How many km on your Opel?

[01CDsedan]

Is anyone else here a high-mileage driver like me? I'm averaging 30,000km a year these days, with my 10/01 delivered TS CD having just passed 120,000km.

How many km do you guys have on yours? How long do you plan to keep it? I'm expecting to see 200,000km from mine at least and I wouldn't be surprised if I still have it when it's pushing 300,000km.

(By the way, to all the people who told me when I bought it that Opels were unreliable, I say bull****. In that time, I've replaced the crank angle sensor, door strikers, headrest support on the driver's seat and the power mirror motor on the driver's side. The CAS and door strikers weren't too long after it was new, so I'm extremely happy with its longer term reliability.)

[BassyAstra]

2958kmmmmmmz
I will change when i have enough saved for the T...Yes! :o

[GeeeAus]

Holden Vectra B (JR 1997 2.0 Litre With C20SEL)

Sorry Revised. The Mrs Had To Correct Me.

SHAME!!! SHAME!! :-)

Approx 117,000 Km At 12/11/2005
Approx 78,500 Km At 20/04/2004

Approx 38,500 Travelled in 19 Months
Approx 24,316 Km Per Anum

What Has Been Done

* Denotes Should Not Need To Be Done Again For Approx 24 Months Or 60,000 Km.

* 1 x Steering Column Clonking Noise Investigated
* 1 x Brake Rotor Machining 4 x Disks
* 1 x Complete Set Brake Pads
* 1 x Air Cleaner Element
* 1 x Fuel Filter
4 x Oil Changes (2 x Mobil Synth S 10W/40 2 x Mobile 1 5W/50)
1 x Timing Belt
* 1 x Universal Accessory Belt
* 1 x Universal Accessory Belt Tensioner
* 1 Set Ignition Leads (After Market Brand?)
2 x Transmission Fluid Change (AC Delco Dexron III)
2 x Power Steering Fluid Change (AC Delco Dexron III)
2 x Coolant Change (Genuine Holden)
* 1 x Idle Air Control Valve Gasket (+ Hylomar Sealant Spary Pack)
* 2 x Motortech Carby Cleaner (Dichloromethane Based Cleaner)
2 x Hand Brake Adjustment
4 x Godyear Ducaro GA 195x65x15 Tyres
* 2 x Camber Bolt Adjuster Kit
* 2 x Bilstein Front Shock Absorbers.
3 x Wheel Alignments
* 1 x Transmission Mode Selector Switch Re-Grease (Morery’s Lithium Product Used)
* 1 x Windshield Wiper Set (Genuine Holden/GM)

In The Near Future I’ll Be Up For:

1 x Air conditioner Compressor (Genuine Holden)
1 x 930g R1340 Refrigerant
1 x Installation Of Compressor And Gas
1 x Ignition Lock
2 x Keyless Entry Transponder Fobs
1 x Exhaust Segment (From Middle Muffler To Rear)

Or 1 x Holden Viva.

[CJB]

07/2004 model Barina bought brand new in September 2004 I have done to date 42,307kms. At the one year mark it was about 38,000kms! So yeah I am a high milage driver too.. but I blame that on Ipswich being remote from civilisation and having to drive 50kms to shops... A few days working in Toowoomba, there's about 800kms a fortnight.

I HATE KILOMETRES... ideally I want to get rid of mine when it gets to about 100,000kms. Maybe less if lucky. Other then that the car runs fine, apart from the warranty issues just had general services and even those have required very little to be replaced.

[EL BURITO]

Barina SXI bought in May 04 29000km by the end of this month. I use to drive a 7okm round trip to work every day but changed stores in feb so kms have gone down. i also drove to karratha from Perth wich is a 5k round trip. so i did more kms in its 1st year. I plan on upgrading when i get my new job but that seems to be getting longer away from finishing my qualification. I want an black Astra Coup CDX. mmmm leather interior

[pred8r]

Ive done 4500kms in 6 months, is that high? :P

[ultim8DTM5]

18,697kms p/a

[EL BURITO]

Ive done 4500kms in 6 months, is that high? :P:(

Well if you keep it up that 54000 p.a and that is a lot

[pred8r]

Well if you keep it up that 54000 p.a and that is a lot

How did you get that?

[Chris R]

96 combo B - 231K averages 1500km/wk
96 combo B (2) 161K sees 1000k / month

both vans have been log booked since new. 1st one has the front brakes upgraded and the 2nd one will shorty. engine has been apart on the first one as per the 100k service requirement.

I second the 'unreliable opel line' keep fuel in it and it just runs and runs... hasn't caused me a bit of trouble since I bought it in jan '04.
van two I bought late sept and it runs better than my first one.

now if I can keep out of the EPC (ta pred8r) then I'll be doing well.

[pred8r]

No Probs :)

[Alfonzo]

'02 JSII (III?) Vectra GL.

Just ticked over 90,000km.

Probably won't see 100,000 with me though... ;)

[Shaun]

SRi Turbo 2003
51,000 or there abouts i think.
when i bought it 8 month ago it had just over 31,000 on the clock.

[Red AH SRI T]

12/04 Build 04/05 Compliance and delivered to me brand spankers with 9km on it.

I have just ticked over 12200 Km :eek:

its also included a trip from sydney to the gold coast and back which put on almost 3000km in a few days.

[Namus]

2001 Astra CD Saloon; about 65000k on it....don't know how long I'm going to keep it atm...

[JasonGilholme]

2001 Opel Corsa.

115.000 KM at the moment. Runs ok but the engine doesn't sound brand new thats for sure. Too much high reving i think.

Gonna give it to the mrs as soon as i get a new car which will be a honda.

[mr_sikma]

about 18,500kms in 13mnths.

[Clint]

the white vectra we have has near 170,000k's, my vectra has 105,000k's

[Bernard Siong]

my old 99 complied astra has 81xxxkms on it
my 98 ek civic hatch had 77777kms on it this morning

my parents are almost asian and believe in buying low milage cars

[1OPL2C]

06/2004 and now with 20,300k's

[CJB]

12/04 Build 04/05 Compliance and delivered to me brand spankers with 9km on it.

I have just ticked over 12200 Km :eek:

its also included a trip from sydney to the gold coast and back which put on almost 3000km in a few days.
Next time ur up this way make sure you stop by dude :p

Pred8r - those are really high kilometres!!! How do you do that much??? Suddenly I don't feel so bad about my "high" kilometres.

[slyopel]

06/2003 mine has just under 34,000km since new.

[Clint]

pred8r did 4,500 in 6 months, that isnt that much really. i got new tyres early last month, they said come back in 5000km's time and we will check the balance and stuff, im about 400k's from doin 5000k's since then. which is a worry doing near 5000k's in a month. expecially when its only 30km to work...

[dug74]

Corsa C 3dr Bought new on 6th July 2004 ...1 year later..car had 44K kms on it... 16 months later and the car has just completed its 4yr/60000kms service..

As of today it has 61 574km and it was only serviced last monday with 59 857km ...is that high mileage...hmmm 6 days <1717kms>


Vectra B Oct 99 242K kms when sold in July 2004
Proton Satria GTi <bought new> March 2000 287K kms when sold in March 2005
Suzuki Swift March 2005 <bought new> till now.. 12K kms
BF Ford Falcon Nov 2005 (friday) <bought new> till now..58kms

[PRC33Y]

I've done about 75,000kms in my 00 TS HBD Astra - now i hardly even drive it cause i waste works fuel instead!! :-) Its now a "Sunday" car which is good and bad.

Good cause the kms arent moving and bad cause i want to drive it alot more!

[BA55UP]

i have only had the car a year and have done 25,000 km's but they say you always do more in your first year lol i dunno

[btm]

picked up my car brand spanka's in August 2003 - just about to hit 23,000 k's

So i average just a fraction over 10,000 k's a year

[CJB]

pred8r did 4,500 in 6 months, that isnt that much really. ...
My mistake. I read it as 45000

[kirssn]

feb 04 purchased, to date 31572kms. @ the one yr mark it had done 25,000km

[Turblue]

Picked up end of September 2003.

Done 24,000 km.

[btm]

Picked up end of September 2003.

Done 24,000 km.

You and me are very similar then Turbs!

[Dee]

my 03 barina SXi that i bought on 11 July 2003 and sold on 29th July 2005 had 36000km on it :)

30,000 between july 03 and april 05 and 6,000 between april 05 and july 05.


new car.. had 10km when i picked it up on 29th July 05 and today has 12,000km ..... :(

[GAZ914]

Picked the Beep Beep (XC Corsa SRi) up on 2 Sept 02.
Now has 107 000 Km.

Problems (all fixed during warranty)

LH driveshaft leak
Misfire - Coil Pack (wrongly replaced ECU first)
Steering column (sensor faulty)
Gear linkage (upgraded to metal one)

Has a few rattles and squeaks these days, but not too bad.

cheers
GAZ

[dodgyblue]

00 Astra TS Hatch - Olympic Ed
72000 kms.
timing belt changed
all rotors/discs changed
1 pair new wheels (forgot to rotate them) :)

Injectors/tappets seem a bit noisy at the moment..