My A2 91 Jetta GL 8V has 202K and I commute daily 144 miles. The 87 16V Scirocco has 172K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Russo" <[email protected]> To: "16V Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] High Mileage Cars
> At 09:14 AM 5/16/03 -0700, you wrote: > > >When reading about other's cars on this list, and looking at what a2's are > >for sale these days, i have found that most are very high mileage cars. 150k > >and up. People get these cars and they really drive them. (im not one to > >talk, i put 45k more miles on my '89 gli the first year I had it) > > > >The '91 gli I have now only has 137k on it and I thought that was high till > >i starting investigating. > >I was just wondering how many of you had a2's with less than 130k on them? > > > My 1987 GTI 16V (occasional weekend driver) has 37K on it and my 1985 Golf > (daily driver) has 106K. > > There are a total of 1176 GTI 16Vs in the GTI Owner Registry on my web site > with a total 104,157,708 miles. The highest mileage GTI 16V is 272K with a > couple dozen > other GTI 16Vs in the 200K to 250K range. There are over 400 GTI 16Vs with > under 100K miles on them. > Obviously these stats are only an approximation since the vast majority of > GTI 16Vs on the registry > continue to add to their mileage totals with each passing day. > > I personally know of a 1991 GTI (8V) with over 330K miles on it and still > going. > > When taken care of properly, A2s and A1s can do 300-400K miles easily. > > How often do you see other Imports with 200K-400K miles still on the road???? > > > > > > Charlie > > > 1987 GTI 16V > 1985 Golf > 1981 Pickup LX (gas) > 1980 Rabbit Custom - Completed Resto Project & Current Show Car > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Visit The Unofficial GTI 16V Home Page for the latest East Coast USA VW > Show Info, Show Results, The GTI 16V Owner Registry, GTI 16V Tech Specs, > Links to VW Sites and The Watercooled Photo Gallery. > > http://www.gti16v.org http://www.gti16v.com http://www.gti16v.net > > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above.
