Civic with 930,000 miles for sale

[Roonie]

Civic with 930,000 miles for sale

CraigsList Find of the Decade: 930,000 mile '95 Honda Civic - Autoblog




Also this one I found of a Saab with over a million miles on it. Saab later gave the guy a new car free.

JS Online: This Saab story is one in a million

FACTS FROM THE ARTICLE:
A 1989 Saab 900 SPG with 1,001,385 miles.

In 17 years the car used more than 600 quarts of synthetic Mobil-1 motor oil, which can travel significantly more miles between oil changes than regular oil.

In its time, the car burned two tanker-truck-loads of premium gasoline and averaged about 28 mpg.

It went through about 22 sets of tires, changed every 45,000 miles.

The transmission was replaced at about 200,000 miles, but the engine was largely untouched.

The engine head gasket was replaced three times because constant warming and cooling stretched it.

[Stylerod]

Wow. I remember reading about a Chevy Truck that went over a million miles in only 4 or 5 years. The guy delivered magazines or something through the whole south east and would drive 6 or 8 thousand miles a week. He had his oil changed every 4 days

He contacted Chevy after he rolled 1 million but they weren't interested. But the Texico shop he had his oil changed at was and Texico Corporate bought him a new Chevy Truck. Texico tore the engine apart to see what it looked like and they said it looked like a 100,000 mile engine that was very well taken care of.

[JaJae]

I know someone who got to something like 300,000k on his Honda Civic that was about 7 years old. He took it to the dealer for all his oil changes and maintenance. One day he got a call saying they wanted his car and they'd give him a new one for free. He got a new Accord EX. They said they wanted to test the engine and stuff and keep track of wear and tear on their engines with normal maintenance.

[WickedLou9]

Crazy stuff. Yeah my last Honda Accord was a 1991 and when I sold it, it had 236,000 miles on it. The clutch and main throw bearing had to be replaced at 212,000 but other than that it pretty much never needed anything other than maintenance. Pistons and rings and head gasket and such were all original.

[thomez]

it's amazing what build quality and proper maintenance will do