100K is not the end........

[gary s]

i have not gone 100K in a while,since i have the op to change.

my late 80's early 90's escorts have gone well over with minimal/no problems.

i will never forget my 91 escort, 4dr, man trans that towed my 2 waverunners. the trailer was wider then the car and it towed with no problem.:love:



i know members here are over 100K, you may agree w/this read

 

[Tom Schindler]

I don't have any cars in my driveway with less than 100,000 miles. In another month, I will have only one car in my driveway has less than 200,000 miles.





Tom

 

[Kevin Lang]

Is your ST not in the driveway? I thought you said that had low 100k miles on it?

 

[Tom Schindler]

Yes, my ST is in my driveway. It has 110,000 miles on it. That is why I said...

I don't have any cars in my driveway with less than 100,000 miles.

Since my Escort has 354,000 miles on it and our Explorer has 199,500+/- miles on it, I said...

In another month, I will have only one car in my driveway has less than 200,000 miles.

Follow me now?





Tom

 

[Shaun Tucker]

I dont know why, but having read Caymen's first post pretty quickly, I too interpreted it the way KL did... Nothing that Tom did/wrote to imply that, just me reading it wrong.. how weird.



Well, my ST is over 100,000 miles now (169, xxx km) and it runs as pretty as the day I bought it.

 

[Kevin Lang]

Follow me now?

I think so :grin: Thanks Shaun, I don't know how I misread that post.



You must have a more massive driveway than I, because the ST basically fills mine. If the ST was pulled all the way up against the garage, I could maybe squeeze a compact sedan/coupe in at the end. :sad:



Shoot, I have one of only 2 vehicles in my family that has over 100,000 miles...there'd be 3, but the crap Pontiac Sunfire had an electrical odometer failing which actually subtracted 100,000 miles from its readout. It's more of a "1999 CV with 20,000 miles" & "2002 RAV4 with 70,000 miles" family. :driving:

 

[EddieS'04]

My moms '01 grand marquis has 101,000 on it. Dad took good care of it, until he started feeling bad before he passed. He had just bought new tires and brake job. First brake job @ 95,0000miles...wow...I wish I could be that easy on a car...LOL



I have been servicing it While he was sick. Plugs, oil, cooling system. Now I have new senatrac shocks(shock-tober time) and new front end links, to install. I need to check the ball joints.



Mom is 80 and she said the car will probably last longer than her. It is in good condition. The worst thing in appearance is, someone keyed the pasenger side. One end to the other:angry:

 

[Bud Williams]

88 Mercury Tracer hatchback drove till it had 154K sold it to Carmax

95 Ford Windstar drove till it had 134K sold it to Wife's niece, still driving it.

04 Expedition 112K still driving it.

08 Trac 54K no problems thus far....



Can't beat Ford Motor Company these days....And NO Gov't Bailout money!

Funny how the private sector works....:supercool:

 

[Tom Schindler]

You must have a more massive driveway than I, because the ST basically fills mine. If the ST was pulled all the way up against the garage, I could maybe squeeze a compact sedan/coupe in at the end.

I have a rather small property with a small house on it. My yard is only 90' x 136', with a driveway that is something like 60' long. Not that big.





Tom

 

[Kevin Lang]

An acre here, but due to the house placement (to enlarge the back yard), the driveway is maybe 25 feet of usable length, at a 30-45 degree angle, no less.



So your driveway is basically 3x the meter of mine.



Barely even one car wide too, much to my chagrin. Oh well.

 

[Tom Schindler]

My house is 24' x 24'. Not very big. The house sits 20 feet from the street and the garage is 20 feet behind the house. Single width driveway, but a gravel area where I park the Trac. The car and the Explorer sit in the driveway.



One side of the house buts up to the neighbors driveway, but It is the "hidden" side of the house. The living room side faces the rest of the yard, so I got a place to park my trailor, a fire ring for camp fires, and lots of room for my dog to run. Works well, especially being in the middle of the city.





Tom

 

[H D]

'69 Cougar ~32,000 miles...not sure if its 132k, 232k, 332k, whatever...odometer rolls over at 99k; a rebuild is in the works, but it still ran fine until I started tearing it apart for its first ever engine rebuild.



'98 Accord V6 238,000 miles...general self maintenance and shop's work from 3 wrecks. Still ran smooth, quiet and strong when my youngest sister totaled it last month.:boohoo:



'01 Trac 85,000 miles...no problems yet:driving:



Any vehicle will last a lifetime if you know how to take care of it yourself. My '69 Cougar still ran beautifully because the two previous owners took care of it (except bad record keeping). I just started tearing it apart because an engine rebuild and the interior is all I have left to do.:banana:



fftopic:And another reason I will probably never buy a vehicle new. If you buy a well recorded, well taken care of used vehicle, you can let someone else break in the engine and take all the depreciation. Then, if you continue to take care of it, it will last you 10-15 years, at least. That allows you to pay much less money for it, get lots of use and your money out of it, while also keeping enough money in your pocket to buy more cars.:grin: Personally, I'd rather have a collection of well running used cars and no debt than have 1 or 2 brand new vehicles with $30k-$60k in debt and a depreciating asset. JMO.