930,000 mile '95 Honda Civic- Real?

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930,000 mile '95 Honda Civic- Real?

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http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/01/crai ... nda-civic/

Complete article without the comments and 4 small photos. Some of them allege this is viral marketing.
There's high mileage, and then there's this. A 1995 Honda Civic is for sale in Atlanta with, count 'em, 939,899 miles. That's 200+ miles a day. Every day. Including Sundays. For 12 years. It even has a Carfax report from when the car had 907,000 miles on it. According to the seller, the car runs like new, with no leaks, no noises, no oil burning, and not even a scratch on the body. In fact, the only blemish listed is that one of the dashboard lights doesn't work, and that's only sometimes.

The car is on its ninth timing belt, ninth water pump, and fourth clutch. But the engine and transmission are original, as are the floor mats. The car even comes with records. The most incredible thing isn't the mileage, though. It's how the owner put the miles on the car: driving on business trips from Atlanta... to Seattle... and San Francisco. We want to know what kind of business -- or what kind of boss -- makes a guy drive across the country and back, and then some, every single month for 12 straight years.

To paraphrase The Proclaimers, if you buy this car then you can drive a million miles and you can drive a million more...
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Thats nothing there was a guy a while back that was on leno with an old volvo that had 3 million confirmed miles on it. :eek:
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we recently put a new engine in an f350 dually with 1.2 million miles.


last time it was in the shop it had 939k. it has history with us dating back to approx 40k miles.

its a 1999


it has various dmv permits on it from new york, cali, colorado, alaska, washington, oregon, utah, and new mexico.
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Hows that even possible?
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Its a honda
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Thats nothing. There was a subaru loyale in drive magazine with 1.2 million miles on it on all the original stuff as well.

Honda is over hyped. We have a 1991 accord with 95,000 on it that is about to take a shitter.
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its all about how its taken care of. the truck i mentioned....you can bet your ass its driven hard.
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so what happens at 999,999 ..does it go back to zero ?

lmao..thats ridiculous. pretty amazing.
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yes it rolls over back to 000000
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I remember reading some stories about some taxis back home as well with insane amount of miles. Only time the car was turned off was for services hah. Pretty amazing when you think of it that some cars make it that far.
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We get some vehicles with serious mileage on them. Its not uncommon for some fleets to rack up 50-100k miles in a year!
Remember with the fleets, these vehicle sometimes see 3 drivers a day.
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Running continuously puts less wear on the motor than starting it up and shutting it off all the time, samne with cruising at steady RPMs on highway...so a lot of highway cruising in a fleet vehicle is a recipe for lasting a long time :)
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My ford has 90,000 miles on it. But only because it doesn't have the digit for 190,000. ;)
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[quote=""Mumbo_Jumbo""]My ford has 90,000 miles on it. But only because it doesn't have the digit for 190,000. ;) [/quote]

yeah i had to do some DMV form for my explorer once and had to check the box that said Not Actual Mileage since it only shows 79k
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The plus side for having under 100lbs or torque :D
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How about the K&N motto "Million Miles on a K&N" reason they say that is one guy who swears by them has a million miles on a truck with just a K&N and typical maintenance.
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They also do warranty them for 1 million miles. I am passing my k&n down to my grandkids.
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[quote=""vr4""]its all about how its taken care of. the truck i mentioned....you can bet your ass its driven hard.[/quote]


They took care of it, but let it sit for 2 years basically untouched. Thats whats coming back to bite us. And we bought it with only 71k
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