max mileage of car you would take on a road trip (6 hours++) (auto, truck)
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just want to see what each person thinks/votes. 6 hours/360 miles or more road trip, where if something happens, your totally screwed.
I have personally drove cross country (3000 miles) on a car that has close to 200k, and yes, at some point i was scared that i might break down, and there is no reception, total darkness.
me personally right now, i would not drive 6 hours one way if the car had more than 175k.
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I have one car now that has 160,000 miles and wouldn't hesitate to take it on a road trip, but it's a stick shift. I have yet to make more than 140,000 on an automatic without the transmission going out, in several cases they only between 90-110,000. That's been on a Ford, Chevy, Jeep, and Toyota. All were well maintained but maybe I just have bad luck with automatics.
Depends on the car. I had a car with 220k miles that I took for an 8 hour trip without any hesitation. I have a truck right now with 130k miles that I wouldn't really want to drive further than 150 miles (though I have a few times).
I have one car now that has 160,000 miles and wouldn't hesitate to take it on a road trip, but it's a stick shift. I have yet to make more than 140,000 on an automatic without the transmission going out, in several cases they only between 90-110,000. That's been on a Ford, Chevy, Jeep, and Toyota. All were well maintained but maybe I just have bad luck with automatics.
that sounds normal. my toyota corolla auto trans failed at 125k. I have a friend that owns a transmission shop and he tells me many auto transmissions fail between 90 and 140, toyota and honda included.
You're never totally screwed. Unless your breakdown occurs on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago.
The likelihood that a friendly local will stop and help you is inversely proportional to the density of the traffic. If you break down on a country road in the Dakotas, the first guy that comes along (maybe in an hour) will tow you to their farmhouse, fix your car himself or find someone who can, and give you dinner and a place to sleep.
Now, if you break down on an Interstate or any other four-lane highway, that's a different matter. If you don't trust your car, stick to the back roads.
If your car is going to break down at that point in its life, it will break down wherever it is, and you are no better off ten miles from home.
If its a car i'm familiar with, i wouldn't sweat high miles.
I work on my own cars, and over-maintain them. If i owned a car that I felt i couldn't take for a long highway drive, i would prob get rid of it considering I sometimes travel 100+ miles each direction when commuting to our CT office.
just want to see what each person thinks/votes. 6 hours/360 miles or more road trip, where if something happens, your totally screwed.
I have personally drove cross country (3000 miles) on a car that has close to 200k, and yes, at some point i was scared that i might break down, and there is no reception, total darkness.
me personally right now, i would not drive 6 hours one way if the car had more than 175k.
Depends completely and totally on the car, and how it has been maintained.
My old Tacoma has almost 170k on it and we still drive it cross country a couple times per yr to go off roading out west.
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