Camry slides past 300,000 kms

What a car.
I rewarded Her with a vacuum and windscreen clean.





Did you notice, She got faster as She passed the 300,000 km mark.

Here She is, at 300,001 kms, speeding off .........


Her name is Angel.

No big deal. They are built for 300,000 miles and then fall apart. At 180,000 they are barely broken in. Not a bad philosophy. My Cherokee (no relation to Pocahontas) has 325K Miles. Uses a quart of oil between 1500 and 1700 miles. Now that is a car. For all intents and purposes it is a station wagon. Parts are sometimes difficult to obtain.

JMWinPR wrote:No big deal. They are built for 300,000 miles and then fall apart. At 180,000 they are barely broken in. Not a bad philosophy. My Cherokee (no relation to Pocahontas) has 325K Miles. Uses a quart of oil between 1500 and 1700 miles. Now that is a car. For all intents and purposes it is a station wagon. Parts are sometimes difficult to obtain.

then your island is prime for quickslides. or the salt in its dirt wouldve eaten your underside out by now. take extra precautions near the steep hills during rain season, please. it can become another venezuala pushing everything out to sea.

JMWinPR wrote:No big deal. They are built for 300,000 miles and then fall apart. At 180,000 they are barely broken in. Not a bad philosophy. My Cherokee (no relation to Pocahontas) has 325K Miles. Uses a quart of oil between 1500 and 1700 miles. Now that is a car. For all intents and purposes it is a station wagon. Parts are sometimes difficult to obtain.

My very thoughts.

300,000km = 180,000 miles.

That's on the low side of typical. Three years ago I bought a beater Camry as an interim car...it had 260,000 miles on it (a 1996) and still started and ran well. Leaked some oil when running (I know it wasn't burning it because with a power outage I used it to power an inverter, revving the engine to 2000 rpm for hours; and the oil puddle on the driveway was impressive) but otherwise, totally fine as a driver.

I actually preferred it to modern cars. Much better feel.

Yeah, you got many years ahead of you with that one.

jirqoadai wrote:

JMWinPR wrote:No big deal. They are built for 300,000 miles and then fall apart. At 180,000 they are barely broken in. Not a bad philosophy. My Cherokee (no relation to Pocahontas) has 325K Miles. Uses a quart of oil between 1500 and 1700 miles. Now that is a car. For all intents and purposes it is a station wagon. Parts are sometimes difficult to obtain.

then your island is prime for quickslides. or the salt in its dirt wouldve eaten your underside out by now. take extra precautions near the steep hills during rain season, please. it can become another venezuala pushing everything out to sea.

Thanks,
Experience (Check Richard Saunders for his def of experience) has shown two types of hills. Mud and rock. The mud ones turn to grease after extended rain, and they do collapse with catastrophic results. I live on a rock hill (purely by accident) and am relatively secure. It is 2WD so it has never been on the beach The only rust was in the rain gutter on the driver side?? It was undercoated and it being a Jeep, it is required to go under it at least once a month and open the hood daily. As for Venezuela the bad stuff just doesn't ever seem to go away (sort of like DC)

JMWinPR wrote:No big deal. They are built for 300,000 miles and then fall apart. At 180,000 they are barely broken in. Not a bad philosophy. My Cherokee (no relation to Pocahontas) has 325K Miles. Uses a quart of oil between 1500 and 1700 miles. Now that is a car. For all intents and purposes it is a station wagon. Parts are sometimes difficult to obtain.

AMC six?

By pure accident, they designed a nearly-indestructible engine, there.

AMC wasn't known for engineering prowess; but when their aluminum six failed, big-time, in the early 1960s, they were driven to get it right. They essentially reverse-engineered the Chevrolet six; and made some improvements. Then, put it in their cars as the base engine.

Meantime, in Toledo, Kaiser-Jeep had a problem. They had designed, in-house, an overhead-cam six for the new Wagoneer and Gladiator; and it was failing, big-time. Problem, as it turned out, was just lack of development, as was later demonstrated as Kaiser kept making it in Argentina for twenty years; but the Kaiser-Jeep people in the US were ready to give it up.

They needed a six. AMC had a six. Thus was born a partnership that lather had, first, Kaiser Industries buying AMC stock; then, Henry Kaiser dying; then, his heirs needing to sell businesses to pay estate taxes; and then, Kaiser's estate using the AMC shares to force AMC to buy Kaiser Jeep.

So, the six became an in-house project. And was slowly improved, to the point where, by the time Chrysler bought it all, the six was indestructible.

We'll never see such an engine again, not made in America...

JMWinPR wrote:No big deal. They are built for 300,000 miles and then fall apart. At 180,000 they are barely broken in. Not a bad philosophy. My Cherokee (no relation to Pocahontas) has 325K Miles. Uses a quart of oil between 1500 and 1700 miles. Now that is a car. For all intents and purposes it is a station wagon. Parts are sometimes difficult to obtain.

Pocahontas was probably not Cherokee, but of the Powhatan tribe, according to sources.

FYI.

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JMWinPR wrote:... I actually preferred it to modern cars.  Much better feel.

Yeah, you got many years ahead of you with that one.

I agree.

Speaking of old cars...

By pure accident, I found there's a Chevrolet "Nova" for sale in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. A 1988. Now, I used quotation marks, because in those years, the Nova was a Toyota Corolla manufactured in Fremont, California in a plant jointly owned by GM and Toyota.

The hardware was all Toyota. Chevrolet took on the marketing, trying to sell it as one of their cars. Actually, it was not a success - neither Chevy dealers nor Chevy buyers thought it was a Chevrolet. The same years Toyota Corolla was a popular, high-volume seller that lasted.

This one has 8000 miles on it...that's right, just a few. Apparently the buyer developed medical problems shortly after buying it; put it in his garage, and now he's dead. The estate is selling it, for $4500.

I'm tempted. It's probably worth every penny, but I am REALLY strapped for cash. I keep thinking I need an economical car - my Toyota pickup gets 14 miles a gallon - but then, I'm not driving much at this point. I have both motorcycles and a bicycle and I can walk across our city, easily.

But the evil thought remains.