I have a 2004 MC with a manual gearbox, that I have owned since new. It has 189,000 km on it, still running and I will probably drive it till it dies now since I feel it owes me nothing.

Curious if anyone here has driven a MINI till it died, its age, its final resting mileage and what killed it?

 

Since I just got mine .. I'd like to hear what happens on this thread.
I see a long history with mine.

 

I know where there is (or was if he sold it) an operating 1894 Duryea so don't give up.

 

Define 'dies'. With a little mechanical ability, nothing is really ever dead. My criteria for dead is the body being consumed by rust beyond the point of safety or repair. I anticipate my mini will be with me for quite some time.

Current stable:
2002 VW TDI with 280k
1990 Nissan 300ZX with 165k
2010 Nissan Versa with 196k

"New" cars:
2004 MCS with 107k
2005 Volvo V70 with 85k

 

Good and interesting point and I think what defines 'dead' is different to each person's perspective but for the purpose of discussion, I would define dead as repair cost was more costly to fix than its value to you once repaired, so it was scrapped.

 

I know a guy around here with 340K+ miles and still runs good, with no rebuild, just typical maintenance! He also told me he will drive the wheels off it. He is the second owner, but bought it from the first with around 10K miles.
He keep up on it with oil changes every 5K miles and uses Castrol synthetic ( I do too!) and the ones I sell always get Castrol full synthetic too! Before it goes out the door.
He is trying for 500K miles. I have not seen him is many months, but he travels a lot (with his Mini S)
Out west, we don't have a real rust issue. His car and all that I sell do not have any visible rust.

We see many Minis here with over 300K miles on them mechanically, except for the auto trans models which I have a couple here with low miles and bad CVTs. (have not had the time to worry about them right now and 99% of my Mini Cooper business are stick shift. We don't have real traffic here and many of the women want stick here also. (although, I do sell some automatics)

 

136,000 on the Mini and 138,000 on the 911.

Both are keepers.

 

Ive been trying.....

Nik

 

from when i bought it in 05 till now 237,000 miles and will drive long as i can afford to do so.

 

I am doing that. And luck is a MASSIVE factor, I always treated mine with soft gloves and from 80k to 110k miles I had more failure that I can count.

 

I plan to drive my '03 Cooper S with 145K miles until I die. 71 now so i think I've got a good 15-20 years left in me. Since 2014, I've been doing 3 to 5 week road trips every year each racking up 5K to 10K miles.

 

Fantastic! I could have written that but our longest so far is only 4 weeks. Hope yours follow the roads less traveled as ours do, otherwise, what's the point. Our big one this year got cut short by a damned kidney stone.

 

I have driven cars till they died ,not a mini yet but my 04 has 122,000 and I will drive it till it's towed to the wrecker hopefully years down the road no plan to sell just use till it can't however it's not my only car and I only drive around a 1000 a year so it's a looong way from the scrapers ��

 

Fly'n Brick; Most of my trips are two lane roads: US 50 California to Maryland, Lincoln Highway coast to coast, Route 66 (not I40 and I44), National Park tour ( over 30 so far), air museums tour ( around 30).