Happy Birthday H54 YGW!

[CyrixDes]

Today on the way home from playing football in Derby, my MG 2.0i passed its birthday milestone of 100,000 miles!! I know compared to many mines merely a young whippersnapper, so who holds the record for most number of miles and still going, and on what models?

[tony]

not me i am just over as well at 100,127;)

[D87 SMW]

F170 GGT isn't used much so it will stick to 91,418 for a while yet.

[MaestroMatt]

G699 GOJ has about 112k and still goes well, starts first time and never let me down once in two years of daily use. However, she is heading for the scrapper if nobody wants her because...

A82 WHR has a mere 46k on the clock. A long way to go before she reaches normal Maestro mileage.

[threelitre]

My father's MG EFi did recently cross 220,000 miles. At that point we changed the engine because the oil seal on the oil pump broke. Otherwise it was till going strong and did still exceed 5200rpm in 5th :-) The new engine has just 50,000miles - so there is a lot in front of us...

My MG 1600 has done 120,000 miles, and the old engine was ruined (by the former owner) when crossing tooo deep water.

Alexander

[JollyMG(1)]

Mine today is on 71448 miles, if I can get it over 100k, I'll throw a party! :)

[John]

Mines on 129K. Fitted a new piston last year and found there was one thou wear on the bores so should get plenty more miles barring disasters.

[D87 SMW]

I usually see the cars birthday as the date it was first registered. :rolleyes: :laugh:

[malcsmaesty]

M681 MOL is on 66128 and chugging along happily...(2.OTD)


B879 JBD was on 132k (1.3L)and going strong until t-boned by a pug 205... ouch!:mad:

[John S]

66,000 miles is pretty low. Have you a picture of your TD that you can post up? What colour is it? Any rust? Mine's on 96,200 which my dad bought 2 1/2 years ago on 58,000 miles.

[Rich]

H902 is now at 107k and still going strong!

[malcsmaesty]

Originally posted by M170 RFA
66,000 miles is pretty low. Have you a picture of your TD that you can post up? What colour is it? Any rust? Mine's on 96,200 which my dad bought 2 1/2 years ago on 58,000 miles.

Unfortunately i am not to good with computers,so i am not able to post a photo of my TD at the moment,but my mate is coming round at the weekend and hopefully he'll help me out!
M681 MOL(clubman) is dark blue,tin worm in the usual places( o/s/r arch, inside doors,just spots)had mine just over 21/2 years aswell.
Doesn't look a patch on your beast......great looking maesty! :cool:

[MGTurbo]

120k miles, 30k in the last 8 months. Still going strong and as good as it was at 73k when i bought the car 3 years ago this month. O series rule....

Gareth

[D87 SMW]

...and A Series. :laugh: Seriously though, it's still good at 91,000!

[John S]

Top aspect about the 1.3 engine is that they are well proven e.g. in the mini and can be tuned to produce slightly more power than an MG1600! Apparently the sky is the limit(well, so I've read). :D

[MGTurbo]

You've been reading too much Motobodge.... 130bhp+ is possible from the A series and more, everything has been done to it, read a 1380cc spec, 286 cam, high lift rockers, seriously modded head etc. But you'll waste alot of money, its a small engine in a big car and although the potential for a lot of fun is there, it still won't have the pulling power of a bigger engine. The 1600 S Series can produce 150bhp too, but again look at getting close to 2k for that.

Gareth

[Austin-Rover]

By the sound of it in this thread, a car with 60-odd thousand on it is very low. If i can look forward to another 60,000 miles of trouble free motoring, thats fantastic!


My car is about 800 miles from its 70,000 mile anniversary.

:D

[Simon]

My Maestro 1600 has done 142,000 miles since Sept 1988, although I did change the engine for a new one at 102,000.