I had a Peugeot 504, odometer died at quarter of a million km.
Also Had a Seat Ibiza, its odometer also died at quarter of a million km.
Only a sample of 2 cars, so not large by any stretch of the imagination.
I suspect a 900,000 km odometer reading in an ad is BS!
Maybe there are some with higher odometer figures than 250,000km.
Also the above were petrol engines, the engine was not the cause of either car's demise.
Hewy54 said
09:19 PM Feb 24, 2024
My EH holden had a reading of 320,000 miles, my HX Holden read 450,000 km and my Landcruiser read 460,000 km.
Only a sample of 3 cars, but cannot see why 900,000 is BS
Joda said
10:41 PM Feb 24, 2024
My 2004 ford ba xr6 Ute is on 243000k,s , still drives great, some barra engines in taxis have done up to 600,000ks, had a 1967 xr Fairmont v8, owned and drove it for 28 years, 1 engine rebuild in that time, carn,t recall total mileage, 302c.i. windsor, l think you will find plenty of similar stories.
John.
yobarr said
09:16 AM Feb 25, 2024
Whenarewethere wrote:
I had a Peugeot 504, odometer died at quarter of a million km.
Also Had a Seat Ibiza, its odometer also died at quarter of a million km.
Only a sample of 2 cars, so not large by any stretch of the imagination.
I suspect a 900,000 km odometer reading in an ad is BS!
Maybe there are some with higher odometer figures than 250,000km.
Also the above were petrol engines, the engine was not the cause of either car's demise.
Hmmm. I personally know of trucks with over 1 million kilometres on their odometers. Barely run in at 250,000km. Cheers.
peter67 said
11:22 AM Feb 25, 2024
My brother has just put a new engine in his million plus kms truck and has a second driver in it. He bought a new western star I think.
DMaxer said
11:23 AM Feb 25, 2024
Back in my student days I had a casual job driving a taxi. The taxi I drove had upwards of 500K kilometres when it was retired. The owner took the engine out and put it into a boat which is still going. It was a 1972 model Falcon.
yobarr said
12:05 PM Feb 25, 2024
peter67 wrote:
My brother has just put a new engine in his million plus kms truck and has a second driver in it. He bought a new Western Star I think.
Good decision. After driving many trucks over the years I believe that Western Star is best. Freightliner is good too, as is Volvo if you like comfort, but too "wallowy" for me. Kenworth, Mack, Scania, International,Iveco, Fiat, Ford etc etc all are good trucks, but the Western Star stands out. Cheers
Bicyclecamper said
09:02 AM Feb 26, 2024
When I gave my 2001 V6 Vitara to my daughter 7 years ago, It had done 425,000km, it's engine untouched except for belts up to that point, when she sold it to her ex, it had done 685,000km, also untouched , he has added another 80,000km, still hasn't had any problems, I do now wish, I never parted with it.
rgren2 said
12:34 PM Feb 26, 2024
yobarr wrote:
peter67 wrote:
My brother has just put a new engine in his million plus kms truck and has a second driver in it. He bought a new Western Star I think.
Good decision. After driving many trucks over the years I believe that Western Star is best. Freightliner is good too, as is Volvo if you like comfort, but too "wallowy" for me. Kenworth, Mack, Scania, International,Iveco, Fiat, Ford etc etc all are good trucks, but the Western Star stands out. Cheers
My brother has just put a new engine in his million plus kms truck and has a second driver in it. He bought a new Western Star I think.
Good decision. After driving many trucks over the years I believe that Western Star is best. Freightliner is good too, as is Volvo if you like comfort, but too "wallowy" for me. Kenworth, Mack, Scania, International,Iveco, Fiat, Ford etc etc all are good trucks, but the Western Star stands out. Cheers
No......! Not a Western Star......
That appears to be a re-badged "Butterbox" Inter......
Ok, then I'll have a 44 gallon drum of Vegemite to to with the sculpture ;)
rgren2 said
08:00 PM Feb 26, 2024
peter67 wrote:
Ok, then I'll have a 44 gallon drum of Vegemite to to with the sculpture ;)
And lotsa toast.
Aus-Kiwi said
09:46 AM Feb 27, 2024
I think OP is meaning the odometer fails before anything else ? The plastic gears fail in the heat . Although I guess ? Modern vehicles its all done on chip ? It comes down to servicing . Ive been around vehicle industry for 60 years . Some dead beat vehicles that are known for unreliability have done 300,000 Ks with good servicing ! Know ing faults and correcting them . Like timing belts and chains, heater. radiator hoses etc Owners gave up way before vehicle!
Rodsvan said
11:41 AM Feb 27, 2024
I've got an HZ Kingswood ute which has well over 400k km on original running gear inc speedo (202 3spd manual) and still runs well with no oil use. Engine will be swapped for a 308 soon but only because I want to.
I used to work for a construction/transport company and once saw for sale a Volvo (I think an FH16?) for sale with 1.8M kms and it was 6 years old. Must have had multiple drivers and a quick load/unload.
We did some work on the bypasses near Tarcutta in 1994 and some large companies had loads between Sydney & Melbourne and drivers would meet at Tarcutta and exchange trailers so each driver would return home each day. There was a big semi-trailer parking area in the centre of town for this. Some of these trucks would arrive back at their depot and swap drivers then do the same run again - the prime mover was going up to twice a day between Sydney & Tarcutta x 6 days a week (service on the 7th day I assume) so maybe 9,000km a week with probably 3 different shifts/drivers. Nobody seemed to care about these trucks so they quickly became rough and hard-used.
Whenarewethere said
10:19 PM Feb 27, 2024
peter67 wrote:
My brother has just put a new engine in his million plus kms truck and has a second driver in it. He bought a new western star I think.
I did have a very long discussion with a Land Rover owner in South Australia, Eyre Peninsula, with a D3. He replaced the auto transmission at 600,000 km. He was a bit annoyed that shortly approaching 1,200,000 km that he would have to do it a second time.
But the odometer is electronic, so no mechanical wear & tear issues from that aspect.
A bit like shopping centre sliding doors, 10,000,000 cycles. I had a customer decades ago with multiple doors set up on permanent cycles to analyse wear & tear.
Rodsvan said
03:10 PM Feb 28, 2024
Are you sure he hadn't taken a texta and added a zero . ....but then I had an extremely expensive and negative experience with an unnamed British vehicle (never agin); everything which could break did, everything which could leak did, and everything which could fail....did.
I had a Peugeot 504, odometer died at quarter of a million km.
Also Had a Seat Ibiza, its odometer also died at quarter of a million km.
Only a sample of 2 cars, so not large by any stretch of the imagination.
I suspect a 900,000 km odometer reading in an ad is BS!
Maybe there are some with higher odometer figures than 250,000km.
Also the above were petrol engines, the engine was not the cause of either car's demise.
Only a sample of 3 cars, but cannot see why 900,000 is BS
Hmmm. I personally know of trucks with over 1 million kilometres on their odometers. Barely run in at 250,000km. Cheers.
Good decision. After driving many trucks over the years I believe that Western Star is best. Freightliner is good too, as is Volvo if you like comfort, but too "wallowy" for me. Kenworth, Mack, Scania, International,Iveco, Fiat, Ford etc etc all are good trucks, but the Western Star stands out. Cheers
No......! Not a Western Star......
That appears to be a re-badged "Butterbox" Inter......
And lotsa toast.
I did have a very long discussion with a Land Rover owner in South Australia, Eyre Peninsula, with a D3. He replaced the auto transmission at 600,000 km. He was a bit annoyed that shortly approaching 1,200,000 km that he would have to do it a second time.
But the odometer is electronic, so no mechanical wear & tear issues from that aspect.
A bit like shopping centre sliding doors, 10,000,000 cycles. I had a customer decades ago with multiple doors set up on permanent cycles to analyse wear & tear.