The car infront

[michaelcoombs]

I know of an Audi tdi Ive sold 3 times with 270k still on original engine/box/clutch. had 4 timing belts and service bits but never gone wrong.  

good to know...  

[DAVE O]

Phew - it started ok      

It puts my 5 series with 1/3 less miles to shame - thats has crank sensors light blubs front and rear nad other niggles that I have sorted - the toyota has never even had a light bulb changed...

I've owned 6 other toyotas whilst we've had this one and they've all been the same - soooo relaible - even the Ae92 Corolla with celica engine fitted. That was thrashed and tracked all the time but remained reliable  

[Gavin]

My Focus 2.0 is 200 miles off of the 100,000 marker and has had just tyres, brakes and a back box. It's allways been serviced by me (I know too much about the trade to let a dealer near it !!) ohh and I thrash the $h!t out of it on a daily basis, never wash it and treat it like a slave. Best workhorse I have ever had, good ol' blue ovals !      

[bozblat]

well i think toyota make the most reliable cars, but have met people that have done near on 300k out of a peugeot, vw's over 200k etc but what they all have in common is that they were looked after all there life correctly. having worked at peugeot, toyota and vw dealerships i have to say that vw's have better build qualit, peugeot have better style, and toyota will give the least trouble.

[brianm]

Old hat now I know but mates family run a taxi buissiness out of Doncaster. Many years back they had a VX Astra 1.7 diesel as the pool car for airport runs.

Basically it was available to any driver on all 3 shifts, and only ever did Doncaster to Leeds Bradford, or Manchester airport runs.

This car ran, and ran, and ran. Used a set of brakes and tyres every 40K, but nothing else. At 185k I borrowed it for a run, could have been 40K, you just couldnt tell.

 At 280K, the last time I heard about it, and at about 12 years old, it had had a replacement head gasket, and that was it, still going.

Friend of a friend was a buyer for Derbyshire Police cars a few years ago.  Using Rover 820 s at that time. Similar story. Apart from brakes, tyres, and regular routine chanhge stuff the cars cost no more to run at 250K than they did at 50k, but inevitably they did fall apart due the the abuse they got in "active" service.

B.

PS This was back in '87 in the case of the Astra, when cars "didn't last"

[cast iron]

Havent I seen an article somewhere (I think top gear did a competition) and the highest mileage car still on the road was a Nissan Bluebird  

[Ian Podmore]

Very impressed the rear tyres lasted so long.

That'll be because its a front wheel drive car. Its not un heard of for a set of non driven tyres to do 100K.

Buzz

Not on my MG ZT they don't....... Just had third set of rears after 75,000 miles. They have worn just as fast as the front tyres. Doubt my driving has influenced this wear at all    

[davidgh]

Not only Toyota.....

I owned an MX5 (http://boardroom.wscc.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=9;t=20008;hl=davidgh)

for 11 years without one unscheduled visit to a workshop.....

.....can't say the tyres lasted 100k miles though  

[oldman]

Kinell.Once drove t'Pluto in me Allegro

[brianm]

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Anyway it broke two inlet cam followers, which I removed and threw away. The car ran hapily on ten valves for another eigteen months on so before selling for £80 Honestly, you couldn't tell it was down one inlet valve per cyl on two pots!      

Yuo sure it wasnt a VX beetle??? heard similar stuff there.