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Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?

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My red one has 289,000 Kms which is near enough 180,000 miles ........ and the white one has 244,000 miles

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274k but the speedo hasn't worked since before Elvis brought it back from Estonia.
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WHS^ dunno how long it hadnt worked but i reckon i added at least another 10k miles including driving it home.

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I've done few thousand since- Drives like new still. :ok
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314867km
but the van is a bit like triggers broom :lol:
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i knew the doka was in the high 200k kms so i went out to check...
i am glad i did.
its almost ready for a photo opportunity on 299998 kms.
i hope i dont forget on the way home.

so merely 186410 miles. just a spring chicken really.
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lloydy wrote:314867km
but the van is a bit like triggers broom :lol:


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Just saw mention a couple of days ago of a t3 with over 600 000km on it. still had it's original wbx, apart from a new head and a new piston somewere along the line. Pretty sure it was still on it's first owner too....
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Mine has 334596, at least 3 engines and at least three gear box's..... 12 owners :shock:

Don't know anything else about the van apart from that as I bought it from a car auction. I did send a very nice letter to the previous owner to ask about it, but no reply.

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it would seem like i'm still running in then at 180,000 k's........and i've spent how much!!!...should have bought a ZONDA...prob the same cost per mile :run
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Mine has a lowly 202k km... (and I have done 60k of them)
My 2wd velle on the other hand.. :lol:

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Mine is siting around 10365 miles but mine really is like triggers broom. It had a new shell in 1992 but was born in 1987. The engine is a vr6 out of a circa 1992/3 Corrado. The gearbox has been rebuilt. The odometer is 8% out as well so am 8% over whatever it really is. God knows when the speedo was changed
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Mine has 267570 Kms and is on its second engine. Howeverr I am running on 205/70 R15 wheels and tyres, will this make a difference it certainly affects the spedo :?:

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somehow I think most Syncros by now have different wheels and tyres fitted. My red one runs 16% slow and my white one .... well it doesnt run at all but the last time it moved it had the correct wheel/tyre combo
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I'm really starting to doubt the indicated ~110k miles on ours, judging by the rest of it...

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