[The Boss]

It took 10 years, but yesterday I finally turned 200k on my 2000 Super Duty. This is the most mileage I've ever had on any vehicle, and although he's got some scars on him and is beginning to show his age, he's never failed to do anything I've ever asked of him.

I've been toying with the idea of replacing it, just ignore the items that need to be fixed and sell it off to somebody else, but there isn't a vehicle I've ever owned that I have felt more comfortable in. So off for body and paint, ball joints, brakes & tires - oh & I'll finally fix that front pinion too.

[Rob B]

I had an 88 C1500 Truck that I put 215,000 before I bought my present truck in 03. Still was able to get $1300 out of it with the cab corners going and the bed sides (typical). My 03 is now up to 123,000 and still going strong.

[73LeMans]

Just flipped 199K this morning in my 02 Mustang. This pic was taken two weeks ago. I'll second everything you said about your truck about my 'Stang. Never had a car this far in, and it still runs great. I too toy with getting a new one, but not sure I need to!

[Jack Peters]

Just turned 250K on my 89 S-15 Jimmy yesterday. I have put less than $2K into this truck since 1989. Just maintenance. Wife wants to know when I am going to buy a newer one. I told her 'when this one dies'.

[Keith Seymore]

I'm at 186,000; shootin' fer 200K!

K

[David Jones]

I've just passed 120,000 on my Tundra. I completely love this truck and it looks and acts brand new. I wouldn't even be considering replacing it but my 15 year old wants it when he turns 16 next year. I could buy him something else but this ones paid for and my company will sell it to me for $5000 and then the company will buy me a new one soooooooo.......off it goes to Daniel and the ravages of a 16 year old boy driver. I will try to find a very low mileage (20,000 miles or so) 2006 Tundra Double Cab to replace it with if I can. It's the right size and an amazingly competent vehicle.

[Old Blue 66]

I bought my Volvo S60 2.4t two years ago with the hopes of pushing it to 200K. I bought it at 62k. After nickel and dimming me to death (it all started when it hit 100K) the repairs far exceeded the cars value. The last straw was the ABS module and its ability to leak brake fluid a at cost of $900 just for the part. Then we found the rack leaking in two places. Neither of which I replaced. It was time to let it go at just 120K. Too bad as I really liked that car. Never buy a Volvo again.

I just replaced it with a new one of these. I'm sure this will make it to 200K.

[Guilty]

My 2005 Kenworth is reading 997,410 on the odometer, but it actually has 6,000 more miles on it according to the readout from the ECM!!!! Still gets the job done and doesn't really look that bad either!!

[Lightfoot]

Boss, it only took you ten years? lol
73LeMans, great work keeping that 'stang looking fresh. Shoot for 250K.

My '90 LeSabre Limited has entered the 200K zone recently. Odometer shows 205K, but I got that from a salvage yard when the original speedo cluster had been working only part time for the first year I owned it. The replacement cluster showed approximately 5,000 more miles than the original. No telling how many miles were 'lost' before I aquired the car, but I can now be assured that the actual mileage is over 200K.

Thumbs Up to everyone here keeping their vehicle going so that it owes them nothing.

[67 Lamnas]

Originally Posted by The Boss

It took 10 years, but yesterday I finally turned 200k on my 2000 Super Duty. This is the most mileage I've ever had on any vehicle, and although he's got some scars on him and is beginning to show his age, he's never failed to do anything I've ever asked of him.

I've been toying with the idea of replacing it, just ignore the items that need to be fixed and sell it off to somebody else, but there isn't a vehicle I've ever owned that I have felt more comfortable in. So off for body and paint, ball joints, brakes & tires - oh & I'll finally fix that front pinion too.

Gotta love those Caterpillar oil actuated fuel injectors!!

Originally Posted by Old Blue 66

I bought my Volvo S60 2.4t two years ago with the hopes of pushing it to 200K. I bought it at 62k. After nickel and dimming me to death (it all started when it hit 100K) the repairs far exceeded the cars value. The last straw was the ABS module and its ability to leak brake fluid a at cost of $900 just for the part. Then we found the rack leaking in two places. Neither of which I replaced. It was time to let it go at just 120K. Too bad as I really liked that car. Never buy a Volvo again.

I just replaced it with a new one of these. I'm sure this will make it to 200K.

I'm not surprised about your Volvo......I worked in the service dept of a Toyota/Volvo (weird combination, huh?) for a few years.....sometimes the water pump on the new B230F engines was already leaking during pre-delivery inspection.......and then, those POS ZF transmissions!!...and front brake pads metal-to-metal in 12,000 miles!...I could go on......

What junk!

[gary bennett]

bought new, 89 f-150, w/ 351 stll have it with 389,000.

[Stuart]

200,000 miles is the new 100,000 miles. When I was a kid it was like a minor miracle if a car lasted for 100k, nowadays it seems the vast majority of them can go at least 200k without major issues.

[carbking]

Originally Posted by Stuart

200,000 miles is the new 100,000 miles. When I was a kid it was like a minor miracle if a car lasted for 100k, nowadays it seems the vast majority of them can go at least 200k without major issues.

HOW OLD ARE YOU???

My parents never traded in a car in the 1950's with less than 100K; most more, and a 1952 pickup truck made it almost 300K.

My best to date is a 1979 Ford van that went 440K before it rusted out (Missouri winter salt and cinders) the third time!


The newer vehicles MIGHT do that mechanically, but the *&^%$ electronics won't!

Jon.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by carbking

HOW OLD ARE YOU???

My parents never traded in a car in the 1950's with less than 100K; most more, and a 1952 pickup truck made it almost 300K.

My best to date is a 1979 Ford van that went 440K before it rusted out (Missouri winter salt and cinders) the third time!

Jon.

You think you had it bad, people in Minnesota go to Missouri looking for rust free cars. It wasn't so much that the mechanicals wore out, it was the bodies - when I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s it wasn't uncommon to see cars that were only a couple years old that already had major rust holes. It really wasn't until the 1980s that the auto manufacturers got a handle on corrosion resistance.

[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by carbking

HOW OLD ARE YOU???

My parents never traded in a car in the 1950's with less than 100K; most more, and a 1952 pickup truck made it almost 300K.

My best to date is a 1979 Ford van that went 440K before it rusted out (Missouri winter salt and cinders) the third time!


The newer vehicles MIGHT do that mechanically, but the *&^%$ electronics won't!

Jon.

Yea, but back in the 1950s you were usually overhauling the engine around 50-70K miles.

[bossbirdta]

i got 508,000 form an 87 Ford Ranger 2.9 Liter V6. just got rid of the truck last January. i doubt i'll ever get anything close to that again.....

Thanks Ford!!!!!

[mechanickeith]

Last august, my daily driver 61 Tempest 2dr cp turn'd 500K!!!!! You all are rookies!!!!!!!

[mike nixon]

Originally Posted by mechanickeith

Last august, my daily driver 61 Tempest 2dr cp turn'd 500K!!!!! You all are rookies!!!!!!!

My 88 Cougar did that a few yrs ago.

Right now most of what we drive is over 200k.

I tend to sell the lower mileage ones.

Mike

[Hillard]

I had a 93 Bonneville SSE that had 205K when I totalled it. I was really going to see how many miles I could put on it. Was looking for 300K+. My current 02 SSEI has 140K...we'll see how many I can get out of it. Every car I've ever owned had over 100K when I bought it except for the 93 which had 59K.

[The Boss]

Cool - love the stories.

73lemans very cool Stang!