My Hawk is approaching 70k I've spent quite a bit thus far (forged / rebuilt, new suspension etc) and plan to spend more (bigger turbo + other bits)

I guess this is aimed at long term project owners - are you bothered by mile count? I guess when so much has been upgraded / changed it's essentially a shell mileage but does it ever make you sad?

 

is it a daily car?

my old classic dont bother me, as i prob wont sell it as a whole and its only used weekends etc

 

As long as its maintained etc, i dont think mileage matters at all, as you say its just the shell

 

Mine has just hit 91 k It used to bother me but it will never be sold its my daily driver and eventually with be taken of the road and kept as a toy.

 

Not at all to be honest, aslong as the car isn't having major break downs I can live with it

Was only when I was younger I used to look at mileage

I think on the cars with small engines like 1.0 - 1.6 millage becomes an issue as they just get rough or was the case when I owned cars like that

I rarely glance at the milage anyway, if I was looking to buy a car I guess I would be looking at the millage count though

 

70k is just run in

My last six cars were bought with 80k, 105k, 114k, 100k, 110k, 137k.

However having struggled to subsequently sell some of them on I am now leaning towards lower-miles examples for future purchases, not because it bothers me but because high-miles cars are more difficult to sell.

I hate to perpetuate the myth, but c'est la vie.

 

I'm very close to 150,000 and still going....

 

My Hawk is on 139,000 on standard internals doing 100 miles a day.

Not worried at all

 

As everyone says as long as its maintained well but on that note, it does really bother me. I brought my STI with 68k on the clock and to me that was a lot!

 

My hawk has only done 27k bless it..
Don't think I would keep the car if I was doing big miles every week.

From past experience owning high mileage cars I would rather a lower mileage model.
Main problem I've had with higher mileage has been bushes, corrosion, interior wear, paint work ect. Mainly stuff that's not on the service list.

 

I guess it depends on what you plan to do, I'm never going to make back what I've spent / will spend and plan to hit circa 400bhp and have many years of fun ahead

 

I wouldn't by a impreza with too high miles, as most of them will be high thrashed miles, although there are quite a few owners who look after them.

My classic is on 75k as it's a summer car. But with high miles it's not just engine wear you need to think about, switches wear, seats wear, painted work gets damaged and chipped. Rust starts coming though, so yes first thing I look for is low miles on an impreza

 

180,000 so far

 

Win!

 

Low mileage can also be a bad thing. My 95 WRX has 62,000 on it and its been a right bitch since I've had it (2 years). Started with large bits (well more expensive) and has been small bits over the last 4 months but all adding up

Its a bit of swings and roundabouts it seems

 

But being 20 years old you would expect that...

 

Mileage doesn't bother me in the slightest

 

The highest ive had was back in 2000 when I bought a cavalier gsi2000 that had nearly 220000 on it, original engine and box aswell.

I bought a volvo t5 with 145k and that was mint aswell

 

No but lack of knowledge, rusty body work or servicing does.

 

It wasn't so much of a concern when looking around for my 05 STI last year as colour, age and specific model were more important but when I came across one that was an 05 Widetrack in black that only had 32K on the clock I went for it, even the little bit of bodywork damage was minor.

I had expected to be getting on in the region of 60-90K considering I was looking at a 9 year old car.

I know now the mileage on the car will never catch up with others of the same age as its not a daily use, My only concern with the mileage now is that I keep it well maintained.

 

Bought my WRX Wagon with 92k on the clock, it's just clicked over 113,500 and been no real trouble thus far, plenty of them go over 150k so hopefully mine still has some life left in it.

To be fair for what it owes me I don't care, I'll be dropping a forged engine in there at some point as I have no plans to sell for the foreseeable future.

 

My first Impreza was a 1993 car bought with 105k on the clock. It had been fastidiously maintained, looked and drove extremely well and was in far better nick than cars I've seen with half the miles.

Condition>miles every time.

 

Not necessarily! And it wasn't about age it was about mileage and mine is very low for its age

 

Cavaliers are bullet proof though, my dad had 2.0 Sri that did 250.000 miles, only reason he scrapped it was to rough body wise.

Next he bought a cavalier 2.0 8v that did just over 200.000, body work went on that too. Then he bought a 2.0 ecotec with 56.000 rubbish constant problems rubbish engine

 

mileage is only numbers ! my bugeye had 112k on clock & my 08 hatch has 95k on clock now & used everyday , the way I look @ it u pay enough in tax & insurance you might as well use it & enjoy it , I cant see the point in spending money buying car modding it to how you want it to be sat in a garage

 

Depends what car you got, if its just your run of the mill Impreza(WRX, UK STi) then I wouldnt worry about mileage as a everyday car, but something rare like a 22B, S204, Spec C Type RA etc then I would try and keep the mileage down as it will affect the price when you come to sell.

But a sub £10k-£12k Impreza I cant see mileage being a problem as your not going to lose much money and you will always find a buyer as its in most peoples price range, But try selling a 22B with 150k miles on the clock and wanting £17-18k would be a bit harder.

 

E.C.O.T.E.C................Every Component On This Engine Crap

 

My 10 year old Hawkeye Spec C Type Ra has just ticked over to 5000 miles.

Bloke I bought it off done 42 miles in the 4 years previous.

I only done 90 miles in the 22B the year prior to selling it.

 

My S202 has just under 70k miles on it. Not very many for a 13 year old car.

My Cosworth is barely run in, it's only recently gone over 9k.

I don't mind the mileage but I don't like putting unecessary miles on the cars, I've got a daily derv for that.

 

Depends what you class as thrashed, on a track yeah, but on UK roads hell I can't get anywhere near to thrashing mine except in short acceleration bursts

Maybe I need to take mine out in the country somewhere, these City roads don't give me much play time