bout an hour+ away from Simon, 'cept he won't give me the EXACT address cause i would be there every chance i getOriginally Posted by BTAutoMag
but seriously, i am in the southern most tip of NJ, the part where it looks like a penis pissing on Delaware.
i did the work at my friends house. no lift, and he was a certified ASC Undercar Specialist with all of his tools there. we had my truck and the donor sitting next to each other, so we popped out the driveline, pushed out the carcass, then drove in mine. pulled out the driveline, and put the new one in. it was an interesting experience, and being a ford helped, since it was literally plug and play. plus, i've talked to dealer/service people and when i tell them that i have a short bed, reg cab with a stick shift V8, they tell me it never existed. i tell them, "not from the factory"
i was going to say the same thing...Jack, wouldn't your BMW there correctly be an "estate car" in proper British-English?
Second car owned was a Saturn put like 280,000 KMs on it and after a few engine part swaps my old man is still driving it. Will have to check what the count is at now but man is it one busted ass car. He just used for back and forth to work and I doubt it will make it till next year.
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Fantastic, Jack! Those older BMW motors are absolute monsters - My M30 block (engine in the turbo E30) has over 300k on it, and when I rebuilt it to o-ring the head, the original cross hatching was clearly visible, and the block ate a few cobalt blades in the process of scribing the o-ring holes. Black Forest Iron
My GF's 2002 Saturn sedan (IDK Saturn models) is sitting at ~367000 km's - ~ 228k miles. As long as you feed it oil, it keeps running fine.
yeah, mine had the common crack in the block between 3 and 4, and took about a quart of oil a month, but otherwise, that thing would run forever. 5 speed. she took a pounding!
my mom killed a deer with it, and i totaled a buick with it. still ran like a champ. SOHC 1.8 FTW
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A hair over 200000km on my E36 sedan. I re-lined it two weeks ago with a few meters of grey suede.
Seems to all come apart at around this age (same problem on my sisters E36).
Just replaced the transmission in her...somewhere around 130K right now.
Other than the lack of power lol.
Hers is also a 5 speed, and has taught probably more than 3 girls to drive standard. It sure does take just about anything you throw at it. My GF is just hoping it can last her through school, then she's ridding herself of it.
My car is a '04 Subaru sedan with ~140000 km (guess that'd be 140Mm) and still running like a champ (as it damn well should) though I might have caused some drive line issues due to negligence (I didn't realize they need tire rotations every oil change...). Trying to sort that one out. Gonna get new tires soon.
my ranger is about to hit 250,000
Ive been cautiously watching the odometer for a couple months now
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I had a 94 Ranger thru high school and some of college until it got totaled. The odo read 79K+ but that model year went to 99,999 and rolled over so it was actually 279,000+ miles. Realistically I could have kept driving it but the insurance adjuster decided to give me $5,500 for a truck that was only worth about $3k so I took it and bought my truck I have now, 2000 f150. I have almost 190,000 miles on this one with an engine swap at 150K. Once the weather turns this spring I'm going to put my mustang back on the road as its immensely better on gas then this freaking truck but mustangs don't get around in rain let alone central Pennsylvania winters lol.
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