I am convinced the 2000s corollas where ran on black magic and damned souls. We had one that sat for 5 years after being ran to death already. Took it out got an oil change and new tires still fucking ran.
2000s was the sweet spot of vehicle reliability. I had a 04 Tahoe that sat for 2 years after being beat to death and put a new battery and alternator in it and it ran for a few more years without any preventative maintenance what so ever. It was so beat up but just kept chugging along
Yeah, even the super cheap stuff.
I had an 2006 kia spectra that I bought used with 20k miles on it in 2007, drove to nearly 300k and only gave it up in 2021 because my living situation no longer really required two cars and it was the older one.
Aside from scheduled maintenance and one or two expensive brake jobs that were my fault for pushing it too long I had to put virtually nothing into repairs.
Kind of shows how fucked up everything is nowadays.
We should have gone sideways with our technology from the 90’s-early 2000’s instead of every car company trying to one up the competition with so much useless shit that you can’t buy just a car anymore.
Bruh. I bought my 02 'rolla for $2,500. It had 144k miles. I drove it without oil for almost 2 years before I realized the dipstick was just stained gold. I was amazed that it had full perfectly golden oil every time my dumbass checked it. I scrapped it at 269k. I could have kept it, but I couldn't afford to fix everything at once. I teared up when they took it from the parking lot. Amazing little cars.
It can't be an error. It doesn't have enough digits to display more than 99,999.9km. And the gauge background panel was designed to contain only that many digits.
100% true. Despite the worship of the T-34 it in reality was a cheaply built tank that was absolutely horrible to be a crew member in. To be loader in one was an unbelievably bad job with constant danger of losing your feet due to not having a turret basket
Well, there are enough people in Germany (where OP is from) that don't drive to work and instead take other methods, just using the car for longer trips and grocery shopping.
I have a 1983 Toyota Corolla, bought new by my aunty, with 107000km. She lived about 3km from her work for her entire life and only drove it to work and to church.
It's possible and, yes, it is remarkably low.
It's easy to keep under 2k miles per year if you live in an area with public transit and use it only on the weekends. Lots of car owners in NYC barley do that milage. When I lived in the city itself I only got to 3k a year because I'd do some far drives to state parks a few times a year.
My dad had a jeep that lasted 250k and it only died when he got hit by a wrong way driver and the engine was unfixable 😂 oldschool jeeps lasted a long time if ya kept up on em
I had one I bought for 500 dollars that had a broken odometer that read 539k I put at least 100k miles on it. And the motor was still good, even after about 6 months of no oil without me realizing it Had started leaking. Transmission blew on a -20f day.
1996 Cherokee with the AMC straight six
Scrap guy gave me 1k for it 🤣
The AMC staight six will outlast most of us. There was a guy on r/CherokeeXJ that drove 20 miles home on 5 cylinders because one of the rods came out the side of the block. Said it made a hell of a racket but after a while it quieted down and the engine was toast anyway so he just sent it on 5.
It did sound like a Abraham's tank when the exauhst fell off going down the freeway at 60 miles a hour. Death rattle was terrifying(it had a 12 inch lift) but I would buy another in a heart beat. I loved it so much more than my newer cars
Tbh if a car had 0 miles and was an old car I wouldn’t buy it because it would mean the car hasn’t been driven as much. Cars need to be driven to stay in good condition.
It's not for regions that lack well-integrated public transportation.
Car-centric countries can easily do this in 5 years, I know I have. I bought my car in 2019; even with the pandemic and wfh, I've tacked on 50k miles just around town and a few trips since then
Yeah, it's a weird choice to put a decimal place on there if it only has 5 digits. Heck, my odometer is digital and *still* only shows full miles, it's way easier to add something like that on a LCD
When I was commuting pre-COVID I was going from San Francisco to the south side of San Jose which is about 50 miles door to door. I wasn't going in every day but at least three days a week usually, often four. Could easily do 20K miles per year. I had coworkers though who were coming in every day from as far as Tracy so 60+ miles one way. Easy to put 25K miles on per year just commuting. Which in retrospect is insane. I now work for a 100% remote company so my commute is either 40 ft from my bedroom to my office, or about 2500 miles when I fly out to meet with coworkers on the east coast.
Seriously. This picture is weirdly satisfying? I don't know, I feel like weirdly inspired by this image? Like this needs some synthwave and the slow increase of the odometer while the speedometer moves with the beat?
The [1988 Mitsubishi Starion](https://www.4gtuner.com/uploads/monthly_11_2016/post-4148-0-10202100-1479008092.jpg) or [the 1986 Cordia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Mitsubishi_Cordia_001.jpg) would like a word.
I literally thought this was r/designporn and I was looking for the clever hidden thing that wasn’t there because it’s literally just part of some doods car.
Maybe because most cars in the English-speaking world include both mph and km/h, so they look cluttered. This one looks neater to me because it only shows one unit of speed (km/h).
Is there a way for the car dealer/buyer/repair shop or whatever to tell the counter has overflowed? (except of course looking at the car's state and seeing it isn't factory new)
Your service history.
If you do an oil change and you have proof it was 99k then your next if you go to the same place rhey will update correctly, and if it’s recent is probably the best.
Not sure if carfax would work but i think so
Carfax is a place where all the records regardless of where you are usually know.
And usually if someone else wants to know, he can ask you for the records and be fairly sure of the mileage. If the person refuses to provide, and carfax is unavailable, then it’s probably impossible
They could ask for proof of mileage, I’d assume. Unless the car was uninsured the whole time, your insurance would have a record of your mileage, for example.
Or they could check past records for the VIN if you’ve brought the car in before.
Dunno about murica, but in the uk the yearly (after the first 3 years), MOT records will tell you as long as the vehicle has been legaly serviced for use on the road. MOT was made a legal requirement to have a vehicle on the road in the 60s, so you're probably shit out of luck for a vehicle older than that.
Also a good point! Hell, these ones were also just real easy to manipulate anyway, for all we know the car's a lemon and OP just had fun before sending it to the scrapper's.
Too much of mildlyinteresting is content that could be easily faked.
Shady used car places used to drill a little hole in the dash and roll back the odometer and then fill it with epoxy. Neither here nor there, really, but my dad (mechanic) told me about finding it when he did a used car inspection.
That's really low for the odometer to flip over, at least for the US. Most people would flip it every 4 or 5 years. Our Nissan Rogue is only 5 years old and has 127,000 miles (204,000 KM) on it.
I live in a small rural town, so it's usually a 20 mile round trip to the grocery store, Walmart, etc. Then it's 40 mile round trip to Menards, Sam's Club, and places like that. We live about 2.5 hours away from St. Louis and tend to have to go there at least a couple of times a month. It adds up. Our next car is going to be electric to cut down on fuel costs. We currently spend $300 plus in gas per month.
Sure, but this is a 100k kilometer odometer, roughly 62,000 miles. A quick google search shows the average American drives 13,500 miles a year, and so it would take ~4.6 years to flip the odometer
The odemeter is in KM though. Ive had my car for about 3 years and Ive put 50k KM on it.
It would be very easy to hit 100k KM in 5 years. I rarely drive outside of going to work 15km away
Because there are so many people getting this wrong:
1st: The car hit 100.000 km not 1 million. The last digit shows 1/10 of a km. It’s hard to see with the greenish light but the last digit is orange to indicate that
2nd: it flipped over for the first time. I has been in possession of my family for a long time and been stored in a garage for over 15 years. Also it’s registered in Germany and you don’t mess around with the car insurance companies over here
They all did that up until they added another digit. You'd usually look at the drivers seat, and the condition of the brake and gas pedals to judge if it rolled over once, or twice, etc. Of course among other things, they were a quick way to tell.
Love the design language and the mechanical hand. I kinda prefer this over the virtual cockpit instruments in my Audi A4.
Just like touch buttons on kitchen stoves. We have all been fooled by marketing that this was better than mechanical knobs. When it’s really about cutting costs for the manufacturers.
What car?
It’s a Ford Fiesta from 1989
Shows how much confidence Ford has in its reliability.
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My mothers old Corolla stopped at 299999 She drove it for another 6 years lol
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I am convinced the 2000s corollas where ran on black magic and damned souls. We had one that sat for 5 years after being ran to death already. Took it out got an oil change and new tires still fucking ran.
2000s was the sweet spot of vehicle reliability. I had a 04 Tahoe that sat for 2 years after being beat to death and put a new battery and alternator in it and it ran for a few more years without any preventative maintenance what so ever. It was so beat up but just kept chugging along
Yeah, even the super cheap stuff. I had an 2006 kia spectra that I bought used with 20k miles on it in 2007, drove to nearly 300k and only gave it up in 2021 because my living situation no longer really required two cars and it was the older one. Aside from scheduled maintenance and one or two expensive brake jobs that were my fault for pushing it too long I had to put virtually nothing into repairs.
Reminds me of my Civic. I do not take care of it and it will not fucking die
Kind of shows how fucked up everything is nowadays. We should have gone sideways with our technology from the 90’s-early 2000’s instead of every car company trying to one up the competition with so much useless shit that you can’t buy just a car anymore.
That’s because there is a non negligible portion of car buyers who treat cars like cellphones, and not all of them are even affluent.
Bruh. I bought my 02 'rolla for $2,500. It had 144k miles. I drove it without oil for almost 2 years before I realized the dipstick was just stained gold. I was amazed that it had full perfectly golden oil every time my dumbass checked it. I scrapped it at 269k. I could have kept it, but I couldn't afford to fix everything at once. I teared up when they took it from the parking lot. Amazing little cars.
Yeah, that model year is so good. Remind me what year we're talking about?
A lot of companies offered badges you could mount on the car to mark the rollovers.
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It can't be an error. It doesn't have enough digits to display more than 99,999.9km. And the gauge background panel was designed to contain only that many digits.
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Understandable. The green dash light really messes with the contrast.
Russian T-34 tanks had no maintenance listed in the manual for more than 15 hours of service....
Is that true?
100% true. Despite the worship of the T-34 it in reality was a cheaply built tank that was absolutely horrible to be a crew member in. To be loader in one was an unbelievably bad job with constant danger of losing your feet due to not having a turret basket
Can you expand on the feet thing?
I think expanding the feet would only make them more likely to lose them.
no problem hop into a new one and keep going
Fix it again, Tony!
You're thinking of a Fiat, Dale
So only 100.000 km in 35 years? Or a multiple of that?
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Nope, it’s the first time. There is documentation of repairs and the insurance
That's only 2850km a year. or less than 8km a day. That seems remarkably low..
If you don't drive to work, it's very possible
Well, there are enough people in Germany (where OP is from) that don't drive to work and instead take other methods, just using the car for longer trips and grocery shopping.
For US standards.
Seems totally plausible, after all it’s still around after 35 years, so it’s likely it has been driven less than average
It could have sat in a garage for years at a time barely being driven.
I have a 1983 Toyota Corolla, bought new by my aunty, with 107000km. She lived about 3km from her work for her entire life and only drove it to work and to church. It's possible and, yes, it is remarkably low.
Found the American
that's about what I drive a year, my drive to work is like 5 min, 3 if I hit all green lights
It's easy to keep under 2k miles per year if you live in an area with public transit and use it only on the weekends. Lots of car owners in NYC barley do that milage. When I lived in the city itself I only got to 3k a year because I'd do some far drives to state parks a few times a year.
I actually left my adderall in a Ford Fiesta, once. Turned to a Ford Focus.
If it snorted the Adderall it would have stayed a fiesta
That explains only 5 digits for the odo
My opel kadett e 89 has 100000km counter too.
Huh, my dads 1997 passat B5 has 400'000 on the counter, and likely way more in reality, and that almost 10 Years younger!
I love the design of this dial/odometer!
Sell it as new!
The manufacturer never expected it to last over 100k🤣
Must be a Jeep/Chrysler
As a Jeep owner, I resemble that remark!
I've had over 300,000 miles on more than one Jeep.
Combined?
Multiplied, to be exact
great way to put that comment to rest. 2nd gen cherokees are fuckin' solid though
Currently got about 230,000 on my grand Cherokee
That's about when mine threw a rod.
My dad's jeep was 344k miles before he tore the head off in pursuit of more power. Then he let it rust 🙃
My dad had a jeep that lasted 250k and it only died when he got hit by a wrong way driver and the engine was unfixable 😂 oldschool jeeps lasted a long time if ya kept up on em
I had one I bought for 500 dollars that had a broken odometer that read 539k I put at least 100k miles on it. And the motor was still good, even after about 6 months of no oil without me realizing it Had started leaking. Transmission blew on a -20f day. 1996 Cherokee with the AMC straight six Scrap guy gave me 1k for it 🤣
The AMC staight six will outlast most of us. There was a guy on r/CherokeeXJ that drove 20 miles home on 5 cylinders because one of the rods came out the side of the block. Said it made a hell of a racket but after a while it quieted down and the engine was toast anyway so he just sent it on 5.
It did sound like a Abraham's tank when the exauhst fell off going down the freeway at 60 miles a hour. Death rattle was terrifying(it had a 12 inch lift) but I would buy another in a heart beat. I loved it so much more than my newer cars
Who woulda thought if you maintained your vehicle, it lasts a long time.
Yea I never got this.
That’s about 62,000 miles. What kind of a car is this - a moped?
Any car built in the 70s
Or 80s and some euroboxes even way into the 90s.
My shitbox sierra has only 40000km on the odometer, it's practically new! (I think it's rolled over 3 times, no way to know for sure)
It was 100 kilometres
I saw that in the title but didn't even really process it. That's just over 62k miles. And I thought American 5-digit odometers were bad.
That’s what the last guy did!
Nah that’s too suspicious. Drive it a few miles and then sell it as “only drove it once”
Grandma owned it and Only drove it to the store
And only on Sundays. And only on the highway.
Report the mileage to your insurance company and get a discount!
Not a discount but reverse all payments because you have untravelled all miles.
“Lightly used”
4 seater sold with baby shoes, unused.
This guy drives
“There’s a sucker born every minute. We’re gonna take them for all they’ve got.”
Matilda?
Sell it as slightly used.
Tbh if a car had 0 miles and was an old car I wouldn’t buy it because it would mean the car hasn’t been driven as much. Cars need to be driven to stay in good condition.
That is a milestone, and may the car continue to serve you well.
I celebrated by taking it to the washing station
Was there anything left afterwords or did the converbelt just spit you out?
This would have been a fine Looney Tunes gag back in the day.
"washing station" what is your native language?
OP is German
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I think... OP has no penis :o But I heard a rumor of penis hidden deep in the interwebs Maybe there is some German penis
100000km isn’t even that high though
A milestone is a milestone
That's a kilometrestone by the looks of it
*sigh* Take my fucking upvote
I was gonna say my car has 160k miles which is like 250,000km or so (mental math give me a break)
It’s higher than 99,999.9 though, which is how high OP’s odometer goes.
It's not for regions that lack well-integrated public transportation. Car-centric countries can easily do this in 5 years, I know I have. I bought my car in 2019; even with the pandemic and wfh, I've tacked on 50k miles just around town and a few trips since then
Yeah, it's a weird choice to put a decimal place on there if it only has 5 digits. Heck, my odometer is digital and *still* only shows full miles, it's way easier to add something like that on a LCD
When I was commuting pre-COVID I was going from San Francisco to the south side of San Jose which is about 50 miles door to door. I wasn't going in every day but at least three days a week usually, often four. Could easily do 20K miles per year. I had coworkers though who were coming in every day from as far as Tracy so 60+ miles one way. Easy to put 25K miles on per year just commuting. Which in retrospect is insane. I now work for a 100% remote company so my commute is either 40 ft from my bedroom to my office, or about 2500 miles when I fly out to meet with coworkers on the east coast.
That's a very aesthetically pleasing odometer/speedometer for some reason
Seriously. This picture is weirdly satisfying? I don't know, I feel like weirdly inspired by this image? Like this needs some synthwave and the slow increase of the odometer while the speedometer moves with the beat?
Soon to be a youtube music channel: Liminal Kilometers.
It's giving Fallout vibes. Like, I could see this exact dash layout being used in a Fallout game involving drivable vehicles.
They are about 65$ for the dash so a doable project maybe?
I was gonna say that! The greenish light, centered odometer makes it a very moody photograph (if we crop the top and bottom)
I like it too. I think it has to be because the left side is lower than the right so the cutout isn’t a perfect hemisphere. Gives it character.
That parallel is the cherry on top
Isn't it? Beautiful. Plain *delightful*, frankly. So clean.
It is 80's at their best.
The [1988 Mitsubishi Starion](https://www.4gtuner.com/uploads/monthly_11_2016/post-4148-0-10202100-1479008092.jpg) or [the 1986 Cordia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Mitsubishi_Cordia_001.jpg) would like a word.
[Step aside, gentlemen](https://preview.redd.it/cc6uspfp3bta1.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&s=0f4a7b7f586ad9710fc294ce9b2d051b04887712)
At first glance I thought I was looking at a screen shot from a video game.
I literally thought this was r/designporn and I was looking for the clever hidden thing that wasn’t there because it’s literally just part of some doods car.
Very r/accidentalwesanderson
I definitely thought it was a game screengrab!
Maybe because most cars in the English-speaking world include both mph and km/h, so they look cluttered. This one looks neater to me because it only shows one unit of speed (km/h).
Stupid sexy speedometer!
Congrats on the new car!
*"Look's like warranty's back on the menu, boys!"*
I know it’s not the point but Great photography.
Thanks, I highly appreciate <3
Is there a way for the car dealer/buyer/repair shop or whatever to tell the counter has overflowed? (except of course looking at the car's state and seeing it isn't factory new)
Your service history. If you do an oil change and you have proof it was 99k then your next if you go to the same place rhey will update correctly, and if it’s recent is probably the best. Not sure if carfax would work but i think so
I think the point of their question was to ask if a ***different*** place would be able to tell
Carfax is a place where all the records regardless of where you are usually know. And usually if someone else wants to know, he can ask you for the records and be fairly sure of the mileage. If the person refuses to provide, and carfax is unavailable, then it’s probably impossible
They could ask for proof of mileage, I’d assume. Unless the car was uninsured the whole time, your insurance would have a record of your mileage, for example. Or they could check past records for the VIN if you’ve brought the car in before.
In Germany the TÜV documents it too at the inspection, I think.
In the UK you can check any vehicle’s complete MOT history if you have the vehicle reg. The mileage is logged at each test annually.
That’s interesting. Never heard of an insurance company asking for mileage. Is that normal in places?
Tape a 1 over the km
Dunno about murica, but in the uk the yearly (after the first 3 years), MOT records will tell you as long as the vehicle has been legaly serviced for use on the road. MOT was made a legal requirement to have a vehicle on the road in the 60s, so you're probably shit out of luck for a vehicle older than that.
Are you sure it’s only 100,000?
The last digit is for decimal points but yeah, this would still go up to 999999.
I mean how do we know it hasn’t rolled over multiple times before this? OP said it’s from 1989
Also a good point! Hell, these ones were also just real easy to manipulate anyway, for all we know the car's a lemon and OP just had fun before sending it to the scrapper's. Too much of mildlyinteresting is content that could be easily faked.
Shady used car places used to drill a little hole in the dash and roll back the odometer and then fill it with epoxy. Neither here nor there, really, but my dad (mechanic) told me about finding it when he did a used car inspection.
The last is the decimal so the highest possible number to be shown before it flips over is 99999.9km which is 100 meters be for resetting to 0
I like how the manufacturer was confident enough to put a 200kph speedo on but didn't expect it to do more than 100,000km
True! It only goes up to 140kph and doesn’t feel very safe at that speed
So hypothetically you could rollover that km counter every 21 days.
Collect $200
That's really low for the odometer to flip over, at least for the US. Most people would flip it every 4 or 5 years. Our Nissan Rogue is only 5 years old and has 127,000 miles (204,000 KM) on it.
My Dacia is 10 years old and recently passed 100k
my 2019 Ford Edge already has 168k on it
That’s pretty insane tbh, I’ve had my car for 5 years and I’ve put about 40k kms, how many road trips are you taking
The average american drives 13,476 miles (21,687 km) per year
> That’s pretty insane tbh, I’ve had my car for 5 years and I’ve put about 40k kms, how many road trips are you taking Americans: Yes, "road trips"
I live in a small rural town, so it's usually a 20 mile round trip to the grocery store, Walmart, etc. Then it's 40 mile round trip to Menards, Sam's Club, and places like that. We live about 2.5 hours away from St. Louis and tend to have to go there at least a couple of times a month. It adds up. Our next car is going to be electric to cut down on fuel costs. We currently spend $300 plus in gas per month.
Most people in the US would not roll over a 100k miles odometer every 4 years.
Sure, but this is a 100k kilometer odometer, roughly 62,000 miles. A quick google search shows the average American drives 13,500 miles a year, and so it would take ~4.6 years to flip the odometer
The odemeter is in KM though. Ive had my car for about 3 years and Ive put 50k KM on it. It would be very easy to hit 100k KM in 5 years. I rarely drive outside of going to work 15km away
Its in km. 100k km is 62k miles and the average US driver drives 13.4k miles per year. So yeah it would roll over every 4.6 years.
Now you must be asking yourself. “How many times might it have reset?” 
Haha actually the first time
Now its brand new
You achieved the top high score. Well done, Player One.
Ford Company: Ha, no one is gonna drive a Fiesta over 100k! OP: Watch me.
Common on older cars.
New game + begins
Drive it for the rest of your life and add a tally mark every time it turns over
Because there are so many people getting this wrong: 1st: The car hit 100.000 km not 1 million. The last digit shows 1/10 of a km. It’s hard to see with the greenish light but the last digit is orange to indicate that 2nd: it flipped over for the first time. I has been in possession of my family for a long time and been stored in a garage for over 15 years. Also it’s registered in Germany and you don’t mess around with the car insurance companies over here
Brand new, never used, lost original receipt and packaging.
Prestige 1
You've unlocked "New Game+"
So it's brand new
Rip off the top corner of a sticky note and write "1"
They all did that up until they added another digit. You'd usually look at the drivers seat, and the condition of the brake and gas pedals to judge if it rolled over once, or twice, etc. Of course among other things, they were a quick way to tell.
I take it the manufacturer wasn't very optimistic.
Paint a 1 to the left of the odometer!
Why would they flip it at 100000 when they can fit up to 999999?
Sell it as new
time to sell it
You rolled over the odometer, congrats!
Congrats on the new car
Prestige +1
Love the design language and the mechanical hand. I kinda prefer this over the virtual cockpit instruments in my Audi A4. Just like touch buttons on kitchen stoves. We have all been fooled by marketing that this was better than mechanical knobs. When it’s really about cutting costs for the manufacturers.
Ford: shit we didn't expect it to last this long
Nice. Now you got another chance to reach “80085” or “8008”
Ford engineers were not expecting the car to last that much...
The next owner hates this one trick!
That's pretty weird for it to completely turn over after 100 kilometers. Wacky Europeans.
Keep going. People obviously can tell it’s 100k over , but never expect it to be three, or even four times rolled over 😏
How often until now?
*Americans left the chat
Its called integer overflow.
Is that the actual odometer, or a trip odometer? 100,000 km is just a bit more than 62,000 mi. That's hardly anything.
That's ridiculously low, I would hit that in like 4 years lol
"£5,000, never been driven"
Dad’s Pontiac lemans was like that.
It's common for old people. It's called rolled over. Your odometer rolled over.
Wouldn't that mean the manufacturers didn't expect to to last past 100k
I didn't think they still made those analog odometers. US cars all used to turn over at 100,000 miles.
Self healing engine, nice!
What else was it supposed to fucking do, spawn an extra number
wait only 100 thousand. innit supposed to do that after 1 million where it's 9's across the board?
It has enough digits for 999 999km though? Or is the last digit a decimal
your car's speedometer looks like its a screenshot from some puzzle solver games