Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
My red one has 289,000 Kms which is near enough 180,000 miles ........ and the white one has 244,000 miles
Whats on yours?
Whats on yours?
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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
274k but the speedo hasn't worked since before Elvis brought it back from Estonia.
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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
I've done few thousand since- Drives like new still.
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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
314867km
but the van is a bit like triggers broom
but the van is a bit like triggers broom
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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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.
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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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
lloydy wrote:314867km
but the van is a bit like triggers broom
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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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
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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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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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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
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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
Mine has a lowly 202k km... (and I have done 60k of them)
My 2wd velle on the other hand..
My 2wd velle on the other hand..
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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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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
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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Re: Highest mileage Syncro on this forum?
I'm really starting to doubt the indicated ~110k miles on ours, judging by the rest of it...