Post those >100,000mi vehicles

[Poppy]

Yeah, I'm retired and it's just me and the wife. Most everything we need and enjoy is right here in town. It's about 15 miles round trip to Walmart and back. And about the same to the gun club, so we just don't rack up many miles.

To be honest we need 3 cars like we need Covid. But I bought the truck new 32 years ago, (1991). And I wouldn't get much of anything if I sold it. Plus, it comes in handy for picking up big, cumbersome stuff. So it's still worth a lot more to me than the few bucks I would get by selling it.

The worst think about it is the fuel mileage. It get about 10 in town. And in the Summer I have to run premium, or else it knocks like crazy. But because it gets driven so little, it's not too much of an issue.

Yeah, we had a 1996 Bronco, and then a 1990 Bronco. We're in the salt belt, NE and when the oil pan rotted out, gas prices were over $3 a gallon, and she went to the graveyard. Although my son bought a replacement oil pan for her, when we looked at all of the rusted bolts that needed to be removed (because you need to lift the front of the engine to get the pan in and out), we figured that there were going to be too many nightmares, with studs snapping, that we decided to send her to her final resting place. She got 12 MPG when I drove her, and about 8 MPG when my son drove her.

 

[BrightestBulb]

I bought a friends 2003 Astro Van with the 4.3l. Had minimal problems with it. Always changed the oil around 6K with Mobile 1 Syn. I forget exactly what went in the motor but it was like 3K to fix it. At that point it had 347K on the clock and owed me nothing.

Currently I have a 2010 Kia Rondo with 140K on the clock. It still runs great so I will drive it til the wheels fall off. I'm retired and cars are crazy expensive now, especially new.

 

[run4jc]

2013 Camry XLE Hybrid - 208,000 and going strong
2013 Prius V - 138,000 and going strong
My 'newest' ride - 2004 Land Cruiser - 263,000 and going strong!

 

[Fuzzywuzzies]

What a neat thread - great to see so many folks looking after their vehicles.
I've never owned a new vehicle until I sold my work van and bought an Isuzu truck. I got great coin for the van, we'd saved up enough, and it made sense to buy new with the truck due to the massive amount of customising on the body. Did it all myself (with a little bit of help from my friends, as the saying goes) - barely run in at 30,000km so far, and a lovely workhorse.

The van had 600,000km on it when I sold her, with the original engine still purring. Kinda cheating as it's a semi-commercial vehicle, but still unheard-of for this model. I maintained it myself - thoroughly and meticulously - and it served me excellently in return, saving my life on several occasions.

Over here 200,000kms is considered the magic number to avoid, but there are higher arbitrary 'thresholds' for bigger commercial vehicles, some of which 'go round the clock' several times, i.e. several million kms.
The key is that engines and mechanical things work best in constant operation with good preventative maintenance schedules in place. Some of the big rigs literally never turn off until service time - weeks at a time 24/7 with rotating shifts for the drivers hauling freight, doing tens of thousands of kms.

Look after your gear and it'll look after you.

 

[Brokenarrow]

 

[turbodog]

Get that oil checked by a lab... will let you know if you're changing too frequently or not often enough. Generally speaking it's too often.

But don't neglect those transmissions, transfer cases, and rear ends. Had a father, stepfather, and grandfather that changed engine oil every 3k, but literally never changed transmission/rear end.

 

[pnwoutdoors]

Get that oil checked by a lab... will let you know if you're changing too frequently or not often enough. Generally speaking it's too often.

But don't neglect those transmissions, transfer cases, and rear ends. Had a father, stepfather, and grandfather that changed engine oil every 3k, but literally never changed transmission/rear end.

^ This.

"Lifetime" gear oil -- never has been, never will be. Despite what the manufacturers' guidance indicates in the car owners manuals.

 

[Poppy]

This one will have some stories to tell.

 

[Poppy]

 

[boo5ted]

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Is that a Ford?

 

[Poppy]

Is that a Ford?

Yes sir! 2008 Mercury Grand Marquis, with a 4.6 in her.
My mechanic says it is a half a million mile engine and drive chain.

 

[RWT1405]

My 2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with over 165,000 miles and my 2004 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon

I am looking to finally replace my 11 y/o Unlimited with possibly a Jeep Gladiator, thinking that might be interesting to try!

They can take all of those EV's and flush them!

I'd be happy to have any EV owner/s join me sometime, and follow me in my 2004 Rubicon, let's see what those EV's can REALLY do!

LMOA!

 

[BigDeeeeeeee]

 

[Poppy]

I gave my Grand Marquis to my grandson it probably has about 295,000 miles on her by now.
She's a 2008, runs like a top, and has no rust.
We moved her to Arizona, where she'll get dust covered, but no rust.
Hopefully she'll carry him through four years of college.

 

[PaladinNO]

My 2008 VW Caddy just passed 160.000 Km / 100.000 miles.
I don't have an updated image of the dash on hand, only this one from 3 years ago (September 2021).
...And the distance was not the point at the time. ^^

 

[Poppy]

My 2008 VW Caddy just passed 160.000 Km / 100.000 miles.
I don't have an updated image of the dash on hand, only this one from 3 years ago (September 2021).
...And the distance was not the point at the time. ^^

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OMG I hope you have a block heater in that baby!

 

[PaladinNO]

OMG I hope you have a block heater in that baby!

Of course! It would not be possible to even start the car without it. And it's a diesel too (my first and last!), so even with a block heater...if it's colder than -30°C when starting, there is no point in even trying. I live higher up in the mountains (715 meter above sea level), where it's a bit warmer, and the picture is taken further down during my commute, where the road is parallel to a river in a tight valley. Pretty much a worst case scenario when it's cold.

The engine was occasionally audibly spluttering while driving at that temperature, and I held it at 1500 RPM while taking that picture. Normal idle is 900 RPM, but it sounded like the engine wanted to stop at any time if I took my foot fully off the throttle. Steering felt stiff and sluggish, and the gearbox was like shifting gears in a fruit cake. Even the LCD was more like SCD - Slush Crystal Display. There was nothing "liquid" about it at all.

I turned around and drove back home moments after, and told the supervisor that there is no way I am risking my car to get to work today.
He said that was completely fine, and that he was home that day too for the same reason.

But colder than -30°C is unusual. -20-25°C is normal for several weeks of the winter (which lasts about 6 months), but any colder than that is an exception. Coldest I've ever seen on the dashboard while driving was in the same area, but I don't have a picture of it (I didn't dare stop at the time): the temp was -41,5°C.

Some of the cold winter mornings are really...serene, for lack of a better word. The ONLY noise you hear is your own breathing, or from your own footsteps in the cold snow. No cars, no birds, no wind...nothing at all. It is so nice!

WELCOME TO NORWAY!

 

[pnwoutdoors]

Of course! It would not be possible to even start the car without it. And it's a diesel too (my first and last!), so even with a block heater...if it's colder than -30°C when starting, there is no point in even trying. I live higher up in the mountains ...

Where I live (in the USA) it gets below 0°F a handful of days, sometimes longer, over the typical winter. Has been as low as -20°F for a few days, but that is rare. On my vehicle there isn't a heater on the engine block, so on those days I find another way.

Love the days of snowy silence, though, when it gets so very cold. There's a real beauty to that, when Mother Nature decides to "pull out the stops." Have been skiing on a few occasions when it got to near 0°F. Not a lot of people out. Sounds deadened, so (as you say) about the only thing heard is the breathing and the crunch of the snow.

 

[Brokenarrow]

Designated fishing vehicle............

 

[Poppy]

My Dad was a tractor trailer driver. Sometimes in the winter they would chain his tractor to the yard jockey and pull it to jump start it. Sometimes they'd light a fire under the oil pan.

It's my understanding that Hitler's tanks weren't greased and oiled with the right stuff, and that wrecked havoc on his equipment when winter came in Russia.