RoB wrote:
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> I'm about to set off on a weeks holiday around the west coast of
> Scotland this weekend. (Yes I have seen the rainy forecast! Typical.)
>
> Knowing how amazingly reliable MG's usually are in such
> situations, how's about having a sweep stake on the number of times I
> have to get under the bonnet? This includes oil top-ups, so I suppose
> we could also have a sweep stake to guess the amount of oil used.
> Should be around 800 miles - me thinks.
>
> This leads me onto another question.
>
> What is the highest mileage that any of you have done in your MG
> without having to attend to the slightest thing? Should be
> interesting as a guage of MG reliability.
>
Alan and Dave Brooke can be a witness to this. For the past three years
a bunch of St ALbans MG Owners club members have joined the Roadrunner
Club London to Edinburgh Trial which is held at the end of January (Brrr)
We had approx 5 cars the first year, 10 the second and 5 (? i didn't go)
the third. I ran out of petrol both times I attended ( my guage is crap
.. ok and I'm a bit of a twit ), my girlfriends 1500 midget had carb
problems (but made it all the way), another car lost a wheel on the way
home (this was a MGBGT which cost 500 pounds plus MOT!). I think those
were the only problems we encountered.
WHich adds up to about 20,000 miles (20 cars * 1000 miles each, round trip)
with two breakdowns - not bad, eh?
I reckon you'll do the whole trip with no problems (except you oil) - as
long as you drive the car properly. If it rains really, really hard you'll
probably get a puncture or your exhaust will fall off - something to make
you crawl around on the wet road.
BTW: properly in Scotland means roof down, with lots of clothes on and you
HAVE to pick the good roads - but that's easy just steer clear of the few
Motorways.
Good luck and have fun.
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