One owner. Over 3,000,000 miles.

[KzMitch]

Neat story on man who has driven over 3 million miles.

http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2013...-volvo/2908911/

(No mention of long drain OCI. Hmmmm. Coincidence?)

 

[hattaresguy]

"Just follow the owner's manual," he said. "It's a piece of machinery and can't take care of itself. Have its scheduled maintenance completed. … Do what the manual calls for, not what the dealer calls for. People who built the car wrote the manual."


Like I always say, follow the FSM.

Having said that most quality cars of that vintage will do that if the owner keeps up on them. Their are a few Mercedes rolling around deep into the seven figures as well.

Mercedes has mileage badges you can get for free, they give you a nice certificate with them.

 

[CT8]

Those Mercedes were built to last. !!!

 

[RISUPERCREWMAN]

That's simply amazing!

 

[440Magnum]

Originally Posted By: CT8
Those Mercedes were built to last. !!!


Key word: WERE.

I'd bet you anything no E63 or SLK 55 gets anywhere close to 1/10th that number of miles. Probably not even many garden variety E350s get to 300k, let alone 3M.

 

[daves87rs]

Wow...

 

[Nyati]

My 1991 500SL has 55K miles. I would hit 3 million in about 4515. I don't expect I'll live 2500 more years though.

 

[CT8]

Originally Posted By: Nyati
My 1991 500SL has 55K miles. I would hit 3 million in about 4515. I don't expect I'll live 2500 more years though.
Take vitamins.

 

[SJohnson]

Cool! Now I've got one more thing to add to my bucket list.

 

[crazyoildude]

i don't know about 3 million miles but they used to build a great engine. Their cars today are not so great