E30 Zone

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 9:54 pm**

Any one driving about in some serious mileage motors?

Mines coming up to 280k

but still pulls like a train with hardly any taps or whines

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 9:55 pm**

Jesus325iTouring is over the 200k mark as well i think

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 9:58 pm**

this has been asked alot. Do a search.

Brian Moore has a 300k+ tourer.

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 9:58 pm**

My e28 535i had 350k and now th engines going into my e21

Jason

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:04 pm**

that makes my 177k seem inadequate!

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:05 pm**

toecutter666 wrote:Any one driving about in some serious mileage motors?

Mines coming up to 280k but still pulls like a train with hardly any taps or whines

what do you have?

my 318is has 143k and i thought that was high

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:09 pm**

Jon_bmw's old 318is ( now mine) just ticked over to 216k yesterday. Its now doing just short of 500 miles a week as my daily

The 335i has 103k on the clock but has done 23 miles in 4 years

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:09 pm**

325 in a 91 cab. Do the engines have any sort of date stamp on them, would be nice to know if this is the original lump?

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:11 pm**

our m44 has 160K on the clock and is still going strong

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:13 pm**

seen a tourer td in a local scrappy with 360k

bet it drove in

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 10:19 pm**

My Alpina is just shigh of 230k and it's still going very strong.

I'm just about to throw a shed load of money on it too!

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 11:00 pm**

i dont think mileage is the real issue with old cars

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 12:43 am**

asmith88 wrote:i dont think mileage is the real issue with old cars

I think in some cases it really adds a value to the car as it shows it has been cared for. But they say you buy on the quality of the car and not worry about the milage too much .

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 12:58 am**

Went to see a diesel touring with 491k km on the clock, which is just over 306k miles...

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 1:05 am**

160K for an M40 and it runs as sweet as a nut. Mabye because its never missed a service.

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 1:10 am**

does it exclude non e30s

my dads 1999 e46 323i which he had from new, now driven by his mother in law has 260k FSH too, shows the mileage bodywork wise but the mechanicals are spot on, all genuine parts used

topaz blue on 17" low profiles with yellow interior, only seen one other e46 with the same interior

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 2:30 am**

Alex wrote:does it exclude non e30s

my dads 1999 e46 323i which he had from new, now driven by his mother in law has 260k FSH too, shows the mileage bodywork wise but the mechanicals are spot on, all genuine parts used

topaz blue on 17" low profiles with yellow interior, only seen one other e46 with the same interior

I remember some early 330d's had that interior.

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 2:50 am**

242kms for mine. Runs sweet, a lot of highway kms though

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 7:02 am**

ImysE30 wrote:Jesus325iTouring is over the 200k mark as well i think

247,000 miles

I bought it on 154,000.

I did change the engine though at 232,000 due to a number of oil leaks and broken manifold bolts,it could have been repaired but was easier to pop a new motor in,the new one was out of a 525i with 155,000.

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 9:36 am**

Good to see some high milers, kept reading threads with motors with around 100 - 150k and thought it was time to give the ol girl a rest but looking at your lot it's got another 200k in it

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 9:47 am**

the bm is only quiet low at 129 but my work car is different story, skoda octavia 51 plate 500k and its going strong, uses oil every few weeks but that it,

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 10:18 am**

I bought my '86 32r on 181K and now its on just over 220 and still going strong

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 3:08 pm**

The BMW's are only just run-in at 100k, I've only got 89k on mine but the previous 525 had 180k when sold but having seen it up for sale again recently it would appear to have been clocked. A friends Octavia taxi has 370k miles but those buggers just don't seem to die.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 11:26 am**

my octavia is a cab also

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 11:47 am**

15 years ago you would laugh if someone said you could get a skoda to 300k

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 1:15 pm**

i see a merc 230e with over 500,000miles on the clock that was in a supermarket carpark a few years ago.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 1:19 pm**

It's usually at this point that someone mentions the bloke with the Volvo P1800 that has done something like 3 million miles, so I thought I'd get it in first!

Cue frantic googling for his name etc..

EDIT: Irvin Gordon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_P1800

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 5:26 pm**

Bloody heck, that takes the piss!!

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 6:23 pm**

Alex wrote:15 years ago you would laugh if someone said you could get a skoda to 30k

Corrected your typo

Mine has just ticked over 120K

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 6:37 pm**

I recall bimmerboys white 325i touring with 300k. It was on the original head gasket and still had aluminium wishbones if i remember correctly!

Tracked and fragged though!

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 6:49 pm**

Dan he's still got the engine in his garage, went really well for a 2.5.

Still on the original hex style non stretch head bolts!

my silver touring boed out on 242,000

i could of kept it going but the third engine change was getting boring. Those trips to the ring were taking their toll on it!

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