Restoring A High Mileage Car To Its Former Glory: Part 1/2
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This week, work starts on Miles the High Mileage Hero's full restoration, and includes a fresh interior and a LOT of bodywork and new paint!
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BIG props to *SKODA* for getting involved.. their PR guys know whats up!
BrabusBandit This series was great free PR from the start. Props to whatever PR-employee decided to get involved.
Judging by the fact that they've been using a Skoda Karoq as their CarThrottle transport & filming car, and the fact that in the earlier videos of Ethan & the other guys following Alex there were some shots of the steering wheel with the Skoda badge in main focus, I'd say there's already been some support behind the scenes long before they even started this High Mileage Hero's series.
8:15 That guy MUST GO BACK!
Skoda is too underrated man, it deserves more attention.
My 1985 Celica did 698,000km. Its currently being pulled down for a full nut and bolt resto mod.
Boosted motor, wide body, full custom interior. All new paintjob. Etc... Been a long year of rust repairs already
Sure you are
my Mitsubishi magna has done 300,000kms
its a 1994 v6 wagon
Dude, Celica? Man, I wanna see it! Make a video about it pleaseee!!
So your Celica is getting a paintjob and nutjob. I fully understand how someone can be so close to their car.
This car has been in my family since new. It was bought only to be our traveling car in 1985. I received it about 3 or so years ago sorta as a present as it was on its way out and im a mechanic/pannel beater and painter by trade.
I have big plans that are mostly full filled. Im waiting on just a few parts and the motor will be finished. I have a 4 wheel drive floor pan thatll be cut out so my 162 wont be a FWD itll be a AWD. Im aiming for around 150-170 wheel kw at all 4 which should be do-able considering the motor is essentially built.
Plans are to keep it stock looking but around 2 inches wider then factory, so ill be extending the arches fully without showing bolts or harsh lines. I have quite alot of sweed (i dunno how to write it, swead, swayed ?) To be appolstered onto pretty much all the interior.
Itll be my weekend road warrior as i already have enough other vehicles.
My dad had a grey Octavia with the beige interior when I was a kid. I loved that car so much that cried when he came home one day with a brand new Chevrolet Captiva.
My dad bought a almost brand new one in 2004 and I grew up with that car as well. So many memories. A year ago my dad bought a new car and since then the octavia is mine. I puked in that car so many times as a kid and now I drive it around daily.
Man, you actually do the most awesome PR stuff Skoda could ever dream of :) And it actually is a really nice project! It is great to see that somebody is appreciating an old reliable car instead of just beating the hell out of it as they do in other channels :) Great stuff, keep it up :)
mad props to Skoda for this!
You think they did this out of the goodness of their hearts? What are you, 11?
don't be rude. You're already a year late to this thread.
It’s just a free advertisement on how reliable their engines are
jinch so the fact they gain something means its not a nice act? Youre the immature one
Recognition should go to VW, the supplier of the driveline
7:38 Oh my gawd! I'm in a Car Throttle video, and even in one of the most awesome ones so far! 😅
Congrats!
Rare footage of Alex not working on his own car
Haha so true
Call that a lot of rust?
*Chuckles in MGB*
Yes, from personal experience this is true
*Chuckles in Ford Escort*
@@LGRCarVideosAndMore *chuckles in Volvo 480*
@@gabrielcooper1248 *Chuckles in Rover 200 BRM*
We NEED to get this to a million miles.
or 1.4 million miles.
don't you mean 1.4 million miles?
Sai Vootukur why 1.4 million miles?
Ilikeboost because he was 400k miles at the beginning... or somewhere around that park.
My 01 Tacoma prerunner has 430k miles on it my goal is a million
Do you restore it and stuff?
Nice gesture from Skoda to be fair. Not often you see manufacturers doing something like this
TheBlaggert it makes sense these videos make the brand look so good
He put skoda on my map, Good that the brand recognized him.
Argowal That's a Skoda from another time , now they've been bought by VW if I'm not mistaken
I was planning to get a BM but now I'm having legit second thoughts
> Argowal That's a Skoda from another time , now they've been bought by VW if I'm not mistaken
That was, in fact, the first car Skoda did, after VW took over.
This car is truthfully a hero. And Miles deserve to be glory again.
Boy Miles deserves a fresh new remake after lasting for more than 400000 miles!
Drama
Mere huzoor
It’s amazing that Skoda themselves got involved kinda makes me want to buy a Skoda. Plus life goal achieved I made it into a car throttle video!!!!!!!!!!
Blair Henderson this Škoda has over 400k miles because engines were built freely back then (20 years ago), and car manufacturers didn't over inflate them with all sorts of filters that stress out the engine in order to reduce air pollution. A modern Škoda won't last like Miles did, but your emissions will go down (and road tax). So, there's a win and a lose for everyone.
Sergiu Puscasu it's mostly because the engine is undertuned. There's still newer Skodas like Taxis that have been well maintained that have quite a distance on them.
I guess that if you take care of a car, it will last. I hope that can also apply to modern cars.....
It's a WV inside. Some TDI engines are tricky .miles has been well taken care of .
Mottmatt yeah but this old skoda wasn't maintained properly, yet the engine is still running. If you do this to a new one, it'll BLOW (figuratively).
There we go. Behind the door panels lied the reasons why the windows "wood not roll down"...
Cheers to Miles and his team!
Superb car channel popupd late on my youtube page any how i love octavia its my first car and i am still utilizing it to work and outstation the best thing is an average even i m broke down today to get her back fullfresh but healthy built by skoda .i have crossed 160000 miles till now wd her in last 14 years still more to come like the video you did appericated a lot thnk u ..
My Mum has a Skoda Octavia wagon that is awesome and this series made me love Skoda even more!
Not the car we wanted, but the high milage hero we *needed,* so I'm glad he's getting the love he needed for those 400K miles.
The before and after pictures are going to look miles apart!
I see what you did there.
Nathaniel Thompson i hate you for that
Painfully dad joke ish hahaha
a high milage car is like an old friend! it's just there for you and it's like a good compagnion that deserves your love since it just keeps on going and it doesn't let you down!
Give the seats new stitching, only seams fit.
I’ll get my coat
this comment doesnt have enough likes
Reference to Topgear?
This left me in stiches! 😂
“Is that my jacket??”
Amongst all of this love island shit, Car Throttle is my saving grace, thank you!
couldn't agree MORE!
Much wisdom you speak.
Absolutely fantastic and honest love for cars. Also extremely cool that the cars manufacturer reached out to you, really goes to show what a legitimate force Car Throttle is in the eyes of the auto world.
*Alex, what do you think of my idea that you should visit the factory with Miles where he is born/built?* Anyway, this is awesome! I can not believe that there is so mach love for Miles! Like proper OEM parts are given away from the Skoda dealership and a compleet respray that's worth a lot of money, for free from those awesome guys! Can not wait for the next video!
Road trip to the Czech republic sounds like a great idea
Us petrolhead love the story, Skoda loves the story and it's good publicity, Painters, mechanics and factory parts are getting their own visibility. Everybody is a winner.
Miles is like an old grandfather who was a boxing champion. Maybe he's not fit as day 1, but it brings a lot of great memories that you wanna listen to.
I’ve been to the factory and it’s actually really cool. It’s like 3 quid to go round, you see them all being built and you get a bit of Skoda history. Go in the winter time and they have an ice rink outside as well :)
Mate that's a really good idea. Hope Car Throttle notice your comment; would be great to see!
I go there tomorrow actualy. I live 40 minutes from Mlada Boleslav.
I did almost the same thing on a 1.9 diesel mk5 golf.
Interior change and full respray of exterior.
Nothing better than owning a piece if relatively new history from one of the great manufacturers
I knew Skoda would like this. Great promo for the quality of their cars
funny thing is when i was a kid Skoda was the by word for awful quality, come along way.
Hope you guys enjoy the video!
And congratulations to Kevin Bridges for winning Miles' dyno printout from last week's episode! Inbox us your email and we'll be in touch!
Love the vids keep it up
I think the car will be red
I want the steering wheel, I've shared and everything! 😂
Car Throttle make the car back whit white accents
please reed my comment and please give me the steering wheel :)
all of this for a high mileage 4 door economical shitbox. i love it. absolutely love it. the things that can be done when you dont care what people say and just put some love into a car can be so inspiring. I only hope I can get my old suburban to 400k miles
I love seeing this kind of restoration. These cars deserve our love!
KEEP THIS SERIES GOING ON!!!!
Miles for President
KAL 1 make the car community great again
Kinda makes me want to pull my own car to bits and clean it all up beautifully too!
This car has driven my family around for years and years! It has survived my mother, myself, my sister and grandpa... Only dad could drive it without wrecking it lol. The guys at Skoda really know how to make a proper car!
This is the best series
ahhh seeing the car getting treated this well makes me happy!!
This has been such an amazing series so far, keep it up CT guys and gals!
Watching Miles come so far with all this love makes me feel even more guilty about my family selling our 85k miles Bora, which shares many of Miles's parts :'((
Fabulous. Miles must live forever!
These videos need to be longer, please...they need to be MILES longer.
Does that mean making Miles to a limo?
Nice pun
Omg.. true Gods at Skoda for giving this car a brand new interior. What a lovely world this is.
I love how everyone, myself included, loves this little chugger. Props to Skoda for making reliable cars.
Great PR move from Skoda.
Skoda need to put this an their museum when finished
When it clears the million miles !
Nope this car belongs to the wild
Well, it's a regular 1.9 tdi, with VRS interior, I don't think they would do it.
Yea in Czech republic i think we have one Octavia with 1M km in a Škoda museum. These cars really are indestructible :D
Yeah, half of all octavias there got over 500k km :-D
When the first video of Miles was published i was afraid you guys were gonna run it over with a tank or some other senseless but fun form of destruction...
As a huge Skoda fan, i'm glad that isn't the case!
Stumbled across this vid after 2 years and seeing mark 1 Octavia, the ultimate dream car for every czech family , between all the beautiful and surely expensive sport cars gave me good five minutes of laugh. Love it! My first car car was Škoda Felicia though. Man I loved that car.
this car worths all the respect and love from anyone!
Its so satisfying to watch miles get restored
AT and HD yeah , better than classic cars sometimes
I wonder if we'll get to see Miles hit 1,000,000 miles.
Maybe kilometers.
Yes
A tundra has done it
Is this Matt Farah's Million Mile Lexus?
Alex Kersten's million mile Skoda
I like this series/car so much. Good on Skoda for taking the opportunity to advertise their awesome cars.
I did this with an 88 Buick century that looked like it would never be nice and driving again. Well one new battery, some starting fluid, and a plug at the master cylinder, I drove it home and cleaned it and it turns out the inside is immaculate. I’m still driving it 2 years later and it’s now getting a new paint job 😁
I’m so glad that miles is being restored! Great old cars like that deserve a second chance
I never thought I would ever want a 20 year old Skoda steering wheel
I like the apreciation you give to such a forgotten gem, people wouldnt look twice at it, not even devoted car fans, bur you fix and admire its "regular" looks, because you apreciate that the task it has completed is harder than any spoiled ferrari has ever done. A true common car hero, that deserves a refresh.
Very good content👍
I am simply amazed by the distance that car went and still (could) goes
The Car Throttle guys would be the perfect hosts for a new Top Gear.
Dear God you had better not crush this car now!!!! This had better stay in the CT industry forever.
I'll cancel the tank then ;)
he said he wouldnt crush it
He can't now. This car is just too much in a legendary status to do that.
Yeah he said he's gonna look after this one
4:12 the guy destroyed the door with the screwdriver...
GabGas27 how do you even notice these kind of things xd
Robertas Burba I am a lover of detaling and these things make me cry!!!
Least it got resprayed after that
*Skoda.* *Simply* *Clever* (-rly destroying your car)
Looks more like some white goo which was on the screwdriver as there is also some white on the door handle after he touched it.
So cool to see this car get restored.
I'm so glad he's getting cleaned up and restored! Those new seats and interior bits look fantastic!!!
I wonder if the first owner knows about miles
sirico there was one owner before miles and knows the plans for miles
It is wierd that the steering wheel has indentations.
DaSovietPotato I used to have a diesel Octavia and I can tell you, those indentations are normal (not the thumb part)
Ikr
wear and tear buddy, wear and tear. that wheel been touched like ( improper joke ) ...
Yes! Finally he’s being restored! Our High Mileage Hero shall be returned to his former glory! LONG LIVE MILES!
I love old Skodas. My dad drives a 2004 black Skoda Superb with a beige interior and drove 210k kilometers.
This was so well-shot and so well-edited! I really enjoyed watching this! GG!
You know what? This beats top gear by ...ehm, miles!! Been watching the channel for quitte a while and I keep busting myself on leaving work to wait an additional CT episode everytime again ;) Keep up the great work lads!! Cheers from (somewhere near) Amsterdam!
If you mean the top gear challenges with the three old boys, I agree. It's not about the power, coolness or common sense: we want to see nice stories about cars and their hidden capabilities. That's why we like the Botswana trip (the Opel story) and the Nile trip (the unstoppable Subaru).
But no: those three idiots thrashed 3 great rare cars in Argentina while they act like kids but are actually OLD.
I own a 15 year old Skoda Octavia which still performs 200+ kmh on the Autobahn even though it has over 300.000 kilometers. Great car tbh
This is why the car community is beyond awesome :)
Waw Skoda is so cool for doing this.
All that work and didn't replace the carpet.
wobbly sauce the dealership probably only had the vrs interior lying in its store and wanted rid of it
There’s a red vrs in the same room. Maybe they just took the interior from there?
ThinkCleverAndSmart that was their press car, alex had a go in it
Oh, my bad!
Miles is definitely my favorite series on the channel so far, any other RUclipsr would’ve destroyed it
I think his goal was destroying it as well. He was probably like |--| close to destroying it either on a track or off-road. :D Still, I'm really proud. I feel like they've adopted a handicapped shelter pet and brought him back to life. This old dog still has a few more years and a few more hundred thousand miles up its sleeves.
It's amazing what something as simple as changing the interior can do. It looks almost new or atleast a well cared for car.
Yeah... This is the best episode from CT. Good.
CAR THROTTLE'S OFFICIAL CAR
At 4:11 he damages the door with the screwdriver and leaves a big knick on the paint!!!! POOR MILES!!
Well.. he is getting a fresh paint so
Axel's Empire great catch
Is there by any chance you play a Shooter of any kind because that explains it
Let us gang up on that man
We should crucify him and sacrifice him to the high mileage gods
This is the best project you have done on this channel.
wow this making me happy my town and country have 255,438 miles and i worry but i keep up my maintenance going on 4 years now nothing major thank god i plan on keep big blue as long as i can
give the steering wheel back to original owner... only seems fit.
why? they sold the car its not theirs anymore, he got the car in hope his viewers woud support, us viewers supported him so he is giving back to us
GamingPredator when you spend 400k+miles in a car youll understand
i should say aswell without his meticulous dedication to the car.. it wouldn't be here..
Bruh one of my best friends is named Matt Thompson WTF
Matt Thompson I need it
Long life Milles!
Found this channel in lockdown, surprisingly good. Rather watch these guys than top gear..... channel 4 needs to sign them up 👍.
This video is what this channel is all about. Quality content, keep it going!
BEST CAR YOU’VE EVER HAD ON THE SHOW!!!😍🔥😍🔥😍🔥
Sandy Peralta - Except for Phil the MX5. That actually was a good drivers car.
still waiting for phil's v6 tho... #neverforget
yeah, whats with phil?
he's talking about alex's miata. it's named after phil collins.
Rafael... whoosh...
you'll be pleased to know that V6 Philming starts next week already :)
You have a affair beside MIles..shame on you :-D
I fancy the steering wheel. I’ll put it on my wall in the shed.
Not many cars that I know have 300k plus miles. Over 400k and running strong. This thing is mint!
I just love how you guys came up with an idea that not many thought of and paid tribute to an unsung hero to what is, a legend that helped save the world. Well done carthrottle, well done :)
Thanks God you're restoring it and not blowing it up or something stupid like that
Pieces of wood inside doors - exactly what I was expecting as a 1st generation Octavia owner :D In my car window mechanism has been replaced like five times over the last fifteen years
This is amazing I never thought a car could survive like this. The restoration is definitely going to bring this car back to life.
I want to see this car in 2050
just asking with 1.000.000 miles🤣
probably "not allowed" with their plan for only electric cars in 2050
Keisuke Takahasi I thought it was only a ban on new cars, in the sense there are still road legal steam cars I believe.
C A yes it’s only for newly produced cars, well I mean...you can’t just ban all cars from like 1800s to 2049 to drive on the road
By 2040 it'll be told he's not allowed on the road anymore
I might or might not need the steering wheel. (I need it)
Hope you get it then ;D
Give him the steering wheel CarThrottle! #GiveSamiTheSteeringWheel2018
ruclips.net/video/Kb43Nxuwc4I/видео.html just Rally it out
Hook up ya boy he needs it
This series gives me inspiration to keep my 214,000 mile Blazer going.
Absolutely incredible. I’d love to do something like this one day
This is so awesome I'm loving this series. I wish I could do this to my aging Pontiac Grand Prix but there's so much rust on it that it's not worth it. Such a shame, it's my first car I bought it in 2011, my junior year of high school, and I've been driving it every day since then to/from college and now work. With 173k miles It runs perfect, but the rust from these harsh New England winters is killing it.
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This is the best series on youtube
hm got a same car from UK just L&K version. Most reliable cars. I really appreciate this kind of content since this car does not almost any attention.
Thumbs up
Two years on... I'm loving Miles' story.
I LOVE that you went this direction with this car and the series. Thank you, Alex.
Best part was the excitement of wondering what colour you went with
A super used steering wheel, I want it.
Nate wu why wouldn’t you? It’s free!
3rd channel I've seen you on.
I'm The Doctor btw
+KidOfEpicness Lol, we must watch alot of the same channels
I'm catching you, 403 000 vw t5 caravelle, just had engine change ( the first ) now ready for next target , half a million, good luck with yours.
i love what you are doing with miles
Miles got that reverse Benjamin Button going on all those miles and looking new
Looking forward to phil‘s V6
This series is just awesome
I am a Ford guy. And have a dislike for Vw cars. But I have to admit this car looks good, and reliable. A one off perfect car that doesn't come around all that often.
My father had a 1.8 benzine mondeo who did 450.000km without problems and went as it was new. Also a one off, you have to be lucky to get such a car