18 Oct
2012
18 Oct
'12
12:56 p.m.
On 10/17/2012 10:55 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/17/2012 09:48 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
You don't have many American cars over there, I guess. :-/ People
over here are well-trained to thinkt hat 80K is "high mileage", and you
know what happens then..."if it's old, it's bad, and if it's not new,
it's old". Next, a happy salesman!
I *am* in the US - just in the middle of nowhere, so it's at least a couple
of hours to civilization in any direction and the miles pile up fast. The
low population density and lack of any kind of mandatory vehicle inspection
means that there's an awful lot of old iron on the roads that would have
been sent to the junkyard years ago elsewhere.
300k seems to be about the magic number of miles where major failures that
can't be fixed with a few cheap parts and/or spit and baling wire occur :-)
It's not so common to see vehicles over that number.
A bigger
problem is my car has 167000 miles on it
Another 19,000 for one light-second and 71,900 until you've reached the
moon, then.
I've got around 250,000 on the car, 175,000 on the van, and no idea
about the truck as that only shows 5 digits. Nobody starts worrying
about mileage around here until a vehicle gets to 300k. (who just yesterday purchased a Saab with 130K
miles on it!)
What model? I think the only Saab's I've seen in the US are more recent
ones (I'm sure some of the '80s ones made it over here too, not so sure
about anything earlier)
cheers
Jules