Highest mileage vehicle?
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1993 Volvo Classic sedan teal-blue: 258k
1993 Volvo Classic wagon: 211k
1992 Mercedes 300D 2.5T: 164k
1903 Volvo Classic sedan red: 110k
1993 Volvo Classic wagon: 211k
1992 Mercedes 300D 2.5T: 164k
1903 Volvo Classic sedan red: 110k
Donated my still running 2000 VW GTI 1.8T to charity with 365K miles on it.
Got my 95 Accord to almost 400,000 miles. Bought it with 192,000 in high school. Around 240,000 a not old NGK plug broke apart while driving and severely scored 1 cylinder. It went from a non oil burning engine to burning a quart every 900 miles. That number gradually got much worse over time.
12 years later it spun a rod and blew a hole in the block. Still made it home.
A 98 Cavalier 2.2L 3 speed auto my dad bought new made it to around 317,000 miles. He gave it to me in 2009 with 175,000 miles. It never had a valve cover off in its life. Front and rear subframe rust was bad enough though that I junked it after about 20 years on the road. Mile for mile, the Cavalier was actually a more reliable car than the Accord but the Accord was a far better made car.
Great random story, the Cavalier had a HP.Tuners tune on it done by a good friend of mine. We were bored one day and being a free car with 200+ miles, why not. He turned up the timing some and increased the rev limiter/shift points a few hundred rpm.
Unbeknownst to me he shut the speed limiter off too. I remember hitting the 105 or 107 speed limiter numerous times as a teen when the car was newer, the distinct bog when it happens. Turning this off got me out of trouble one night on a empty highway alone out near Harrisburg, 60 miles from home. I ended up in a scary road rage issue with 3 guys in a Ford Expedition who eventually decided they wanted to run me off the road and made an honest attempt to do so.
They could not pull on the Cavalier though as we approached 100+ and were about 1/2 car length behind me. My hope was the Cavalier had a slightly higher limiter since most trucks I'd been in cut at 98 or so. Looked it up later and seems that expedition has no speed limiter. I wasn't watching the speedometer, but eventually I'm walking away from the Expedition and I remember thinking "man this car is really screaming". I was doing 116/7 mph. I slowed down to 105 and stayed there for about 10 minutes.
12 years later it spun a rod and blew a hole in the block. Still made it home.
A 98 Cavalier 2.2L 3 speed auto my dad bought new made it to around 317,000 miles. He gave it to me in 2009 with 175,000 miles. It never had a valve cover off in its life. Front and rear subframe rust was bad enough though that I junked it after about 20 years on the road. Mile for mile, the Cavalier was actually a more reliable car than the Accord but the Accord was a far better made car.
Great random story, the Cavalier had a HP.Tuners tune on it done by a good friend of mine. We were bored one day and being a free car with 200+ miles, why not. He turned up the timing some and increased the rev limiter/shift points a few hundred rpm.
Unbeknownst to me he shut the speed limiter off too. I remember hitting the 105 or 107 speed limiter numerous times as a teen when the car was newer, the distinct bog when it happens. Turning this off got me out of trouble one night on a empty highway alone out near Harrisburg, 60 miles from home. I ended up in a scary road rage issue with 3 guys in a Ford Expedition who eventually decided they wanted to run me off the road and made an honest attempt to do so.
They could not pull on the Cavalier though as we approached 100+ and were about 1/2 car length behind me. My hope was the Cavalier had a slightly higher limiter since most trucks I'd been in cut at 98 or so. Looked it up later and seems that expedition has no speed limiter. I wasn't watching the speedometer, but eventually I'm walking away from the Expedition and I remember thinking "man this car is really screaming". I was doing 116/7 mph. I slowed down to 105 and stayed there for about 10 minutes.
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1991 Volvo 240 B230 - sold with 267k miles (guy who bought it crashed it and the 33yr old airbags did deploy!)
1998 Volvo C70 (2.3 HPT) - solid with 303k miles. Burning about 1.5 qt every 5k miles. Trans still held to the redline in sport mode.
1982 Mercedes 300D OM617 - solid with 313k miles. Had injectors starting to fail.
1991 Volvo 940 B230FT - 223k miles. Currently with undiagnosed hot temp hard start issues.
2002 Infiniti QX4 VQ35 - solid with 200k miles. I put 80k of those in 3 years. Still ran perfect but rust was getting her.
2005 Corolla 1zz - bought new by in laws. We got it with 60k miles and currently at 204k miles.
1998 Volvo C70 (2.3 HPT) - solid with 303k miles. Burning about 1.5 qt every 5k miles. Trans still held to the redline in sport mode.
1982 Mercedes 300D OM617 - solid with 313k miles. Had injectors starting to fail.
1991 Volvo 940 B230FT - 223k miles. Currently with undiagnosed hot temp hard start issues.
2002 Infiniti QX4 VQ35 - solid with 200k miles. I put 80k of those in 3 years. Still ran perfect but rust was getting her.
2005 Corolla 1zz - bought new by in laws. We got it with 60k miles and currently at 204k miles.
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I heard of a Saturn S-series (in southern California, I think) that made it over 600K miles on the original engine and manual transmission. The engine was burning a lot of oil then, though, but that's fairly typical for S-series engines.
Wow, with the original turbo? I guess if you cleaned the oil line screen on them they lasted?
I think OP is asking about the members of BITOG, not someone you’ve seen on YT.
My Honda CR-V in my signature is now at 325,600 miles and still runs well. Might use 1.5 qts oil in a 5,000 OCI. I use bp/Shell/Sunoco fuel and I keep up on fluid levels. I have never changed coolant but I have changed trans fluid and filter.
Yes, original turbo. I never had any issues with it, and I didn't always run the proper spec oil, either. My driving style contributed to its long life. Back and forth to work 45 miles each way on the highway at 70 mph is how it lived its life. My driving style just doesn't wear vehicles out.
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