Highest Mileage Car You've Ridden In?

"jkm7680" (jkm7680)
06/22/2015 at 21:59 • Filed to: None

I rode in an ‘01 Crown Vic a few years ago in Los Angles, identical to the first car in that picture that had a little over 500,000 miles on it. Still felt tight as hell and ready to do another 500,000.

So Oppo, highest mileage car you’ve ridden in, what was it and how many miles?

DISCUSSION (21)

TheJWT > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:05

My car has 215,000, but the engine has less. I’m sure I’ve been cabs with twice that though

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:09

One of our vans at work has 480k on it, and is actually one of our nicer ones. The others are mostly in the 300s, the nicest one is at about 230k. We also just got a pair of brand new Transits, which make all of the E250s feel like construction equipment.

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:10

Aunts 2007 corolla still running strong at 280000 miles which I last checked last year

Jack Does Cars > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:11

My boss has an ‘01 Accord with 393,000 on it. He’s had it for nine years, and has put 250,000 on it since then.

He travels from Raleigh to Philadelphia almost every weekend, and has done many cross-country road trips.

He meticulously maintains it. It looks like it has closer to 50,000 on it.

jkm7680 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
06/22/2015 at 22:14

Think the Transits will be able to take the beating that all the E250s took?

pip bip - choose Corrour > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:15

my current car.

570,000km on it.

may have been in a taxi with more , but never asked any cabbies.

Amoore100 > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:28

My dad’s ‘01 V70 has 205K and is running strong...he picked it up at 175K and has dd’d it ever since...

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:30

I’m pretty sure it’s my car at 170,xxx miles.

I’ve probably been on coaches or something that’s had more, but from the cars I know, it’s mine.

Slant6 > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:40

Million mile Freightliner Cascadia.

911e46z06 > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 22:47

My uncle had an e36 318 with over 600,000 miles on it. I’ll type that again. My uncle had an e36 318 with over 600,000 miles on it. It was burgundy with a ragtop that was literally just rags. Thing was awesome. I wanted to buy it for LeMons, but some dealership gave him something insane like $3000 trade in value.

Steve in Manhattan > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 23:07

Escape Hybrid taxi had 520K or so - cabbie told me his shop was still running a Crown Vic with nearly 800K. NYC taxis are rebuilt again and again until the frame rots, apparently.

Alex from Toronto > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 23:21

My driving school car

195,000 km’s on a 2004 Toyota Corolla

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 23:27

I’ve sat in Irv Gordon’s Volvo P1800... Y’know, the world record mileage car (it had about 3.1 million on it when I saw it) but it was nit moving, so that might not count... Next highest was my personal 1992 Alfa Romeo 164-s. It had just a bit over 410k miles on it when I sold it to a mechanic for parts and labor on a clutch job for my 2000 Toyota Corolla... I think the car made it to 500k before terminal rust of the rear sub-frame sent it to pasture... Where it was used as a farm car for a few summers... I think it may finally be dead though... My craziest ex-girlfriend knew the guy who had it at his farm and stole (pried with a crowbar) the cloisone badge off the trunk lid for me... How... Uh... Sweet... Of her... Yeeeeah.

mazda616 > jkm7680
06/22/2015 at 23:28

Rode in a Mercury Grand Marquis taxi in Florida in 2012 with 560,000 or so miles on it. It was gross. The seats were so oily and grimy I almost fell off.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > jkm7680
06/23/2015 at 00:15

My current car right now. She’s sitting at 182k miles.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > jkm7680
06/23/2015 at 00:20

My former Tercel, of course, with 334k miles

sdwarf36 > jkm7680
06/23/2015 at 00:48

My 92 Jetta Diesel—400k+ on it.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > jkm7680
06/23/2015 at 06:11

Thats the question on everybody’s mind. The E250 seems more tough, since it’s kinda primitive and truck based. I mean we don’t do a lot of off road stuff with them, and we generally don’t leave them idling at a job site while working. I’d wager they hold up pretty well...after all, he Transit definitely isn’t NEW, it’s just new in the United States...things been around forever in Europe and they seem to hold up well over there.

Maidee > sdwarf36
06/23/2015 at 19:28

And how do you do that? Just curious, looking into getting a tdi

sdwarf36 > sdwarf36
06/23/2015 at 20:34

Keep your oil + fuel clean-replace what needs fixing—+ drive. I rebuilt the motor at 220k ( I was working as an automotive machinist-so its like a baker making himself a cake) I’m more lucky the body has held up this long in New England.

boxrocket > jkm7680
06/24/2015 at 09:49

1987 4Runner with 860k, cosmetically and mechanically poor, such that getting in felt like the body and suspension were at war and it would end with the body being impaled by the suspension. We pushed that POS out of the shop and told the owner to get it roadworthy or not to bring it back.

3 of my cars have had well over 200k, but could have passed for much less than that.