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My first car was a '96 Chevy Lumina 3.1 L, that had around 144K on it. I made it to 186K before blowing the transmission out. Bear in mind, I tended to drive the car hard frequently, and it went through a good deal of not-so-easy driving before I owned it. So, the trans probably would have made it beyond 200K if it was driven more gently
Overall, it was a champ of a car while I had it, and the engine still ran great. A friend of mine also used to drive around an '89 Ford Escort that still ran/drove like a champ with 238K on it. He eventually got rid of it to get a bigger/more comfortable car.
So all you Toyota, Honda and Nissan owners that claim you have 250K on your supposed American built car... Um sorry bro. This Ford van ate your lunch.
And dinner.
Look at all of the stuff that's been replaced on it, they could have bought a whole new van. Anything will go a million miles if you're constantly rebuilding it.
Bought a 2000 Focus sedan with the intention of trading it in after five or six years but it just kept running. Have treated it badly by running up and down jeep trails in Northern AZ and the Sierra Nevada in CA. The price for that - four new window regulators, new struts, and a motor mount. Even got stuck in sand up to the doors once, but a garden trowel in the trunk saved the day.
Almost everything is still original but I will probably R&R the serpentine belt and vc gasket soon. Maybe the radiator hoses, too. She still purrs on the Interstate after 184K hard miles.
My mom bought a new Jeep Grand Cherokee in 1995 and it lasted 272,000 miles without a single major mechanical failure. She drove it for 10 years, my step-dad for four years then I had it as an 'extra/weekend' vehicle for four years. I finally sold it in 2013 because it started having electrical issues that I didn't want to deal with. My mechanic was amazed that the original transmission had survived past 150k, much less 250k miles. But it was a great vehicle.
She had a 2003 Explorer after that and sold it to my sister in 2007. My sister drove it until June 2015 when she hit a deer and totaled it with 260k miles on it! It also had no major mechanical issues.
But the 2007 Explorer that my mom got after the 2003 was a total piece of junk! It was on life support by 138,000 miles and we dumped it.
Most people that swear by Japanese cars haven't owned an American car since their '85 Cavalier (or something else that was really junk), and then compare that to their brand new '15 Accord. Naturally, the brand new Accord stacks up far better in their mind.
A coworker has a 2015 Accord that he has owned for six months. Last night, I pulled into the parking garage to see him standing by his car with the hood up. Apparently, the six month old Accord had lost its serpentine belt on his way into work and had overheated. He was waiting for a tow truck to take it to a dealer to have the belt replaced. Now, I'm not going to say anything about Japanese quality, but the original belt on my 03 F150 lasted 11 years before my brother-in-law suggested I replace it.
I should add that my BIL and I replaced the serpentine belt and idler arm on the F150 in about 30 minutes. As for the 2015 Accord, my coworker is still waiting for his car because in order to replace the belt, they have to remove the engine first.
A coworker has a 2015 Accord that he has owned for six months. Last night, I pulled into the parking garage to see him standing by his car with the hood up. Apparently, the six month old Accord had lost its serpentine belt on his way into work and had overheated. He was waiting for a tow truck to take it to a dealer to have the belt replaced. Now, I'm not going to say anything about Japanese quality, but the original belt on my 03 F150 lasted 11 years before my brother-in-law suggested I replace it.
I should add that my BIL and I replaced the serpentine belt and idler arm on the F150 in about 30 minutes. As for the 2015 Accord, my coworker is still waiting for his car because in order to replace the belt, they have to remove the engine first.
Gotta love that foreign engineering.
Exaggerating a little? I don't think it's a "Foreign" engineering problem, just a badly manufactured belt that broke.
Maybe he should install a Gates belt next time as those last forever.
A coworker has a 2015 Accord that he has owned for six months. Last night, I pulled into the parking garage to see him standing by his car with the hood up. Apparently, the six month old Accord had lost its serpentine belt on his way into work and had overheated. He was waiting for a tow truck to take it to a dealer to have the belt replaced. Now, I'm not going to say anything about Japanese quality, but the original belt on my 03 F150 lasted 11 years before my brother-in-law suggested I replace it.
I should add that my BIL and I replaced the serpentine belt and idler arm on the F150 in about 30 minutes. As for the 2015 Accord, my coworker is still waiting for his car because in order to replace the belt, they have to remove the engine first.
Gotta love that foreign engineering.
I guarantee that American Built Honda is using the same brand serpentine belt that many of our domestic counterparts are. Sounds like a defective piece rather than an engineering problem. That's like blaming a defective tire or battery on the car manufacturer and not on the part manufacturer.
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