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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 05:51 PM
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557,000 Miles and Counting.....

Great little story. I figured we could all appreciate this

I did a search and was amazed I hadn't seen this posted yet.

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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 06:03 PM
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Is it the old lady who has the lifetime guarantees on a lot of the parts? Can't view it at the moment lol
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 07:09 PM
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wow that is pretty cool comet packing heat lol
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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it is a repost... but 500k pales in comparison to 900,000 miles on a 1999 model year vehicle.

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.p...&postcount=133
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 07:21 PM
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good story. that vw is impressive as well..
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 10:50 PM
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that is crazy. i'd consider myself lucky if my rx8 got to 150k miles with the engine still going.
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Old Feb 26, 2010 | 08:22 AM
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That VW averages out to 224 miles a day, seven days a week 365 days a year for 11 years. If they work a 5 day work week with two weeks off for vacation it's 327 miles a day for 11 years. If my math is correct. Every VW NB that people I know have owned have been POS. Do a search. Horrible car. How this person managed these miles and the thing is still running is a quite a feat.
Then again it is a VW, and they do have electical problems. Maybe the odo. malfunctioned? That would be my guess, but anything is possible.
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Old Feb 26, 2010 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by jmc23200
It's like an RX8 with over 10,000 miles on the original engine
Fixed.




(Sarcasm...)
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Old Feb 27, 2010 | 08:50 AM
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Where the hell did that old bag drive to all these years?
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Old Mar 10, 2010 | 08:41 AM
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I'll be there...one day.


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Old Mar 10, 2010 | 08:52 AM
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good story, kinda impressive
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Old Mar 10, 2010 | 05:20 PM
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Nothing unusual. Saab and Volvo do it all the times. This is special

http://www.jsonline.com/business/29181064.html
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Old Mar 11, 2010 | 05:27 AM
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According to Mazda, I hit 721,903 miles on my 8 back in 2008.
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