Highest mileage?

[ritch_w]

whats the highest mileage VR4 out there?? (and whats been needed done to the car to see it through to mega mileage??? - apart from loadsa petrol!!! ;) )

i'm 47,000 miles on a 2001 model

[Physician]

48,000 miles on a 1998 saloon

[Roadrunner]

About 97k miles on a late '98 saloon. Apart from regular servicing (to manufacturer's spec), stuff like brake pads, tyres, etc., and stuff I've replaced myself (wheels, brakes, exhaust) it has needed:

@ ~36k/3yr11mth : track-rod ends (under warranty)
@ ~42k/4yr01mth : torque-converter seal (under warranty)
@ ~53k/4yr06mth : steering arms (under warranty)
@ ~86k/5yr08mth : head gaskets/valve stem oil seals

Cheers,
Brian

[Spirit]

:topic: Sorry to butt in but Brian I see you changed your valve stem oil seals at 86k, where you getting black smoke coming out intermitantly before you changed them ?

[Nick Mann]

This thread (http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5491) has some interesting mileages.

I am currently on three weeks, and about 800 miles, but the car has done about 90k - it is an early legnum.

[adam_shaw]

Must be around the same as Nick, about 3 weeks.

Just coming up on 4K.... :eek:

Car is just over 80K/5y.o.

A

[Roadrunner]

:topic: Sorry to butt in but Brian I see you changed your valve stem oil seals at 86k, where you getting black smoke coming out intermitantly before you changed them ?
I hadn't noticed it but the technician who was doing the heads for me suggested that the valve stem oil seals be replaced while the heads were off. He said he'd noticed some oil smoke before he did the work. I guess the seals cost buttons in comparison to the work that was done so happy enough to have them done at the same time. I don't think I'd have had the heads off just to do these seals though - 24 hours labour :stunned: for the work I had done, and that didn't include skimming the heads which was done by a local engineer. Also, the head gasket set was £324 + VAT :(

[WildCards]

So, just to revive an old thread, after the weekend in Birmingham and Kieran and Nick being kind enough to take me in their cars i was shocked to find Kierna and almost 100k on the clock and Nick to be at 129k, both cars still felt and looked good despite this. I was just wondering who has the highest mileage on their clock?

Steve

[adam_shaw]

Must be around the same as Nick, about 3 weeks.

Just coming up on 4K.... :eek:

Car is just over 80K/5y.o.

A

So, a year later and car is now at 107K.....

Since then it has had, in addition to normal services;

Gearbox Oil Seal (that was about a week after my last post, under warranty)
Lower Arms (as part of the 90K super-service)

Not too bad, on the consumables front;

2 sets of Eagle F1s (2nd set in storage now, winter tyres at the mo.)
1 set P6000s..... which were on the car when I got it.

1 set pads front
1 set pads & disks front and rear

A

[Wodjno]

116000 :happy:

[psbarham]

137000

[Wodjno]

whats the highest mileage VR4 out there??


137000/pan /pan /pan /pan

[psbarham]

/pan /pan /pan /pan
ah sorry i didn't notice real cars wern't allowed to enter :smug:

[Kieran]

I am currently on three weeks, and about 800 miles, but the car has done about 90k - it is an early legnum.

It's done a bit more than 90K now Nick ;) - Think it's about 102,000. Will double check in the morning

[SGHOM]

66K :embarasse mines just a pup ! /yes /Steeringw

[Kieran]

66K :embarasse mines just a pup ! /yes /Steeringw

Looks like it's done about 266K though /pan

[SGHOM]

Looks like it's done about 266K though /pan

I call & pick my jet washer up on sat ?? ok ? :thumbsup:

























LARGE BUCKET OF FARM SLURRY ORDERED ! /grr /grr /pan /pan :evil2:

[WildCards]

/Handbag Alright ladies

[ANTHONY]

http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12246
take a look at this thread

[ANTHONY]

i'v got a 2001 sport with 34000 on it

[mitzylongboy]

135000 with new heads and skimmed/gaskets, cambelt etc in 2002 £3196's worth. i bought last year with £7861's worth of reciepts for £900 off eBay. nedds cambelt this year though. how much? £350 ya reckon?

[michaeli]

91K on a 1998 Leggie VR4 Manual... :smug:

[Marcel]

i´ve got a 2000 model Galant with 25 000 KM. /Steeringw
:evil2:

[ritch_w]

137000

slowly catching you up Paul - 113K on a 2001

[You See]

2001 with 78000ks ...last 40000ks done over the past 1.5yrs.

[WildCards]

Unless someone hasn't posted yet, PSB wins in a V6 at 137K and Nick Mann's VR4 at 129K

[psbarham]

Unless someone hasn't posted yet, PSB wins in a V6 at 137K and Nick Mann's VR4 at 129K
woo hoo i've won something :drummer: my life is now complete , acctually i think i'll have to get a lifwe first and then it will be complete :embarasse

[pezza]

After I deduct the number for KMS I am a couple hunderd of 140K miles...

Fingers crossed car is still running sweetly at 1 bar (altho back at standard boost now).

Bodywork is in good nick too, but then it IS meister blue, like the highest V6 24 miler (at this point in the thread LOL) eh PSB? :D

[psbarham]

Bodywork is in good nick too, but then it IS meister blue, like the highest V6 24 miler (at this point in the thread LOL) eh PSB? :D
nice one dereck , how long have we been trying to tell them that meister blue rules ?? now they have the proof :thumbsup:

[Bal]

meister blue rocks (GLS was meister blue)

[ritch_w]

Unless someone hasn't posted yet, PSB wins in a V6 at 137K and Nick Mann's VR4 at 129K

actualy i think that one goes to Mo, i'm sure its posted somewhere he has (or had) a v6 which had over 150k :rolleyes4 :rolleyes4 :rolleyes4 and still went like it had half the mileage.....

[Kieran]

actualy i think that one goes to Mo, i'm sure its posted somewhere he has (or had) a v6 which had over 150k :rolleyes4 :rolleyes4 :rolleyes4 and still went like it had half the mileage.....

Yeah, 168K or summat like that.... I drive it once - Roanne Red, manual and it had an LPG sytem fitted. It was a very tight drive for it's mileage. Ran well on LPG too!

[OSiRiS]

I currently have 113,000km on the EC5W 1998 Legnum Super VR4

I had an older model E39A 1991 Galant VR4 (with a 4G63 engine) and it had done 250,000km on the standard engine, internals and gearbox when I sold it. A month later the new owner called me to say that the engine and gearbox had blown up. Oh well. LOL.

[zedy1]

Got to post on this one :smug:

150k miles on my v6
other v6 ive sold

189k miles , 165k miles, 180k miles

[Nick VR4]

Year 2000 = 53000 miles

[ritch_w]

189k miles , 165k miles, 180k miles

how did these ones cope with such a high mileage???? well i hope /yes

[zedy1]

how did these ones cope with such a high mileage???? well i hope /yes


asked a few people without telling them them miliage and they quated 60k

[ritch_w]

asked a few people without telling them them miliage and they quated 60k

thats very reasuring :thumbsup:

[bradc]

any updates on this? Who is in the lead now?

[Nutter_John]

182,000 miles and still counting , 45k at 0.9 bar or beyond

[Nick Mann]

I'm on a measly 150,000 now! /pan I'm just not trying any more....

[bradc]

and for smart people that is 297,000km

[Kieran]

Pah. I can claim 320,000ish miles if I add all my fleet together!:inquisiti /pan

Skarloey is now the highest mileage car we own, at 107,000 miles.

Ariadne has about 105,000 these days (Shows how little use she gets!).

PapPap has 50something thousand on the clock - I think it's 54000.

And the GLSi has just ticked over 52,000.:scholar:

Ironic - two of the oldest Galants I've owned have been the lowest mileage!

[swinks]

Just done 138700 miles on my old Galant GDI (W reg/2000). It's sold for 3 months now. I've got on my VR4 90k miles (P reg 1997).

[miller]

damn i only got 47k on my VR4!!!

[SGHOM]

does 200,000 on my saaaab count ? :pimp2:

[Nutter_John]

errrr No :D

[Turbo_shaz]

Ive got 133k on the R reg Legnum and 80,000miles on the G reg :baby: R5. Hope they hold together for a few years yet :anxious:

[WildCards]

Not a VR4 I know, but my trusty french piece of crap has rolled over 161,000 miles now.

[Lillywotsername]

63k on a P plate

[ianturbo]

160K , most of that in kms though !
ian

[Roberto]

155,000 First 80k in Km rest in mile, so 125k miles, and a sunvisor has started to squeak, /Grrr

[darren carkson]

194,000 previouse owner, recon engine 2,000 miles ago, im after a fuel neck/pipe for a vr4 if anyone has one also i have just changed my pads and my handbreak/warning light stays on any body know please phone darren 07853180885 cheers

[Nutter_John]

Darren would yours be a green vr4 as I only knew of one other owner with higher than me and that was Muppets car

[White Lightning]

Darren - have you checked the brake fluid level? Usually, the light comes on when the level is too low.

As for mileage, well the odometer on the VR-4 shows 95k now. But as some of that was in km it actually works out to approximately 80k miles. That said, the engine has only done 40k :scholar:

The Ka is on 62k now /rally

[patrickstarfish]

p reg done 66000 sweet

[shaun1978]

97 leggie @ 53k
00 GLS @ 102k

saying that though ive done 40k in my van since december lol

[pitslayer]

mine is 80k miles, but the clock reads 132k miles

[c0xxy]

got a T reg v6-24v which as just done 245000 miles, with the exception of a broke spring and the damned ticking engine, it feels pretty good! could to with being tighter but im yet to feel a car that wouldnt!

its got fsh to 130ish, a service at 180ish and who knows what since!

[Atik]

Hehe, thats good going mate. I notice on your introduction post that your old car gave up after the cambelt stretched. Just be careful in your V6 about the cambelt too. From 180k miles (at least) to 245k miles, you are coming to close to maybe needing a cambelt change?

[gallvr4]

my VR-4 has 88,500
my GLS has 125,900

my dad had a 7G 2.0 ltr galant (company car) with 304,115 on it when he wrote it off 2 years ago in the frost/ice.done nearly 180 miles a day for 13 years..!!!

[c0xxy]

lol... the cambelt in that car had been on a just over a year so out of warrenty but had only done 8000miles, dont rate fsh as highly as i used to, thats for sure!

[Louis]

10 year old thread revival! :)

Hardly anything is original.

[Nick Mann]

:afro:

[94000 Miles]

Adding to revived thread toooo

75000 Miles.

So I have driven about 25000 Miles since I got the Legnum but added to the 94000 Miles I have driven in my Galants thats a grand total of 119000 Miles in the model type...... So I know my noises and what they mean :anxious::anxious:

So do I change my membership to 119000? lol

[Oblivion]

Got up to this the other week (in km)
81835

[94000 Miles]

Oh Brilliant! You should get s free club sticker for that AND a photo capturing it.

[Oblivion]

Haha, I drove around the block slowly when it almost hit that number just so I could take a photo!