Post by: gcskate27 on July 01, 2006, 07:11:00 PM
Post by: jesterrace777 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.
Post by: Tripme on July 01, 2006, 09:46:00 PM
Post by: xboxgamer733 on July 02, 2006, 12:28:00 AM
).Aside from its too-soft suspension, it seems to run just fine.
Post by: Owtlaw333 on July 02, 2006, 01:39:00 AM
Post by: lordvader129 on July 02, 2006, 02:00:00 AM
Post by: Rylinkus on July 02, 2006, 06:05:00 AM
Post by: garver on July 02, 2006, 12:53:00 PM
Post by: yaazz on July 02, 2006, 03:42:00 PM
Post by: jesterrace777 on July 02, 2006, 11:51:00 PM
Post by: Owtlaw333 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.
Post by: lordvader129 on July 03, 2006, 12:08:00 AM
Post by: jesterrace777 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.
Post by: yaazz 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
Post by: jesterrace777 on July 04, 2006, 11:37:00 AM
Post by: thewickedjester on July 04, 2006, 06:23:00 PM
Post by: twistedsymphony on July 05, 2006, 08:44:00 AM
Heck when I was in high school the school (private) was 25 miles away from my house... You figure I drove back down there at least one or twice on the weekend to visit friends then various errands around town and you've got a lot of miles.
50 miles round trip 6.5 days a week +40 or so for errands (2 trips to the store 10 miles away) that's 365 miles a WEEK
over the course of a year that's almost 19K miles just driving to school/work and running errands.
My father sells vacation homes and lives 80 miles south of the homes/land and 50 miles north of the companie's office. Some days he'll make 2 trips from the properties back to the office... He practically lives in his car.
He bought a 2001 Audi A4 1.8T and put 80K miles on it IN A YEAR. My brother drove it for another 2 years and it had 140K when he sold it. only 3 years old...
The thing is ... they were all highway miles. You can't put that many miles on a car that fast unless they're all highway. And high way driving doesn't really tax a car like stop and go traffic in a city or off-road construction work a truck might perform.
When I worked at the Arcade we had a work truck (an old late 80s Dodge) The truck was used to move machines from the arcade up into the storage area down the street and up a hill. On occasion it would take a trip to the dump a few miles down the road or make a short trip moving some heavy piece of equipment.
The thing had LESS then 20K miles on it and it was BEAT TO SNOT it could barely break 30MPH and just about everything on it broke regularly.
The difference is the truck barely traveled as much as a mile in a week's time but that whole week it was like a slow and painful tractor pull where the truck was hauling it's weight in cargo.
To me mileage isn't really the best measure of a vehicles lifespan/quality. I don't known what you'd use instead but honestly I can stick a car in a clean room and put it on a treadmill for 1million miles performing the scheduled maintenance at half their suggested intervals and I can take another car, bolt it's wheels to the ground and let it sit and rev for years, never performing any maintence... and it's pretty easy to determine which will quit on you first.
Regardless 200K miles is great if the car is still holding up... IMO it has as much to do with the owner as it does with the manufacturer
Post by: i800phyco on July 05, 2006, 05:34:00 PM
However the body is fucked.
Edit: just saw him pull off in it and it smokes like a mother fuck.
Post by: patrick2269 on July 05, 2006, 07:22:00 PM
; I have a 2000 GC with 120k and I know a few people in my town with Jeeps 96-98 with 250,000+ miles, and the most the one guy has done on his 96 jeep was have a new water pump and the radiator rotted out.
Post by: xrambo on July 05, 2006, 11:05:00 PM
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