After a night out ordered a taxi, (still got hangover) and guess what turned up? yep a mk1 octavia estate, thought nice to be in a skoda! So started chatting to driver and then looked over at the speedo! :eek: Could not believe what i was seeing 456,894k :eek:

So in shock horror had to find out more driver told me he brought the car new back in 2002, and has done that mileage in just 7 years!!!!!

The best bit is it's the original engine and gerabox! ( a diesel by the way) its had 3 new clutch's in that time and normal service items!

I have never know a car with that sort of mileage! The driver is in the process of contacting Skoda HQ to see if there interested in the story!

hi glenn.... seen this on a number of occassions myself.... apparently it is quite usual for taxi companies using skodas, that these ultra-high milers can be found... my vRS pd130 on 35k should be good for a few more miles yet!!!

I have seen SDI mk1's about with 270k and 330k in the last 12 months. As long as the driver isn't a maniac and thrashes the car everywhere, taxi's live a good life where they are running with hot engines for 10 hours at a time.

Hello Rob, seems not that uncommon then, im really impressed though what sort of mileage these engines can do.

It is always interesting to see high mileage on any car. I guess a lot of it is down to good servicing and being "kind" to the engine.

Bought my 05 vrs mk1 in April this year.100k 1 owner,service book stamped every 10k.Hope to get more good miles from it.

I know a farmer who has a nissan patrol Jeep(awfull yoke) It has 810k miles on the clock and still going!

I know a farmer who has a nissan patrol Jeep(awfull yoke) It has 810k miles on the clock and still going!

some Patrols about with over the million!!! awsome car (tank) built to last Hope the octi goes long enough to get to half of that

My SDi is a 51 plate, currently sitting at 204k

Bought my 05 vrs mk1 in April this year.100k 1 owner,service book stamped every 10k.Hope to get more good miles from it.

Hey, another high mile 05 vRS, I bought my RS estate early last year with 100k on the clock, now got 118k, full book (or two) of stamps. Just treated it to a set of 17" spiders too, looks like it always should have now.

I knew of a farmer who had a Peugeot 505 with over 550K on it! That was a diesel and just kept on going!

I was impressed with my Favorit 1.3 had 141K on it (still went and drove great) - just didn't keep it as my sister didn't want it.

That taxi driver's a bit heavy on clutches. We have one at 300,000 miles + that we look after, and that's had only one replacement clutch.

I had a 98 Passat Estate TDI (110) I sold a couple of years ago had 98k on it when I bought it & 130k when I sold it original clutch, it didn't miss a beat & the only thing I replaced apart from routine service items was a broken front spring & a blown bulb!

I was taxi'd (is that a word?) in a Mk1 Octavia diesel (don't know which engine) over on Corfu with 800k kms on it and the speedo had failed, so no idea what it actually had on it! I tried to ask him how long the speedo had been dead for but he tried to charge me more so I left!

I think Merc are the only company that can verify an engine over 1M

Of course, back in the dim and distant (you know, about 20 years ago), odometers only recorded up to 99_999.9 miles before resetting, and some makers used to use ones that only recorded up to 9_999.9 miles.

I think Merc are the only company that can verify an engine over 1M

I remember reading about this BMW years ago :eek:

I heard Volvo?!?

Found it:

Man with 2.6 million-mile Volvo P1800 aims for 3 million

i went to kinsley dogs on sat night & we got a taxi back to my mates in ossett,it was a 03 vw golf tdi,tidy car,drove really well,mileage was 325k!