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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 11 2016, 03:13 PM (434 Views) | |
| daniel60 | Sep 11 2016, 03:13 PM Post #1 |
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Personal Luxury Car
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2005 Mustang GT A little over a 100,000 miles. Hard driven miles at that. 2007 Mercedes C280 165,000 miles. Both of these would most likely be expired in the sixties and seventies. Then you were lucky to get a 100,000 miles. You older timers intervened and let me know. Edited by daniel60, Sep 11 2016, 06:54 PM.
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| Harvestman | Sep 11 2016, 03:23 PM Post #2 |
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Captain Slow
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Somewhere around 99,000 miles on my '09 Ford Fusion. Six digits soon! |
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| juantoo3 | Sep 11 2016, 04:34 PM Post #3 |
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Dunno about oldertimers...but I agree 100K was considered upper limit for 60s and 70s American cars. I got 300K out of my 88 Nissan Hardbody pickup, only traded because the heater core went out the year before and didn't feel like freezing my butt another winter (I realize this has an entirely different meaning here than it does in snow country, but it still gets cold enough to make driving miserable). Got 150K +/- on my current DD, 04 Nissan Frontier pickup, and my Olds wagon down for the count until I fix the tranny is over 225K. Wife's La Crosse she just bought has less than 50K. |
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| funeralxempire | Sep 11 2016, 04:35 PM Post #4 |
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SUV
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My Civic is at ~248 000 km, and off the road due to failing to pass emissions. My EL/Domani is at ~140 000km, and it's a year older. |
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| jedimario | Sep 11 2016, 04:56 PM Post #5 |
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RAWR
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4500 on the Miata 128k on the Navigator 88k on the Boxster |
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| 250 TR | Sep 11 2016, 05:13 PM Post #6 |
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Somewhere just over 180k on the VW Rabbit. My wife's '11 G37 has about 70k miles. My Cayman is now at 11k, I've put 3k miles on it in 3 weeks! I drive around 25-30k per year, although it used to be more. I had an '03 Mazda 6 I bought new in 2003 and sold just short of three years later in 2006 with 120k miles, just over 40k per year. |
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| microbuss | Sep 11 2016, 05:36 PM Post #7 |
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SUV
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1998 Chevy S10 150,000 miles in less than 4,000 miles I will officially have put on 100,000 miles since I bought truck from my bro for $5000 when it had 54,450 on it |
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| Douglas | Sep 11 2016, 05:46 PM Post #8 |
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SUV
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Ford F-150 bought new with just a few miles on it, now has 251,000. Remember when cars had just over 100k you could pick them up for $100-$300, but of course you had to be prepared to slowly start spending money in replacing things....Now, for most cared for cars, 100k is still practically like new.
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| daniel60 | Sep 11 2016, 07:05 PM Post #9 |
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Personal Luxury Car
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My wife bought the Mustang for me for my Birthday back in 2004. She got the extended warranty due to the engine's first year being introduced. Yes it's the 4.6 but it is a 3 valve. The first few years it had a lot of things break. For starters the ball joints were replaced, speedometer quit working correctly, rear main seal oil leak, cd player, it never did work right, now it doesn't play at all now. Alternator and two Batteries. A course brakes replaced once the usual maintenance. I'll do the Mercedes later. Fortunately all replaced parts were done under warranty. Mercedes I'll do another day. Edited by daniel60, Sep 11 2016, 07:06 PM.
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| Hobie-wan | Sep 11 2016, 10:39 PM Post #10 |
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SUV
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My 2005 Saabaru just passed 79K. I got it at the beginning of 2011 at I think 55-58K miles. The ordinary things beyond normal wear items have just been timing belt, a battery, and I swapped the factory CD changer for one that was a year or two later so I could play MP3 discs. Although I'm still on the same brake pads that were on it when I got it as I'm easy on them. The two abnormal items are a windshield and a passenger mirror along with some paint and body work because a tree fell on my car at one point. |
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| funeralxempire | Sep 11 2016, 10:58 PM Post #11 |
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SUV
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My Civic was real easy on brakes, it did need a new alternator around ~200k though. It also needed the cabin blower replaced twice, they seemed to always end up loaded up with pine needles. Besides that it was just basic maintenance, timing belt and water pump type stuff. I might have needed to replace the battery. My Malibu needed two sets of brakes in roughly 100k, and needed a new battery once. They both were quite reliable and the Malibu was especially impressive considering how ignorant I was about basic maintenance. The Civic was pretty hardy too considering for months I never really used the clutch except at stop lights and left-foot braked a lot when it was slippery. Edited by funeralxempire, Sep 11 2016, 11:05 PM.
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| Ripa | Sep 12 2016, 12:06 AM Post #12 |
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Minivan
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My '06 Mazda 6 has 255000km in it so that's around 159k miles. My first car ever, a '97 Mazda 323 (Protege) went to scrapyard a year ago with 385000km (240k miles). |
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| Verbigracia82 | Sep 12 2016, 06:15 AM Post #13 |
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Compact
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Fiat 500. 1.3 Multijet 95cv diesel engine. Bought new in July 2011. 68000km Nissan Almera 1.6 100cv. Petrol engine. Built July 1999. Bought used december 2014. 180000km. I've just done it about 1500. Edit: Repairs and such: Fiat: clutch replaced (warranty) at 60000km. It was ok, but probably was part of a problematic batch. Lighter fuse blown at 30000km aprox. Battry flat at 50000. And... thats it. Nothing really bad! Nissan: As far as i can see: front crash at any pont during late noughties. One headlight, indicator and bumper replaced. Bonnet and front wing repainted. I only had to change tyres, and now, battery (went flat a couple days ago, oh well The clutch is a bit dodgy sometimes, but nothing major. Edited by Verbigracia82, Sep 12 2016, 07:24 AM.
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| Eurosport94 | Sep 12 2016, 10:18 AM Post #14 |
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Station Wagon
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2000 Buick Regal GS - somewhere in the 185k-200k range. Digital odometer burnt out going on 3 years ago now. Last known mileage around Nov/Dec 2013 was 152k and change. I do, rough math, 15-19k per year in this car. Odometer isn't hard to fix, re-solder a few resistors. I just don't have a soldering gun, don't feel like buying one! She is a trooper. It needs a lot of attention, especially in the front end. It leaks oil (pan gasket that is a PITA), needs tires, and probably brakes soon. They are going on 2.5 years in the front and 3 in the back. NO pad squeal or rotor warp. I'm blown away at how long they've lasted. 2009 Chevy Impala LT - Almost at 65k. Been a splendid car, I'd love to have one myself but I'd probably just take this and my wife would get something bigger (which won't happen in this lifetime it seems). Need to take it in to have a few things checked out. Airbag light is intermittently on (just received a recall notice on that), and the "Service Traction Control" light comes on as well, sending the car into safe mode (recall on that as well.) This also needs tires pretty bad. |
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| Hosspower98 | Sep 12 2016, 11:44 AM Post #15 |
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Forever Blue Oval
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130,000 miles - '08 Fusion SEL 50,000 miles - '98 Mustang GT 5.000 miles - '15 F-150 XLT 4X4 Sport Most of my purchased vehicles approached 200K. Now that I am retired and lease I only drive them about 5K per year. The 2012 FX4 that I turned in after 3 years had 13,000 miles on it. The most I ever got out of any car was 300,000 on a bedraggled '76 Cutlass S. It still blew cold air from the a/c and the guy that finally bought it told me he wanted the engine and tranny. Can you imagine that? I was commuting 70 miles a day back then. Unleaded gas was 5-10 cents over leaded. I removed the cat and gas filler orifice restrictor in 1978, and crossed the border to Canada weekly because gas was cheaper there. Whether that had any bearing on the longevity, who knows? |
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| Douglas | Sep 13 2016, 05:54 PM Post #16 |
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SUV
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In a hurry the other night I forgot to give details on my bought new 2004 F-150 4x4, now with 252,500 miles on it. Well I had a transmission issue shortly after it went out of warranty, an inexpensive sensor or something, but where it was in the tranny made the replacement kind of expensive. So $1400 later, which I guess is cheap for transmission work. Then there was the EGR Valve a couple years later. Then about 2 years ago, probably close to 215K miles then, the alternator went, the mechanic informed me my front end was actually ready to fall apart too, (it'd been squeaking and creaking for a year), so that needed redoing since I was getting ready to go on a 400 mile round trip for work, one week after the trip the fuel pump went.....of course everyone had to tell me I should have just bought a new one with what I spent, could have been a good down-payment. I know, I know, but I needed my vehicle and couldn't do $4 or 5 hundred a month on a new one. It does burn oil now, but in all those miles it never had and still doesn't leak a thing. Anyways, it has some pretty rough engine issues now, and I thank the Lord every time I'm in it, it continues to get me around. |
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| webestang64 | Sep 13 2016, 06:36 PM Post #17 |
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Minivan
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My pride and joy 1988 Mustang LX 5.0 vert has 197xxx miles. Bought in 2002 with 59xxx miles it was a DD till 2012. From 2013 till 2014 I replaced the following. Body work paint, top, carpet, all brakes, all suspension , everything on the engine alt-tuneup etc., tires. My 1985 Mustang notch 2.3L has 137xxx miles. Since buying in 2009 I've replaced the following (most in the last year). Test painted in 2010 (repaint coming this fall), entire brake system, rebuilt carb, exhaust (including tube header), tires, tune up, battery, timing belt, front struts rear shocks, added rear sway bar, new sterio and dash pad cover to interior. The boat, 1996 Crown Vic 4.6L has 158xxx 159 soon miles. Since buying a couple of weeks ago for $500 I've replaced/bought soon to install. Spark plugs/wires, coil packs, new headlight covers and bulbs, used stock sterio with working cassette player, replaced missing hub cap. |
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| pjedsel | Sep 15 2016, 10:16 PM Post #18 |
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Muscle Car
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I have almost 105,000 on my hamster van (2007 Hyundai Entourage). Just put $1000 into it for new rear upper control arms and tires. Runs nice and smooth again!
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| Swifty | Sep 16 2016, 03:33 PM Post #19 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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2008 Ford Mustang GT: 56,000 miles 1992 Volvo 240: 95,000 miles 1982 Ford Mustang GLX: 75,000 miles |
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| Swifty | Sep 16 2016, 03:39 PM Post #20 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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My Ford dealer tried pulling that on me at inspection this year. When I asked them to show me, they couldn't visibly demonstrate there was an issue... so I took it elsewhere. They had the part ordered, showed it to me... and didn't put it in. Because the car didn't need it. Needless to say I haven't been back to my Ford dealer since (sad, because I've bought four cars from them, and I've never had a problem with their service department until now). |
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| webestang64 | Sep 16 2016, 06:24 PM Post #21 |
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Minivan
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I about to do the rear control arms (and rear shocks/full set of brake rotors/pads as well) on my Pop's 98 GT Mustang (98xxx miles). Should be a fun project. He gets labor for beer and food. |
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