Topic: 200k Miles On American Car (Read 174 times)

gcskate27 · « **on:** July 01, 2006, 07:11:00 PM »

200k isnt that impressive, least of all for a 24 year old car...

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 01, 2006, 07:32:00 PM »

QUOTE(garver @ Jul 2 2006, 02:12 AM)

Just rolled over 200k on my 82 chevy truck with a 350 this thing is a tank.
who says american cars dont last long

Older Chevy trucks are pretty solid. Of course then again we have to differentiate between cars and trucks. As a whole though, Imports tend to be more reliable when it comes to basic transportation vehicles (ie economy cars). That isn't to say that there aren't some very solid American cars out there.

Tripme · « **Reply #2 on:** July 01, 2006, 09:46:00 PM »

My girlfriends uncle gave her a a 97' ford ranger. That thing just rolled over 200000 miles and its just keeps on going. Im pretty impressed considering its a ford.

xboxgamer733 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2006, 12:28:00 AM »

My 1981 Chevy Citation is nearly at 270,000 miles (269,041 to be exact

).

Aside from its too-soft suspension, it seems to run just fine.

Owtlaw333 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2006, 01:39:00 AM »

Aside from the ranger, all the cars mentioned are barely averaging over 10k a year, so I too am not impressed. I wanna see more people with over 250k on '96 or earlier cars (w/o problems). That would be a lil more impressive.

lordvader129 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2006, 02:00:00 AM »

my moms 96 explorer has over 350k, they had to replace the trans last year though

Rylinkus · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2006, 06:05:00 AM »

My Uncle has my grandfathers 76 Ford Bronce with 313K on it now. And back in the day I had an 86 Cavalier Sedan that I sold @ 213K and I know it was on the road for at least 2-3 more years.

garver · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2006, 12:53:00 PM »

The only things done to the car was installing a tow package.(my camaro gets crappy gas mileage so i cant drive it to races), changes fluids, and filters

yaazz · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2006, 03:42:00 PM »

we had a big ford diesel that had 918,000 km on it when we sold it, its still running too i saw it the other day

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2006, 11:51:00 PM »

Really? Was it manufactured in Canada?

Owtlaw333 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2006, 11:59:00 PM »

QUOTE(mike96sc2 @ Jul 2 2006, 08:51 AM)

I'm missing the point here, if we all owned newer cars and drove an ungodly huge amount that would be impressive? I found a 2003 Z3 Roadster here with 110k on it I wasn't impressed, I was thinking more, where the hell did you take a Z3 that much in that amount of time, when the average person puts 12k on a vehicle a year tops I would say any 200k+ mileage car is impressive, regardless of when the miles were put on.

I hardly think 12k/yr on a vehicle is average. Especially for someone that only owns one vehicle. I'd say 12k is conservative. I hardly drive at all and at the rate I'm going now I'll be averaging 15-18k/yr. I drive to work/school and back, plus some trips 30min down the freeway and back every other week or so. (So roughly 320miles/wk. give or take a few) And alot of people drive a lot further to work than I do.

Yes 110k on a '03 is a lot, but I think you are missing the point. Nobody is impressed by the mere fact that someone drives an insane amount of miles a year... it's that a car is still running without any major problems along the way.

lordvader129 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 03, 2006, 12:08:00 AM »

yeah, 12k is pretty low, how many people actually run out there cars warranty in years instead of miles?

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 03, 2006, 07:12:00 PM »

QUOTE(Owtlaw333 @ Jul 3 2006, 07:06 AM)

I hardly think 12k/yr on a vehicle is average. Especially for someone that only owns one vehicle. I'd say 12k is conservative. I hardly drive at all and at the rate I'm going now I'll be averaging 15-18k/yr. I drive to work/school and back, plus some trips 30min down the freeway and back every other week or so. (So roughly 320miles/wk. give or take a few) And alot of people drive a lot further to work than I do.

Yes 110k on a '03 is a lot, but I think you are missing the point. Nobody is impressed by the mere fact that someone drives an insane amount of miles a year... it's that a car is still running without any major problems along the way.

It also depends on where you live. Those who live in the Western US tend to put on more mileage as things are more spread out.

yaazz · « **Reply #13 on:** July 03, 2006, 08:15:00 PM »

QUOTE(jesterrace777 @ Jul 3 2006, 02:58 AM)

Really? Was it manufactured in Canada?

umm I would imagine it might have been, but were pretty much as lazy and underpreforming as americans, so im sure it was just as shoddily built

jesterrace777 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2006, 11:37:00 AM »

Can't call something with 400-500K miles on it shodily built.

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