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[STEMO]

Think again


https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10104051/Most-common-vehicles-road-750k-miles-clock-revealed.html

[dave the builder]

to do 750.000 miles in an omega would use over 34 thousand gallon of petrol ,over 213 thousand quid 
and if you change the oil every 4000 miles ..... £££££         

[dave the builder]

not sure how many green shield stamps that is though 

[STEMO]

I reckon most (all) of those will be diesels. I was a bit surprised to see the Prius was the one with most over 250,000 miles.

[dave the builder]

you couldn't do 750000 miles in a diesel Omega
you[d have died of boredom by 5K 

[Rangie]

Quite surprising to see what vehicles are included, have heard about diesel Mercs covering mega miles read an article a few years ago about a Volvo that had clocked up over a million miles , in fact it was a P1800 with 3.2 million miles..

[STEMO]

to do 750.000 miles in an omega would use over 34 thousand gallon of petrol ,over 213 thousand quid 
and if you change the oil every 4000 miles ..... £££££         

19 cambelts and water pumps 

[dave the builder]

to do 750.000 miles in an omega would use over 34 thousand gallon of petrol ,over 213 thousand quid 
and if you change the oil every 4000 miles ..... £££££         

19 cambelts and water pumps 

or you could just chance it and keep the original 
spend the money on magic tree air fresheners instead
(removed during the MOT tests obviously      )

[Marks DTM Calib]

How many of them are as a result of the MOT man incorrectly entering the mileage 

[STEMO]

How many of them are as a result of the MOT man incorrectly entering the mileage 

I think your insurance company might pick up on that 

[Shackeng]

you couldn't do 750000 miles in a diesel Omega
you[d have died of boredom by 5K 

Certainly not true of my chipped TD which was a pleasure to drive, and I miss it still. 

[TheBoy]

you couldn't do 750000 miles in a diesel Omega
you[d have died of boredom by 5K 

I loved my old tractor, despite the early headaches it caused us all here.  Chipped, obviously, as the BMW engined 2.5TD was a dog in standard form.

Not sure I could have afforded to do 750,000 miles in it, as that would have worked out at about 188 sets of rear tyres, at about £50k

[Doctor Gollum]

Your headaches with it stemmed largely on GM not bothering to use nuts and bolts to hold the front upper cross member in place... The BMW lump being a fair old size

[TheBoy]

Your headaches with it stemmed largely on GM not bothering to use nuts and bolts to hold the front upper cross member in place... The BMW lump being a fair old size

Eh?

[Doctor Gollum]

Proper cars have a handful of bolts holding the slam panel in. Makes hoiking the engine in and out much easier

[TheBoy]

Proper cars have a handful of bolts holding the slam panel in. Makes hoiking the engine in and out much easier

Yeah, but swapping the engine was the start of its problems. Clearly.

Actually, when LFF64 and I swapped it back, we did it in an easy afternoon....

[Kevin Wood]

You'd have run out of bits of garage door to fix it with by now anyway.

[Doctor Gollum]

Ran out of garage doors in general...

[VXL V6]

Not if you've had to have a replacement garage door for some reason.

[TheBoy]

You'd have run out of bits of garage door to fix it with by now anyway.

Oooo, bitchy

[TheBoy]

Not if you've had to have a replacement garage door for some reason.

Oooo, even more bitchy

[TheBoy]

At least I made sure that my new garage door was less likely to be butchered by that hooligan Omegatoy.  A vital consideration now he's back in Blighty.

[Doctor Gollum]

At least I made sure that my new garage door was less likely to be butchered by that hooligan Omegatoy.  A vital consideration now he's back in Blighty.

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