For those of you who might be interested, my Golf crossed the historic 500,000 mile mark on December 31st. This milestone is chronicled at:
Todd Seattle,WA '86 GTI, Red of course. (exciting racey car) 259,000 miles '87 Golf, Polar Silver. (boring work car) 500,000 miles
I knew those cars could make it to 500k, but I am surprised the odometer lasted that long! My odometer needed fixing at 125k.
The odometer on our old 1991 Golf broke with a mere 65556.8 kms on it (in the summer of 2002 if I recall).... I guess with such low KM's it had to record it just gave up due to boredom ;-).
500,000Miles tho -> 805,000 kms!!! Impressive to say the least, I don't think I'd want to keep my Golf (99.5 TDI) past 200K kms, it's a fine car, but I think i'd need something newer after a while.
I've found the seats to be perfectly comfortable, even on long drives. Maybe my body type just suits them.
Todd
I guess it must be a body type issue. My a1 seats were good, A2 much better, A3 stunk, and A4 seems so-so. The seats in my Eurvan are real nice, but I think that relates more to driver position, which is quite upright, as much as it does to the seat. The A3 seat wore out and needed replacing in a few years, where as the A1 seat is still in decent shape after 25 years and almost 300,000 miles.
Tony
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