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Re: High mileage BMWs

George Antoniou wrote:

> I have a 1985 BMW 318i (two door). It runs good (the body has some rust) and
> it has more than 800K miles. YES! 844,000 miles approximately. Did anyone out
> there ever came across of any kind of a car with that much of mileage?

>From the August 1996 "BMW car" pp.6-7, "Million-mile motor":
   "  A 1990 BMW 325i has just completed the world's first ever one-mililion
    mile test as part of Mobil Oil's research.  This is equivalent to
    circumnavigating the world more than 40 times.
      The test was carried out at Mobil's New Jersey Research Centre in
    the US over four years.  All BMW service intervals were observed
    throughout the test using Mobil 1 engine oil and Mobil Super Unleaded
    Plus petrol.
      At the end, most engine parts were found to be still within the
    manufacturer's tolerances.  The valves were clean and the cam lobes were
    in exellent condition despite the camshaft turning more than one billion
    times.  The exhaust emission were kept within tough US standards and the
    catalytic convertor was chaned at regular 200,000 mile intervals.
      In the real world, this is comparable to driving 15,000 hard miles a
    year for 66 years."

So George, you did change your catalytic converter every 200,000 miles, right?


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Dave
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