The 200,000+ km thread

2007 Daihatsu Sirion on 220K. shocks and brake discs replaced. routine maintenance otherwise. need to fix an oil leak with the next service that will happen soonish. need to replace rear tyres as well soonish. currently front has 3rd set and rear 2nd set.
 
Is it a new school thing to get rid of a car below 100K or to be surprised if your car breaches 100K?

All my cars I've kept well beyond 100K:

1976 VW Beetle 1300 - sold at ~150k
1996 Golf GTi - sold at ~190k
2004 BMW 320i - sold at ~190k

Of the sold cars, I would've expected at least another 100k from both the Golf and the BMW if looked after and not driven like a cretin. The Beetle - who knows, it did have the highest consumption of them all despite only being a 1300.

Currently:

1996 Isuzu KB280 DT Frontier D/cab - ~345k
2009 LR Disco 3 TDV6HSE - ~ 155k
 
230k on Mazda 6 just service items. The driver door handle is not as springy when you let it go as it was when new. Constant open and close but I'm nitpicking now.

Never parked in a garage but outside looks fine just some yellowish headlights not that bad. Inside still looks brand new just lots of receipts and wrappers and crap, im lazy ok but maybe that protects the materials from the sun
 
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I let go of my '92 Audi 500E yesterday. Bought her off the pavement in 2009 with 100k on the clock for R30k, sold her with 248k on the clock for R20k.
And still got R8k somewhere in between when a truck reversed into my bumper which I never fixed.
Will have to get used to car payments again..:wtf:
 
2003 Toyota Tazz at 230 000km. biggest thing done was a engine re-done. Head skim, new seals etc.
Good and reliable cars the Tazz
 
Yennork said:
2003 Toyota Tazz at 230 000km. biggest thing done was a engine re-done. Head skim, new seals etc.
Good and reliable cars the Tazz
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To be fair, that's a pretty big thing!
 
Coasti said:
I let go of my '92 Audi 500E yesterday. Bought her off the pavement in 2009 with 100k on the clock for R30k, sold her with 248k on the clock for R20k.
And still got R8k somewhere in between when a truck reversed into my bumper which I never fixed.
Will have to get used to car payments again..:wtf:
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That's great. I love how slow old cars devalue
 
Had a '94 toyota corolla. Bought second hand in 2008 from my mom and sold in 2012 with almost 450 000km on the clock. Biggest work on it was the clutch.
 
2007 Corsa Sport 1.8 bakkie, pic was taken May 2015, it now stands on 350 000km. First major repair was the clutch at 315 000km
 

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I would like the know any owner with the highest mileage for their French car...
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Most likely me :D

Sold a Megane we had to an employee... Had 300k at the time and last I heard it had hit 340k.

No major work done ever. Not even a clutch replacement. We bought it at 150k km.
 
ahoudet said:
Most likely me :D

Sold a Megane we had to an employee... Had 300k at the time and last I heard it had hit 340k.

No major work done ever. Not even a clutch replacement. We bought it at 150k km.
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One of the old ones? The later ones weren't all that good.
 
froot said:
One of the old ones? The later ones weren't all that good.
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Yes, Megane 1. We had a Megane 2 DCI for a short while but the previous owner had not looked after it and we sold it as is (mentioning the issues) to Burchmores.

The Megane 2 1.6 uses the same engine as the MK1 though and I know of two people that never had issues with theirs either.

I believe that at the end of the day, it all depends on how the car was maintained. I service them myself and if there's ever an issue, I don't wait for it to get worse and sort it out before it becomes a major problem - that's for all cars, not just Renault
 
Hope you using Magnetec - its the only oil you should be using...

Been using it since first service on my car - now on 125 000 - hyundai i20 1.6
 
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