Warren G
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Registered: 14th May 06
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not even high mileage, its a deisel, people buy them to drive down the motorway every day
service intervals are 20k a year,
70k is nothing with an engine sitting at 2,000rpm at 70mph
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Graeme
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Have u still got the astra coupe or did that go? I really wouldn't mind that! 
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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Sold it.
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tom_simes
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quote:
Originally posted by Warren G
not even high mileage, its a deisel, people buy them to drive down the motorway every day
service intervals are 20k a year,
70k is nothing with an engine sitting at 2,000rpm at 70mph
I agree entirely - I bought my 56 plate Fabia with 64k on it, and I'm not worried about it at all. The things I'd be more worried about from higher mileage cars are the clutch and DMF, but when a car has cruised up and down a motorway at 70-80mph for most of it's life, that's about as easy a life as it can get.
Edit: I've only recently stopped driving my Corsa, and that had 157k on the clocks FFS 
[Edited on 05-11-2010 by tom_simes]
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Warren G
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alot better then short stop start journeys, infact you get a ex fleet company car, the ones that use vx they are more maintaned than most private peoples!
my dads vectra is coming up to 100k, never had a problem with it, dmf, egr and swirl flaps were changed under warranty (even though the werent all faulty  ) serviced regualy. never missed a beat.
yeah graeme coupe has gone
got a 1.2 corsa c sxi coming? lol
[Edited on 05-11-2010 by Warren G]
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Warren G
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oops, 4 cars is too many
agreed on a good price, £250 under trade and £1250 off private good
[Edited on 07-11-2010 by Warren G]
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daymoon
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I will say again
" at 70k miles being high"
My 12volt corsa was on 106k when i sold it and it went through an MOT with no advisories and i had it for a year before that and trashed it everywhere for 12k miles. Then sold it and it was insured up to last month i think.
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
What is it with people and mileage on here?
It's crazy isn't it, though I don't think it's just CS.
Was it someone on here who said "not using your car to keep the miles down is like not shagging your missus to keep her tighter for her next boyfriend"?
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Chris C
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Lol
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j10E W
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very nice mr G
really like the look of that what are these like mapped?
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Warren G
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nice burn out pic joe!
map to 205bhp and 310lbft, get a eco map off sports button too should see 5mpg increase what most people see!
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Fad
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I love the fact Joe has a photo of each of his Beemers doing burnouts
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MarkSport
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High mileage on a petrol imo is anything over 130k
diesels can be anything like 170k
anything above them two figures i wont touch!
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Fad
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There is another concept that a lot of people benefit from which is buy cheap sell cheap!
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j10E W
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must be pretty nippy mapped looks great
at the burn out pic they get used properly thats all
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