133k on original 20v na still holds perfect oil pressure and pulls well (for an na lol)

all these figures are pathetic.

Try 263k on an original engine, never needed a thing doing on it except 6k oil change intervals, no head gasket, nothing.


Had 2 new turbos in this time, 2 clutches, 2 OC and pipes, and 2 radiators.

Still going today

That is in a word, ASTONISHING Just goes to show how strong these engines are, very re-assuring to any of those that are stupidly put off by high-mileage cars keep up the good work!

That is impressive!

That is impressive.

gotta say for the first time in my life i'm looking forward to buying a 100k mile car in the next few weeks. prior to coupe ownership there is no way i'd have considered that, but with some tlc, mechanical sympathy and the right bloke looking after it i have no qualms whatsoever. i look forward to many more miles of coupe driving, i love em....

I think around the 100k mark for these cars is about what you want to aim for, perhaps a bit lower but at this mileage they seem to run as though theyve done about 50k its a shame that some people go for low mileage ones and then get stung by all the upcoming big jobs that the higher mileage ones have already had performed on them.

I bought my current coupe in France and it had done 100k miles and I paid 4.6GBP. A lot by British standards but normal in France. I have looked after it and changed a few things and it is a pleasure to drive. I think I will get the cambelt done next year, probably at Motormech as Paul did the cambelt on my British 16v na. If you look after them they do seem to go well.

yeah, i think maintenance is key

Four pound sixty, Ned? I knew they were getting cheap but that's ridiculous!

I thought that as well, ha! A coupe for a fiver lets all move to france!

I've just brought mine with 113k on it but that has a great history.

x1000

159000 on mine

must be the fresh scottish air feeding the engine

lol aye your right about that

I was born in dunfermline, fife, im a scotsman but you'd never tell from my accent

My coop has just turned over 100,000 Miles!!!!

Just run in then

Hopefully!

turned 210,000 on the way to Leighton's yesterday

And I've just found out that one of the last remaining original big oily bits is coming up for replacement - steering rack is making some funny noises - mechanically, there's not much left of the original car

Its beginning to sound like Trigger's broomstick

Mine's ticked past 132,000 recently. Passed the MOT yesterday with not even any advisories

Hi Simonj
You must be the guy i chatted to yesterday at Solo Italia?
I was picking up the silver 20vt to take home to Northampton..it was a great ride home
cheers lenny

Hope mine does the same, cant see it failing on anything

Another milestone - 220,000 now - its taken a bit longer than usual, as its been off the road for the last four weeks having new pistons.

Trigger's Broom just keeps on going

And another milestone - 222,222 - why is it that a collection of identical numbers on the odometer is so satisfying?

I even reset the trip at 221999.8 so that the trip meter read 222.2 when it turned 222,222 on the main meter. Unfortunately, the photo I took was blurry, so not worth showing

It's OK I believe you.

I remember when i was kid in the days before seatbelts were even fitted to cars, 8 of us were taking a drive with my uncle (3 in the front 5 in the back!)
His speedo was about to return to zero (for you youngies speedos only used to have 5 digits because most cars never used to see 100000 miles)
So he got us all of us leaning towards the dashboard to witness this magical event, and then a car pulled out of a side road - the brakes were applied, we all flew around the inside of the car and ... well lets say there ended up with more in the front of the car than the rear

It was a bit of an anticlimax after that.

So only another 27778 miles until the next magor milestone then nigel

Another one reached today - 225,000

47 days for the last 5,000 - an average of 106 per day

Looking back over this thread, its just under two years since I turned 175,000, so I'm still running at just over 25,000 per year. The actual rate is higher than that, as its been off the road for a month this year, and at least a fortnight the year before.

Still get a buzz from it though - still enjoy embarrassing MUCH more expensive machinery (like the SL55AMG in Hertfordshire today - he didn't look too pleased with the performance of his supercar - some pesky little Fiat gaining on him )

I refused to watch a bunch of Z-list semi-celebs faffing around in the "jungle", so I've mucked around in Excel instead

Car turned 228,000 yesterday, which is:

• 9.16 times around the earth
  
• just 5,000 miles short of the average distance from the earth to the Moon - (in fact if I'd timed it right [Closest the Moon gets is 220,582, surface-to-surface] - I'd have landed a few weeks ago )
  
• About 8,100 gallons of fuel - cost in today's terms - about £42,000
  
• About 250 litres of oil - cost in today's terms - about £2,400
  
• 55 miles a day since it was first registered
  
• Over 193 million revolutions of the wheels
  
• And bizarrely, because the car will have been subjected to the radius of the earth, the roof will have travelled further than the floor - about 85 yards further
  

waaayyy to much time on your hands nigel!!

interesting though.

how many revolutions of the engine has it done then??!!