Mousendahouse
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How much life would u approximate an 1.2 engine to have. If well maintained and nothing crazy happens. Is 200k miles unrealistic?
How much life would u approximate an 1.2 engine to have. If well maintained and nothing crazy happens. Is 200k miles unrealistic?
How much life would u approximate an 1.2 engine to have. If well maintained and nothing crazy happens. Is 200k miles unrealistic?
Is 200k miles unrealistic?
How much life would u approximate an 1.2 engine to have. If well maintained and nothing crazy happens. Is 200k miles unrealistic?
A modern car if well looked after is more than capable of high miles. In my findings through my car ownership over the years, it’s the rust that the killer. If you can control the tin worm, that’s half the battle. Engines are relatively easy to look after. You just have to service regularly as already said.
Most do not look after their machine to a high quality, only doing suspension and brakes usually past when needed. MOT time is a panic time knowing that there will be things to do. It should not be like that if the car was well looked after. In saying all that, nowadays most will change cars before it really gets beyond all this. Just my findings.
Totally agree. But add change the gearbox oil every now and again I prefer 40K intervals.
That would be part of the service, this would be detailed in your service manual. This would be part of looking after a car as I said.
The owners' handbook doesn't specify changing the gearbox oil, only checking the level every 80 000km. I understand this is normal in modern cars.
I think it would be fair to assume the gearbox oil has never been changed if you've acquired an old Panda, or had servicing carried out by a garage.
My gearchange felt much better after changing the transmission oil (I'm one of those 'horses' who bought a 2004 Panda and spent money on it).
The gears often crunched changing down to third when I got it, but not any more. I suspect the oil in the 'box had been low, despite FSH.
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.
Totally agree. But add change the gearbox oil every now and again I prefer 40K intervals.
Somebody said cambelt..
Yes its a service item..
but the Traditional FIRE was safe.. so a
Belt failure wasnt the end.
Fully agree that the UK isnt likely to see the biggest miles..
A warmer..drier.. climate will mean it spends twice as long in service
My local yard was rammed full of mk2 puntos a few years ago.. probably @12 years in service