Saw Stephen's blog on "Who's got the highest mileage on their 166 on the forum" and thought it might be interesting to compare with the 159 which has only been going since 2006, petrol OR Diesel, mine's a 2007 1.9 JTDm Lusso Sportwagon, 1 Company owned F.S.H. and just on 95,000 (but looks and drives like half that!) anyone over the 100,000 yet and if so how's it performing?
160k on a 2.4 ti for me. Still on the original clutch and gearbox untouched bar an oil change. She's been remapped for a few years and has the odd war wound, but is still a strong old beast!
Feeling positively youthful this morning at 92.5k having read this ...
Brilliant thread :thumbs: and comforting to know at 18k per year she'll still be sub 200k by my early retirement :irked: when she'll be 20yrs old (that's less than average mileage init)
Since visiting Gus, she's like driving a different car :thumbup: I think i've fallen in love all over again :yes:
Apologies for picture, but if you've also got an iphone you'll be used to that
My 2.4 (2007) is 100% original (no remap) and I've reached 235 km/h on the German autobahn (GPS). I guess your remap makes it quicker off the line, but I'd expect it to be faster on a straight line...
A little late to answer I guess.
But here it is none the less.
The car stops pulling around 4.100 rpm and wouldn't go any higher. And that was no matter what size wheels you would put on.
112k miles. Same clutch and gearbox. Biggest problem I have had is with some wiring wearing against a bracket and car cutting out randomly because of it. Had the problem for ages without garages finding it. All sorted now.
It's in with Ned at Autolusso shortly for cam belt and to have the swirl flap removed.
97k on mine '08 1.9 16v jtdm. Got at 40k (in 2011 I think)
Cambelt and water pump done at 60k. EGR and DPF blanked at around 55k, best thing I've done, the next 10-20k just got smoother as the crap got cleaned out with the flow.
Issues: EGR and MAF sensors failed around 50k (think the car had been sitting round a while before I purchase for the egr).
Wiring (in the drivers fusebox) to low pressure fuel pump failed around 80k.
Both rear Ti springs snapped (around 500miles between each!) at around 92k.
Okay guys, did a quick search on the German Autoscout side and a few interesting things showed up:
A 159 with, as the seller claims, 1'850'022 kilometers on the tacho :yikes::yikes: - I strongly suspect this can't be true, must be a typo somewhere...
However, the list has plenty of high-milers with 318K, 270K and many more with more than 200K on the clock - that's a good sign for us all :thumbup:
Engine skimmed, piston rings, head bolts, valves, gaskets etc. 700euro .... Plus a few pints for my mate who took apart n put back together.... Driving like new now
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