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 grazza7755
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| posted on December 6th, 2013 at 02:15 PM |
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Tristar trivia
Obviously too much time on my hands today.
My Tristar recently turned over 100,000 klms.
It was 22 years, 10 months, 11 days old, or 8551 days.
That means it travelled,
4376 Klms per year,
84 klms per month,
12 klms per day.
Still drives like brand new.
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| posted on December 6th, 2013 at 02:27 PM |
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My syncro has done 57,000kms
First registered Oct 1990
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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| posted on December 6th, 2013 at 02:33 PM |
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Crikey, do you guys even use them?
My Syncro has done 460 000km.....
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| posted on December 7th, 2013 at 11:47 AM |
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Our 93 civic has done 350,000 kms and so far has been very reliable............maybe I shouldn't have said that, probably put the mockers on it 3 sons have learned to drive in it and it still
looks presentable but 8 cars at our place is starting to get the neighbours concerned 
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| posted on December 7th, 2013 at 02:15 PM |
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GL
Isnt there a ROOM that need cleaning
stop playing with the calculator did you allow for leap years ???
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| posted on December 7th, 2013 at 03:24 PM |
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D,
All rooms are clean thanks, come and inspect.
Actually, the leap years are allowed for because I used a site on the net where you put in 2 dates and it tells you how long between.
Howzat!
If I get motivated, I might work out the same for my 1986 Beetle. It has 27 klms on the clock since I bought it new and they were all in Brazil around
the test track after leaving the production line.
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| posted on December 8th, 2013 at 07:19 AM |
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It aint a Tristar but to the sole owner, his 1974 Double Cab with over 1.2million Kms on it holds a special part of his love of the VW. Purchased new
in 1974, it is still a daily driver at Dripstone, near Dubbo and it looks a treat. Never been in an accident or had any paint applied to it the sign
of the stone chips now show through.
Well documented , did I say well. WELL, every expense, every tank of fuel, every receipt, every service are all included in the 5 different log books
Keith has filled up so far.
I think he may also have lists of every part used to replace two gearboxes and two motors over the 39 years of its life.
Would he ever replace it- not bloody likely.
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| posted on December 9th, 2013 at 06:25 AM |
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Wow Bill - 1.2 million km might be the Australian record for any Volkswagen. Can anyone beat that? Criag should contact Keith and get a story and
photos in VWMA.
Californian Al Klein used to have the wold record VW mileage, with a '63 Beetle that passed 2 million km before it was wrecked. Tony Levy from the UK
had a '50 he named 'Rattletrap', with around 1.6 million km.
The world record for any car is a 1966 Volvo P1800, owned by Irvin Gordon of Long Island USA. He has had the official 'Guinness' record since 2002
when he passed Al Klein, and he was reported passing 3 million miles (4,828,000 km) in September 2013.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/10324972/1966-Volvo-clocks-up-world-re...
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| posted on December 9th, 2013 at 07:31 AM |
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If I get motivated, I might work out the same for my 1986 Beetle. It has 27 klms on the clock
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Ok i am waiting for that
Bill that some Klms travelled great to see cars doing this
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| posted on December 9th, 2013 at 08:21 AM |
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I know of two VW's that are well over the million. One is a a/c T3 owned by Nils and Boozo's family, the other a low light bay owned by a mate Rod
Hall in Brissy. Rod has worn out a multitude of engines and gearboxes, the actual miles tho I'd need to ask him.
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| posted on December 9th, 2013 at 07:18 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by grazza7755
Obviously too much time on my hands today.
My Tristar recently turned over 100,000 klms.
It was 22 years, 10 months, 11 days old, or 8551 days.
That means it travelled,
4376 Klms per year,
84 klms per month,
12 klms per day.
Still drives like brand new.
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Very nice but we need more photos of this rare vehicle.
Aparently only 1 documented Tristar syncro ever entered Oz and was attacked by Motor Journos before Hartmut bought it - it now has around 400000kms on
it.
I know of one other tristar syncro imported from the UK here in Oz but that was a private import.
Aparently only 18 tristar syncros ever made in RHD and not a huge amount more in LHD. Not sure about 2wd numbers???
Cheers,
Scott
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| posted on December 9th, 2013 at 10:15 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Scottkombi
Aparently only 1 documented Tristar syncro ever entered Oz and was attacked by Motor Journos before Hartmut bought it - it now has around 400000kms on
it.
Cheers,
Scott
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Wow. I often see Hartmut driving it around - it is still in pretty good nick - I didn't realise it had such high mileage on it.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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| posted on December 10th, 2013 at 07:37 AM |
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CORRECTION Bill..................1.432million k's was just around the other day.............Keith is still motoring happily.
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| posted on December 12th, 2013 at 01:37 PM |
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I got 333333 recently on my commodore.
I forgot to clock the trip meter at 333000, otherwise it would of been
333,333
333.3 
next week I should get 345678 and few weeks 350000
I will have to work out what the trip will be to be to get
345678
910
my gearbox will soon have 3rd engine behind it and its done 536,000 of highly abusive work. to be 3 engines and 3 cars and hammed like a race car and
never rebuild. What a champ!
all my other cars including the notch are under 100k, can't wait to snap a pic when I get them all around to 100
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| posted on December 15th, 2013 at 07:11 PM |
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Last christmas I sold my 97 lancer with just under 300K on the clock with almost no servicing. I think it had 4 or 5 in its life including the 2
timing belts. 2 sets of front pads. Nothing on the rear. Oil pickup must have been at the rear of the sump because it got an oil top up when the light
come on under brakes. Towards the end it was fouling #2 plug every 6 weeks or so. It was becoming a pain in the arse to switch the plugs around and
have another cylinder clean it up so that car had to go.
Better than that though, I have a 20 year old 4 stroke Victa lawn mower which had its oil changed after a few hours use but hasnt been serviced since,
other than whacking the air filter up against the garage wall every now and then. Still on original spark plug even. A few months ago I was thinking
it was time, it needed aerostart to get going. But then when I got a new can of 7eleven regular unleaded to replace the vortex 98 it has started
running like a dream again.
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