I seen something incredible a man in my native country still have his first car a 1986 Toyota corolla with A 1.8L diesel engine CE80 with a 5 speed manuel transmission i saw it with 3858726 kilometers (2397701 original miles) he bought as his first car when his current and him were engage at the time with 3 kids. Now is his weekend car sense he is a medical doctor he bought a daily car a 2006 Toyota Prado with a four-cylinder in-line engine until recently. He bought a 2022 version of that same SUV he uses his 1986 corolla as his weekend car and it still has his original engine and transmission. He only change the oil and the filter and change the transmission oil about every 32,000 or so miles. It is the vehicle that the majority of his choosing grew up with instead of selling it at the buying his first SUV as a medical doctor he preserved it the only thing he ever change in terms of parts is the radiator in 2005 and I will every five or six years he change the brake rotors and pads. The AC still works and in thousand seven he change the radio and eventually has a more modern radio after that every port in the car is original. Except for the leather seats he change in back in 2011 after being torn apart from age.
i saw it with 3858726 kilometers (2397701 original miles)
Whenever posting crazy facts like yours, it’s always a good idea to post pictures as proof.
In the good old days of analogue odometers, the last digit (white background) was usually ‘hundreds’. Are you sure it wasn’t 385,872.6 kms? And after digging the surface, it appears @avalon04 is right about that model year Corolla only having a 6 digit odometer. How did you calculate the remaining 3,800,000 kms?
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I did not know that a car’s odometer would record millions of miles or kilometers. I thought after 999,999 it would roll over to 000,000. But if this is true (and I have no reason personally to doubt you) that would be incredible durability of this car and I am equally impressed with the man’s commitment to his patients and to his profession.
I agree with everyone else on that being improbably
Not only averaging 60k miles a year on a 40 year old car is practically impossible,
That's the unsuccessful E80 model (produced for about 4 years, 6 years if we count Venezuelan production)
and the C-series Diesel engine (produced until the early 2000s) is also not known for its longevity...
