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tweeks
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:49 pm

just wanderin what sort of miles people have on their cars? i just picked up a 325 touring with 83k on clock :P but whos got the highest and lowest milages on here?
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Doesn't Brianmoooore have a touring with 300+k on it?

mine's at 151k, my old one had 165k before it was written of, but I know it is by no means the highest
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Black 320i = 220K
silver 325i = 102K
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silver 320i = 52 k
blue tourer = 180k
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Bought my Sport sept 07 with 74k, its now 300 shy of 80k (89F)
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Mines just hit the 119k mark
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:04 pm

bought mine on 72k nd its just gone over the 80k mark
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140k on my 318is
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sport - 0 miles
M3 - 93k
24v - 180k (3 engines, re bushed, 5 diff's and another steering rack.)
golf - 109k
Bollocks to this 24v scrap!
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:22 pm

my iS has just ticked over to 175k over the last few days and it went in for a full service yesterday :D
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my m42 has 180k and is starting to sound rough .
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:25 pm

monkey wrote:my m42 has 180k and is starting to sound rough .
good excuse for an m50 imo! ive replaced the whole timing chain stuff on mine which made alot of difference!
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Cook318IS wrote:
monkey wrote:my m42 has 180k and is starting to sound rough .
good excuse for an m50 imo! ive replaced the whole timing chain stuff on mine which made alot of difference!
so have i but it was a few years ago , now the hyd lifters are tapping when cold and i dont want to spend any more on it . so it must be time for an m50
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Had 323i Baur with 189,900 gearbox was getting crunchy...
Had 271,000 on an E36 320i (very very good engines 150bhp) and it was sweet!
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:29 pm

My iS is on 194,000
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I got my sport with 32000 on it in 2006. It now has 53000.
http://www.bmrperformance.co.uk

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There is an Evo Sport M3 with 838 miles on it... never registered...
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133k on the touring. My old import sport had 250k + on the clock before tin worm killed her..
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:54 pm

swindler wrote:There is an Evo Sport M3 with 838 miles on it... never registered...
how has it manged to clock that many miles un-registered
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Silver 325 - No idea whatsoever :o:
318i - 98k :D
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There's a story that mobil 1 oil company bought a 325i and employed people to drive it around a track all day and servicied it only on their oil until it hit 1 million miles and then sent the engine back to bmw under a assumed name asking for it to be stripped down and measured for wear, bmw wrote back saying that they could n't understand what was wrong with the engine as it was still within the manufactoring limits! dont know if it's true, but it would be cool if it was!
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Yes its true. Someone on here will be able to point u to the article Im sure.

Your pics fooked the page though nicey!
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:30 pm

where you located gheko? i'm welshpool
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Im near Denbigh mate. Not far at all eh?
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No mate not far, thinking of doing a meet in the summer for us locals, as you know we have the best roads for driving round here, well once you get out of mr trafficbaney brunstrum area!
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Nicey to save highjackin this thread you have PM :wink:
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Bob_S wrote:sport - 0 miles
M3 - 93k
24v - 180k (3 engines, re bushed, 5 diff's and another steering rack.)
golf - 109k
0 MILES!! what?
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Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:38 pm

318 i has 156 ,000 and the is 160,oooish
Yer i am sorry for my bad spelling. i am dislexic and find it just as hard to read your posts as you do mine.
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my turd has 131k on it - highest mileage E30 out of the 4 I've had.....so far
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My Alpina has 228k on it and it feels tight and strong. It has had a service history for most of it's life and I have now over 3 folders of resciepts. Had a shell replacement in 99 and bar a few little things it's still in really nice condition.
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Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:14 pm

113K on mine I was looking through the serive history the other day and noticed it is now on it's 4th steering rack 8O
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Now driving an E46 320D touring :(, but it get's worse..... the new project is going to be Ford powered!
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Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:17 pm

mines got around 90k but think its more like 100k because the speedos go a bit tempramental recently lol

myparents 318i has 210k on it and still drves fine :)
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Daf318is wrote:113K on mine I was looking through the serive history the other day and noticed it is now on it's 4th steering rack 8O
What's with all the racks? :eek:
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Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:33 pm

The only thing I can think to explain all the racks is the steering coupling. It was fubared and I think the previous owner must have tried 2 refurbed racks to get rid of the lumpiness caused by this.

The latest rack is an E36 one ”“ with a fresh coupling I might add!
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Now driving an E46 320D touring :(, but it get's worse..... the new project is going to be Ford powered!
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