Highest odometer reading for your vehicle?

[Wanda Van Winkle]

Out of curiosity, what is the highest mileage you've ever had on your own vehicle odometer--with the same engine?

Our Lincoln Town Car currently has 214,000. Although it uses more oil than it should, it still seems to be running strong (knock on wood and all that other stuff).

[Hans Deventer]

Wanda, I used to drive a Nissan Primera that I sold to my brother in law at about 150000 miles. He drove it to 210000. Same engine. It looked like this one I found on the internet.

[Walter Thompson]

I have had three vehicles that have had over 200,000 miles on them. All Fords. Currently I have a 1996 that has 273,542 miles on it. Original engine and tranmission. Still gets about 12-15 miles per gallon. It is a E150 Conversion Van high top.
I also have a 2003 Ford Expedition that has 186,569 on it. Runs good and gets about 19 miles per gallon. I continue to put about 100 miles on it a day. At that rate I should pass the 200,000 mile mark in about six months.

[Bob Williams]

I put over 145,000 on 1979 Mercury and I now have 142,000 on 1992 Ford Ranger pickup. I have put a number of cars over 100,000. My dad had a 1966 Chevrolet Station wagon with over 200,000 miles on it.

[Joanne Vergin]

I have a 1997 Olds Silhouette with over 250,000.
I put at least 300 miles a week just going to work.

[Andrea Larabee]

Very good friends of ours in Missouri had a Volvo that made it to 500,000 with the same engine. The sold it and it still ran. Needless to say... they purchased another new/used Volvo.

[Wanda Van Winkle]

Very good friends of ours in Missouri had a Volvo that made it to 500,000 with the same engine. The sold it and it still ran. Needless to say... they purchased another new/used Volvo.

That's amazing.

[Hans Deventer]

Very good friends of ours in Missouri had a Volvo that made it to 500,000 with the same engine.

Miles? It would already be impressive if it was 500.000 kilometres, but miles would be amazing indeed.

[Andrea Larabee]

Miles? It would already be impressive if it was 500.000 kilometres, but miles would be amazing indeed.


Yes, "miles". I tried to convince my husband to buy a Volvo but he does not like the looks of them. At 500,000 miles, I personally wouldn't care too much what it looked like.

[Cindi Hammons]

1990 Honda Accord--160,000 miles when we sold it. We still see it around the county (it had a distictive replacement antenna).

We love our Hondas.

[Dennis M. Scott]

Jeremy is driving a Nissan Maxima that used to belong to us. It now has 260,000 miles, and when you drive it, it feels like you're driving a glove. It is that responsive.

[Wanda Van Winkle]

Yes, "miles". I tried to convince my husband to buy a Volvo but he does not like the looks of them. At 500,000 miles, I personally wouldn't care too much what it looked like.


I think I'll keep my eye out for a good used Volvo for when our Lincoln gives up the ghost.

[Wanda Van Winkle]

I put over 145,000 on 1979 Mercury and I now have 142,000 on 1992 Ford Ranger pickup. I have put a number of cars over 100,000. My dad had a 1966 Chevrolet Station wagon with over 200,000 miles on it.

Hmmmm, where could I find one of those 66 station wagons? :)

[Joel Merrill]

Down on the tech forum there is a thread entitled, "What a difference 35 years makes." It is that way with cars too. It used to be that once you got 100,000 miles on a car, it was about worn out. If you got 150,000 miles on a car you were doing really good but usually the body and the interior were shot and a lot of things didn't work even if the engine did still run.

Nowadays, 100,000 is nothing. You are doing pretty well if you get 200,000 miles, but many of the better models will easily do better than that.

So when you brag, it makes a difference what year and model the car is. If you have a 1965 car with 150,000 miles on the original engine, that is just as impressive and a 1995 car with 300,000 miles on it in my book. If it still has a good body and the engine has never been overhauled, that is even more impressive if it still runs good.

If you have a Chevy Vega that is still running, that is more impressive than if you have a Olds 98 the same year that is running because Vega's didn't last very long.

I've had some old cars, but nothing to brag about. I have swapped engines in cars and trucks but up here, the older cars usually rusted out before the engine quit. I usually replaced them before they got to the point where they were unreliable or needing worked on all the time. The best car I ever owned was a 1977 Pontiac. I would have kept it a lot longer but I hit a deer with it when it had 145,000 miles.

Joel

[Mike Schutz]

Thanks for all of these posts.

I have been worrying about my two vehicles: a 2002 Honda Odyssey with 145,000 and a 1999 Honda Civic with 104,500. My mechanic has been saying for several years that they will each last 250,000 miles, but I wasn't sure. Now I have more confidence.:fav18

[Mark Doble]

My 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Station Wagon - 450,000 miles!

Then I wrote if off in an accident. Still drove it home... Then I sold the engine and tranny to a guy that put in in his race car! He raced it for another year! Then he sold it. As far as I know it is still going strong!

The engine was a 350 rocket... Just bullet proof. Never used a drop of oil.

[Wanda Van Winkle]

My 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Station Wagon - 450,000 miles!

Then I wrote if off in an accident. Still drove it home... Then I sold the engine and tranny to a guy that put in in his race car! He raced it for another year! Then he sold it. As far as I know it is still going strong!

The engine was a 350 rocket... Just bullet proof. Never used a drop of oil.


Wow! I'm with Mike. I'm feeling a lot better about my own car now. Anything could happen :)

[William Hunter]

254,000 on a Pontiac Sunbird and 237,000 on a Buick LaSabre. I have 151,000 on my current Bonneville and it looks and runs really nice. I will probably get well into the 200,000 mile range with it before I trade it off.

[Sue Pyles]

My 2000 Toyota Camry has 151,000 miles and runs like a top.
And by the way I don't mean it runs in circles.

[Wanda Van Winkle]

My 2000 Toyota Camry has 151,000 miles and runs like a top.
And by the way I don't mean it runs in circles.

Cute :-)

[Dale Cozby]

My 2002 Tundra has 63k on it now. My 06' Sonata has 8k on it.:basic05
My 1995 Rodeo has 94k on it.

I tend to ditch them when they go over 100k still.

I had a 73 Cutlass with 125k in college.
and 1 Honda Accord that I ran till it had 190k. but for the most part I bail by 100 or 120k.

[Joel Merrill]

My 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Station Wagon - 450,000 miles!

Then I wrote if off in an accident. Still drove it home... Then I sold the engine and tranny to a guy that put in in his race car! He raced it for another year! Then he sold it. As far as I know it is still going strong!

The engine was a 350 rocket... Just bullet proof. Never used a drop of oil.

Olds has always made very good engines. As a mechanic. I have seen many Oldsmobiles with very high mileage. My 77 Pontiac Catalina had an Olds 350 in it. (You know how GM is about mixing brands of engines and cars) My only problem with that car was that GM put a Turbo 250 transmission behind it. I do not drive my cars hard and I ran that transmission out of it. I put a Turbo 350 back in it. They are very strong transmissions.

Joel

[Paul Whitaker]

I had an old volkswagen beetle in Africa. It had over 160000 miles on it when I gave it away. I had replaced the engine once ($150) but it gave me good service. The majority of those miles were on bush roads - no tarmac.

[Joel Merrill]

I had an old volkswagen beetle in Africa. It had over 160000 miles on it when I gave it away. I had replaced the engine once ($150) but it gave me good service. The majority of those miles were on bush roads - no tarmac.
Those old beetles were fun cars to drive and easy to work on. It was really fun to watch someone try to figure out how to get it in reverse if they had never drove one before. :basic03

Joel

[Dennis M. Scott]

About twenty-five years ago we bought a new Datsun 510 wagon. The drive train ran like a teenager for a decade. The body rot was terrible. You could see from one side of the car clear through to the other side, in places. Finally, I was so embarrassed about having church people see me driving it, I put an ad in the paper and sold it. As I was giving the buyer the title, he said, "You are my sister's pastor. I've been thinking about coming to church." He did, got saved, joined the church, and for the next four years that car was in the parking lot every Sunday morning anyway. When he finally laid it to rest in had just under 400,000 miles, as I recall.

[Joel Merrill]

About twenty-five years ago we bought a new Datsun 510 wagon. The drive train ran like a teenager for a decade. The body rot was terrible. You could see from one side of the car clear through to the other side, in places. Finally, I was so embarrassed about having church people see me driving it, I put an ad in the paper and sold it. As I was giving the buyer the title, he said, "You are my sister's pastor. I've been thinking about coming to church." He did, got saved, joined the church, and for the next four years that car was in the parking lot every Sunday morning anyway. When he finally laid it to rest in had just under 400,000 miles, as I recall.
A friend of mine has a 76 Chevy Blazer that looks like that. Larger areas of the body are just plane gone. Other parts are just flapping in the wind and could drop off any time. I don't know how many miles are on it but I think the most expensive repair he has done was a new radiator a few years ago. It has a 350 in it and he says it runs great. I think he bought it new. He got it stuck out in the middle of a 1000 acre timber a couple years ago and the wrecker bill was more than the Blazer was worth but it's his baby.

Joel