a 17,000 ish mile metro hls..

and numerous cars around the 40/50,000 mile mark

my dads ds is on 18,000

[trigger]

My 1602 has only 69k with a stamped up service book to prove it.

[tofufi]

My van is on at least 150000 miles. It has done 50,000 since 1994, so is probably on 250000.

Beetle has an indicated 79k miles, I've no way of telling either way.