Cars You've Got Over 250K Out Of

Original paint?

 

Paint doesnt matter. Your not driving the paint or putting miles on it. Or in other words if the original paint blistered off you can still ride around in the vehicle. If the original motor is knocking and blew up your not going anywhere till you fix it.

 

On a side note I know a guy that bought a late 90's ranger. Only 60,000 miles on it they told him. Started having a lot of issues after buying and I asked him how many digits the odometer had. Of course only 5. Who knows how many times that rolled over.

 

The ford 2.3L is a proven motor and will easily go 300k with maintence.

Didnt have carfax years ago but car fax gets rid of all those type problems that unicorn mentioned. You can see the years the vehicle is registered and the reported mileage each year and when its sold.

 

Had a 1982 MB 300D with 280k+ miles on it before it was wrecked. Awesome car. The thing was a tank and got 30mpg!

I currently have a 99 4Runner just about to flip 200k miles. I'd love to stick a MB diesel engine in the 4Runner. Prob get a little better than 30mpg since it's lighter than the 300D.

 

tough crowd.

 

right now my 2006 Toyota Tacoma. In the past a Vega and a Monza, both 4 cyl aluminium engines that were not supposed to last. Vega high 200,000s and the Monza went over 300,000. lots of vehicles over 100,000 miles.

 

If I remember my 300D got like 27-30mpg. I do remember it was less than the tempo I use to have before it which could get 29-32mpg on highway trips easy.

 

In this post where I mentioned unicorn I should of wrote jetjr.

 

My 1988 VW Fox had over 215K on it when we got rid of it. I'd see it around town for several years after I sold it, and the guy had over 250K.

In 2010 I hit the wall with vehicles. What I mean is that I'd been swapping cars out every three or so years. A lease on a 2007 Honda Accord ended in 2010, and I was over the mileage. Which didn't matter to me at the time as I planned to buy it. Fortunately for me my credit stunk and they would not write me a loan. Reluctantly I turned in the car, and never looked back. This completely changed my thinking on automobiles. From the time I was married until 2010, I always had a car payment. This was normal no? My thought process changed from 2010 to now. Going forward, I see no reason for me to keep changing cars. Rather I'll keep them until they will no longer operate. To that end, a month later I purchased a 2006 VW Jetta TDI. It's a solid car, and I get an average of 46.2 mpg with it. As of today it has 150K. I suspect based on the current condition which is still excellent, I'll get 300k +.

My dad has a full size Toyota truck that I use when I need a truck. Not a fan of the Toyota truck, but it's free to use. Personally I have my sites set on a Ford F-250 Powerstroke Diesel. I'll keep the car and add the truck. Again, this would be something that I'd keep for a very long time.



Jason from RI.

 

Yep. I used to fill up once a month at around 500 miles since the thing had a 20 gallon tank. In the summer I'd cut my fuel cost by adding some filtered waste veggie oil I got from a friend who worked at a bar and he'd give me the old fryer oil. 50-70/50-30 split ratio of WVO and diesel. Smelled like french fries! lol

I keep toying around with the idea of getting another 300D and use it as a grease car.

 

I do remember the 450+ mile fill ups. I also remember the 0-60 in 200 yards take off time but it sounded cool and you left some black smoke

Nothing like that low idle speed sound though when you were modeling from the diesel. And that shutter and shake as you switched it off when the motor finally stopped turning and the compression stopped it

 

Thought so. Yea you would think he would have checked into that.

 

I still can't believe Ford was only using 5 digit odometers into the late 90s knowing good and well their cars would last way longer than that!!! Like I said I had a 1985 tempo with a 2.3L that I bet was around 300k last I heard and still on original motor.

 

hmmm...

Not too many GMs on here and the ones that are have all been Chevy trucks.

 

I had a 99 Olds Alero with a 2.4L quad 4 that I drove from 33,000 to 198,000 miles. I sold it to my father in law who ran it another 30k, and he sold it to my wife's cousin who drove it until just over 248k. That's when the rear strut decided to come through the trunk. 15 years of salted roads did it in.

The engine was all original except for the spark plugs, coil pack cover (quad 4 equivalent of plug wires), a MAP sensor and serpentine belt. Never had a water pump or timing chain/tensioner put on it, which is pretty much unheard of for that engine. It ate brakes, front wheel bearings and blower motor resistors pretty quick though.

My current high mileage vehicle is an 05 Silverado, but that only has 149,000 on it.

 

'96 Olds Cutlass 3.1 ~235k (ran like a top)when I traded it for a 01 Caddy STS - made it to 135k before the head bolts let loose - Northstar age issues

No telling how many times Ole Blue's odometer has rolled, had crate at some point, rebuilt trans in my custody...

I hate driving a lot I doubt I'll ever run one over 150k before I'd change jobs or relocate.

 

1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo with the old Jeep straight 6. I changed the oil at 500 miles, 1000 miles, 3000 miles and every 3000 thereafter. I drove it in deep snow, in 20 inches of salt water while fishing on an NJ beach, submerged the back end to get a bass boat on a trailer on an unimproved launch ramp etc etc. At 263,000 miles I gave up on trying to kill it and gave it to a buddy of mine in exchange for a case of beer. It eventually met its maker when he left it at a Delaware River campground that was prone to flooding. "Smelly", as I used to call her, had been under six feet of water and there was no recovering from that. damm I loved that truck.