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Old 10-26-2005, 09:59 PM
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I was wondering if there is any official or unofficial high mileage record here for a Bonneville...I was just curious.
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Old 10-26-2005, 10:01 PM
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At one point there was a guy with a 96 Bonnie with 330,000 miles and still going... No idea what happened to him..

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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
That would be crazy. No matter how good care u take of your car, the wearing parts in the tranny still wear..only slower lol...same with the engine..its all wearing...just VERY slowly in some cars.. as far as i know the odo hits 999,999 and stops.?
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
That would be crazy. No matter how good care u take of your car, the wearing parts in the tranny still wear..only slower lol...same with the engine..its all wearing...just VERY slowly in some cars.. as far as i know the odo hits 999,999 and stops.?
i think that it goes to 100,000 after the 999,999
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
That would be crazy. No matter how good care u take of your car, the wearing parts in the tranny still wear..only slower lol...same with the engine..its all wearing...just VERY slowly in some cars.. as far as i know the odo hits 999,999 and stops.?
i think that it goes to 100,000 after the 999,999
Someone on BC will be the first to find that out for sure.
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
That would be crazy. No matter how good care u take of your car, the wearing parts in the tranny still wear..only slower lol...same with the engine..its all wearing...just VERY slowly in some cars.. as far as i know the odo hits 999,999 and stops.?
i think that it goes to 100,000 after the 999,999
Someone on BC will be the first to find that out for sure.
I got dibs on it being Sonoma_Zr2 by the end of the year with all the miles he puts on lol.
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Originally Posted by 1993 SLE
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
That would be crazy. No matter how good care u take of your car, the wearing parts in the tranny still wear..only slower lol...same with the engine..its all wearing...just VERY slowly in some cars.. as far as i know the odo hits 999,999 and stops.?
i think that it goes to 100,000 after the 999,999


no it goes to 0000000.1 it was a shop experament (sp*)
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
That would be crazy. No matter how good care u take of your car, the wearing parts in the tranny still wear..only slower lol...same with the engine..its all wearing...just VERY slowly in some cars.. as far as i know the odo hits 999,999 and stops.?
i think that it goes to 100,000 after the 999,999


no it goes to 0000000.1 it was a shop experament (sp*)
lemme guess, dremel on the VSS?
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A guy I've worked with said he had one that had over 330,000 when he got rid of it. I don't know what year it was but I think it was an SSEi.
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