How many KM's on your cars?

[Splashalot]

Interesting to see some higher mileages posted here. Lots of horror stories on these forums would lead you to believe every VW is a ticking time bomb, but I guess we only ever hear of the problems.

My 2007 Golf GTI manual trans has ~95,000kms on board, and apart from heaps of initial expensive warranty work (piston rings, 2 steering racks, driver's lumbar mechanism) seems to have settled into reliability (touch wood). I still periodically agonise over whether to sell or keep, though.

[Bora Sport]

Interesting to see some higher mileages posted here. Lots of horror stories on these forums would lead you to believe every VW is a ticking time bomb, but I guess we only ever hear of the problems.

My 2007 Golf GTI manual trans has ~95,000kms on board, and apart from heaps of initial expensive warranty work (piston rings, 2 steering racks, driver's lumbar mechanism) seems to have settled into reliability (touch wood). I still periodically agonise over whether to sell or keep, though.

Yes, maybe I have been lucky. Since 1988 my family and I must have clocked up well over a million k's in our various VW's and we've had a few of them. I didn't include the Bora 4mo in my post above that my son now has and it is well over 300,000k's and still on the original clutch or my wife's Vento that had 440,000k's on it when written off some years back.

I'm not saying that the cars haven't suffered the usual faults for their model, sagging hood linings, and the Bora suffering with MAF, alternator and radiator fan problems early on. And I've had a couple of manual gearbox failures due to the diff rivets in my 1988 Golf GTI and my 1999 Seat Cupra. So far the engines have been pretty much bullet proof with only regular servicing at 15,000k's (and K&N air filters lol). Being on this forum has also been great for finding out possible faults and preemptively taking measures to avoid possible failures.

Currently with 2 high mileage diesels I am just waiting for a DPF or an EGR failure to occur lol.

[ozscout]

2011 Octavia Scout 226977 with only a few issues

[VWJetta]

2006 Mk5 Jetta 2.0T just hit 110,000kms

[PassatB6]

Gave up my Mk3 Golf at 370,000km - and yes, at 300,000 the odometer goes back to zero! Very reliable and trouble free vehicle.
Currently have a Skoda Octavia on 45,000km and a Polo on 18,000km.

[MattyT]

Mine just clocked 300,000km (with the odo reset to 0!)... and then promptly spat coolant everywhere. It's not terminal, but it is a big-ish job to fix.