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highest milage kms on any VL without a rebuild

Started by jasoncngo · 19 Feb 2004 · 141 replies

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FRCED-6Archived member
Mine was bought by an old couple, owned for 5 yrs by them, they only did 8,000km, then the previous owner bought it and he wound it up to 120,000km over 12 yrs, so yeh, mines due for that service, which i sahll do this weekend but officer, its not a hollowed out cat, its an "ultra flow" cat Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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NicheArchived member
My VLT has done 260,000 without a rebuild but does it count if you jack up the engine in the car and change a couple of big end bearings ?
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HingoArchived member
Quote: Originally Posted by STCKVL I got the real KM's checked and it's really only got just over 210 000 on the clock. How did you get that done?
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NicheArchived member
Quote: Originally Posted by Hingo How did you get that done? Thats a damn good question, I've heard other people also say things like the odometer is only a general indication and you can always tell what the real Kms are ! Seems to correlate with when someone is trying to buy at a big discount, I have yet to hear of a satisfactory answer <chuckle>
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commiedooArchived member
i got a vl wagon in the back yard that still runs and has 584000 k's on it .all genuine . my vl has 184000 and is genuine , sh1t , it still had the genuine leads on it , u couldnt bend them ..lol
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SLO.BT1Archived member
my odo was stuck on 387325 when i bought it, then i converted to turbo.who knows how amny kays it has done?
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rippsi304Archived member
guy i work with has 360,000 on a calais turbo and the box slips a little bit now thats all that has gone wrong wit it
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Bluey_RaeArchived member
mine's just over a 1/4 million. 255,000k's on it sounds nice as though! Except for the lifters, in need of a service, and a fly wheel Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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mrclean86Archived member
mine has 179 000 and still going strong Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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simcoeArchived member
91 patrol 332 000 been on gas for 30 000 no probs wat so eva had manual gearbox rebuilt last year
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HenryArchived member
273,014km - March 87 stilll alive The engine is good but the electrical components around it are pretty crap. I read/heard somewhere that RB30s were engineered to last at least 400,000 Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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[TRPN.VL]Archived member
atm my 87 exec that im selling has 154,000km
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Mr-vlcArchived member
mines stopped at 101000 when i bought and iv hardly driven it in the 6 months iv owned due to my dad taking my keys because of incident invloving the vl Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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Mad_AussiArchived member
my 89 r31 exec has 304,000 odd kms. Thats with a rebuilt gbox mind you. Amazingly, the odo is still going, generally they die pretty quickly. I've heard of rb's going for well over 500,000 kms without rebuilds tho. Honestly I rekon they are possibly the best inline 6 ever produced.
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DEZ-23QArchived member
mines got 177,000kms Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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SICK_VL_TURBOArchived member
first turbo motor in my old vlt did 320.000 didn't blow , now in da shell i got it had 66.000 very low kms.....
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VL_RB25DEArchived member
Mine has 245,000 lookded like the orignal motor had a rebuild and now its on its 2nd motor with appx 90k from factory (rb25de)
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-BERLINA-Archived member
315 000 on my berlina n/a only thing wrong is, need to replace gearbox bearings otherwise does not miss a beat!!! And thats with doing atleast 100km a day just to work and back....
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Bluey_RaeArchived member
the original T'belt! your crazy, not slack!
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magnificeArchived member
Mine is a calais 86 series 1, ODO say 450K running rough thou, fuel line blocked, fuel pump need to be replaced.http://www.calaisturbo.com.au/images...es/biggrin.gif (http://www.calaisturbo.com.au/images/smilies/biggrin.gif) Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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