QOTD (x2): Who Here Has The Most Miles On A Car? What's The Most You Ever Attained?
Published: March 13th, 2010
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We can’t all be Irv Gordon, who’s racked up over 2.6 million miles on his 1966 Volvo P1800 since buying it new. And that was in 2007; he plans to hit 3 million (full press release here) sometime in 2012. I’m certainly not going to impress anybody in this QOTD: the ’66 Ford F-100 probably has about 225k on it (I’m assuming it spun once around before I bought it in 1987), and I only average a couple thousand miles a year with it (I can only use so much mulch or gravel a year). Stephanie’s 2000 Forester just turned 130k. And my five-year old xB has all of 33k on it; working at home has its benefits. But what about you? What’s the highest mile car a TTAC reader owns now? Or ever did? No exaggeration please!
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I have a 1999 Chrysler Concorde LXI, bought In January of 1999, it has 239,000 miles.. One major engine repair.. The timing system.. Have only changed the transmission fluid once... Before the 100,000 have not changed it sinced.. I drive around an average of 80 miles a day Monday thru Friday on this car... Am I lucky... Chrysler can you send me a new car?
I'm driving a 92 Suzuki Sidekick (two door 4x4, with a soft top) with at least 247k miles on it -- that's what I've put on it. It was purchased TMU reading 21k and, by the shape it was in when purchased, it had to be 121k. At 16, it was all I could afford. Glad I pulled the trigger on that buy, too. I drove it all through high school and college, used it to teach both of my younger sisters to drive, played "Stuff the 'Zuk" through two moves (you'd be surprised at the amount of crap you can jam in there if you sacrifice the back seat and open the top) and still drive it every day. If I can keep it alive long enough, I plan on it being my son's first car when he starts driving (14 years from now). The computer was the first thing to go (had it replaced three years ago), it had some electrical problems around 175k miles, needed a new exhaust around 210k, and the transmission's been rebuilt (that was last year, once reverse died on me), but the engine's original. And that little 4cyl still takes on highway traffic every summer weekend for baseball games. Burns a little oil, but otherwise in good shape. My husband's trucks are also getting up there in miles. His daily driver is a 2001 Chevrolet Tracker with 155k miles (and adding 100 miles every weekday, as his commute to work is just over 50 miles one-way), but his 1995 Isuzu Trooper has 223k on it. I don't know the Trooper's history near as well -- my 'Kick has been mine since I was 16, but the Trooper only entered my life this last year -- but I know it's made the trek from North Carolina to New Jersey and then from New Jersey to Oklahoma (and back, hauling a U-Haul trailer) twice. The power steering pump is starting to go on us, but overall still a really strong truck.
My 1994 Chevy k1500 5.7L has 251K, just replaced original trans. My '94 Chevy k3500 crew-cab dually (shop truck) 7.4L has 370K, though the engine is getting tired in this truck. Swapping a crate engine VERY soon! Wife's 2000 Blazer has only 143K...but the build quality on it is JUNK!!! Both trucks are 10 times better condition than the Blazer even with same service (severe duty) service schedules. And my personal best: I had a 1996 FSuperDuty (before Ford outright called it an F450) 7.3L Power Stroke that I put 430K on before I sold it. Original engine (except injectors) and trans (replaced flywheel to "singe-mass", for you Ford diesel guys). Bought all my trucks new, less than 100 miles.
1971 Toyota Hilux pickup - 476,000 miles. Original engine, though I did a ring job at 148K miles, but nothing else other than the usual brakes, shocks, clutch, etc. Change the oil every 5,000 miles - keep it tidy. Great truck except it's quietly rusting away...glad I live in California so there's no road salt!