Comments on: Keep your car longer

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:36:18 +0000

awesome!!! i just bought a vitara suzuki..the prettiest white thing with white soft top that i loved the LOOKS of, from texas. (mom has a tracker still going strong at 165,000 miles so wanted a tracker or vitara) Its 135,000 miles was scarring me but !!!! after reading here…THANKS!!!!!!

By: redakoni

redakoni — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:27:17 +0000

I have a 94 acura vigor with over 250,000 miles on her,she still purrs like a cat.I change my oil every 3000miles and I only use synthetic oil.This will def, help your vehicle last forever.

By: sharp drum cartridge

sharp drum cartridge — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:06:30 +0000

Very interesting information. Thanks for sharing.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:54:51 +0000

I have a 98 Toyota Corrolla with 275K miles! I have always changed the oil and gotten any sound, pull, or shake checked out. Luckly I married a mechanically inclinded husband with a dad who is a mechanic! Now, anytime I sense that something is wrong I just tell my husband and he gets it fixed. The best thing you can do is to drive your car with no radio or air to get to know it “normal” noise! Then, every once in a while turn off the radio and air to check on her! Just being aware of your car as you drive makes all the difference!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:21:41 +0000

Sold an 86 Camry with 330K on it. Have a 97 Camry now with 230K on it still going strong. Keep it serviced and they keep on going. We usually drive our cars until they die. Oil is usually changed every 3K miles.

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By: micki

micki — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:12:31 +0000

my 2001 suzuki Grand Vitara has about 240,000 miles on it right now, and I did have a Plymouth minivan with almost 200,000 miles on it when I had to junk it due to a distorted frame. I do newspapers for a living, which can rack up a lot of miles in no time. When I was delivering dailies, I would have to change the oil every 3 weeks and I went thru brakes and tires a LOT! Now that I am down to 3 days a week it is better but I am hoping to get another 100,000 miles out of my little workhorse. There are a lot of people, my mechanic included who ask, wouldn’t it be better (read: cheaper) to get a new one, that way you wouldn’t have the repair bills? I have no payment on it, so the only costs that are out of the ordinary are the repairs for engine parts. Brakes, oil, tires etc are the same no matter what year or mileage the car is! So, I will keep my little suv and keep moving! (God willing, that is :)

And I agree with Collin about getting the car looked at as soon as I feel or hear a problem. Unfortunately the mechanic can’t always feel or hear the problem that I do (because he isn’t in it for 20 hours a week – used to be more). Doing this does save me from higher expenses.

Keep driving until the thing falls apart!

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By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:47:52 +0000

We drive a 1987 Jeep Cherokee with 210,000 and a 2000 Dodge Ram with 140,000. Neither one is anywhere close to giving up. The Jeep is sitting right now, getting it’s spring clean up – brakes, some minor hoses, things like that. Yes, we might spend more in maintenance than most people… but that Jeep is paid for, and insurance cost is minimal. We had the top half of the engine bored out at about 190,000, and fully expect that $200 job to get us at least another 50k miles.
Once you sit down and do the math, making the necessary repairs to a high mileage car is usually MUCH cheaper than a monthly payment. We know that eventually, it will get to the point where it’s just not worth it anymore. Then? We’ll buy another car with over 100k at low cost, and repeat the whole process all over again.
It does help that my husband does almost all of the work himself.