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The wife's '04 Expedition now has 202K on it and runs fantastic. We're never have any trouble other than a front end rebuild at ~150K. It's never driven above 2K RPMs and 80% of our driving is highway. It currently needs sway bar link ends and the inner tie rods have a tiny bit of play but that's about it. It may need front bearing or just a rotation (slight noise). It really runs too good to replace, and at this rate I think it may indeed go 500K. I switched from 5/30w to 20/50w a while back (~100K) with half a bottle of Lucas break (zinc) and a touch of regular Lucas oil treatment every oil change just for good measure. (I like oil that sticks to things after it's shut down.) The trans shifts good, I've only towed with it once or twice. The fluids still looks good last time I checked it. (It'll get a bottle of Lucas trans treatment at 250K.) If it needs a trans on the way to 500 so be it. (We haul 1000 pounds of clay with it every two or three months.) If the water pump holds up, I'll do it at 250K also. Repairs are only the cost of parts so it would seem silly not to see how far it'll go. She doesn't mind so...

Gonna switch over to factory parts inna future too.
 
Southern car and everything still works great. By the time door handles start giving me trouble there should be some inna pick-a-part.
 
My 93 Chevy truck has 252,000 on it now and runs perfect. Pulling heavy trailers done the transmission in 5 years ago and I had Corvette internals with extra discs put in it. Other than that, it's all original. They can keep their 30, 40, $50,000 trucks. Actually I just saw a Ford with a $64,000 price tag on it! :crazy: PJ
 
My wife's 64 Camaro has 205,000 and ran great when she started letting our son drive it, now it needs a new transmission. I think it reflects on my son's ability to trash a car more than anything else. I have no idea how many miles my Cadillac has, the odometer reads 5,000 so I don't know if it has really low miles, or 105,000 or maybe even more. Same with my pick-ups.
 
Whoops, 96. I'm not sure where the 64 came from.
 
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