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3CorsaMeal

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20th Sep 13 at 15:38

Anyone else dislike this saying, hear it quite a lot when i tell people my mileage, and hear people saying it when they buy a BMW especially with over 100k on the clock.

Is there any truth to it? or is it another car saying people repeat because someone else said it once.

Next person that says it to me, i will ask them a bit more in depth questions about their statement.

[Edited on 20-09-2013 by 3CorsaMeal]

RichR

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20th Sep 13 at 15:44

My Jag is about to hit 170,000miles - barely even loosened up

SVM 286

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20th Sep 13 at 15:56

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal

Next person that says it to me, i will ask them a bit more in depth questions about their statement.

Is that a euphemism for 'punch them in the face'?

All cars are pretty much run-in between 600 and a thousand miles in my experience.

Dan

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20th Sep 13 at 16:05

I wouldn't say an engine is run in at 600-1000 miles.

We dyno our rebuilt engines for 10 hours, 4 of which at full load.

How often is a car at full load, giving all it can for such a period?

It really depends on how it's been driven. I'd much prefer to buy a 5 year old car with 100k miles on it, than a 5 year old car with 20k miles. It's going to have been driven at next to no load which will causes glazed bores etc. at least with 100k and it only being 5 years old you know it's been working hard all it's life.

We see it at work all the time. Engines with the lowest hours seem to perform worse than those with more.

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SVM 286

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20th Sep 13 at 16:08

I drove mine spirited but carefully without making it labour or thrashing it for just over 600.

After that, I gave it hell.

Good as gold

taylorboosh

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20th Sep 13 at 16:09

How do you work that out? 100k in five years tells me a lot of motorway miles where the car is in a high gear at low rpm thus not grafting at all

mattant

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20th Sep 13 at 16:11

I always thought it was sarcastic

John

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20th Sep 13 at 16:12

Always poor people with high mileage cars who say it.

RichR

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20th Sep 13 at 16:22

My cars barely run in-oops, that must mean I'm poor. What a ridiculous sentiment.

alan-g-w

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20th Sep 13 at 16:27

quote:
Originally posted by mattant
I always thought it was sarcastic

Clearly meant to be ironic, either 3CM is back to the trolling or has had a frontal lobotomy

Nath

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20th Sep 13 at 16:34

quote:
Originally posted by John
Always poor people with high mileage cars who say it.

Ben G

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20th Sep 13 at 16:36

Someone said it to me when I bought my car on 67k miles. Made me laugh.

All 4 new cars i've owned have been driven hard from the second I drove off the dealer forecourt. Does that mean they've been run in well? Or does it mean they will blow up at 50k miles?

SVM 286

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20th Sep 13 at 16:41

Could do either Ben. Luck of the draw really.

I'm a big believer in a healthy amount of thrash, pus very regular oil changes and really good oil.

Andrew

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20th Sep 13 at 20:46

quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
My Jag is about to hit 170,000miles - barely even loosened up

What's been done in that time?

fred7

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20th Sep 13 at 20:51

quote:
Originally posted by John
Always poor people with high mileage cars who say it.

Or sensible people who buy sensible cars with high mileage because only just run in!

RichR

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:07

quote:
Originally posted by Andrew

quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
My Jag is about to hit 170,000miles - barely even loosened up

What's been done in that time?

clutch and flywheel at 135,000; wheel bearings and suspension at 165,000. It gets serviced once a year at 20-25k intervals, never gets washed, gets parked up next to the sea for weeks at a time and barely gets looked after. Touch wood, nothing else major and the suspension change sorted a knocking out that its had since it was brand new.

DaveyLC

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:10

quote:
Originally posted by John
Always poor people with high mileage cars who say it.

I must be poor

Steve

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:11

quote:
Originally posted by John
Always poor people with high mileage cars who say it.

Yep, people trying to justify to themselves and others why they own a car that's about to fall apart.

Theres shit loads of stuff that will be getting near the end of its life and that sort of mileage, not just the engine.

DaveyLC

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:12

Or the rest of you are all just Paranoid fag-bags?

John

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:25

No, just don't like buying high mileage cat-c's.

Gary

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:25

And blatantly talking out of their arses.

My shitheap is only on 56k but currently sounds like a bag of spanners. All the high milers before this one always ran spot on.

DaveyLC

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23rd Sep 13 at 08:36

I'd much rather have a 2-3 year old car with intergalactic mileage that's spent all of its life on a motorway and been serviced twice a year than some tight fuckers old 5 year old hatch back that has done 5k miles a year in short trips to the local shops and been serviced once.

[Edited on 23-09-2013 by DaveyLC]

John

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23rd Sep 13 at 09:03

I'd rather have the later but with either I'd just make sure I bought a decent one and not a bag of spanners like Gary has.

Always the same arguments when talking about mileage.

Someone has got lucky with a couple of high milers then bought a terrible low(er) miler so that automatically means that all low mileage cars must be crap.

What I do is buy low mileage good ones so I don't have to spend forever making excuses about it.

Gary

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23rd Sep 13 at 09:07

quote:
Originally posted by John
I'd rather have the later but with either I'd just make sure I bought a decent one and not a bag of spanners like Gary has.

Always the same arguments when talking about mileage.

Someone has got lucky with a couple of high milers then bought a terrible low(er) miler so that automatically means that all low mileage cars must be crap.

What I do is buy low mileage good ones so I don't have to spend forever making excuses about it.

It was spot on when i bought it.

DaveyLC

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23rd Sep 13 at 09:17

quote:
Originally posted by John
I'd rather have the later but with either I'd just make sure I bought a decent one and not a bag of spanners like Gary has.

Always the same arguments when talking about mileage.

Someone has got lucky with a couple of high milers then bought a terrible low(er) miler so that automatically means that all low mileage cars must be crap.

What I do is buy low mileage good ones so I don't have to spend forever making excuses about it.

As you said you don't buy High Mileage cars so you couldn't compare

But from my own experience there has been more of a chance of a low mileage car having serious issues over a high mileage car.. Yeah the high milers tend to have niggly issues like worn bushes, broken springs, noisy wheel bearings etc. but if looked after the engines and gearboxes tend to be pretty sound because generally they have just sat at a pretty constant speed / temperature all of their lives which is in-fact very good for the internals of the engine and will actually make the engine/gearbox stronger!

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