27-11-2015, 01:35 PM
Properly maintain cars and they'll go on for a long time as a general rule - ultimately it's typically neglect and/or unwillingness to spend the required money to keep them running that kills cars prematurely, particularly combined with the notoriously low values of used cars in this country relative to other parts of the world rendering cars beyond economic repair for any involved repair once they're over 10 years old or so thanks to the labour costs.
My old 306 HDi had done over 250k miles and all the oily bits were in good fettle still - engine didn't need any fluid top ups between 12k services for example, and I've no doubt would have done 300k+ miles. Ultimately what killed it was that I needed an estate and with that mileage and the MOT being due it was nigh-on worthless, so it made more sense to just remove the bits I needed from it and scrap the rest.
Look at the mileages that most commercial stuff racks up or over the other side of the Atlantic to the US where cars typically rack up much higher mileages per annum than we do here in Blighty (and where a surprising number of people still subscribe to the mentality of changing the oil ever 3k miles).
My old 306 HDi had done over 250k miles and all the oily bits were in good fettle still - engine didn't need any fluid top ups between 12k services for example, and I've no doubt would have done 300k+ miles. Ultimately what killed it was that I needed an estate and with that mileage and the MOT being due it was nigh-on worthless, so it made more sense to just remove the bits I needed from it and scrap the rest.
Look at the mileages that most commercial stuff racks up or over the other side of the Atlantic to the US where cars typically rack up much higher mileages per annum than we do here in Blighty (and where a surprising number of people still subscribe to the mentality of changing the oil ever 3k miles).
1990 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 // 1991 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 16v // 1992 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 // 1999 Peugeot 306 HDi Estate