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I had 250k on an +20 year old Toyota pickup, though things slowly start to crap. Leaky carb diaphragms due to ethanol, harmonic balancer wearing out, corroded
by madengr 9y ago
I had 250k on an +20 year old Toyota pickup, though things slowly start to crap. Leaky carb diaphragms due to ethanol, harmonic balancer wearing out, corroded brakes lines, bad clutch cylinder, dead ignition module. Donated that after buying a new Toyota pickup. Had that for 12 years now with zero problems.
Purchased a used 2015 Nissan Leaf recently and very happy with that. We'll see how the battery holds up.
I think many will ditch their cars not due to engine wear, but for stupid reasons like their smartphone not linking to the stereo.
- icantdrive55 9y agoI think I'll be buried in my Toyota 22R truck. I plan on rebuilding the engine, but it's still going strong. Reminds me, I need to tune it up.
- wapz 9y agoI think a much better reason that people ditch their cars is the increased safety in the newer models. Very few cars had side air bags and a decent amount didn't have ABS 15 years ago. There are a lot of other improvements surely made that I don't know about. In Japan everyone junks their cars in 10 years because of the mandatory car check-ups (we pay $400-$2000 every 2 years for the check-up then have to pay every year once the car hits 10 years old). There are some exceptions and I don't know all the rules as I just own one car.
- photojosh 9y ago> for stupid reasons like their smartphone not linking to the stereo. I'm hoping to install an after-market (Pioneer) wireless CarPlay stereo in our 2009 Mazda, assuming it can wire in to the existing reversing camera. The car's just fine, but it's stupid having this double-DIN stereo with a screen that's always turned off because it's useless.