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Old 16-11-2006, 02:00 PM   #31
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'83 XE Fairmont with a little over 75600k, real deal.
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Old 16-11-2006, 02:12 PM   #32
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'90 VN - 284,000 - Used $20 oils in it, but serviced every 5,000km. Still going strong, no leaks at all. Thrashed day in day out. Replaced oxygen sensor. Starter motor sticks occasionally.

'98 GTS - 126,000 - Over serviced and under-driven. Doesnt get many km's on it. Serviced obsessively.

'02 AU - 56,000 - Now in the hands of my parents, still serviced all the time, but still low kms for the age.

EDIT: Sometimes I get a little (ok, a lot) paranoid about racking up kays on my cars, but then my uncle drops round with one of his many taxis. They have 700,000+ on them, yet they still go. His EL has 890,000km on it, original motor and trans, few gaskets here and there, but basically its as it started. Even the body has held up well, its a bit rattly, but with a bit of TLC, you could bring it back to life. Gives me faith :
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Old 16-11-2006, 02:20 PM   #33
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friends VN wagon had 600 000kms till we blew the motor up (redlining in 2nd all the way up a steep dirt hill...it was glowing!)

my AU3 -127 000kms - same engine, same box, never opened still going hard.

mums 99 metro - 14000kms HAHA bearly touched
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Old 16-11-2006, 03:55 PM   #34
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'83 XE Fairmont with a little over 75600k, real deal.

The cleaner at my work has a XD EX-Highway Patrol, with an origonal 70,000kms.
Its a very nice car and very clean(in more ways than one) ;)


Mine, 1977 XC Fairmont. sitting on 255,000. Had 175,00 on it when i got it, if i remember rightly
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Old 17-11-2006, 03:36 PM   #35
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Old 17-11-2006, 06:35 PM   #36
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my ED had 264 000 kays on it when i crashed it. not bad for 12 years.

my AU has 116 000 on it in 6 years.
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Old 17-11-2006, 07:25 PM   #37
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My mum first bought my EA in 1994. It had 214,000 kms on the clock. When she bought it the odometer stopped working in the same year. She does roughly 40,000 kms a year. I bought it two years ago and replaced the instrument panel with a working odometer, and I do around the 70,000 mark each year in that thing. I'd estimate that it's at about 700,000 roughly. GO THE EA! :sm_headba

2 Head gaskets
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Numerous clutches
Couple of sensors here and there.
Regular oil changes
It's still going strong
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Old 17-11-2006, 08:18 PM   #38
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BF xr6t 11 weeks old 13,000 ks, so not much any way, but hey ,its got an edit to look forward to, and the living bejeeses flogged out of i! !!!!!!!
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Old 17-11-2006, 09:13 PM   #39
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My EL has 980,000km on it. :p
Absolutely amazing!

Had many issues with it? I'm guessing at least a few head gaskets!

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Old 17-11-2006, 09:18 PM   #40
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i jumped in a cab in canberra a few weeks ago shitiest cab i've ever been in but i noticed the odometer reading....1.75mil...
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