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Colin
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4th Mar 07 at 15:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://www.pureluckdesign.com/vw/600k/

Quite amazing really, just goes to show if you look after your car it will keep on plodding along
Kano
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One of my mates is buying an 02 plate a4 diesel that has 380,000 on it... Ideal..

High mileage motors rule..
Colin
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Heres another UK one this time with almost 900k on it - http://www.caledonianrecord.com/pages/local_news/story/7311bd97b

Anyone know of a car with more???
c20let
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wasnt there a saab or volvo with 1 or 2 million miles?
Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by Kano
One of my mates is buying an 02 plate a4 diesel that has 380,000 on it... Ideal..

High mileage motors rule..


Ive seen a couple A4 on the trader about that age with over 200k..........dont think id buy one though
mwg
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That thing hasn't sat still since he got his hands on it!
SteveW
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http://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/19981123/press000853.html
Kano
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quote:
Originally posted by SteveW
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/19981123/press000853.html


Oooooooft!
SportBoy
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seen a pug 406 with 970k on it
mwg
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Full Volvo Service History aswell by the sound of it
Kano
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
Full Volvo Service History aswell by the sound of it
How many service books would you need? lol
Whittie
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4th Mar 07 at 16:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
1.6 million is a good effort.
SVM 286
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http://www.pureluckdesign.com/vw/600k/

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Btw, wouldn't want to be doing 100k in 29 months in pretty much anything, never mind a golf GL
SVM 286
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The Mobil 1 BMW 3 Series did a million miles in a very short period of time and had barely anything done to it.
Mark330d
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my uncles truck has over a million miles on it.
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i work on alot of trucks with around 1-2 million miles pretty common

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There was a New Golf R32 on Ebay last year with 650k on the clock, was used to drive to and from Italy non stop, only stopped for short times to load up.
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deano87
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If you notice most of these are VAGs, Volvos etc and 1 Pug.

The car that took me and the missus from train station to hotel was a Ford Mondeo estate TD, with over 300k on the clock
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we have a cav td and a combo van that come to our garage both with over 300k on them ... alltho im sure they have had an engine or 2

[Edited on 04-03-2007 by SportyBoy]
MarkM
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quote:
Originally posted by BeArDy
There was a New Golf R32 on Ebay last year with 650k on the clock, was used to drive to and from Italy non stop, only stopped for short times to load up.


Wasnt that something to do with transporting diamonds?

I remember that...
ShEp
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we had a mondeo taxi in our work with over 300k

and he got a full respray
ShEp
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http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/hmc/index.shtml volvo high milage club

116 Irv Gordon USA 1800S 1966 *** 2474221 *** <<thats the mileage
NovalutionGSi
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My nova's close to seeing 175k.... most of those make it look low mileage!
Corsa_Carl
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my polo gti is up for sale and its got 116k on, y do people think thats alot ? i dont think it is, if its been looked after well it should be mint, and my car is mint and well looked after, i dont understand

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