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What percentage of car owners do this? There is some percentage of cars crashed in the first week. It only takes a few of these to cancel out the average of ex
by sqeaky 9y ago
What percentage of car owners do this?
There is some percentage of cars crashed in the first week. It only takes a few of these to cancel out the average of extreme outliers like your car.
For reference I have never seen an odometer with more than 200 000 on it before. Even most classic rebuilds I have seen like 69 Corvettes have some high 100K count on them, some event have reset odometers.
- nathancahill 9y agoHuh, I drive a Toyota with 205,000 miles on it. Still in great condition after tons of cross-country road trips.
- Animats 9y agoI'm up to 235,000 miles on a 1985 Ford Bronco as the original owner, but that's a 2-ton truck. High-mileage trucks aren't that unusual.
- apapli 9y agoWe had a (1988?) family Peugeot 505 station wagon that made over 600,000kms back in the day. Perhaps they don't build them like they used to, but our 1980's Honda sedan also easily clicked over 350,000kms too.
- seszett 9y agoI don't know, but if the average is 220 000 km (according to the article) I'd say a fair share of cars must go beyond that. If I had not bought my car (it was at 300 000 km) I'm pretty sure it would have been sold in Eastern Europe instead, or maybe Africa since it's a Peugeot (a 406). In the countryside, it's also very common to have both a nice recent car, and an old reliable one like mine for the dirty work. Most people I know do have one car that is a few 100 000s of km. Also, we mostly use diesel here, and these are supposed to be much more reliable than the gasoline engines used in the US (and I'm not going into the purported lack of reliability of American cars to begin with). I'm talking about everyday cars that are 15 or 20 years old, not classic cars.
- dom0 9y agoGasoline engines can be plenty reliable. I think the main reason why a lot of cars from the 80s and 90s are able to go to 400k and more is (1) cheaper and easier maintenance, so more inclined to do it regularly (2) no fancy shit going on, no turbo chargers, no high-pressure fuel injection, thus far less wear on parts, no unreliable high-pressure pumps etc. Replacement parts on these are also far more expensive. New turbo is a four-figure number just for the part. Injection pumps are bloody expensive, too. Less optimized designs may also be a factor. CAD and FEM modelling has only become better with time, so back in the day engineers would rather make a more conservative design, nowadays that's not so necessary any more.
- tyingq 9y agoAluminum heads are part of why some newer cars don't last as long. It's easier to blow a head gasket. Replacing those in a tightly packed front wheel drive engine bay often exceeds the value of the car. Or, driving with the blown gasket causes overheating that damages other components.
- xanderstrike 9y agoPoke your head in any work van or truck and you'll see 200k and up.
- photojosh 9y agoOr any taxi. My trip back from the airport last week had 440k on a Prius.
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- 72deluxe 9y agoMy 1972 VW Beetle has done 6000 miles apparently. Turns out it has gone round the clock...