@@markozoric8063 Only complete morons would pay 4 grand for a 20 year old tired shitbox. And many of them really do where I'm from. You can have a very nice Mazda or a Honda for the same money.
@@buca9696 hold the hungarians pálinka and you will see. 4, not, but 2.5-3 maybe. Used cars are pretty exepnsive here, what you can buy Zafira in Germany for 1k euros you can sell for 3 at least here, many many people make their living from it. + costs on transporting, paperwork, etc.
My recently bought very 2’nd hand Volvo S60 has - so far - 465.000 km at the odometer. It’s in very good condition so my aim is to keep it serviced and take good care of it as long as possible.
I had a seat Leon 2.0 tdi. It got to 100k miles with regular servicing and now the engine is shot. Good old German engineering. Not reliable and can’t be fixed lol
My old Peugeot 406 2.0 hdi estate 1999 0n a V plate, has done 644,000 and is still running perfectly. It had a very hard life, carrying huge amounts of weight, most of the time. It was driven all over Europe in the mountains a lot, also through thick snow etc. It stood for 2 years outside unused, through 2 severe winters. I decided to give it to a friend as I bought a different car. So after it had sat still for the 2 years I recharged the Battery which was 15 yrs old and it started first time. It has obviously had wear and tear items replaced over the years such as tyres and brakes, cambelt and a clutch. However it recently passed the mot, and is still running fine. I bought it at 47,000 miles so i did the nearly 600,000 miles myself over the years and the car Never broke down at all, never had any issues with it. Brilliant ultra reliable car .
We love the 406 Estates in my house. We've had a 1998 1.9 TDi (Saloon), 2002 1.9 HDI (Estate), 2003 1.9 HDI (Estate) and recently mum just got a 2002 Executive (Estate) with a 2.2 HDI. Fantastically reliable cars, before diesels were strangled by emission requirements.
Please restore it pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! And than Drive to the Dealer with the Last Service and see if the regognice the Car. Or something along thoose lines
That's the mark of a good well looked after old car, look up the dealer in the service history and call them about the car, if the tech just remembers the thing, you know it's been well looked after. When I bought my 528i, I called up and I'd only told him the 'V511' part of the plate, and he was able to just finish off the plate and told me that the previous owner had spent quite a bit of money looking after that thing.
I'm from Utica, NY and glad I don't have to deal with the salted roads anymore. Replacing a car every 5yrs is insane especially considering wages really aren't high enough to maturely allow this to happen.
@@AskUncle Have them give you an allowance of 80% the current cost of running a leased car to save them money, and keep your own vehicle on the road for a million miles. It could become a rolling advertisement for your companys parts as it keeps "running and looking great using our company parts!"
This NEEDS to be restored, and it deserves a bloody good clean, impressively good state for the mileage, I wouldn't even give it 250000... I have a bit of a medium-mileage hero myself, these vehicles have deserved and won their way to keep going on the road instead of falling to the scrapheap, plus less than 2000 quid is not so much.
nah that looked exactly like youd expect from 500k if not worse in all honesty... considering at 500k most parts should already been overhauled to new ones multiple times. ive noticed that most people just try barely keep the car in driving condition instead of taking actual care of the car
Take care of any car and it will last you a good long while....... that's why I stay under my hood looking for anything that could cause the car to go bad..... already got just under100k on my Jeep and I've only had her since 2016..... still running strong..... I'm sure with a little TLC along the way i could get her to the million mile marker
@@christopherrosas2738 what kind of Jeep and what year? Even mechanics I've asked said your lucky if it lasts 4 years without dying. A million sounds far fetched if it's not a inline older jeep engine. My girls compass died at 173,000 ish and it's a 2010. On the other hand I have a cousin with a 2004 Laredo that he says has been reliable.
@@robmalcolm8042 she's a 2016 Jeep Patriot with the 2.0 I4..... only recently had to change out the throttle body and should be next week or so I'll be at or over 100k
@The Trashman Naw, most are good engines. The 2.0 direct Injection ones I dont fully trust, the 4 liter v8's can have weird timing conponent failures. Plenty of vag engines have 300k.
@The Trashman Cmon the vr6? Even the 1.8t if maintained will go 300k plus. Technically the vr6 was designed to be a diesel but still...great engine. The 2.5 5 cyl is a great engine aswell. 300k+.
@The Trashman uk uses miles. 2.0TDI s in Europe are stinky, shakey and bulletproof. 1.9tdi's even more stinky more shakey and absolutely refuse to die. Eastern Europe is full of 1.9ALH mk4 golfs with 600k that still have that much left into them.
@@Poatan.chama. best car ever. As soon as i have soom money i get a quattro of my audi 80 model and give it some stupid strong engine and make it look like one of those r34 skylines. (Funfact: audi 80 with bodykit looks just like one of them althoug it might just be me but it definitely has the same vibe)
I currently have Golf TDI with over 650K on it. The odometer quit working at 1000000 KM or 621K so the exact mileage is an estimate. It's in excellent shape. I have other customers with anywhere from 300k to over 500K. My "mileage champion" was a 99 New Beetle with over 780K miles
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
The big dopes didn't even compression test the engine. I would want to know that before putting any money at all into it. Also, the interior, what does it look like? Has the transmission been properly maintained? He has the records.
"Irving currently holds the Guinness World Record for the highest vehicle mileage on a personal car, with over 3,000,000 miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S!"
@@elvisfranca4759 in poland even somewhere around 5k euro, the audi/mercedes/bmw are so overpriced here that you overpay about 1k euro on a old audi a6 c5/a4 b5 with shitty condition
Does Adam have his own UA-cam channel? I think he needs his own UA-cam channel. A Straight-to-the-point kind of guy, "This car needs this. Let's get it done."
Brakes, suspension and a tensioner is normal wear and tear. A lot of the cost here is down to previous accident damage and not the astronomical mileage.
I'm quite shocked when I heard that. Is it really worth paying fixing all of that though? And how about the value of the car itself? Also, no wonder it's cheap. Been pretty good though, other than the crash damage.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@TBCO310 SEAT is not the same as the Audi.. you dident have an Audi its a garbage car, you cant take care of the car every 3 months and the cost of the parts 500 euros, every 3 months! the best VW car is Golf MK2 and its 1.6D engine it can do milions.. and we are talking about taking care of the car changing fuel filters, oil filters etc..
@@Taylorjay99 xD same parts? no so to your logic the Golf MK2 has same parts just like the Audi a6? nah. nah. Golfs use simple and good parts that can last a really long time, audi makes expensive shity parts on purpose, and alot of car manufactors do that, because they live by selling car parts thats how they make more money, thats why these new cars are crap compared to the good old 1980s, 70s and 60s those cars were made to last 1000k because the car manufactors dident make shitty parts in oder to make more money from that..
@@Taylorjay99 you really think audi cares for their customers? they are milking their money and stupid people are throwing money on those endless moneypits... if Audi cared about their customers then all the Audi C5 with their 2.5 TDI engines would replaced with a diffrent realible engine, or with a diffrent realible car.. or if the owner wasent happy with the car, give them their money back, they dont care for shit.. they all care about money.. thats the thing that they really care about. they add these computer features and other stupid useless stuff.. so they can sell the car to bunch of morons who dont know shit and they think if they got heated seats or some other features they look or are cool.. LOL i laugh at those people... those people are miserable, they buy expensive things to be happy for a day, or for couple of months.. funny how the world works.... and those the same people who think that if other poor people drive old cheap cars, that they habe a miserable life, they are wrong, they are living a happy life with their familiys, they have good girlfriends that actully love them, while these so called rich cool guys only have hookers that love their money... xD
@@tjlovesrachel Well now you're diving into each specific example. So I'll take a gander: How many dies, and indeed continues to die, in a Audi identical to the one in this video, vs the 2 space shuttles that disintegrated (of which further flights with identical examples will not take place)? In comparison, the Audi still hasn't finished it's bit of effort on natural selection amongst humans.
@@GERntleMAN I mean if we take into account other Audis that have wrecked then the number of people that have died in that model of car definitely surpasses the Space Shuttle.
He also said that all European cars that made in the US are way lower quality than the Germany made ones. A US spec A4 would be in the scrap yard after much less miles, but this one holds up cuz it's made in Germany.
Glad I watched this - I now know that my A6 2.0 TDi PD is only just run in with 303,000 miles on the clock. I had it at 17,000 miles still under warranty and it's as good as it was then. The secret is best fuel, best oil and best servicing. These things really are bullet-proof if you look after them! It has no DPF and the last smoke reading was 0.03 compared to the pass limit of 3.0, at nearly 300k miles, and the top's never been off the engine except for one glow plug.
I love this type of series. Restore it please. I had this engine in a Skoda Superb it went to 375k before the idiot that had it killed it. Amazing engines the PD.
I bought an A4 identical to this one last November and motd it today...... 145k miles and needed front pads and disks and wipers....... so proud.... solid motors if looked after serviced regularly from day one..... Not for sale.... also stuck Axe deep dish alloys on it lovely jubbly...
These are among the most reliable Audi's ever made. The Audi A4 B6 was a new design. The body is galvanized so as long as there is no damage it will never rust. The suspension is improved over the earlier models so it lasts much longer. The diesel (PD, pumpeduse) engines are perfect as long as you don't have injector problems. Only old mercedes diesels and the older vw diesels(vorkammer) are even more reliable and cheaper to repair. The petrol engines are also quite good. Not too fancy, not too complicated. The interior is made of very strong fabrics which stay good even after years of useage. Only the paint on the knobs wears off, but this can be replaced. Downsides are the little space on the back seats. Also the weight. Fuel consumption on petrol engines is high compared to modern standards. The drive is based mostly on comfort.
Maybe... it's still among the most borring and uncomfortable cars ever made, the seats are plain simply build in concret and the suspension feels like they use solid steel shafts as dampers :/ Couple that with the fact that those cars handle like supertankers and are as intresting to drive as a bus ride and you got yourself one of the most overpriced, overhyped cars ever. Realy you could get the same reliability with a peugeot 406 1..9 Turbo D (before the HDI engine) and it would be way better to own.
@@Alystas Comfort is a very personal thing. Some like soft seats, some like hard seats etc. Boring? It's timeless, classy and not too obnoxious. Ok ok, I agree, now that it's so old it looks very dull. Really a car for old people. Especially in silver. The dampers are not stiff, it's not a BMW. Maybe you drove one with aftermarket wheels? With the factory wheels it's comfortable. And yes, it drives like a supertanker. Very predictable, safe. Many people like that. The Peugeot diesels before HDI where very reliable. But they are slow and use much more fuel then the Audi engine. The HDI is actuallly a very nice and smooth engine. But they need proper care to last long. In the end it comes down to taste and money. I had a Rover 620 which was a rebranded Honda Accord. It was the best car I ever owned. That engine just begged for full speed even when cold. It just kept going.
The 2.5 TDI from the 2003/2004 are trash. Even the actual vag workshops couldnt get the engine to Work properly after the Diesel Pump failed. Also the injectors are almost always leaking. And putting a new diesel Pump in Costs you more than buying another used whole car. Old German cars before 2000 are unbeatable, but when the electronic era started everything went downhill tbh
A friend of mine who is an ex VaG engineer browsed my 360,000mile T5 on the computer and noticed a few discrepancies, in the odometer, but nothing on the MoT, it had been clocked back on a yearly basis to offset its immense yearly mileage as a taxi, he told me he wouldn’t be surprised if it had done double the mileage. I payed £3500 for this van with no service history and damp from being “hose cleaned inside and out” it served me for 10 years without trouble and is now a delivery van for the local chippy on the original 2.5 PD engine and gearbox, I shamelessly towed triple axle trailers all round Europe and hauled my family of 6 EVERYWHERE
@@markfox1545 he was referring to Michelin tiers, since they are quite expensive and very good quality. Something that u wont buy unless u care about ur car.
@@markfox1545 It's the brand of tyre that's important, not how new they are. If a car has 4 brand new ditch finders on then run a mile unless there's a good reason for it, if it has a mixture of brands, same rule applies. When an old high mileage car has expensive tyres on, it's a good indicator they spent on maintenance too.
Not the "bxe" engines haha Mines up on 253000 miles and had to rebuild the camshaft and piston rods and bearings Found out after that literally all other pd engines are minted except for the bxe, which is prone to sending pistons through the block, typical lol
Get it restored, it deserves some love. Then do some videos with it and Miles. For example, drive both with one fuel tank to see which one can go further.
@@harryballs6186 no profit to be made unless there are more values than the car itself and the right buyer that is willing to buy the bs. I guess if you restore it yourself it's another story, but more money could probably be made using the same time.
That's in really good condition for all those miles! My '05 Lancer is in much worse shape underneath, and only done around a quarter of what this A4 did so far, and was cost 10 times more...
Let’s see some high mileage competitions, Skoda VS Audi... these high miles series have made me become more accepting toward a well maintained higher mile car that’s for sure... great vid as always👍🏼👍🏼
I have a 52 reg Miles kind of Octy with 193k Bought it with16 stamp book which had 10 dealers stamps.I want to keep it as long as possible. 1.9 TDI is one of the best engines ever made.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@Jack-fs5hs yes they do! all mechanics that work on cars unlike these fake youtube mechanics, have told me that all audis came with a factory flaw.. their garbage cars..
@@burnsie82821 They apparently did something like 2200 miles the last 24 hours in Europe up and down the autoroutes at max speed (103mph or so) They had separate teams who all got it for 24 hours
Well, this vid is proof of "We waste money of things we don't need to impress people we don't like" as no other. Do you need a new car every 2-4 years? Absolutely not. Just get an Audi A4 and clock a million kms on it with good manteinance. Save and invest all the money you have left after that and you're golden.
Interestingly enough if you count that this car have done easily 50MPG (5,5L/100km) and some dealer service + insurance + tax, I don't think it went over 90k USD /65k GBP (in todays money) so no more than double the price on this car when it was new. Probably less as it had some options. So not bad at all as usually cars with this mileage cost three times if not four times more in running cost than in purchase price when new.
@@Davidjune1970 yea the old saying goes want to know how to turn 50 dollars into 500 dollars? Fill your tank and drive to work... Besides, the amount of tax on fuel pays for a lot of social programs and assistance that people use every minute of the day.
It's not remotely close tbh. There are many many tdi audis out there with much higher miles than this. I do work to one of the first shape a4 tdis a friend bought new. Now has 698000 miles.
@@TheBlaert They run forever, my stepfather has one top spec model on a 04 that has 560k and I found that out 2 years ago so it'll be well into 600k! Lovely light blue colour still looks like new
Very impressive. My 2013 Jaguar XF is just about to turn 310,000 Miles. Would be great to know if there are many other "modern" cars of a similar age that have covered this sort of mileage. Look after them, and they will look after you 👍🏼
This was my wifes company car in 04/05 , recognised it straight away as it was the first prestige car we had ..
Small world
You need to get in contact with them mate. They had Miles's owner on the show previously.
Give this man some likes so Alex can get in contact with him
Amazing!!!
Prestige? You sure about that? The roads are rotten with them.
Don't get me wrong, I like it though.
Would love to see it repaired to its former glory, road to 1 million miles!
ua-cam.com/video/-zyyoiHCzWs/v-deo.html
Conor Fensome YES PLSC
Repar it and participate to a legendary rally.... Or some thing like that! Greatings from România!
Chears
I agree
Yes that would be great
High mileage hero V2, i would really like to watch
Maybe not call it like that, UK has bad experiences with V2s ;)
Just bring it to Eastern Europe and the high mileage will magically shrink.
Lmao
I can easily see it being sold for 3 - 4 grand if the interior is well preserved and with ~250 - 300k km mileage.
@@markozoric8063 Only complete morons would pay 4 grand for a 20 year old tired shitbox. And many of them really do where I'm from. You can have a very nice Mazda or a Honda for the same money.
@@buca9696 hold the hungarians pálinka and you will see. 4, not, but 2.5-3 maybe. Used cars are pretty exepnsive here, what you can buy Zafira in Germany for 1k euros you can sell for 3 at least here, many many people make their living from it. + costs on transporting, paperwork, etc.
You guys are forgetting that this car has the steering wheel on the wrong side.
Restore it, than: The mileage heroes regularity rally - Miles vs Junior!
I think that the car deserves to be restored, as it was taken care of it's whole life and it has served well.
100% take care of my saab at 200,000 miles, i'd want to restore it if it makes 300,000+
Stojke013 those engines is tuff as hell could still go up to 1 million miles
My recently bought very 2’nd hand Volvo S60 has - so far - 465.000 km at the odometer. It’s in very good condition so my aim is to keep it serviced and take good care of it as long as possible.
@@JanZamani aren't they out of business where do you get the parts from!
Skoda: High Mileage Hero V1
Audi: High MIleage Hero V2
And both VAG too
Both with the 1.9 tdi. I wouldn’t expect any of their new engines to get near that
@@petea7323 the later 2.0tdi was the perfect example of blehghgghhh pure crap
I had a seat Leon 2.0 tdi. It got to 100k miles with regular servicing and now the engine is shot. Good old German engineering. Not reliable and can’t be fixed lol
@@bbbobnl only the PD-ones, the common rail's are good engines 2.0 TDI
My old Peugeot 406 2.0 hdi estate 1999 0n a V plate, has done 644,000 and is still running perfectly. It had a very hard life, carrying huge amounts of weight, most of the time. It was driven all over Europe in the mountains a lot, also through thick snow etc. It stood for 2 years outside unused, through 2 severe winters. I decided to give it to a friend as I bought a different car. So after it had sat still for the 2 years I recharged the Battery which was 15 yrs old and it started first time. It has obviously had wear and tear items replaced over the years such as tyres and brakes, cambelt and a clutch. However it recently passed the mot, and is still running fine. I bought it at 47,000 miles so i did the nearly 600,000 miles myself over the years and the car Never broke down at all, never had any issues with it. Brilliant ultra reliable car .
there is a picasso doing the rounds too on hubnut at 500,000
We love the 406 Estates in my house. We've had a 1998 1.9 TDi (Saloon), 2002 1.9 HDI (Estate), 2003 1.9 HDI (Estate) and recently mum just got a 2002 Executive (Estate) with a 2.2 HDI. Fantastically reliable cars, before diesels were strangled by emission requirements.
HIGH MILEAGE HERO SEASON 2!!!!!
i second that
I'll give vote #number3
I totally agree #number4
I agree
Biker Gremling everyone seconds this
Please restore it pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! And than Drive to the Dealer with the Last Service and see if the regognice the Car. Or something along thoose lines
Yeah
I'd like to see that
That's the mark of a good well looked after old car, look up the dealer in the service history and call them about the car, if the tech just remembers the thing, you know it's been well looked after. When I bought my 528i, I called up and I'd only told him the 'V511' part of the plate, and he was able to just finish off the plate and told me that the previous owner had spent quite a bit of money looking after that thing.
Nah that's boring, turn it into another Track Toy with aftermarket bumpers and wangs and such.
Get it the love it deserves, restore the car to show room condition and give the engine some good cleaning and maintenance.
High Mileage Hero V2
lmao, the amount of rust under that thing is less than a car with 10k miles in the rust belt.
Don’t remind me!
I'm from Utica, NY and glad I don't have to deal with the salted roads anymore. Replacing a car every 5yrs is insane especially considering wages really aren't high enough to maturely allow this to happen.
So true
@@laverdadbuscador Utica? Snoozeville
@@DarkManSonian it's why I left
Restore that car.... high mileage hero v2
spend the money, get it perfect, get it to a million miles
Hell yeah, I second this!
I'd vote for this one too.
@@AskUncle what tf are u doing man xD
And add a Super Touring A4 livery.
@@AskUncle Have them give you an allowance of 80% the current cost of running a leased car to save them money, and keep your own vehicle on the road for a million miles. It could become a rolling advertisement for your companys parts as it keeps "running and looking great using our company parts!"
Yes, do another high milage hero! This car has been looked after so well for all these years. would be a shame to let that go to waste
Fix it FIX IT *FIX IT*
This NEEDS to be restored, and it deserves a bloody good clean, impressively good state for the mileage, I wouldn't even give it 250000...
I have a bit of a medium-mileage hero myself, these vehicles have deserved and won their way to keep going on the road instead of falling to the scrapheap, plus less than 2000 quid is not so much.
Aii
nah that looked exactly like youd expect from 500k if not worse in all honesty... considering at 500k most parts should already been overhauled to new ones multiple times. ive noticed that most people just try barely keep the car in driving condition instead of taking actual care of the car
Take care of any car and it will last you a good long while....... that's why I stay under my hood looking for anything that could cause the car to go bad..... already got just under100k on my Jeep and I've only had her since 2016..... still running strong..... I'm sure with a little TLC along the way i could get her to the million mile marker
@@christopherrosas2738 what kind of Jeep and what year? Even mechanics I've asked said your lucky if it lasts 4 years without dying. A million sounds far fetched if it's not a inline older jeep engine. My girls compass died at 173,000 ish and it's a 2010. On the other hand I have a cousin with a 2004 Laredo that he says has been reliable.
@@robmalcolm8042 she's a 2016 Jeep Patriot with the 2.0 I4..... only recently had to change out the throttle body and should be next week or so I'll be at or over 100k
HIGH MILEAGE HERO 2 PLEASE! restore this car to it's former glory.
Yeah!!!! Part 2!!
Hopefully this thing makes it to a million miles like that Lexus!
Is that Matt Farah's Million Mile Lexus? Why yes, yes it is :)
I am sure it will.
There are thousands of VW Group diesels with more miles on them.
A peugeot 406 did 1mil in france
There was recent news of a Nissan Frontier (Navara) that made it to 1 million miles.
The million mile Honda Accord: ua-cam.com/video/_UabC1gSj_8/v-deo.html
Would love to see it repaired, road to 1 million miles!!!
This! Not Matt Farah's 1,000,000 mile not Lexus!
It would cost more than buy new one....
When they said 500k miles I said there’s no way a 1.8t went that long. When I saw it was a TDI I realized it is possible
@The Trashman Naw, most are good engines. The 2.0 direct Injection ones I dont fully trust, the 4 liter v8's can have weird timing conponent failures. Plenty of vag engines have 300k.
@The Trashman Cmon the vr6? Even the 1.8t if maintained will go 300k plus. Technically the vr6 was designed to be a diesel but still...great engine. The 2.5 5 cyl is a great engine aswell. 300k+.
The 1.9 TDI engine in these was fucking bulletproof
The TDI engine is bulletproof because VW licensed the IP from FIAT's JTD engine. Which is trully indestructible.
@The Trashman uk uses miles. 2.0TDI s in Europe are stinky, shakey and bulletproof. 1.9tdi's even more stinky more shakey and absolutely refuse to die. Eastern Europe is full of 1.9ALH mk4 golfs with 600k that still have that much left into them.
I'd legit love to see this as another High Mileage Hero! Getting these cars resto'd is great...it makes for a fun series.
Turn that quote into an invoice! 😁
Kudos for the previous owners for looking after the car so well and regularly...
Bit late to the party, but in case anyone wonders what half a million miles actually means, it's around 870k km.
Nice my audi 80 already has half of it. And im pretty sure it would survive double of that if I'd be driving that much.
@@toaster_gmbh audi 80 👌
@@Poatan.chama. best car ever. As soon as i have soom money i get a quattro of my audi 80 model and give it some stupid strong engine and make it look like one of those r34 skylines.
(Funfact: audi 80 with bodykit looks just like one of them althoug it might just be me but it definitely has the same vibe)
i couldn’t decide should i buy ild mitsubishi with 290 000km+ but now i got little hope that i can pull this out
@@toaster_gmbh Audi 100🤌🏻🤌🏻
Please Make This A Series!!
ok lad lets go with another season of "high mileage hero" , i rly want to see this car clean asf :DD
Sweet Herb I would also love to see another “high mileage hero series” loved the first one! xD
for 500k miles its mint. i have seen 50k cars crumbling.
Yessssss
Me too
Miles vs Junior, Drag race, comfort tests etc
Junior would win lol, more bhp. + Quattro
@@2595220 I think Junior is only FWD
Miles was mapped in the past. Both have got the same 1.9 tdi pd engine. VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat all use VW parts as made using same platform
@@filmandfirearms well thats shit then..🤣🤣
@@SmokeSolo1975 no shit sherlock, i know vw owns them.
I currently have Golf TDI with over 650K on it. The odometer quit working at 1000000 KM or 621K so the exact mileage is an estimate. It's in excellent shape. I have other customers with anywhere from 300k to over 500K. My "mileage champion" was a 99 New Beetle with over 780K miles
Another high mileage hero 👍🏻 it deserves to stay on the road with that amount of service!
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@Justice-qw7sj Lol copy paste noob.
@@mr.slaphappy3794 your a noob im telling the truth
@@Justice-qw7sj ti si bas glup ovaj ima 1.9tdi a tvoj ima 2.5tdi ja se slazem s tobom da su 2.5tdi smece ali ima nekih dobrih 2.5tdi motora
@@Nikola_W211 Ma ima ali u kurcu. Svaki je 2.5 TDI pod fabrickom greskom. Nije to kao Mercedesov motor bez greske.
TOP TIP: Every year restore to former glory a high mileage hero! They deserve it! High mileage hero Series 2!
A girl showing off her boobs in her profile pic stole this comment and got more likes
If it wasn’t for the cost I’d love nothing more to do this !
Yes we need more high milage cars on the roads
It’s not a top tip, so don’t say it is. Stop stealing comments!
The big dopes didn't even compression test the engine. I would want to know that before putting any money at all into it. Also, the interior, what does it look like? Has the transmission been properly maintained? He has the records.
We demand High Mileage Hero series 2
Those who also want like this comment.
I wanted the TT to be the next one
Do it up, plenty more life in it
Yes
Fix it please!
Yeah
As long as you service your car regularly it can run for a looong time. Things tend to get expensive if you wait as long as you can
Restore for sure. Then I'm with the idea of driving it to the factory on one tank.
Drive to the AUDI factory in one tank of fuel
Berlin to Warsaw in one tank, maybe Top Gear wouldn't mind :p
@@123iniko loll
@anonymous ?
@anonymous diesel is a fuel you know..
Sorry, English is not my first language. Im dutch 👍
Fix it, detail it, load up on candy up and drive it back to the factory it came from
I'd like to see that
They'd probably just say fuck off. Not interested. A bit like asking a Taxi driver if he wants to go for drive on his day off.
The guy who synced the impact wrench to the music is a LEGEND!
Keep the car and you’ll be known as the person that has the most miles.
@Max Paine *laughs in million mile Lexus*
Brimz never give up mate that’s the key to success
"Irving currently holds the Guinness World Record for the highest vehicle mileage on a personal car, with over 3,000,000 miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S!"
WesterM ok 👍
Wait till a billionaire comes and hire driver to drive a car on a remote area 24/7 for a few years
Clean and repair the shit out of it!
I mean it, make it great again.
Heavyweight hahaha
5:44 alex went full balkan on that one
Balkan dealer alex. But our dealesr would sell an old Audi like this for atleast 3.000 eur.
@@elvisfranca4759 in poland even somewhere around 5k euro, the audi/mercedes/bmw are so overpriced here that you overpay about 1k euro on a old audi a6 c5/a4 b5 with shitty condition
Haha lagano na Balkan, 193.000km
Baba ga vozila do pijace 😂😂
@@srdjan2108 Nikad gas do kraja nije stisla🤣
Garaziran, nekaramboliran, vozen samo ob nedeljah.
Does Adam have his own UA-cam channel? I think he needs his own UA-cam channel. A Straight-to-the-point kind of guy, "This car needs this. Let's get it done."
Brakes, suspension and a tensioner is normal wear and tear. A lot of the cost here is down to previous accident damage and not the astronomical mileage.
Of course they're not original mate, the car has enough miles to go to the moon and back several times over.
Sérgio Freitas . Go to the moon and get a little more than a third the way back.
I'm quite shocked when I heard that.
Is it really worth paying fixing all of that though? And how about the value of the car itself? Also, no wonder it's cheap. Been pretty good though, other than the crash damage.
It's cheaper to keep an old car going that buy a new one every few years. Better for the environment tooo :P
@@Ruby_Mochii it wont Make sense as an Investment but to get use out of it Night be worth.
I love these high mileage videos! Please get it serviced, repaired and detail it. Bring this car back to its former glory!!
please restore this car and get it perfect like miles :D would do it justice for the guy who treasured this car for this long.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
@@TBCO310 SEAT is not the same as the Audi.. you dident have an Audi its a garbage car, you cant take care of the car every 3 months and the cost of the parts 500 euros, every 3 months! the best VW car is Golf MK2 and its 1.6D engine it can do milions.. and we are talking about taking care of the car changing fuel filters, oil filters etc..
Sido Ga Zna They literally use the same parts. This Audi has made it to 500k, you obviously just had a lemon of a car
@@Taylorjay99 xD same parts? no so to your logic the Golf MK2 has same parts just like the Audi a6? nah. nah. Golfs use simple and good parts that can last a really long time, audi makes expensive shity parts on purpose, and alot of car manufactors do that, because they live by selling car parts thats how they make more money, thats why these new cars are crap compared to the good old 1980s, 70s and 60s those cars were made to last 1000k because the car manufactors dident make shitty parts in oder to make more money from that..
@@Taylorjay99 you really think audi cares for their customers? they are milking their money and stupid people are throwing money on those endless moneypits... if Audi cared about their customers then all the Audi C5 with their 2.5 TDI engines would replaced with a diffrent realible engine, or with a diffrent realible car.. or if the owner wasent happy with the car, give them their money back, they dont care for shit.. they all care about money.. thats the thing that they really care about. they add these computer features and other stupid useless stuff.. so they can sell the car to bunch of morons who dont know shit and they think if they got heated seats or some other features they look or are cool.. LOL i laugh at those people... those people are miserable, they buy expensive things to be happy for a day, or for couple of months.. funny how the world works.... and those the same people who think that if other poor people drive old cheap cars, that they habe a miserable life, they are wrong, they are living a happy life with their familiys, they have good girlfriends that actully love them, while these so called rich cool guys only have hookers that love their money... xD
I had a Olds 88 with 320k miles when I bought it. About 400k when I sold it. It still ran just fine. Those cars are severly underrated.
Please make a season two of high mileage hero!
4:25 Adam conducting an orchestra
Not bad for a vehicle that's had more service than a NASA space shuttle.
watchingitallhere least nobody died in this to our knowledge
hahahaha
@@tjlovesrachel Well now you're diving into each specific example.
So I'll take a gander: How many dies, and indeed continues to die, in a Audi identical to the one in this video, vs the 2 space shuttles that disintegrated (of which further flights with identical examples will not take place)?
In comparison, the Audi still hasn't finished it's bit of effort on natural selection amongst humans.
True. That's why NASA spacecrafts have crashed. Maybe they should rethink their strategy.
@@GERntleMAN I mean if we take into account other Audis that have wrecked then the number of people that have died in that model of car definitely surpasses the Space Shuttle.
This is the first time I've ever seen someone actually point to the subscribe and recommend buttons. Subscribed
100% everything needs doing! Tidy it up, perfect daily.
Much like the other comments, give it a new lease of life, have the two high mileage heroes together.
I love 00's VAG.
Same... Always the tightest
Fix it up and show it to the owner like the skoda :D
Give the Audi to the Skoda's owner and the Skoda to the Audi's previous owner lol
Shame I can't give this 1000 likes
1500 pounds is ok to get this back on the road. imagine this being a higher speced model. worth saving.
Imagine all the car payments ypu dont need to pay.
Nobody show scotty Kilmer this high mileage Audi, he'll have a seizure 🤣
It's not Toyota Celica Soo it won't win
luke m. Show him.. it’ll be funny as hell.
eh. He'd just say the owner's been throwing money at his money pit and tell them to scrap it.
@@franco-k2l that would be a lie
He also said that all European cars that made in the US are way lower quality than the Germany made ones. A US spec A4 would be in the scrap yard after much less miles, but this one holds up cuz it's made in Germany.
"At least" it's got some rust. Otherwise it wouldn't be Alex's car.
Apex Seal In fairness, it isn't.
can you not blow on my rx8 just a few more miles
A great advertisement for keeping your car regularly serviced.
Yup. I have a 2005 1.4 petrol Ford Focus with 420k kms on it at the moment. Serviced every 10k kms.
@@keithcunn Every 10k km? I do it every 4 years or 50k km :D
@Mustafa Wanq How? Costs me less than 50 euro to service it and do everything myself
@@keithcunn ... aaand there's the kicker! 50€ / 10,000 km is not bad at all! I would do it too for sure.
Glad I watched this - I now know that my A6 2.0 TDi PD is only just run in with 303,000 miles on the clock. I had it at 17,000 miles still under warranty and it's as good as it was then. The secret is best fuel, best oil and best servicing. These things really are bullet-proof if you look after them! It has no DPF and the last smoke reading was 0.03 compared to the pass limit of 3.0, at nearly 300k miles, and the top's never been off the engine except for one glow plug.
I love this type of series. Restore it please. I had this engine in a Skoda Superb it went to 375k before the idiot that had it killed it. Amazing engines the PD.
"I may have just farted."
"Thank you."
Alec J dying 😂😂
"I'd be surprised if it holds gas"
Fart jokes never get old.
I may have farted too 😌 it smells bad 😖
Your welcome
Presenter authenticity at its best 10/10
I love to see high mileage cars that have been taken good car of. It warms my heart. Keep it going and repair it! It deserves it.
I bought an A4 identical to this one last November and motd it today...... 145k miles and needed front pads and disks and wipers....... so proud.... solid motors if looked after serviced regularly from day one..... Not for sale.... also stuck Axe deep dish alloys on it lovely jubbly...
These are among the most reliable Audi's ever made.
The Audi A4 B6 was a new design.
The body is galvanized so as long as there is no damage it will never rust. The suspension is improved over the earlier models so it lasts much longer.
The diesel (PD, pumpeduse) engines are perfect as long as you don't have injector problems. Only old mercedes diesels and the older vw diesels(vorkammer) are even more reliable and cheaper to repair.
The petrol engines are also quite good. Not too fancy, not too complicated.
The interior is made of very strong fabrics which stay good even after years of useage. Only the paint on the knobs wears off, but this can be replaced.
Downsides are the little space on the back seats. Also the weight. Fuel consumption on petrol engines is high compared to modern standards.
The drive is based mostly on comfort.
Can’t go wrong with a 1.9tdi
The 1.9l tdi is really good , i've seen those with more than 600k
Maybe... it's still among the most borring and uncomfortable cars ever made, the seats are plain simply build in concret and the suspension feels like they use solid steel shafts as dampers :/
Couple that with the fact that those cars handle like supertankers and are as intresting to drive as a bus ride and you got yourself one of the most overpriced, overhyped cars ever.
Realy you could get the same reliability with a peugeot 406 1..9 Turbo D (before the HDI engine) and it would be way better to own.
@@Alystas Comfort is a very personal thing. Some like soft seats, some like hard seats etc. Boring? It's timeless, classy and not too obnoxious.
Ok ok, I agree, now that it's so old it looks very dull. Really a car for old people. Especially in silver.
The dampers are not stiff, it's not a BMW. Maybe you drove one with aftermarket wheels? With the factory wheels it's comfortable.
And yes, it drives like a supertanker. Very predictable, safe. Many people like that.
The Peugeot diesels before HDI where very reliable. But they are slow and use much more fuel then the Audi engine. The HDI is actuallly a very nice and smooth engine. But they need proper care to last long.
In the end it comes down to taste and money. I had a Rover 620 which was a rebranded Honda Accord. It was the best car I ever owned. That engine just begged for full speed even when cold. It just kept going.
The 2.5 TDI from the 2003/2004 are trash. Even the actual vag workshops couldnt get the engine to Work properly after the Diesel Pump failed. Also the injectors are almost always leaking. And putting a new diesel Pump in Costs you more than buying another used whole car. Old German cars before 2000 are unbeatable, but when the electronic era started everything went downhill tbh
FIX ER UP! Then go on a road trip with Miles.
My thoughts as well, and go for a long cross-Europe adventure
That would be sweet, with some fan events all over Europe
European roadtrip with those two cars sound great!
@@mattmathew6706 The U.K. left the e.u. that doesn't mean they floated away from the continent. 🥴
High Mileage Hero Season 2, this car deserves it
This thing is a trooper. Keep it alive and restore it to health.
I want to see another full restoration like Miles!!!
6:49 “Vag specialists” 😂😂😂
I always turn into a child when I watch anything car related
9.23 "It's minging, but also you've got a big buildup on the shaft just here"
@The Shitstorm Starter Adults who have lost their sense of fun maybe. I know plenty of adults who laugh at juvenile humour.
@@PKMartin look at his name bro
@The Shitstorm Starter u must be fun at parties.
This one has been so well looked after it deserves another life
A friend of mine who is an ex VaG engineer browsed my 360,000mile T5 on the computer and noticed a few discrepancies, in the odometer, but nothing on the MoT, it had been clocked back on a yearly basis to offset its immense yearly mileage as a taxi, he told me he wouldn’t be surprised if it had done double the mileage. I payed £3500 for this van with no service history and damp from being “hose cleaned inside and out” it served me for 10 years without trouble and is now a delivery van for the local chippy on the original 2.5 PD engine and gearbox, I shamelessly towed triple axle trailers all round Europe and hauled my family of 6 EVERYWHERE
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a car by its tyres.
Bunta approves
squadmeta - so if someone puts 4 new tyres on a car you'd be convinced that the car is brand new?
@@markfox1545 he was referring to Michelin tiers, since they are quite expensive and very good quality. Something that u wont buy unless u care about ur car.
@@markfox1545 It's the brand of tyre that's important, not how new they are. If a car has 4 brand new ditch finders on then run a mile unless there's a good reason for it, if it has a mixture of brands, same rule applies. When an old high mileage car has expensive tyres on, it's a good indicator they spent on maintenance too.
Tires*
2:22
Adam: "Why 'ave you two all of a sudden started poppen' up in all the videos?"
Authentic Alex: " 'cause I wanna do less work"
Always restore wherever possible! That gets my vote
The PD is easily one of the best engines ever made, they really are bombproof!
Not the "bxe" engines haha
Mines up on 253000 miles and had to rebuild the camshaft and piston rods and bearings
Found out after that literally all other pd engines are minted except for the bxe, which is prone to sending pistons through the block, typical lol
This likely has AVF/AWX :P The ALH, AGR etc is even more reliable lol
Get it restored, it deserves some love. Then do some videos with it and Miles. For example, drive both with one fuel tank to see which one can go further.
This needs to be another high mileage hero, and then make it a 1 million mile hero.
Nathan Guthrie he should restore it and try to sell it for a profit
@@harryballs6186 no profit to be made unless there are more values than the car itself and the right buyer that is willing to buy the bs. I guess if you restore it yourself it's another story, but more money could probably be made using the same time.
Let's be fair, that's damn good for the mileage 👍
Truth. A service book bursting to the back cover is not something you find every day.
That's in really good condition for all those miles! My '05 Lancer is in much worse shape underneath, and only done around a quarter of what this A4 did so far, and was cost 10 times more...
My girlfriend:"hes probably out cheating on me."
Me and the boys at the garage: 7:12
Spam Mail
No, recreating/quoting that scene from Space Balls
*plot twist:* you don't even have a girlfriend.
@@joejingojack mayyyybeeee
@@rXTrLEGENDz nice but what if you dont have boys and all you're "best friends" turn out to be snakes
please do a long series on this!! and upgrade everything to like new tech/ parts!
There is no new tech for an old car like this.
@@miskatonic6210 that's why I slashed / to, see what's possible 👌🏻 also new parts
Definitely give it a new lease of life. It's amazing seeing how far engines can go.
I just bought an golf 4 1.9 TDI with 260000 miles on it. The engine still runs like a dream
@@davidsauerwein4024 Well, considering this is probably the same engine, I'm not surprised
This is just like my 13 yrs old civic... still running till today.
Cleaning this EGR Valve was absolutely satisfying 🤤
Not as satisfying as removing the EGR and EGR cooler... Here's to living outside the city limits! *cheers*
Let’s see some high mileage competitions, Skoda VS Audi... these high miles series have made me become more accepting toward a well maintained higher mile car that’s for sure... great vid as always👍🏼👍🏼
Their too similar, Basically the same cars with different badges you’d have to do such as Audi Vs BMW ect
Look a at ford falcon
This came from the golden age of Audi’s. I have a 54 plate that’s on 211,000 miles and is still a great car 👍
I have a 52 reg Miles kind of Octy with 193k Bought it with16 stamp book which had 10 dealers stamps.I want to keep it as long as possible. 1.9 TDI is one of the best engines ever made.
London Trucker the 1.9 is a thing of beauty
5:45 Typical Miami thinking right there 💭
Cmon new high milage hero!
Loved the series with Miles, I vote a season 2 with Junior!
Another car from the vw group
Restore it, it deserves it.
Its been well looked after, it deserves to be in its former glory Alex.
LOL, this car isnt a milage hero.. my dad had a Audi A6 2.5 TDI 2001 Avant.. it was nothing but trouble, parts went bad, and the parts they were really expensive, it would of cost him at least 5500 Euros to fix the damn car, i did heard the 1.9 TDI engines are realible but its still an Audi that means they are still trouble. other parts besides the engine will fail.. and the eletronics! those are a nightmare in those cars.. so... dosent matter if this audi is a4 all audis are the same they are garbage... they are one of the worst VW group cars.. i would never buy an audi, not even a brand new one.. i would rather go with a Golf or a Mercedes, heck maybe a good BMW....
Sido Ga Zna nobody cares
@@Jack-fs5hs yes they do! all mechanics that work on cars unlike these fake youtube mechanics, have told me that all audis came with a factory flaw.. their garbage cars..
@@Justice-qw7sj congratulations. 2.5 TDi is known to be the worst diesel from VAG and your father owns one!
@@kjusn LOL he used to own one.. he sold it years ago.. now he drives a Mercedes Benz C200 (W203) no problems with this car ;)
Description: “this week, Alex visits VAG specialist...”
Autocar once did 12000 miles in a Mondeo in a week. I'd like to see you get to 10k at least (probably with some help)
Over 70mph 24 hours a day for 7 days🤔
TheCarSoul an adverage of 71 MPH for a solid week? 24 hours a day?
Nick Burns exactly hahah
Thats like 72mph average speed if it was driven 24/7
@@burnsie82821 They apparently did something like 2200 miles the last 24 hours in Europe up and down the autoroutes at max speed (103mph or so) They had separate teams who all got it for 24 hours
We've got one of these for 10 years now! No issues thus far 200k miles and going strong.
This car surely deserves to be restored!
This car is still in good condition. So many miles! My god! Why we changing car every 2-3 years?
Because our wives friends get new cars☹️
*"Planned obsolescence"*
If you work for Apple, and you create a phone that lasts 10 years, you get fired.
Cause you rich
You dont need to change if you drive a Toyota. Germans build crappy engines now a days. People are still blind for that.
Well, this vid is proof of "We waste money of things we don't need to impress people we don't like" as no other.
Do you need a new car every 2-4 years? Absolutely not. Just get an Audi A4 and clock a million kms on it with good manteinance. Save and invest all the money you have left after that and you're golden.
The amount of gas/tax spent on this car probably could've bought a house in the US
Interestingly enough if you count that this car have done easily 50MPG (5,5L/100km) and some dealer service + insurance + tax, I don't think it went over 90k USD /65k GBP (in todays money) so no more than double the price on this car when it was new. Probably less as it had some options. So not bad at all as usually cars with this mileage cost three times if not four times more in running cost than in purchase price when new.
Also amazingly, it likely drove the owner to work where they were able to make even more money than that
@@Davidjune1970 yea the old saying goes want to know how to turn 50 dollars into 500 dollars? Fill your tank and drive to work... Besides, the amount of tax on fuel pays for a lot of social programs and assistance that people use every minute of the day.
@@Davidjune1970 this is what people usually forget.
@@loneexplorama7914 what a nonsence🤣
Nurburgring and back in one tank !
Fix him or notify Audi HQ in Germany, possibly the highest mileage running Audi A4 out there.
Probably one of the highest, but i'm pretty sure there is an A4 taxi somewhere with way more miles.
It's not remotely close tbh. There are many many tdi audis out there with much higher miles than this. I do work to one of the first shape a4 tdis a friend bought new. Now has 698000 miles.
@@TheBlaert They run forever, my stepfather has one top spec model on a 04 that has 560k and I found that out 2 years ago so it'll be well into 600k! Lovely light blue colour still looks like new
@@alexandergeorge7808 yeah they're a top engine when they're looked after
There is TONS of A4 B6 with milion km+. 550k miles is medicore.
I love your obsession with high milers always interesting to know how long and how far these machines will go.
Michelin’s are a good sign of previous owner spending money on good tyres. That means they are not afraid to spend on the car.
7:13
Ive never related more to a youtube video before
Story twist, it’s actually done 50k miles and the mileage meter was the only thing wrong 🤣
fazmano1 😂😂😂
8:42
Adam: "All of it is done inside the head."
Alex: "I may have just farted."
Adam: "Thank you."
Very impressive. My 2013 Jaguar XF is just about to turn 310,000 Miles. Would be great to know if there are many other "modern" cars of a similar age that have covered this sort of mileage. Look after them, and they will look after you 👍🏼