I had a seat Leon 2.0 tdi. It got to 100k miles with regular servicing and now the engine is shot. Good old German engineering. Not reliable and can’t be fixed lol
@@markozoric8063 Only complete morons would pay 4 grand for a 20 year old tired shitbox. And many of them really do where I'm from. You can have a very nice Mazda or a Honda for the same money.
@@buca9696 hold the hungarians pálinka and you will see. 4, not, but 2.5-3 maybe. Used cars are pretty exepnsive here, what you can buy Zafira in Germany for 1k euros you can sell for 3 at least here, many many people make their living from it. + costs on transporting, paperwork, etc.
My old Peugeot 406 2.0 hdi estate 1999 0n a V plate, has done 644,000 and is still running perfectly. It had a very hard life, carrying huge amounts of weight, most of the time. It was driven all over Europe in the mountains a lot, also through thick snow etc. It stood for 2 years outside unused, through 2 severe winters. I decided to give it to a friend as I bought a different car. So after it had sat still for the 2 years I recharged the Battery which was 15 yrs old and it started first time. It has obviously had wear and tear items replaced over the years such as tyres and brakes, cambelt and a clutch. However it recently passed the mot, and is still running fine. I bought it at 47,000 miles so i did the nearly 600,000 miles myself over the years and the car Never broke down at all, never had any issues with it. Brilliant ultra reliable car .
We love the 406 Estates in my house. We've had a 1998 1.9 TDi (Saloon), 2002 1.9 HDI (Estate), 2003 1.9 HDI (Estate) and recently mum just got a 2002 Executive (Estate) with a 2.2 HDI. Fantastically reliable cars, before diesels were strangled by emission requirements.
Please restore it pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! And than Drive to the Dealer with the Last Service and see if the regognice the Car. Or something along thoose lines
That's the mark of a good well looked after old car, look up the dealer in the service history and call them about the car, if the tech just remembers the thing, you know it's been well looked after. When I bought my 528i, I called up and I'd only told him the 'V511' part of the plate, and he was able to just finish off the plate and told me that the previous owner had spent quite a bit of money looking after that thing.
I'm from Utica, NY and glad I don't have to deal with the salted roads anymore. Replacing a car every 5yrs is insane especially considering wages really aren't high enough to maturely allow this to happen.
My recently bought very 2’nd hand Volvo S60 has - so far - 465.000 km at the odometer. It’s in very good condition so my aim is to keep it serviced and take good care of it as long as possible.
@@AskUncle Have them give you an allowance of 80% the current cost of running a leased car to save them money, and keep your own vehicle on the road for a million miles. It could become a rolling advertisement for your companys parts as it keeps "running and looking great using our company parts!"
This NEEDS to be restored, and it deserves a bloody good clean, impressively good state for the mileage, I wouldn't even give it 250000... I have a bit of a medium-mileage hero myself, these vehicles have deserved and won their way to keep going on the road instead of falling to the scrapheap, plus less than 2000 quid is not so much.
nah that looked exactly like youd expect from 500k if not worse in all honesty... considering at 500k most parts should already been overhauled to new ones multiple times. ive noticed that most people just try barely keep the car in driving condition instead of taking actual care of the car
Take care of any car and it will last you a good long while....... that's why I stay under my hood looking for anything that could cause the car to go bad..... already got just under100k on my Jeep and I've only had her since 2016..... still running strong..... I'm sure with a little TLC along the way i could get her to the million mile marker
@@christopherrosas2738 what kind of Jeep and what year? Even mechanics I've asked said your lucky if it lasts 4 years without dying. A million sounds far fetched if it's not a inline older jeep engine. My girls compass died at 173,000 ish and it's a 2010. On the other hand I have a cousin with a 2004 Laredo that he says has been reliable.
@@robmalcolm8042 she's a 2016 Jeep Patriot with the 2.0 I4..... only recently had to change out the throttle body and should be next week or so I'll be at or over 100k
@The Trashman Naw, most are good engines. The 2.0 direct Injection ones I dont fully trust, the 4 liter v8's can have weird timing conponent failures. Plenty of vag engines have 300k.
@The Trashman Cmon the vr6? Even the 1.8t if maintained will go 300k plus. Technically the vr6 was designed to be a diesel but still...great engine. The 2.5 5 cyl is a great engine aswell. 300k+.
@The Trashman uk uses miles. 2.0TDI s in Europe are stinky, shakey and bulletproof. 1.9tdi's even more stinky more shakey and absolutely refuse to die. Eastern Europe is full of 1.9ALH mk4 golfs with 600k that still have that much left into them.
I currently have Golf TDI with over 650K on it. The odometer quit working at 1000000 KM or 621K so the exact mileage is an estimate. It's in excellent shape. I have other customers with anywhere from 300k to over 500K. My "mileage champion" was a 99 New Beetle with over 780K miles
@@Poatan.chama. best car ever. As soon as i have soom money i get a quattro of my audi 80 model and give it some stupid strong engine and make it look like one of those r34 skylines. (Funfact: audi 80 with bodykit looks just like one of them althoug it might just be me but it definitely has the same vibe)
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
Brakes, suspension and a tensioner is normal wear and tear. A lot of the cost here is down to previous accident damage and not the astronomical mileage.
I'm quite shocked when I heard that. Is it really worth paying fixing all of that though? And how about the value of the car itself? Also, no wonder it's cheap. Been pretty good though, other than the crash damage.
The big dopes didn't even compression test the engine. I would want to know that before putting any money at all into it. Also, the interior, what does it look like? Has the transmission been properly maintained? He has the records.
I bought an A4 identical to this one last November and motd it today...... 145k miles and needed front pads and disks and wipers....... so proud.... solid motors if looked after serviced regularly from day one..... Not for sale.... also stuck Axe deep dish alloys on it lovely jubbly...
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@TBCO310 SEAT is not the same as the Audi.. you dident have an Audi its a garbage car, you cant take care of the car every 3 months and the cost of the parts 500 euros, every 3 months! the best VW car is Golf MK2 and its 1.6D engine it can do milions.. and we are talking about taking care of the car changing fuel filters, oil filters etc..
@@Taylorjay99 xD same parts? no so to your logic the Golf MK2 has same parts just like the Audi a6? nah. nah. Golfs use simple and good parts that can last a really long time, audi makes expensive shity parts on purpose, and alot of car manufactors do that, because they live by selling car parts thats how they make more money, thats why these new cars are crap compared to the good old 1980s, 70s and 60s those cars were made to last 1000k because the car manufactors dident make shitty parts in oder to make more money from that..
@@Taylorjay99 you really think audi cares for their customers? they are milking their money and stupid people are throwing money on those endless moneypits... if Audi cared about their customers then all the Audi C5 with their 2.5 TDI engines would replaced with a diffrent realible engine, or with a diffrent realible car.. or if the owner wasent happy with the car, give them their money back, they dont care for shit.. they all care about money.. thats the thing that they really care about. they add these computer features and other stupid useless stuff.. so they can sell the car to bunch of morons who dont know shit and they think if they got heated seats or some other features they look or are cool.. LOL i laugh at those people... those people are miserable, they buy expensive things to be happy for a day, or for couple of months.. funny how the world works.... and those the same people who think that if other poor people drive old cheap cars, that they habe a miserable life, they are wrong, they are living a happy life with their familiys, they have good girlfriends that actully love them, while these so called rich cool guys only have hookers that love their money... xD
"Irving currently holds the Guinness World Record for the highest vehicle mileage on a personal car, with over 3,000,000 miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S!"
@@elvisfranca4759 in poland even somewhere around 5k euro, the audi/mercedes/bmw are so overpriced here that you overpay about 1k euro on a old audi a6 c5/a4 b5 with shitty condition
Glad I watched this - I now know that my A6 2.0 TDi PD is only just run in with 303,000 miles on the clock. I had it at 17,000 miles still under warranty and it's as good as it was then. The secret is best fuel, best oil and best servicing. These things really are bullet-proof if you look after them! It has no DPF and the last smoke reading was 0.03 compared to the pass limit of 3.0, at nearly 300k miles, and the top's never been off the engine except for one glow plug.
These are among the most reliable Audi's ever made. The Audi A4 B6 was a new design. The body is galvanized so as long as there is no damage it will never rust. The suspension is improved over the earlier models so it lasts much longer. The diesel (PD, pumpeduse) engines are perfect as long as you don't have injector problems. Only old mercedes diesels and the older vw diesels(vorkammer) are even more reliable and cheaper to repair. The petrol engines are also quite good. Not too fancy, not too complicated. The interior is made of very strong fabrics which stay good even after years of useage. Only the paint on the knobs wears off, but this can be replaced. Downsides are the little space on the back seats. Also the weight. Fuel consumption on petrol engines is high compared to modern standards. The drive is based mostly on comfort.
Maybe... it's still among the most borring and uncomfortable cars ever made, the seats are plain simply build in concret and the suspension feels like they use solid steel shafts as dampers :/ Couple that with the fact that those cars handle like supertankers and are as intresting to drive as a bus ride and you got yourself one of the most overpriced, overhyped cars ever. Realy you could get the same reliability with a peugeot 406 1..9 Turbo D (before the HDI engine) and it would be way better to own.
@@Alystas Comfort is a very personal thing. Some like soft seats, some like hard seats etc. Boring? It's timeless, classy and not too obnoxious. Ok ok, I agree, now that it's so old it looks very dull. Really a car for old people. Especially in silver. The dampers are not stiff, it's not a BMW. Maybe you drove one with aftermarket wheels? With the factory wheels it's comfortable. And yes, it drives like a supertanker. Very predictable, safe. Many people like that. The Peugeot diesels before HDI where very reliable. But they are slow and use much more fuel then the Audi engine. The HDI is actuallly a very nice and smooth engine. But they need proper care to last long. In the end it comes down to taste and money. I had a Rover 620 which was a rebranded Honda Accord. It was the best car I ever owned. That engine just begged for full speed even when cold. It just kept going.
The 2.5 TDI from the 2003/2004 are trash. Even the actual vag workshops couldnt get the engine to Work properly after the Diesel Pump failed. Also the injectors are almost always leaking. And putting a new diesel Pump in Costs you more than buying another used whole car. Old German cars before 2000 are unbeatable, but when the electronic era started everything went downhill tbh
He also said that all European cars that made in the US are way lower quality than the Germany made ones. A US spec A4 would be in the scrap yard after much less miles, but this one holds up cuz it's made in Germany.
A friend of mine who is an ex VaG engineer browsed my 360,000mile T5 on the computer and noticed a few discrepancies, in the odometer, but nothing on the MoT, it had been clocked back on a yearly basis to offset its immense yearly mileage as a taxi, he told me he wouldn’t be surprised if it had done double the mileage. I payed £3500 for this van with no service history and damp from being “hose cleaned inside and out” it served me for 10 years without trouble and is now a delivery van for the local chippy on the original 2.5 PD engine and gearbox, I shamelessly towed triple axle trailers all round Europe and hauled my family of 6 EVERYWHERE
I love this type of series. Restore it please. I had this engine in a Skoda Superb it went to 375k before the idiot that had it killed it. Amazing engines the PD.
Does Adam have his own TH-cam channel? I think he needs his own TH-cam channel. A Straight-to-the-point kind of guy, "This car needs this. Let's get it done."
@@tjlovesrachel Well now you're diving into each specific example. So I'll take a gander: How many dies, and indeed continues to die, in a Audi identical to the one in this video, vs the 2 space shuttles that disintegrated (of which further flights with identical examples will not take place)? In comparison, the Audi still hasn't finished it's bit of effort on natural selection amongst humans.
@@GERntleMAN I mean if we take into account other Audis that have wrecked then the number of people that have died in that model of car definitely surpasses the Space Shuttle.
I am somewhat close. My vehicle has 409,000 miles on it. As modern cars got uglier and flimsier, I just held on to my vehicle a bit longer in hopes things got better. Well, it has been many years that I keep holding on just a bit longer. But it still runs fine. I bought it with 11 miles in 1997.
Get it restored, it deserves some love. Then do some videos with it and Miles. For example, drive both with one fuel tank to see which one can go further.
I have a VAG vehicle with 300k on the clock with no major issues. The key things to a high high mileage (diesel): - Don’t do short trips (My shortest journeys were 50miles) - Service on time (dealer or good independent) - Do the miles in the 10 years of the vehicles life - Use good quality oil and diesel, coupled with genuine parts when it comes to the engine, suspension and brakes. - Don’t be gentle on the 1.6 TDI! I am still on my first DPF, I think because I keep the engine properly used.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@Jack-fs5hs yes they do! all mechanics that work on cars unlike these fake youtube mechanics, have told me that all audis came with a factory flaw.. their garbage cars..
Haha I had a B6 A4 TDI with 300k miles a few years back, paid £600 for it and all it needed was 2x rear shocks @£40. I called it Apollo as he had been to the moon and was on his way home!
@@markfox1545 he was referring to Michelin tiers, since they are quite expensive and very good quality. Something that u wont buy unless u care about ur car.
@@markfox1545 It's the brand of tyre that's important, not how new they are. If a car has 4 brand new ditch finders on then run a mile unless there's a good reason for it, if it has a mixture of brands, same rule applies. When an old high mileage car has expensive tyres on, it's a good indicator they spent on maintenance too.
@@harryballs6186 no profit to be made unless there are more values than the car itself and the right buyer that is willing to buy the bs. I guess if you restore it yourself it's another story, but more money could probably be made using the same time.
1.9 TDI it's just the best 4 cylinder engine ever made. I had a Skoda Fabia 52 plate with the very same engine on 170k and on 300000 miles I got rid of only because of leaks every so often. Engine would last easily 500000+ miles if serviced every 10k
I have a 52 reg Miles kind of Octy with 193k Bought it with16 stamp book which had 10 dealers stamps.I want to keep it as long as possible. 1.9 TDI is one of the best engines ever made.
I've had 3 A4's from this era. Each one I sold off to Eastern Europeans at around 300k miles. They take them over there and convert them to left hand drive. They wouldn't go through all that hassle if the cars didn't have years of life still left. I'm not sure why people think these cars are expensive. Very little actually goes wrong on them. They are ultra reliable as long as you get a 1.9tdi. Today, audis from this era are highly sought after due to their reliability. The actual faults these cars get are trivial, plastic cup holder, antenna breaks, arm rest. All cheap and easy to fix.
Let’s see some high mileage competitions, Skoda VS Audi... these high miles series have made me become more accepting toward a well maintained higher mile car that’s for sure... great vid as always👍🏼👍🏼
@@nexoq4914 Octavia was based on mk4 golf platform,but was bigger than golf itself. SuperB is based on B5 platform (passat B5, Audi a4b5) but in same time is longer by 10cm than passat. Interior was also finished from a bit better materials than passat and has a more features like lights in air vents etc.
@@nexoq4914 That's true for the later Superb models. The first one was even more expensive than the Passat iirc. The interior is quite an upgrade if you compare it to the Passat of that time. Ambient light, inner door handle lights, better materials on air vents and trims. Many of these improvements are also found in the Passat if you bought the most expensive engine, the W8. The first Superb (2001 model not the one from the 50s) was very unpopular. The Volkswagen takeover wasn't too long ago so the brand was still known for low quality communist cars. There was also no Combi (Estate) version available. Most people aren't even aware that the Superb existed before the second 2008 model. I personally love this car a lot. Usually people think it's a cheap Octavia but then they are amazed of the excellent interior and the huge backroom space, which is only matched in luxury sedans like an A8. It's an interesting mix of many VAG cars. Recently I had to fix something on the sunroof and thought I'd have to buy Passat parts. Turns out the Superb uses the sunroof of the A6.
Had a 2001 A4 b5 1.9 tdi with 190.000 km on the meter. It drove like a charm and ran great! I found out later the meter had been worked on, so it had at least 450.000 km’s. Drove like new. Had 2.0 TDI’s with half that mileage which needed new turbo’s, heads, etc etc, not to speak of the newer petrol engines…
That is the 130pd model, judging by the intake. That will do 180hp with JUST a tune. Its got turbo capable of that, and bigger clutch from factory. Garagem dos pistolas has 516hp stock 130pd engine, running big shot of nos, and also there was a guy with low 11's stock engine, which now after 5 years of racing blew the engine when he topped the nitrous to 300shot, far more than 400hp. I also have engine build under that bottomend, and i do 4.7sec 0-60
I had an 1998 a6 estate and a couple of things killed it. First, water ingress via pollen filter/windscreen base, which, despite me constantly ensuring drain holes in plenum chamber were kept clear, allowed heavy rain to overwhelm the drains. The front and rear passenger floor filled up with water and proved hard to dry out completely. Secondly, numerous oil leaks from the 2.4 v6 engine, at around 110,000 miles, which always caused a smell of oily burning in the car. Thirdly, rear subframe suffered severe corrosion and allowed shocks to almost detach, fourthly, the tiptronic 5 spd gearbox had a habit of refusing to get out of park in very hot weather. I had the car for nearly 18 year and maintained it regardless of cost. To it's credit, it had the same original exhaust system throughout, as I never took it for a journey of less than 10 miles.
Well, this vid is proof of "We waste money of things we don't need to impress people we don't like" as no other. Do you need a new car every 2-4 years? Absolutely not. Just get an Audi A4 and clock a million kms on it with good manteinance. Save and invest all the money you have left after that and you're golden.
Interesting what he says about more corrosion occurring on the left hand side. Here in Ontario Canada we drive on the right, but we still see excess corrosion on the left side of vehicles. I'd say that's because of all the 80 km/h 2 way roads we have here, meaning that oncoming traffic splashes brine and salt onto the car's left side. Also, the semi trucks (you call them lorrys) are much heavier than in Europe so the splash is pretty big when you pass an oncoming semi when traffic is going 80-100 km/h both ways.
I had one of these, same age for a few years. Never let me down. Had a Passat before that made it to 290k before the servo gave up. Excellent engines in both of them, apart from a persistently squeaky alternator belt that required more talc than a newborn babies arse to silence it was a great car. This would make a good high mileage hero
Depends how many times you have changed them! It served me well, first thing I always did with those engines was change the cam belt, the servo was the peak of the mountain on the Passat, it served it's time and got a gracious end. The A4 was snapped up by a Hungarian dude called Tomas and exported to Eastern Europe who didnt bat an eyelid at changing the alternator again
Stayed German and went with a 13 plate C Class another one that does miles for fun. Mercedes are top of their game at the moment, might go back to Audi next though the c class is gorgeous to drive but feel like a mondeo driver the amount of them about now
This was my wifes company car in 04/05 , recognised it straight away as it was the first prestige car we had ..
Small world
You need to get in contact with them mate. They had Miles's owner on the show previously.
Give this man some likes so Alex can get in contact with him
Amazing!!!
Prestige? You sure about that? The roads are rotten with them.
Don't get me wrong, I like it though.
Skoda: High Mileage Hero V1
Audi: High MIleage Hero V2
And both VAG too
Both with the 1.9 tdi. I wouldn’t expect any of their new engines to get near that
@@petea7323 the later 2.0tdi was the perfect example of blehghgghhh pure crap
I had a seat Leon 2.0 tdi. It got to 100k miles with regular servicing and now the engine is shot. Good old German engineering. Not reliable and can’t be fixed lol
@@bbbobnl only the PD-ones, the common rail's are good engines 2.0 TDI
Restore that car.... high mileage hero v2
Just bring it to Eastern Europe and the high mileage will magically shrink.
Lmao
I can easily see it being sold for 3 - 4 grand if the interior is well preserved and with ~250 - 300k km mileage.
@@markozoric8063 Only complete morons would pay 4 grand for a 20 year old tired shitbox. And many of them really do where I'm from. You can have a very nice Mazda or a Honda for the same money.
@@buca9696 hold the hungarians pálinka and you will see. 4, not, but 2.5-3 maybe. Used cars are pretty exepnsive here, what you can buy Zafira in Germany for 1k euros you can sell for 3 at least here, many many people make their living from it. + costs on transporting, paperwork, etc.
You guys are forgetting that this car has the steering wheel on the wrong side.
HIGH MILEAGE HERO SEASON 2!!!!!
i second that
I'll give vote #number3
I totally agree #number4
I agree
Biker Gremling everyone seconds this
High mileage hero V2, i would really like to watch
Maybe not call it like that, UK has bad experiences with V2s ;)
Get it the love it deserves, restore the car to show room condition and give the engine some good cleaning and maintenance.
High Mileage Hero V2
My old Peugeot 406 2.0 hdi estate 1999 0n a V plate, has done 644,000 and is still running perfectly. It had a very hard life, carrying huge amounts of weight, most of the time. It was driven all over Europe in the mountains a lot, also through thick snow etc. It stood for 2 years outside unused, through 2 severe winters. I decided to give it to a friend as I bought a different car. So after it had sat still for the 2 years I recharged the Battery which was 15 yrs old and it started first time. It has obviously had wear and tear items replaced over the years such as tyres and brakes, cambelt and a clutch. However it recently passed the mot, and is still running fine. I bought it at 47,000 miles so i did the nearly 600,000 miles myself over the years and the car Never broke down at all, never had any issues with it. Brilliant ultra reliable car .
there is a picasso doing the rounds too on hubnut at 500,000
We love the 406 Estates in my house. We've had a 1998 1.9 TDi (Saloon), 2002 1.9 HDI (Estate), 2003 1.9 HDI (Estate) and recently mum just got a 2002 Executive (Estate) with a 2.2 HDI. Fantastically reliable cars, before diesels were strangled by emission requirements.
Please restore it pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! And than Drive to the Dealer with the Last Service and see if the regognice the Car. Or something along thoose lines
Yeah
I'd like to see that
That's the mark of a good well looked after old car, look up the dealer in the service history and call them about the car, if the tech just remembers the thing, you know it's been well looked after. When I bought my 528i, I called up and I'd only told him the 'V511' part of the plate, and he was able to just finish off the plate and told me that the previous owner had spent quite a bit of money looking after that thing.
Nah that's boring, turn it into another Track Toy with aftermarket bumpers and wangs and such.
Restore it, than: The mileage heroes regularity rally - Miles vs Junior!
Would love to see it repaired to its former glory, road to 1 million miles!
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Conor Fensome YES PLSC
Repar it and participate to a legendary rally.... Or some thing like that! Greatings from România!
Chears
I agree
Yes that would be great
lmao, the amount of rust under that thing is less than a car with 10k miles in the rust belt.
Don’t remind me!
I'm from Utica, NY and glad I don't have to deal with the salted roads anymore. Replacing a car every 5yrs is insane especially considering wages really aren't high enough to maturely allow this to happen.
So true
@@laverdadbuscador Utica? Snoozeville
@@DarkManSonian it's why I left
I think that the car deserves to be restored, as it was taken care of it's whole life and it has served well.
100% take care of my saab at 200,000 miles, i'd want to restore it if it makes 300,000+
Stojke013 those engines is tuff as hell could still go up to 1 million miles
My recently bought very 2’nd hand Volvo S60 has - so far - 465.000 km at the odometer. It’s in very good condition so my aim is to keep it serviced and take good care of it as long as possible.
@@JanZamani aren't they out of business where do you get the parts from!
spend the money, get it perfect, get it to a million miles
Hell yeah, I second this!
I'd vote for this one too.
@@AskUncle what tf are u doing man xD
And add a Super Touring A4 livery.
@@AskUncle Have them give you an allowance of 80% the current cost of running a leased car to save them money, and keep your own vehicle on the road for a million miles. It could become a rolling advertisement for your companys parts as it keeps "running and looking great using our company parts!"
HIGH MILEAGE HERO 2 PLEASE! restore this car to it's former glory.
Yeah!!!! Part 2!!
This NEEDS to be restored, and it deserves a bloody good clean, impressively good state for the mileage, I wouldn't even give it 250000...
I have a bit of a medium-mileage hero myself, these vehicles have deserved and won their way to keep going on the road instead of falling to the scrapheap, plus less than 2000 quid is not so much.
Aii
nah that looked exactly like youd expect from 500k if not worse in all honesty... considering at 500k most parts should already been overhauled to new ones multiple times. ive noticed that most people just try barely keep the car in driving condition instead of taking actual care of the car
Take care of any car and it will last you a good long while....... that's why I stay under my hood looking for anything that could cause the car to go bad..... already got just under100k on my Jeep and I've only had her since 2016..... still running strong..... I'm sure with a little TLC along the way i could get her to the million mile marker
@@christopherrosas2738 what kind of Jeep and what year? Even mechanics I've asked said your lucky if it lasts 4 years without dying. A million sounds far fetched if it's not a inline older jeep engine. My girls compass died at 173,000 ish and it's a 2010. On the other hand I have a cousin with a 2004 Laredo that he says has been reliable.
@@robmalcolm8042 she's a 2016 Jeep Patriot with the 2.0 I4..... only recently had to change out the throttle body and should be next week or so I'll be at or over 100k
Kudos for the previous owners for looking after the car so well and regularly...
Turn that quote into an invoice! 😁
Yes, do another high milage hero! This car has been looked after so well for all these years. would be a shame to let that go to waste
Fix it FIX IT *FIX IT*
When they said 500k miles I said there’s no way a 1.8t went that long. When I saw it was a TDI I realized it is possible
@The Trashman Naw, most are good engines. The 2.0 direct Injection ones I dont fully trust, the 4 liter v8's can have weird timing conponent failures. Plenty of vag engines have 300k.
@The Trashman Cmon the vr6? Even the 1.8t if maintained will go 300k plus. Technically the vr6 was designed to be a diesel but still...great engine. The 2.5 5 cyl is a great engine aswell. 300k+.
The 1.9 TDI engine in these was fucking bulletproof
The TDI engine is bulletproof because VW licensed the IP from FIAT's JTD engine. Which is trully indestructible.
@The Trashman uk uses miles. 2.0TDI s in Europe are stinky, shakey and bulletproof. 1.9tdi's even more stinky more shakey and absolutely refuse to die. Eastern Europe is full of 1.9ALH mk4 golfs with 600k that still have that much left into them.
Hopefully this thing makes it to a million miles like that Lexus!
Is that Matt Farah's Million Mile Lexus? Why yes, yes it is :)
I am sure it will.
There are thousands of VW Group diesels with more miles on them.
A peugeot 406 did 1mil in france
There was recent news of a Nissan Frontier (Navara) that made it to 1 million miles.
The million mile Honda Accord: th-cam.com/video/_UabC1gSj_8/w-d-xo.html
Would love to see it repaired, road to 1 million miles!!!
This! Not Matt Farah's 1,000,000 mile not Lexus!
It would cost more than buy new one....
I'd legit love to see this as another High Mileage Hero! Getting these cars resto'd is great...it makes for a fun series.
I currently have Golf TDI with over 650K on it. The odometer quit working at 1000000 KM or 621K so the exact mileage is an estimate. It's in excellent shape. I have other customers with anywhere from 300k to over 500K. My "mileage champion" was a 99 New Beetle with over 780K miles
Please Make This A Series!!
ok lad lets go with another season of "high mileage hero" , i rly want to see this car clean asf :DD
Sweet Herb I would also love to see another “high mileage hero series” loved the first one! xD
for 500k miles its mint. i have seen 50k cars crumbling.
Yessssss
Me too
Miles vs Junior, Drag race, comfort tests etc
Junior would win lol, more bhp. + Quattro
@@2595220 I think Junior is only FWD
Miles was mapped in the past. Both have got the same 1.9 tdi pd engine. VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat all use VW parts as made using same platform
@@filmandfirearms well thats shit then..🤣🤣
@@SmokeSolo1975 no shit sherlock, i know vw owns them.
Bit late to the party, but in case anyone wonders what half a million miles actually means, it's around 870k km.
Nice my audi 80 already has half of it. And im pretty sure it would survive double of that if I'd be driving that much.
@@toaster_gmbh audi 80 👌
@@Poatan.chama. best car ever. As soon as i have soom money i get a quattro of my audi 80 model and give it some stupid strong engine and make it look like one of those r34 skylines.
(Funfact: audi 80 with bodykit looks just like one of them althoug it might just be me but it definitely has the same vibe)
i couldn’t decide should i buy ild mitsubishi with 290 000km+ but now i got little hope that i can pull this out
@@toaster_gmbh Audi 100🤌🏻🤌🏻
Another high mileage hero 👍🏻 it deserves to stay on the road with that amount of service!
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@Justice-qw7sj Lol copy paste noob.
@@mr.slaphappy3794 your a noob im telling the truth
@@Justice-qw7sj ti si bas glup ovaj ima 1.9tdi a tvoj ima 2.5tdi ja se slazem s tobom da su 2.5tdi smece ali ima nekih dobrih 2.5tdi motora
@@Nikola_W211 Ma ima ali u kurcu. Svaki je 2.5 TDI pod fabrickom greskom. Nije to kao Mercedesov motor bez greske.
"I may have just farted."
"Thank you."
Alec J dying 😂😂
"I'd be surprised if it holds gas"
Fart jokes never get old.
I may have farted too 😌 it smells bad 😖
Your welcome
Presenter authenticity at its best 10/10
Brakes, suspension and a tensioner is normal wear and tear. A lot of the cost here is down to previous accident damage and not the astronomical mileage.
Of course they're not original mate, the car has enough miles to go to the moon and back several times over.
Sérgio Freitas . Go to the moon and get a little more than a third the way back.
I'm quite shocked when I heard that.
Is it really worth paying fixing all of that though? And how about the value of the car itself? Also, no wonder it's cheap. Been pretty good though, other than the crash damage.
It's cheaper to keep an old car going that buy a new one every few years. Better for the environment tooo :P
@@Ruby_Mochii it wont Make sense as an Investment but to get use out of it Night be worth.
As long as you service your car regularly it can run for a looong time. Things tend to get expensive if you wait as long as you can
We demand High Mileage Hero series 2
Those who also want like this comment.
I wanted the TT to be the next one
Do it up, plenty more life in it
Yes
Fix it please!
Yeah
TOP TIP: Every year restore to former glory a high mileage hero! They deserve it! High mileage hero Series 2!
A girl showing off her boobs in her profile pic stole this comment and got more likes
If it wasn’t for the cost I’d love nothing more to do this !
Yes we need more high milage cars on the roads
It’s not a top tip, so don’t say it is. Stop stealing comments!
The big dopes didn't even compression test the engine. I would want to know that before putting any money at all into it. Also, the interior, what does it look like? Has the transmission been properly maintained? He has the records.
Fix it, detail it, load up on candy up and drive it back to the factory it came from
I'd like to see that
They'd probably just say fuck off. Not interested. A bit like asking a Taxi driver if he wants to go for drive on his day off.
I bought an A4 identical to this one last November and motd it today...... 145k miles and needed front pads and disks and wipers....... so proud.... solid motors if looked after serviced regularly from day one..... Not for sale.... also stuck Axe deep dish alloys on it lovely jubbly...
please restore this car and get it perfect like miles :D would do it justice for the guy who treasured this car for this long.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@TBCO310 SEAT is not the same as the Audi.. you dident have an Audi its a garbage car, you cant take care of the car every 3 months and the cost of the parts 500 euros, every 3 months! the best VW car is Golf MK2 and its 1.6D engine it can do milions.. and we are talking about taking care of the car changing fuel filters, oil filters etc..
Sido Ga Zna They literally use the same parts. This Audi has made it to 500k, you obviously just had a lemon of a car
@@Taylorjay99 xD same parts? no so to your logic the Golf MK2 has same parts just like the Audi a6? nah. nah. Golfs use simple and good parts that can last a really long time, audi makes expensive shity parts on purpose, and alot of car manufactors do that, because they live by selling car parts thats how they make more money, thats why these new cars are crap compared to the good old 1980s, 70s and 60s those cars were made to last 1000k because the car manufactors dident make shitty parts in oder to make more money from that..
@@Taylorjay99 you really think audi cares for their customers? they are milking their money and stupid people are throwing money on those endless moneypits... if Audi cared about their customers then all the Audi C5 with their 2.5 TDI engines would replaced with a diffrent realible engine, or with a diffrent realible car.. or if the owner wasent happy with the car, give them their money back, they dont care for shit.. they all care about money.. thats the thing that they really care about. they add these computer features and other stupid useless stuff.. so they can sell the car to bunch of morons who dont know shit and they think if they got heated seats or some other features they look or are cool.. LOL i laugh at those people... those people are miserable, they buy expensive things to be happy for a day, or for couple of months.. funny how the world works.... and those the same people who think that if other poor people drive old cheap cars, that they habe a miserable life, they are wrong, they are living a happy life with their familiys, they have good girlfriends that actully love them, while these so called rich cool guys only have hookers that love their money... xD
Keep the car and you’ll be known as the person that has the most miles.
@Max Paine *laughs in million mile Lexus*
Brimz never give up mate that’s the key to success
"Irving currently holds the Guinness World Record for the highest vehicle mileage on a personal car, with over 3,000,000 miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S!"
WesterM ok 👍
Wait till a billionaire comes and hire driver to drive a car on a remote area 24/7 for a few years
Restore for sure. Then I'm with the idea of driving it to the factory on one tank.
I had a Olds 88 with 320k miles when I bought it. About 400k when I sold it. It still ran just fine. Those cars are severly underrated.
5:44 alex went full balkan on that one
Balkan dealer alex. But our dealesr would sell an old Audi like this for atleast 3.000 eur.
@@elvisfranca4759 in poland even somewhere around 5k euro, the audi/mercedes/bmw are so overpriced here that you overpay about 1k euro on a old audi a6 c5/a4 b5 with shitty condition
Haha lagano na Balkan, 193.000km
Baba ga vozila do pijace 😂😂
@@srdjan2108 Nikad gas do kraja nije stisla🤣
Garaziran, nekaramboliran, vozen samo ob nedeljah.
Drive to the AUDI factory in one tank of fuel
Berlin to Warsaw in one tank, maybe Top Gear wouldn't mind :p
@@123iniko loll
@anonymous ?
@anonymous diesel is a fuel you know..
Sorry, English is not my first language. Im dutch 👍
I love these high mileage videos! Please get it serviced, repaired and detail it. Bring this car back to its former glory!!
Glad I watched this - I now know that my A6 2.0 TDi PD is only just run in with 303,000 miles on the clock. I had it at 17,000 miles still under warranty and it's as good as it was then. The secret is best fuel, best oil and best servicing. These things really are bullet-proof if you look after them! It has no DPF and the last smoke reading was 0.03 compared to the pass limit of 3.0, at nearly 300k miles, and the top's never been off the engine except for one glow plug.
4:25 Adam conducting an orchestra
Please make a season two of high mileage hero!
Clean and repair the shit out of it!
I mean it, make it great again.
Heavyweight hahaha
The guy who synced the impact wrench to the music is a LEGEND!
100% everything needs doing! Tidy it up, perfect daily.
Much like the other comments, give it a new lease of life, have the two high mileage heroes together.
I love 00's VAG.
Same... Always the tightest
These are among the most reliable Audi's ever made.
The Audi A4 B6 was a new design.
The body is galvanized so as long as there is no damage it will never rust. The suspension is improved over the earlier models so it lasts much longer.
The diesel (PD, pumpeduse) engines are perfect as long as you don't have injector problems. Only old mercedes diesels and the older vw diesels(vorkammer) are even more reliable and cheaper to repair.
The petrol engines are also quite good. Not too fancy, not too complicated.
The interior is made of very strong fabrics which stay good even after years of useage. Only the paint on the knobs wears off, but this can be replaced.
Downsides are the little space on the back seats. Also the weight. Fuel consumption on petrol engines is high compared to modern standards.
The drive is based mostly on comfort.
Can’t go wrong with a 1.9tdi
The 1.9l tdi is really good , i've seen those with more than 600k
Maybe... it's still among the most borring and uncomfortable cars ever made, the seats are plain simply build in concret and the suspension feels like they use solid steel shafts as dampers :/
Couple that with the fact that those cars handle like supertankers and are as intresting to drive as a bus ride and you got yourself one of the most overpriced, overhyped cars ever.
Realy you could get the same reliability with a peugeot 406 1..9 Turbo D (before the HDI engine) and it would be way better to own.
@@Alystas Comfort is a very personal thing. Some like soft seats, some like hard seats etc. Boring? It's timeless, classy and not too obnoxious.
Ok ok, I agree, now that it's so old it looks very dull. Really a car for old people. Especially in silver.
The dampers are not stiff, it's not a BMW. Maybe you drove one with aftermarket wheels? With the factory wheels it's comfortable.
And yes, it drives like a supertanker. Very predictable, safe. Many people like that.
The Peugeot diesels before HDI where very reliable. But they are slow and use much more fuel then the Audi engine. The HDI is actuallly a very nice and smooth engine. But they need proper care to last long.
In the end it comes down to taste and money. I had a Rover 620 which was a rebranded Honda Accord. It was the best car I ever owned. That engine just begged for full speed even when cold. It just kept going.
The 2.5 TDI from the 2003/2004 are trash. Even the actual vag workshops couldnt get the engine to Work properly after the Diesel Pump failed. Also the injectors are almost always leaking. And putting a new diesel Pump in Costs you more than buying another used whole car. Old German cars before 2000 are unbeatable, but when the electronic era started everything went downhill tbh
This is the first time I've ever seen someone actually point to the subscribe and recommend buttons. Subscribed
Fix it up and show it to the owner like the skoda :D
Give the Audi to the Skoda's owner and the Skoda to the Audi's previous owner lol
Shame I can't give this 1000 likes
High Mileage Hero Season 2, this car deserves it
Nobody show scotty Kilmer this high mileage Audi, he'll have a seizure 🤣
It's not Toyota Celica Soo it won't win
luke m. Show him.. it’ll be funny as hell.
eh. He'd just say the owner's been throwing money at his money pit and tell them to scrap it.
@@franco-k2l that would be a lie
He also said that all European cars that made in the US are way lower quality than the Germany made ones. A US spec A4 would be in the scrap yard after much less miles, but this one holds up cuz it's made in Germany.
A friend of mine who is an ex VaG engineer browsed my 360,000mile T5 on the computer and noticed a few discrepancies, in the odometer, but nothing on the MoT, it had been clocked back on a yearly basis to offset its immense yearly mileage as a taxi, he told me he wouldn’t be surprised if it had done double the mileage. I payed £3500 for this van with no service history and damp from being “hose cleaned inside and out” it served me for 10 years without trouble and is now a delivery van for the local chippy on the original 2.5 PD engine and gearbox, I shamelessly towed triple axle trailers all round Europe and hauled my family of 6 EVERYWHERE
A great advertisement for keeping your car regularly serviced.
Yup. I have a 2005 1.4 petrol Ford Focus with 420k kms on it at the moment. Serviced every 10k kms.
@@keithcunn Every 10k km? I do it every 4 years or 50k km :D
@Mustafa Wanq How? Costs me less than 50 euro to service it and do everything myself
@@keithcunn ... aaand there's the kicker! 50€ / 10,000 km is not bad at all! I would do it too for sure.
I love this type of series. Restore it please. I had this engine in a Skoda Superb it went to 375k before the idiot that had it killed it. Amazing engines the PD.
I love to see high mileage cars that have been taken good car of. It warms my heart. Keep it going and repair it! It deserves it.
Does Adam have his own TH-cam channel? I think he needs his own TH-cam channel. A Straight-to-the-point kind of guy, "This car needs this. Let's get it done."
"At least" it's got some rust. Otherwise it wouldn't be Alex's car.
Apex Seal In fairness, it isn't.
can you not blow on my rx8 just a few more miles
Not bad for a vehicle that's had more service than a NASA space shuttle.
watchingitallhere least nobody died in this to our knowledge
hahahaha
@@tjlovesrachel Well now you're diving into each specific example.
So I'll take a gander: How many dies, and indeed continues to die, in a Audi identical to the one in this video, vs the 2 space shuttles that disintegrated (of which further flights with identical examples will not take place)?
In comparison, the Audi still hasn't finished it's bit of effort on natural selection amongst humans.
True. That's why NASA spacecrafts have crashed. Maybe they should rethink their strategy.
@@GERntleMAN I mean if we take into account other Audis that have wrecked then the number of people that have died in that model of car definitely surpasses the Space Shuttle.
FIX ER UP! Then go on a road trip with Miles.
My thoughts as well, and go for a long cross-Europe adventure
That would be sweet, with some fan events all over Europe
European roadtrip with those two cars sound great!
@@mattmathew6706 The U.K. left the e.u. that doesn't mean they floated away from the continent. 🥴
I am somewhat close. My vehicle has 409,000 miles on it. As modern cars got uglier and flimsier, I just held on to my vehicle a bit longer in hopes things got better. Well, it has been many years that I keep holding on just a bit longer. But it still runs fine. I bought it with 11 miles in 1997.
6:49 “Vag specialists” 😂😂😂
I always turn into a child when I watch anything car related
9.23 "It's minging, but also you've got a big buildup on the shaft just here"
@The Shitstorm Starter Adults who have lost their sense of fun maybe. I know plenty of adults who laugh at juvenile humour.
@@PKMartin look at his name bro
@The Shitstorm Starter u must be fun at parties.
I want to see another full restoration like Miles!!!
My girlfriend:"hes probably out cheating on me."
Me and the boys at the garage: 7:12
Spam Mail
No, recreating/quoting that scene from Space Balls
*plot twist:* you don't even have a girlfriend.
@@joejingojack mayyyybeeee
@@rXTrLEGENDz nice but what if you dont have boys and all you're "best friends" turn out to be snakes
1500 pounds is ok to get this back on the road. imagine this being a higher speced model. worth saving.
Imagine all the car payments ypu dont need to pay.
Always restore wherever possible! That gets my vote
Get it restored, it deserves some love. Then do some videos with it and Miles. For example, drive both with one fuel tank to see which one can go further.
2:22
Adam: "Why 'ave you two all of a sudden started poppen' up in all the videos?"
Authentic Alex: " 'cause I wanna do less work"
I have a VAG vehicle with 300k on the clock with no major issues. The key things to a high high mileage (diesel):
- Don’t do short trips (My shortest journeys were 50miles)
- Service on time (dealer or good independent)
- Do the miles in the 10 years of the vehicles life
- Use good quality oil and diesel, coupled with genuine parts when it comes to the engine, suspension and brakes.
- Don’t be gentle on the 1.6 TDI! I am still on my first DPF, I think because I keep the engine properly used.
This one has been so well looked after it deserves another life
We've got one of these for 10 years now! No issues thus far 200k miles and going strong.
This car surely deserves to be restored!
Another car from the vw group
Restore it, it deserves it.
Its been well looked after, it deserves to be in its former glory Alex.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
Sido Ga Zna nobody cares
@@Jack-fs5hs yes they do! all mechanics that work on cars unlike these fake youtube mechanics, have told me that all audis came with a factory flaw.. their garbage cars..
@@Justice-qw7sj congratulations. 2.5 TDi is known to be the worst diesel from VAG and your father owns one!
@@kjusn LOL he used to own one.. he sold it years ago.. now he drives a Mercedes Benz C200 (W203) no problems with this car ;)
Haha I had a B6 A4 TDI with 300k miles a few years back, paid £600 for it and all it needed was 2x rear shocks @£40. I called it Apollo as he had been to the moon and was on his way home!
8:42
Adam: "All of it is done inside the head."
Alex: "I may have just farted."
Adam: "Thank you."
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a car by its tyres.
Bunta approves
squadmeta - so if someone puts 4 new tyres on a car you'd be convinced that the car is brand new?
@@markfox1545 he was referring to Michelin tiers, since they are quite expensive and very good quality. Something that u wont buy unless u care about ur car.
@@markfox1545 It's the brand of tyre that's important, not how new they are. If a car has 4 brand new ditch finders on then run a mile unless there's a good reason for it, if it has a mixture of brands, same rule applies. When an old high mileage car has expensive tyres on, it's a good indicator they spent on maintenance too.
Tires*
This needs to be another high mileage hero, and then make it a 1 million mile hero.
Nathan Guthrie he should restore it and try to sell it for a profit
@@harryballs6186 no profit to be made unless there are more values than the car itself and the right buyer that is willing to buy the bs. I guess if you restore it yourself it's another story, but more money could probably be made using the same time.
1.9 TDI it's just the best 4 cylinder engine ever made. I had a Skoda Fabia 52 plate with the very same engine on 170k and on 300000 miles I got rid of only because of leaks every so often. Engine would last easily 500000+ miles if serviced every 10k
What engine oil did you use?
Let's be fair, that's damn good for the mileage 👍
Truth. A service book bursting to the back cover is not something you find every day.
This came from the golden age of Audi’s. I have a 54 plate that’s on 211,000 miles and is still a great car 👍
I have a 52 reg Miles kind of Octy with 193k Bought it with16 stamp book which had 10 dealers stamps.I want to keep it as long as possible. 1.9 TDI is one of the best engines ever made.
London Trucker the 1.9 is a thing of beauty
Definitely give it a new lease of life. It's amazing seeing how far engines can go.
I just bought an golf 4 1.9 TDI with 260000 miles on it. The engine still runs like a dream
@@davidsauerwein4024 Well, considering this is probably the same engine, I'm not surprised
I've had 3 A4's from this era. Each one I sold off to Eastern Europeans at around 300k miles. They take them over there and convert them to left hand drive. They wouldn't go through all that hassle if the cars didn't have years of life still left.
I'm not sure why people think these cars are expensive. Very little actually goes wrong on them. They are ultra reliable as long as you get a 1.9tdi.
Today, audis from this era are highly sought after due to their reliability.
The actual faults these cars get are trivial, plastic cup holder, antenna breaks, arm rest. All cheap and easy to fix.
Cleaning this EGR Valve was absolutely satisfying 🤤
Not as satisfying as removing the EGR and EGR cooler... Here's to living outside the city limits! *cheers*
Let’s see some high mileage competitions, Skoda VS Audi... these high miles series have made me become more accepting toward a well maintained higher mile car that’s for sure... great vid as always👍🏼👍🏼
Their too similar, Basically the same cars with different badges you’d have to do such as Audi Vs BMW ect
Look a at ford falcon
This really encourages me to keep driving my 2003 Skoda Superb, which is about 80% the same car with exactly the same engine
Even better car. Superb was more like a6 than a passat
@@miki476 Shouldn't Škoda be on same bar as VW or lower though?
@@nexoq4914 Octavia was based on mk4 golf platform,but was bigger than golf itself. SuperB is based on B5 platform (passat B5, Audi a4b5) but in same time is longer by 10cm than passat. Interior was also finished from a bit better materials than passat and has a more features like lights in air vents etc.
@@nexoq4914 That's true for the later Superb models. The first one was even more expensive than the Passat iirc. The interior is quite an upgrade if you compare it to the Passat of that time. Ambient light, inner door handle lights, better materials on air vents and trims. Many of these improvements are also found in the Passat if you bought the most expensive engine, the W8.
The first Superb (2001 model not the one from the 50s) was very unpopular. The Volkswagen takeover wasn't too long ago so the brand was still known for low quality communist cars. There was also no Combi (Estate) version available. Most people aren't even aware that the Superb existed before the second 2008 model.
I personally love this car a lot. Usually people think it's a cheap Octavia but then they are amazed of the excellent interior and the huge backroom space, which is only matched in luxury sedans like an A8.
It's an interesting mix of many VAG cars. Recently I had to fix something on the sunroof and thought I'd have to buy Passat parts. Turns out the Superb uses the sunroof of the A6.
Had a 2001 A4 b5 1.9 tdi with 190.000 km on the meter. It drove like a charm and ran great! I found out later the meter had been worked on, so it had at least 450.000 km’s. Drove like new. Had 2.0 TDI’s with half that mileage which needed new turbo’s, heads, etc etc, not to speak of the newer petrol engines…
Cmon new high milage hero!
please do a long series on this!! and upgrade everything to like new tech/ parts!
There is no new tech for an old car like this.
@@miskatonic6210 that's why I slashed / to, see what's possible 👌🏻 also new parts
Restore it and tune it. Those engines are good for up to 180Hp on stock internals with better turbo, injectors and FMIC, or so I've heard.
Piotr much more.
That is the 130pd model, judging by the intake. That will do 180hp with JUST a tune. Its got turbo capable of that, and bigger clutch from factory.
Garagem dos pistolas has 516hp stock 130pd engine, running big shot of nos, and also there was a guy with low 11's stock engine, which now after 5 years of racing blew the engine when he topped the nitrous to 300shot, far more than 400hp.
I also have engine build under that bottomend, and i do 4.7sec 0-60
Piotr 230 bhp is safe cheap and easy on the pd130
I had an 1998 a6 estate and a couple of things killed it. First, water ingress via pollen filter/windscreen base, which, despite me constantly ensuring drain holes in plenum chamber were kept clear, allowed heavy rain to overwhelm the drains. The front and rear passenger floor filled up with water and proved hard to dry out completely. Secondly, numerous oil leaks from the 2.4 v6 engine, at around 110,000 miles, which always caused a smell of oily burning in the car. Thirdly, rear subframe suffered severe corrosion and allowed shocks to almost detach, fourthly, the tiptronic 5 spd gearbox had a habit of refusing to get out of park in very hot weather. I had the car for nearly 18 year and maintained it regardless of cost. To it's credit, it had the same original exhaust system throughout, as I never took it for a journey of less than 10 miles.
This car is still in good condition. So many miles! My god! Why we changing car every 2-3 years?
Because our wives friends get new cars☹️
*"Planned obsolescence"*
If you work for Apple, and you create a phone that lasts 10 years, you get fired.
Cause you rich
You dont need to change if you drive a Toyota. Germans build crappy engines now a days. People are still blind for that.
Well, this vid is proof of "We waste money of things we don't need to impress people we don't like" as no other.
Do you need a new car every 2-4 years? Absolutely not. Just get an Audi A4 and clock a million kms on it with good manteinance. Save and invest all the money you have left after that and you're golden.
Restore the car so I can be entertained for another 10 minutes👍
Loved the series with Miles, I vote a season 2 with Junior!
Interesting what he says about more corrosion occurring on the left hand side. Here in Ontario Canada we drive on the right, but we still see excess corrosion on the left side of vehicles. I'd say that's because of all the 80 km/h 2 way roads we have here, meaning that oncoming traffic splashes brine and salt onto the car's left side. Also, the semi trucks (you call them lorrys) are much heavier than in Europe so the splash is pretty big when you pass an oncoming semi when traffic is going 80-100 km/h both ways.
I had one of these, same age for a few years. Never let me down.
Had a Passat before that made it to 290k before the servo gave up. Excellent engines in both of them, apart from a persistently squeaky alternator belt that required more talc than a newborn babies arse to silence it was a great car.
This would make a good high mileage hero
Servo can fail because the scuttle drain blocks and rots the base of the servo leading to prem failure at times , not a major job to change TBH
Depends how many times you have changed them! It served me well, first thing I always did with those engines was change the cam belt, the servo was the peak of the mountain on the Passat, it served it's time and got a gracious end. The A4 was snapped up by a Hungarian dude called Tomas and exported to Eastern Europe who didnt bat an eyelid at changing the alternator again
Stayed German and went with a 13 plate C Class another one that does miles for fun. Mercedes are top of their game at the moment, might go back to Audi next though the c class is gorgeous to drive but feel like a mondeo driver the amount of them about now
I love your obsession with high milers always interesting to know how long and how far these machines will go.
This is so similar to my 02 a4 avant, these things go forever, mine’s on 264,000 and still great
What engine?
Scoobysnack 05 it’s a 1.8t petrol engine
Pd for life lol
Same here mate 2005 A4 2.0 avant. Never had any real problems.
I got an A4 myself, 1.8T - 04 , 258k WOOOT
This thing is a trooper. Keep it alive and restore it to health.