Hi chaps and chapesses,

 

Just joining up as I found most of the useful answers to other people's questions came via this forum. I live in Cambridgeshire but work in Warwickshire so my poor old car gets driven a lot.

I'm an engineer at JLR, work on hybrid battery systems and have a past in diagnostics and OBD2. Currently running an inherited '02 Octavia 1.9D which seems to show no signs of giving up despite being a few miles short of 250,000- and still capable of over 60mpg if driven like a nun.

Looking forward to sharing information with others!

 

Cheers y'all.

 

Gerry

Hi Gerry,

 

Welcome to the site. The joy of well built kit Sob to the defender, will still outlast us all.

 

I was just sketching out some ideas about using obd2 data over bluetooth/wifi push data to the cloud and onto to a dashboard for small bus. fleet operations. I can do everything up to bluetooth so looking at obd plugin units etc with much confusion

Welcome Gerry! There are some great examples of the MkII going on for years and years, virtually trouble free and with mega mileage, much more than 250K even. I've seen 1.9tdi Octavias with 300/350k+ and still going strong as long as well maintained of course!

Take a look at this - with 500k miles on the clock!!

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Edited 21 February, 201610 yr by Superb170

250's a fair start - Keep the oil fresh and those engines will pretty much run forever.