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Classic Cars Project Cars--You Get to Vote on "Hold 'em or Fold 'em"
19377 messages, Last post on Dec 01, 2009 at 6:24 PM
You are in the Classic Cars Forum. Your Host is mr_shiftright
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Replying to: lemmer (Jan 20, 2009 7:11 am)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 20, 2009 7:59 am)
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Replying to: lemmer (Jan 20, 2009 8:02 am) If it were a stock, pristine 1998 M3, well that's closer to it.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 20, 2009 8:10 am) |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 19, 2009 10:29 am) 
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Replying to: bumpy (Jan 20, 2009 9:48 am)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 20, 2009 9:54 am) It's had a fairly easy life. The majority of the miles that I have put on it were up and down I-5 (at 65-75 mph). It's geared pretty tall, so the RPMs stay reasonably low.
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Replying to: oregonboy (Jan 20, 2009 11:16 am) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 20, 2009 11:23 am) One reason you don't see many 300K engines is that statistically, the car itself is likely to fall prey to some other malady or misfortune and thus won't make it to 300K because it'll be scrapped before that.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 20, 2009 11:45 am) Definitely true. Now as far as I know, my Mom & stepdad's Altima has never had the engine opened up. But it did eat the first transmission, under warranty, at 35,000 miles. And also when it was fairly new, my stepdad was in a rear-ender with it. He said he barely felt the impact, but it was enough to deploy the airbags. I think the total bill, airbags included, was around $3,000. Simply because of that long commute, they also got fairly high mileage out of some other cars. First was a 1984 Tempo that made it to around 160,000. The other was a 1986 Monte Carlo that had 179,000 on it when they gave it to me in 1998. I delivered pizzas back then, and managed to rack up another 13,000 in just three months! At 192,000 miles, I got t-boned while taking off on a delivery, and that was it for the car. Shame too, because I would have liked to have seen how far that Monte would go. It was starting to smoke just a bit when warming up, and under hard acceleration you could see it sometimes. Not blue, black, or white smoke, just sort of a dirty gray. My 2000 Intrepid is sitting on around 144,000 miles now, but because of my short commute and other cars I drive, chances are it'll never see 300K. I think it went about 6,000 miles last year, so at the rate things are going, 300K is another 26 years off!
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