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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 09:59 PM
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Default Mileage record?
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 Oct 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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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 10:28 PM
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There was rumours of 1,000,000 mile bonne in Mankato,MN.....with no major failures.
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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 10:44 PM
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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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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 10:51 PM
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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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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 11:27 PM
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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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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by 1993 SLE
Originally Posted by SSEimatt93
Originally Posted by LakevilleSSEi
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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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by LakevilleSSEi
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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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 03:37 AM
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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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