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16-11-2006, 02:00 PM | #31 | ||
and that's how it is
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Adelaide
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'83 XE Fairmont with a little over 75600k, real deal.
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16-11-2006, 02:12 PM | #32 | ||
Living the dream
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: NSW
Posts: 1,795
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'90 VN - 284,000 - Used $20 oils in it, but serviced every 5,000km. Still going strong, no leaks at all. Thrashed day in day out. Replaced oxygen sensor. Starter motor sticks occasionally.
'98 GTS - 126,000 - Over serviced and under-driven. Doesnt get many km's on it. Serviced obsessively. '02 AU - 56,000 - Now in the hands of my parents, still serviced all the time, but still low kms for the age. EDIT: Sometimes I get a little (ok, a lot) paranoid about racking up kays on my cars, but then my uncle drops round with one of his many taxis. They have 700,000+ on them, yet they still go. His EL has 890,000km on it, original motor and trans, few gaskets here and there, but basically its as it started. Even the body has held up well, its a bit rattly, but with a bit of TLC, you could bring it back to life. Gives me faith : |
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16-11-2006, 02:20 PM | #33 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: QLD - Townsville
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friends VN wagon had 600 000kms till we blew the motor up (redlining in 2nd all the way up a steep dirt hill...it was glowing!)
my AU3 -127 000kms - same engine, same box, never opened still going hard. mums 99 metro - 14000kms HAHA bearly touched
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16-11-2006, 03:55 PM | #34 | |||
Saving for a Jet Car
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: richmond.nsw.au
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The cleaner at my work has a XD EX-Highway Patrol, with an origonal 70,000kms. Its a very nice car and very clean(in more ways than one) ;) Mine, 1977 XC Fairmont. sitting on 255,000. Had 175,00 on it when i got it, if i remember rightly
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17-11-2006, 03:36 PM | #35 | ||
Bodysnatcher
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 130
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1,086,534 km on my '66 plymouth fury hearse before it got rebuilt
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17-11-2006, 06:35 PM | #36 | ||
Audi S3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney.
Posts: 8,307
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my ED had 264 000 kays on it when i crashed it. not bad for 12 years.
my AU has 116 000 on it in 6 years.
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17-11-2006, 07:25 PM | #37 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Between WA and VIC
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My mum first bought my EA in 1994. It had 214,000 kms on the clock. When she bought it the odometer stopped working in the same year. She does roughly 40,000 kms a year. I bought it two years ago and replaced the instrument panel with a working odometer, and I do around the 70,000 mark each year in that thing. I'd estimate that it's at about 700,000 roughly. GO THE EA! :sm_headba
2 Head gaskets Original block 1 Gearbox Numerous clutches Couple of sensors here and there. Regular oil changes It's still going strong
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2003 BA XT Wagon, I6, 4sp Auto, Dual Fuel, Prins Autogassystemen VSI LPG RIP: EA S MPFI 5 speed sedan w/exhaust, LSD, tint, 225's, DBA Golds, EL twin thermos, dual fuel and fluffy dice ; Stolen, recovered and written off, 7th April 2007 |
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17-11-2006, 08:18 PM | #38 | ||
Tribal Elder
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Yarrambat
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BF xr6t 11 weeks old 13,000 ks, so not much any way, but hey ,its got an edit to look forward to, and the living bejeeses flogged out of i! !!!!!!!
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17-11-2006, 09:13 PM | #39 | |||
Walking with God
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Had many issues with it? I'm guessing at least a few head gaskets! GK
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17-11-2006, 09:18 PM | #40 | ||
Resident Nyctophobic!!
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i jumped in a cab in canberra a few weeks ago shitiest cab i've ever been in but i noticed the odometer reading....1.75mil...
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