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I have had the best luck with Toyota. Worst car I've ever owned was an MG midget. Maintaining your car is very important. Like they say. "Take care of your car and your car will take care of you".
Mechanics I've talked to love their Chevy Pick ups. Their reason? Parts are always easy to get and they're easy to repair, unlike Ford.
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Worst car I've ever owned was an MG midget. Maintaining your car is very important.
Haha. I had one of those as well. Learned how to rebuild an engine by rebuilding my Midget's twice. Plus I loved the fact that it ran hot all the time and the headlights dimmed in rhythm whenever the stereo played a bass note.
I had a 98 Dodge Caravan with 229,000 mi. Only went to the garage for new brakes. That thing was a monster. I ended up selling it to a neighbor for a song because he needed reliable transportation and he had little money. That was 9 years ago and it is still his daily driver. I might buy it back off of him. It might be immortal.
I have had the best luck with Toyota. Worst car I've ever owned was an MG midget. Maintaining your car is very important. Like they say. "Take care of your car and your car will take care of you".
Mechanics I've talked to love their Chevy Pick ups. Their reason? Parts are always easy to get and they're easy to repair, unlike Ford.
The parts are easy to get because most of them die, so they strip them down for parts. I don't own a ford truck but there largely considered the best built.
Everybody keeps telling me not to buy an American made used car (trucks are a different story, as american trucks tend to be very reliable). It seems like American cars get to about 100k miles and start to have major problems, especially transmission issues. I rarely see used american model cars for sale with 200k miles, also. However, you see alot of Toyota and Honda and other foreign cars with that type of mileage all the time.
My Toyota has well over 100,000 miles, but it was made in Fremont, California. Does it still count?
My Dodge has well under 100,000 miles but has given me some trouble. It was made in Mexico.
Wife's '07 Cadillac DTS has approx 100k with only 1 repair (power steering hose). We still drive it every day.
My '09 Harley as 13,000 miles on it and I've only had to replace both tires, battery (twice), and front & rear brake pads.
My '02 MB ML320 had about 140k on it when I got ride of it in '12, and I had lots of issues with the ABS system, Spent about $6 k replacing parts in the last 3 or 4 years I had. That will be my last German car
No, not for domestic or foreign. Myself and everybody I've known who have kept cars past 100K, has had major repairs before 200K.
Maintenance is important. But in my experience, the parts that fail are the ones you cannot maintain - starter, alternator, ignition coil, power steering pump, head gasket, water pump, intake and exhaust manifold, clutch.
My daily driver is a 1986 Ford with close to 200k (I bought it in 2003 with low miles)
I put 9–12k/yr on it and regularly drive it out of state. Vacationed 8 hours away with it this summer. Everything works except the AC, and only because I don't care enough to get the leak fixed in the system. Worked fine until I got tired of topping off a system I don't use.
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Had a 86 Escort GT that went 175K with a timing belt/water pump replacement at 120K, I guess I was supposed to do that at 60K and then I dropped a junkyard motor in it, replaced the original clutch at the same time cuz I did have the motor out, then put another 40K on it before swapping it off for a 95 Escort that gave me 133K trouble free miles.
PS-cooling system trouble can be held off by regular coolant changes. When coolant goes bad it can act as an electrolyte and set up a "battery" between the dissimlar metals of the iron black and aluminum head, which eats the copper out of the head gasket.
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and then I dropped a junkyard motor in it, replaced the original clutch at the same time cuz I did have the motor out, then put another 40K on it before swapping it off for a 95 Escort that gave me 133K trouble free miles.
