Damn, talk about high mileage. (NON BMW CONTENT)

[stamar]

there is an m3 owner in idaho who has over 500k on his e30 m3.

Orignal engine.

Visible at bmw rallys but never the internet. Regularly commutes from seattle to idaho.

Im sure theres pictures of it.

edit

88 e30 m3 479k miles. Why isnt there a ap new story on that car its at least a nice car.

[HarryPotter]

Isn't this article from like 4 years ago? I know it says 2012 on the date but I call bullshit. I swear I saw it a long time ago. I can't forget that little grandma hanging out the window.

[mbonder]

That's a fair amount of miles, but there was a story in Sport and Exotic car a couple months ago about a guy who was the original owner of a volvo (forget the model) that had over 2.1 million miles on it.

He had replaced the engine twice, trans 3 times, full respray four times. Car was great looking and he loved it so I think the money was well spent to keep it alive all those years. He now does press events for Volvo, they pay him to drive it more!

[Pantless Spency]

diesel w123 chassis car. nuff said.

[slaterd]

Honestly I was expecting more than 576k miles.

[hfabricius]

I have heard of Cummins 6BTs going up to around one million +, the only thing is that Dodge truck bodies are so shitty. They fall apart before the engine gets close to the end.

[Raxe]

The M20 I'm rebuilding right now had 360k miles on it, still in terrific shape.

[u3b3rg33k]

People who keep old cars going are insane.

Why is that?? because they can afford it?

[Mlarsen]

Dude that comes into my shop has about 480k on his 95' Honda Accord.

[VANOS714]

People who keep old cars going are insane.

Why is that?? because they can afford it?

[VANOS714]

I'm yet to understand why people think 150-200k is high mileage. As long as you maintain a vehicle, it will live.

I agree.

[InuFaye]

People who keep old cars going are insane.

[slammin.e28]

So, take the SAAB with 1mil miles on it. Figure up how much was spent on it after it hit the normal lifespan (say 200k miles?). Add that up, and see what NEW car the guy could have bought and enjoyed instead of that shitty old SAAB.

Impressive, but the amount of money to keep one running gets ridiculous...I can only imagine what he spent on that damn SAAB.

[M-technik-3]

My red M3 is at 289K original s14.

[mikeedler]

I regularly service a facelift 530d e39 at work, it had as of last week over 800,000km on it. Motor has never been pulled apart, orig. turbo, And I have now done 2 sets of wheel bearings- one at about 300,000, the other last year at just over 700,000. Owner plans on keeping it until 1 mil.
had to replace the rusted out fuel lines on it last week.