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Old 20th October 2021, 09:08   #11
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While it's all very interesting I'm a bit baffled about how a car can rack up 750K miles.

Let's say the Rover's are 20 years old. That means 37.5K a year, every year or roughly 100 miles a day each & every day of its life.

Can't see how that's realistically possible in a car. Taxi maybe?

I knew a truck driver a few years ago who ran trucks with stellar mileages but they had a team of 3 or 4 drivers who basically ran the truck 24 hours/day 6 or 7 days/week.

Maybe folks in the Moon Club can offer some insight?
I remember taxi driving as a stopgap job about 55 years ago. In a year I drove just over 100,000 miles. We were using Hillman Avengers which were amazingly reliable and economical, mine achieving just under 38 mpg which was 2nd to another guy who managed just over 39 mpg. I never had any mechanical issues, even the clutch was original when it was exchanged for a far less reliable Fiat Mirafiori.
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Old 20th October 2021, 09:39   #12
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While it's all very interesting I'm a bit baffled about how a car can rack up 750K miles.

Let's say the Rover's are 20 years old. That means 37.5K a year, every year or roughly 100 miles a day each & every day of its life.

Can't see how that's realistically possible in a car. Taxi maybe?

I knew a truck driver a few years ago who ran trucks with stellar mileages but they had a team of 3 or 4 drivers who basically ran the truck 24 hours/day 6 or 7 days/week.

Maybe folks in the Moon Club can offer some insight?



I'm a service engineer and at best did around 30k miles a year, so as mentioned either taxis or failed odometers showing 999999.
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Old 20th October 2021, 10:27   #13
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I left my first job at Lloyds Bank through boredom and impatience and joined a building company in Essex simply because it offered a COMPANY CAR. And . . . it was a base Mini. Grey, sliding windows, no extras. BUT I did 37000 miles in 18 months. It was more than that because we had a limited private mileage but one of the advantages of those early minis was that you could disconnect the speedo cable in about 10 seconds by sliding your hand under the dash. Most useful.
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Old 20th October 2021, 12:03   #14
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....... BUT I did 37000 miles in 18 months. It was more than that because we had a limited private mileage but one of the advantages of those early minis was that you could disconnect the speedo cable in about 10 seconds by sliding your hand under the dash. Most useful.
While that's a lot of driving (you have my sympathy - I too had a Mini with sliding windows and quiet and refined it wasn't) it's still less than an average of 70 miles a day. So (officially ) that's about 30 miles a day short, and even if it was 100 miles a day it needs to be kept up at that rate for about another 220 months. .

I can see the required number of miles being kept up for a few years but not for 20ish.

Maybe it's just numbers and no one has actually done any checking and happily given it to the press . It would be interesting to see something like MoT and/or the servicing history with mileages recorded.
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Old 20th October 2021, 12:52   #15
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I am sure on the site a few years ago someone said there was a Rover 75 taxi in Cardiff ?with over 400,000 miles clocked up.
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Old 20th October 2021, 13:02   #16
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I am sure on the site a few years ago someone said there was a Rover 75 taxi in Cardiff ?with over 400,000 miles clocked up.

It was in Durham, a 75 diesel that marinabrian t4’d and had over 600k on at the time.


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I clock up 40,000-50,000 miles a year and have done for over 35 years.
All of my everyday cars in the past had mega miles on and I run them to the ground before buying something else , the last ZT cdti had 300,000 on it before I had to scrap it.
The last petrol car I had was a 2002 MGZS 180, bought that with 13,000 on, I sold that to my son with 245,000 on it after 5 years of ownership and it was still going strong, well it was till it got written off a year later with my son aquaplaning into a central barrier
I do know of 2 Montego diesels with over a million miles on and they're both still going.
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Old 20th October 2021, 20:56   #18
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The information apparently came from DVSA......

I'd agree with the comment on the 1.7 Isuzu engine. My 1993 cavalier which had a suspiciously low 105k when I bought it, had no engine issues doing another 75k, including quite a few on veg oil, for me before Mrs Andy crashed it on the M5. Even then with the driveshaft bent and the side stoved in it still ran perfectly well when i scrapped it.
Some later detective work led me to believe it had easily passsed 250k before the end came.

My combo is fast approaching 157k, and with a recent egr blank & manifold clean pulls well with a full load, though this later 16v cdti version seems like it'll suffer from ancillary or electrical problems sooner than the older version

A few years a go I worked with a former professional footballer who had moved into football coaching. He was also involved in scouting for players in the 1980s. He told me his club once sold a one year old Volvo estate that had 100k on it, after it was driven almost constantly all over the UK between football pitches to watch matches.

With that kind of mileage, it could easily be possible to do 500k in 20 years.

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Old 21st October 2021, 14:09   #19
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A guy in Italy clocked One million of kms (that's more than 600.000 miles) about 2 years ago and the car is still on the road and pulling strong. Not a taxi but simply a traveling salesman who clocks more that 40.000 kms per year. It's a Cowley CDT and AFAIK he replaced clutches and injectors but the engine is original.
He is now stuck at 999.999 and won't go over so, to keep track of KMS he keeps records of refueling and calculates approximately kms traveled.
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Old 21st October 2021, 18:10   #20
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My injectors are all original at 420k miles, wondered when he replaced his? They might put up a fight coming out as they have never been touched in twenty years.
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