High milage intentions

[Danws4]

Hi there,

I've owned my car for coming up 3 years in June, and loving every opportunity to drive it, and from the outset have always maintained the outlook that it's a car to be driven, not just sat in the garage, and potentially taken into the many hundreds of thousands of miles on the clock.

I've currently amassed 97k on mine, (62k in 20 months of driving) and have been doing anything between 1000 and 1500 mile per week commuting since Christmas, with no issues whatsoever.
I'm doing my own servicing in respect to engine oil changes (max 10k intervals), diff oil changes and transmission fluid changes, and have already changed air filters out for long life induction kits, and am just about to renew brake pads and discs for a second time as I'm doing a few track events this year and want the brakes to be at their best possible performance range.

Is there anyone on the forum with a significantly higher mileage car, and could you provide some feedback for the leggier car's and how they are holding up, and maybe what to look out for that caught you unawares, just so I can plan more thoroughly for future maintenance.

I've already had the supercharger serviced with a new bearing installed, I've had the Y pipe and other coolant pipes swapped for aluminium ones etc,

Any information would be really useful in any respect of ongoing / recommended maintenance for the higher milage car, as I now see this as a bit of a challenge to hit 250k without any serious failures!

 

[cj10jeeper]

That's a lot of communing per week...

Only comment I'd make on your posting is to consider carefully the induction kit. No idea what you have fitted, but in general any move away from high quality oem filters to aftermarket will likely lead to a reduction in quality of filtration as they swap flow rates for filtration. Result allows more particles into the engine leading to excessive wear.

 

[Anonymous]

There have been a few 100k mile plus examples on autotrader over the last few years.

Other than trying to use higher RON fuels and regular servicing you will probably be the first forum member on here heading into the higher mileage bracket so do keep us informed on progress.

With the cost of fuel and tyres and servicing, other than shares in BP/Shell/Tesco and Michelin, I wish you safe driving and good luck!

 

[Lunar]

Very similar situation to you - 2014 convertible, looked after properly and things like supercharger oil and transmission fluid and pan / filter changed ahead of schedule.
Mine was open diff so no concerns about such frequent oil changes - first one done at 60k miles.
Tuned (sw and 6% smaller pulley) from 335 to 401 bhp, so you could still go decent throttle travel when so desired.
All was good and running nicely with no faults or bugs when I px’d it at 102k miles.
Ran it exclusively on Tesco Momentum 99 Ron.
Usual issues all dealt with under warranty - worse problem was the hours spent cleaning the sticky buttons with makeup remover - persevere and it does work really well!