Best and worst over 100000 miles?

[Nacnud]

My sister-in-laws Pug 205 1.8 diesel had 255000 on the clock when she sold it. The engine was never believed to have been worked on apart from servicing. Mind you, the suspension had needed to be rebuilt several times

Apparently it's still clocking up the miles in the Preston area!

[FlamingM0]

If you're interested in Watchdog coverage of the K series, take a look at:

www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/reports/report_20031021.shtml

and

www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/reports/report_20031104.shtml

Alex, what have you been quoted as the cost of head gasket replacement on your Duratec V6? What's the age/mileage/book value of your Mondeo? Obviously this a big factor in whether it's deemed an economical repair or not...

[Podie]

Alex said:

Speaking of the Duratec V6, does ANYONE know somewhere in the South East where I can get the headgasket replaced for less than a million quid? I've got this perfectly good Mundano Estate Ghia with leather, cruise, heated seats etc. Great workhorse and towcar for the Locost. However, its book value is only about 700 quid.

You could probably get a replacement engine for less than that!!!

[5ltr-chim]

Volvos had an owner ring them up wanting to buy a new engine for his truck. They couldn't understand why.

He had done a MILLION MILES and thought it was probably worn out. They GAVE him a new one in exchange and put the old one on show somewhere.

They say the cars last 25 years - so I wonder just how far something like the T5 would go on for ?

[gary_tholl]

My 16 year old chev small block had ~400,000 k on it when I decided to rebuild it, mainly due to required tranny work, and the fact that it was starting to use a bit of oil (bad valve stem seals). My other chev small block (38 years old) was torn down once many years ago, and never really put back together, it outlasted 3 seat covers and the odo was back to 20,000 miles (only a 5 digit), so I imagine it had quite a pile on as well.

I've heard of volvo's lasting for many 100,000's of kms. I don't know that there are that many really bad engines out there anymore. Every manufacturer will have the odd bad batch, but as for design flaws, I don't know of that many.

Even the K-series, which seems to get a fair bit of flak, has been shown to be a good design, but crap aftermarket 'performance' bits can kill it easily. Yes, the HG can go, it doesn't have a large coolant capacity, requires watching. What I have heard (by no means gospel) was that it is very susceptible to balancing variations. The stock parts are balanced quite well, and many of the aftermarket cranks are so far out, they destroy the mains. Hardly Rovers fault.

Gary

[bga]

Nacnud said:

My sister-in-laws Pug 205 1.8 diesel had 255000 on the clock when she sold it. The engine was never believed to have been worked on apart from servicing. Mind you, the suspension had needed to be rebuilt several times Apparently it's still clocking up the miles in the Preston area!

My dad still uses his 205 1.8D to lug boats around, he's got 250K on it and it's done 1/2 of those miles towing 1 1/2 ton boats around the westcountry. Shame the rest of it is knackered though

[dinkel]

Honda D16A|"Tough as old boots"

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www.luk-korbmacher.de/Autos/d16a6.htm

All Honda 4s will last even when daily trashed the revs out of it. Don't ignore service . . .

[v8 racing]

absolutely no question about it bmw!! my 325 touring has just turned 300000 k and hasn't even had so much as a valve stem seal!!