C5 with 650k miles!
Melting Slicks
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From: Anaheim CA
Was there ever an update on this one?
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-counting.html
It was a '98 with 330K in 2009: should be up to 500K by now if he kept the same pace.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-counting.html
It was a '98 with 330K in 2009: should be up to 500K by now if he kept the same pace.
Burning Brakes
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So if it made it to 300K miles and it needed an engine and tranny, who in their right mind would put a new engine and tranny in a car with 300K miles on it. I'm a little skeptical. I would need a little more proof than a video on the internet. A thousand miles a week is a lot of seat time.
How much would the gas cost for 650K miles.
How much would the gas cost for 650K miles.
R
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If it is true, that is one heck of a lot of seat time. 
Le Mans Master
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I would think a C5 would last forever if you kept replacing parts (and could get them).
Could be the video was shot right after he bought the car? More than likely the DIC lost its mind at 100k and added 550k miles on its own.
Could be the video was shot right after he bought the car? More than likely the DIC lost its mind at 100k and added 550k miles on its own.
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A C5 Vette with 650K miles would be a heck of a story. Since this was a company car it would be a tax write off and all the maintanance and repairs would be documented. Instead of showing a video of the oddometer he more than likely would have told us all about what the car went through and at least then I might have believed it. 1000 miles a week for 650 weeks in the heat of Georgia? Something had to break.
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Burning Brakes
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A C5 Vette with 650K miles would be a heck of a story. Since this was a company car it would be a tax write off and all the maintanance and repairs would be documented. Instead of showing a video of the oddometer he more than likely would have told us all about what the car went through and at least then I might have believed it. 1000 miles a week for 650 weeks in the heat of Georgia? Something had to break.
You can see my car it the thread "My C-5 get more looks than my C-7 Z-51. Yes it has 338,000+ on him oddometer but all other parts less than 1,200 miles.
Bottom line if you drive a lot you can't win.You would spend more cash buying a car every to years.
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Jr-1 it can be done,yes big dollars in repairs. I spent $63,276 in total repairs upgrade and mods tires for me totaled $10,000 and change.
You can see my car it the thread "My C-5 get more looks than my C-7 Z-51. Yes it has 338,000+ on him oddometer but all other parts less than 1,200 miles.
Bottom line if you drive a lot you can't win.You would spend more cash buying a car every to years.R
You can see my car it the thread "My C-5 get more looks than my C-7 Z-51. Yes it has 338,000+ on him oddometer but all other parts less than 1,200 miles.
Bottom line if you drive a lot you can't win.You would spend more cash buying a car every to years.
R
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And speaking of seat time, I wonder what the C5's infamous ultra-tough seats (that are so tough that you have to be careful how you enter and exit the vehicle, or else) look like after 600,000 miles?
Regardless, any owner can keep any vehicle going for 600,000 miles, but this would be a challenge for a daily driver in the snow belt.
Anyone attempting to do this soon realizes that it makes abosolutely no financial sense, but if the alternative is to spend what a loaded, IMO cramped, C7 costs, a case can be made for doing so in order to keep a C5 on the road. Then again, wouldn't it be less expensive to get a low-mile C5?
To each his own. Obviously this owner's hobby is to keep his C5 on the road for as long as possible. If the vehicle makes it to a million miles, what then, 2 million? All I can say is that his technician must be
all the way to the bank.
Regardless, any owner can keep any vehicle going for 600,000 miles, but this would be a challenge for a daily driver in the snow belt.
Anyone attempting to do this soon realizes that it makes abosolutely no financial sense, but if the alternative is to spend what a loaded, IMO cramped, C7 costs, a case can be made for doing so in order to keep a C5 on the road. Then again, wouldn't it be less expensive to get a low-mile C5?
To each his own. Obviously this owner's hobby is to keep his C5 on the road for as long as possible. If the vehicle makes it to a million miles, what then, 2 million? All I can say is that his technician must be
all the way to the bank.
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And speaking of seat time, I wonder what the C5's infamous ultra-tough seats (that are so tough that you have to be careful how you enter and exit the vehicle, or else) look like after 600,000 miles?
Regardless, any owner can keep any vehicle going for 600,000 miles, but this would be a challenge for a daily driver in the snow belt.
Anyone attempting to do this soon realizes that it makes abosolutely no financial sense, but if the alternative is to spend what a loaded, IMO cramped, C7 costs, a case can be made for doing so in order to keep a C5 on the road. Then again, wouldn't it be less expensive to get a low-mile C5?
To each his own. Obviously this owner's hobby is to keep his C5 on the road for as long as possible. If the vehicle makes it to a million miles, what then, 2 million? All I can say is that his technician must be all the way to the bank.
Regardless, any owner can keep any vehicle going for 600,000 miles, but this would be a challenge for a daily driver in the snow belt.
Anyone attempting to do this soon realizes that it makes abosolutely no financial sense, but if the alternative is to spend what a loaded, IMO cramped, C7 costs, a case can be made for doing so in order to keep a C5 on the road. Then again, wouldn't it be less expensive to get a low-mile C5?
To each his own. Obviously this owner's hobby is to keep his C5 on the road for as long as possible. If the vehicle makes it to a million miles, what then, 2 million? All I can say is that his technician must be
all the way to the bank.