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I got a 85 L touring yesterday and thats got 418.... Runs like a dream with the smoothest changing box!!!!
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153000 everything original same family owner goes great

Hi all, my 92 4x4 sports wagon has 225,000km. Seals, 1 timing belt (at 174,000) CV,s changed twice, carby just rebuilt and getting over 500km per tank. I think that is good?. Used to do a fair bit of towing, so rear end bushes could be done, but not urgent.
Blows no smoke and runs like a dream,apart from running a bit hot on the freeway when it is about 35deg +, outside and she is fully loaded.
Just done 800km trip to mid north coast over xmas on dirt roads to, fully loaded with camp gear. only problem was to hot (stopped by choice) crossing Barrington Tops. and when the car was empty (just 2 people) we got dug in in soft sand (tyres at 20psi) on Sandbar Beach, and had to get a Landie to whinch us out.
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1984 my wagon purchased 8 years ago with 169 000 on the clock, now has 252 000 going strong

1998 liberty only had for about a year has 207 000 on the clock

Have a Liberty GX 1990 , has 350000 on the clock which happened on christmas day 2008. Even took a photo of it as I was so proud

On its second engine as previous owner cooked it . Changed a CV last year and previous owner had changed others.

Current faults are cruise control not working as previous owner wired it into the immobiliser and when you turn on the cruise control the starter engages. Power window on drivers side not working, its ok its stuck up not down .

I drive a Holden Crewman ute at work and its a piece of s*&t . It would be lucky to get to 100k . Build quality is crap , It drives badly and it leaks in the rain.Give me a subi any day

Heres to another 350000

'89 rx ea82T has 198663 miles ( 319717 km's) daily driver ( 460 km's daily )
'90 L wagon ea82T has 205051 miles ( 329997 km's ) looking for parts car to change it to 5 speed, still drives with sacked transfer discs and axle.
'92 L sedan ea81 has 136139 miles ( 219094 km's ) picked up recently after last owner replaced timing belts but did not finish assembly( not sure if it drives yet )

The 'L' series that I just parted from had 890,975 , one motor replaced, rest normal wear and tear, I change all filters and oil in half suggested time or less, and get on top of any problem quickly, as that's how I make my living, if the Brumby hadn't come up(with 80,000 original Klm) the 'L' would still have been doing 1,000 klm's per week. The 'L' series outlasted two diesel 4x4s by a factor of two ..

Lang wrote:The 'L' series that I just parted from had 890,975 , one motor replaced, rest normal wear and tear, I change all filters and oil in half suggested time or less, and get on top of any problem quickly, as that's how I make my living, if the Brumby hadn't come up(with 80,000 original Klm) the 'L' would still have been doing 1,000 klm's per week. The 'L' series outlasted two diesel 4x4s by a factor of two ..

Ooh..thats high! what kind of driving would that be?
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AP

82 EA81 had 386 thousand kms and some change on it untouched other than services before i had to reco it . I am the 3rd owner of it and i believe we all done regular services.

This is an classic example, now as you can see if you look after the engine, then they will last forever, its like me doing ridiculous oil changes at every 5000kms, it does pay it off after long term/run!
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AP

ive got just over 585,000 on a 91 liberty Gx and the thing is still going and still goes hard, no idea if or how many rebuilds as i brought it 2 years ago with no info on her at all.

my car just acheived -100,000km took a half a day's labour and only a few bundys to swap her over for matataks engine. much better now

253,000 on my 96wrx, 301,000 on my current brumby. my old white brumby 540,000 when i sold it and the red brumby before that 670 ish and getting smokey for the first few minutes on cold canberra mornings. fuel pumps are what lets me down most(4) followed by ignition modules (2) and I have had a cracked front hub on a brumby.I have replaced 4 clutches in the wrx, one in the my sedan I had, and heaps in brumbys along with heaps of cv's.

My RX L has 297K and counting , want 300 before new heart goes in .

A .

Was at Andy's Wreckers this morning at Campbellfield, there is '94 Gen2 LX Liberty wagon with 597,000kms on the clock, checked the manual and its original engine. Selling at $2190.... Could tell it was pretty 'worn' down and country car as lot of stone chips on the front and inside drivers side is pretty worn... (steering/seat/gearstick and carpet)
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AP

Unsure how many kms my Subie would have on it. I'm guessing somewhere in the vacinity of maybe 400,000 to 500,000 km. But that isn't really anything worth considering, as the car has had a full rebuild and fresher parts are always replacing older ones. The other thing is the motor, which I believe is the original one from this car, but has had some use (till he couldn't trust it to stay running if he went outside town) in Rick's car (rtcb65 on here). He threw it my way when his new motor was built because I had just had two motors blow up on me and needed yet another. This motor is going stronger than ever now, while all I've done to it is work it hard (high revs with custom auto controler) and clock up lots of hard highway miles on it since halfway through last year.

I think Subies could just about last forever if you excersize them regularly and look after their health.

Impressive high mileage would go to the old Peugeot wagon I had for 10 years before the Subie. It had somewhere near 400,000 km on it when I bought it where it had sat for a year on the side of the street in Brissie. Put a battery in it and drove it to the nearest servo for the 200 km drive home. I put another 290,000 km or so on it and never ever had the sump plug out, even after blowing the head gasket and another time replacing the eaten out head. It cost me around $200 in maintenance the entire time I had it and was pranged/crashed a number of times (would have easily been a write off each time if it was insured), regularly crossed a local river (water lapping over the bonnet at times), towed things that no other car we had around could manage, did a problem free trip to Tassie and back towing my beach buggy on an A-frame and fully loaded and returned more fully loaded with the buggy loaded as well as a full roofrack crammed with furniture (in 2 easy days). The most impressive part would be the brakes. When I sold it, it still had the brakes that I got it with, and I'd only just replaced the front pads after all those years. Could not kill that car nomatter how hard I tried, and I tried pretty damned hard...

mine rolled over to 340,000 about a month ago (but the engine was rebuilt at around 250,000)

Brothers liberty - 260,000

mates brumby - 698,000 :P Never rebuilt and thrashed on the farm.

303 500 and counting .

A .

207,000 on n/a ej20 in my brumby, had 40,000 less same time last year tho:(, turbo lib had 280,000 when i sold it, and l series had 350,000 on it before the motor was stuffed, still running tho..

Ruby Scoo is now on 395,5xxkm today... It doesn't leave much time for the rest of the EJ conversion before she hits the 400,000km

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Bennie