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Old 01-29-10, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by IS-SV
That's subjective, but 130K miles for an 03 is over 18K miles per year which is over the US average for annual mileage.
True. Him saying that he thought it was very high is also subjective.
My '07 has 73,000.
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Originally Posted by YARIS!
My '07 has 73,000.
That's high (yes that's subjective), but certainly well above average in the US.
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Originally Posted by IS-SV
I thought I wandered into a "luv-fest Subie" forum. Even if it's off-topic, my mother would be pleased because she owns a Subie.
Now I see where the intelligence in your family comes from.

(No offense......I'm just being facetious).

To be honest, though, I've never seen a Subie go three-quarters of a million miles, like the thread-topic Accord.

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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Now I see where the intelligence in your family comes from.

To be honest, though, I've never seen a Subie go three-quarters of a million miles, like the thread-topic Accord.
There's actually a website devoted to it.

http://www.subaruhighmileageclub.com/

One thing is for sure. The 2.2L certainly has a consistent record of hitting over 300k miles. This is an engine that Subaru should update and bring bang to the market.
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Originally Posted by YARIS!
True. Him saying that he thought it was very high is also subjective.
My '07 has 73,000.
For me anything over 15K a year is high. 10K is slightly low, and under 10K a year is low. My 02 BMW that I sold to get my 03 GS430 had 24K miles on it that had about 6K miles a year. I actually bought a car that had 70K more miles on it if you can believe that.
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Now I see where the intelligence in your family comes from.

(No offense......I'm just being facetious).

To be honest, though, I've never seen a Subie go three-quarters of a million miles, like the thread-topic Accord.
No offense taken, good one.

My sister-in-law has an Outback too, it's approaching 100K miles.
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Old 01-29-10, 04:43 PM
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I still vote for Trexus's Lexus as the high-miler that's really been driven.

I'm somewhat skeptical of a car with 700K miles and the original clutch (in terms of it been driven hard or at least normally).
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Originally Posted by IS-SV
I still vote for Trexus's Lexus as the high-miler that's really been driven.

I'm somewhat skeptical of a car with 700K miles and the original clutch (in terms of it been driven hard or at least normally).
I definitely drive my ES 300. See the link to the ES forum which as a laundry list of what parts I changed during my years with my ES.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/es3...ml#post5142631
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Thats ridiculous, and i thought putting 10k miles on my car since late july was a lot
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willing to bet he was a medical courier of some sort, driving all throughout the state, those guys can put up this kind of mileage.

A normal person only puts on average 12,000 miles a year on their cars. My 97 Civic only has 110,000 miles.
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Originally Posted by Joeb427
No recalls?
Maybe. my 2000 TL had a tranny recall--but they didn't replace it, they just extended the warranty (but NOT to 750,000 miles...)
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Trexus ftw!!!
 
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i wonder if it can reach a million?
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It probably could with that kind of driving.
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I love threads like this. Regardless the make and model, I have a great appreciation for people who can get maximum longevity out of their cars. Great advertising for Honda by taking the guy's car into the showroom, and congrats to him if he ever sees his. Hope his new car serves him equally well.

Originally Posted by Trexus
Interstate 40 or interstate 80 is pretty much open in certain states and you can go and go without much traffic...
I can vouch for that. Driven both of them almost coast to coast.
Originally Posted by CK6Speed
The clutch on my Acura Legend went to at least 150K on the original clutch.
I loved your Legend, Chris!

About 410,000 on the original engine, trans, and clutch with my 6MT 1994 coupe as of today.

I've had it since 95,000 but I have records since new.



Video when I crossed the 400k mark.


And I posted a few pics (along with complete service/maintenance history) shortly after that milestone, on Autopia:

http://www.autopia.org/forum/click-b...ra-legend.html

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