Bonkey dollocks
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Flicking back through this thread, a few things spring to mind.
People seem obcessed with the specific mileage being the main indicator of an engine’s longevity but this really isn’t the case, it’s worth noting that “motorway miles” play an important role, if a car sits in traffic barely moving all its life then it is going to sustain potentially much more wear at say 100,000 miles than an engine that has done 200k, this is why many machines and equipment with internal combustion engines has an hr meter so you can easily see the amount of use an engine has had.
If you where to drive up and down the country all day every day you would quickly be able to rack up 200,000 miles, maybe in a few short years.
The flip side of this is 90 year old dorris who only uses her car to go to the shop 1 mile down the road every 2 weeks.... which car out of these two do you think will make it to 200k miles ?
This brings me to my next point, engines of all manufacturers are fairly solid and reliable, it’s rarely the engine that sees a Car going to the scrap yard, maybe the perception of a worn engine especially as the car gets older, the thing being if a car does 15,000 miles a year (going over the average) it’s going to take over 13 years to get to 200,000 miles, by which time a car that is 13 years old with 200k on the clock is largely worthless especially a fiat, so when something goes wrong like it needs new shocks and springs which could need doing several time’s with that sort of distance, they owner is going to weigh up whether or not to pay £1000 for some work to be done on a car worth a couple of hundred quid v buy another Car. Then factor in the rust that a 13 year old car will have expecially after 13 higher milage winters, more washed etc it’s likely it’s not worth keeping the car.
So it’s not the milage on the dash that decides how long the car will last, 99% of the time it’s the car and the condition and maintenances of the car that puts the nails in the coffin.
Yes any car ‘engine’ should be able to manage 200,000 miles but that doesn’t mean the car will last as well.
Why especially a fiat worthless at 200k?