Motoring Discussion > Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Falkirk Bairn Replies: 5
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New Tue 19 May 26 16:20 
 Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K - Falkirk Bairn
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/car-436000-miles-clock-still-33938035

436,000 miles - Original engine, gearbox!

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New Tue 19 May 26 21:37 
 Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K - PeterS
That’s going some!

Next week I’ll be going with a gourd of other people on a jaunt to Monaco in old bangers. Once of the cars going (not mine…) is a 2009 black cab with 1.2 million miles on the clock. On its 8th engine apparently!!
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New Wed 20 May 26 06:50 
 Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K - ORB>>>
I saw the story about the Vitara.

Hope for me yet...
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New Wed 20 May 26 12:47 
 Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K - Bill Payer
>> One of the cars going (not mine…) is a 2009 black
>> cab with 1.2 million miles on the clock. On its 8th engine apparently!!
>>

Blimey - I know the engine is Italian but they're supposed to be good in taxis for several hundred thousand miles.
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New Wed 20 May 26 15:02 
 Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K - PeterS
I have no idea of the provenance of any of the replacements…but I imagine as it got older they got cheaper and of lower quality! Still, let’s see how it gets on!
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New Wed 20 May 26 17:00 
 Suzuki - Vitara trade in - under 10 years old, 1 owner 436K - Manatee
Those VM boat engines were not the best, I had a Scorpio diesel estate in about 1998 with the OHV 8 valve version. A bit of a rattler, slow and noisy and very poor for a luxury car even a Ford. It never actually failed in the 50,000 or so miles it had on when I sold it, although an idler fell off and released the serpentine belt at one point. This resulted in impossibly heavy brakes and steering, the brake booster ran off a vacuum pump on the alternator.

Over time it would get smokier until I shoved a full bottle of Millers in the tank which I used to do for the MoT, following which it would lay proper smoke for while and then clear. I assumed it just sooted up the injectors and messed up the spray pattern. Probably my least satisfactory car purchase of the post-banger era.

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