Post your euro cars high mileage

[MCompact]

1995 BMW 318ti Club Sport- 144,000 miles BMW TPT 5W-30 OCI: Annually
2009 Mini Clubman- 112,500 BMW TPT 0W-30 OCI: 10,000 miles

My 2004 X3 2.5 is going on 215,000 miles in the hands of its third owner. I ran M1 0W-40 on a 8,000 mile OCI until it lost LL-01 approval, then switched to BMW TPT 5W-30

 

[Sam_Julier]

1993 240 Classic 158,000 miles. Photo taken at Ault Park, Cincinnati Ohio.

 

[Sam_Julier]

1993 Volvo 245 Classic, 147,000 miles.

 

[benjy]

my traded 2001 1.8T jetta upgraded to 300 ft + 275hp had 200,000 miles when i traded. it was running great with 20 in. on the boost-vac gauge!!! a great fun cat with a 5 spd manual that ave 34 mpg stock after break-in + 30 mpg after upgrades!!!

 

[dlundblad]

180k-ish on her Volvo.

 

[Silk]

Euro cars use kilometres - my Volvo 850 has done 220,000km, '94 Mercedes C220 has done 310,000km, and my '87 BMW R65 has 122,000km.

 

[Vaca]

Originally Posted by edyvw
Originally Posted by Vaca
Yeah right, it's crazy how long some of the parts last on that car. I was really surprised when I changed the fuel filter several years ago that it was also the original. The car had approx 240,000 miles on it at the time. Same thing for the original distributor cap and rotor, original until approx 240,000 miles.




E30 is amazingly well built vehicle. I had 318i with M10 engine. Got it with some 170k kms on clock, sold it with some 300,000kms and never had single issue, just regular maintenance. Actually rpms would not work, so I would "restart" with fist bump over gauges. Worked every time.


Yeah, the speedometer stopped working a couple years ago, though the more important tach still works. Maybe I'll try the fist bump next time I drive it to see if that helps the speedo.

 

[MCompact]

Originally Posted by Vaca

Yeah, the speedometer stopped working a couple years ago, though the more important tach still works. Maybe I'll try the fist bump next time I drive it to see if that helps the speedo.


Odometer Gears

 

[Vaca]

Originally Posted by MCompact
Originally Posted by Vaca

Yeah, the speedometer stopped working a couple years ago, though the more important tach still works. Maybe I'll try the fist bump next time I drive it to see if that helps the speedo.


Odometer Gears


Yes, I know about the speedo gears. Thank s a bunch!

 

[kschachn]

The BMW in my sig is my only euro car. It has taken more money and effort to get to these miles though than all the rest of my cars combined. Everything works on it however.

 

[I_4]

The Volvo 240DL has 230k miles. It gets Maxlife semi-syn 5w-30 in winter, 10w-30 in summer. The 328 has 130k miles. It gets Amsoil 5w-40 Euro full saps once a year. Both get LM MOS. The BMW has had 2 valve cover gaskets, and one oil pan gasket. The Volvo, all original gaskets, never been opened up.

 

[seanf]

2001 Audi S4 2.7t with 314k km (195mi) lots of highway, car is also tuned so its hard miles, it gets Castrol 0w40 every year or two (7-8k km) as it barely gets driven now that we got a Q5

 

[DallasTexas]

My 06 MB E320 CDI has 107k miles. OM648 engine and all freeway drive it get 40 MPG (not hand calculated I hear the computer is optimistic by 2 MPG)

 

[Audios]

TDI has just about 195k on it, still looks and runs great.

Originally Posted by DallasTexas
My 06 MB E320 CDI has 107k miles. OM648 engine and all freeway drive it get 40 MPG (not hand calculated I hear the computer is optimistic by 2 MPG)


I just flashed my GL320 with a green diesel tune. Made it alot peppier, and the truck gained 2-3 mpg city and 5 highway. The e class is quick as it is, but this would make it a monster!

 

[f355spider]

BMW 2001 540 M-Sport 290,000 miles (no rebuild yet) Used factory BMW high performance synthetic 5w-30 oil for the first 90k miles or so. Then either German Castrol 0w-30 or Mobil 1 0w-40 up to about 240k miles. Been using Castrol Edge 0w-40 mostly since Mobil 1 no longer is LL-01 approved.

 

[Tornado Red]

2003 Golf TDI manual, 725k miles and adding 1200-1400 more every week.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

1998 BMW 328i 5 speed. 165k miles. 3rd motor rebuild. 1 blown head gasket, 1 cracked head, 1 bad crank bearing (started as a blown head gasket and had a terrible mechanic) Been pretty good since then.

 

[turboseize]

SAAB 900 turbo 16, modely year 1985.

Bought in 2008 with 302000km and in a very sad condition, for 1000€. Now at 645000km, still in a very sad condition, and cost a [censored] of a lot of money in the process.

To be honest, on a per-km-basis, the car has been dirt cheap, although I have left a five figure sum of € in the workshop. When you do not have any depreciation, you can afford a lot of repair bills and still come out ahead. And you get to write a blog, which a modern car would give you no reason for.

 

[Neongary]

2014 Chevrolet Cruze 2.0 diesel. Engine assembled in Germany from what I've read. Does that count? I change the oil when the oil life display reads 10% remaining. So, that seems to be around 8,000 miles, more or less. I use Pennzoil Ultra Euro L, 5W-30 with Wix filters.

 

[HyundaiGuy]

2015 Fiat 500 Abarth
110800 miles

This has been an excellent car. 5k oci with Pennzoil Platinum 5W40 and factory filters. On my second set of front pads/rotors and my third set of tires.

I'm considering an Alfa for my next car. I'd like to get 250k out of this one.