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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
So, out of curiousity why do you think 200K is a question mark?
I'm at about 185,000 miles, including the spring recall work, and no issues so far.
Then again, I've had "good luck" with almost all my cars, and never have been "afraid" of cars with miles, including two GM vehicles that had nearly 300,000 miles on each. I can think of 10 cars I've owned that had more than 150,000 miles on when I traded them in that were all still running when I did so. Heck I own a Mustang, Suburban, and a Scion right now that are all over 120,000 miles and one Honda that's over 210K.
One of them had a second engine, but it was installed under warranty and went another 250,000 miles with the second engine. All the others, had their original motors, transmissions and had only minor (under $1000) repairs done to them.
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Because I think that's generally beyond the design life of a modern vehicle and we will start seeing more expensive failures then the typical few hundred dollars worth of consumables. I have no idea what they will be, I don't think anyone does, but a manufacturer who's designing all non-consumable components to last >200k miles flawlessly is giving up profit margin to do so.
I'll cross 100k miles in the coming weeks on my car, like I said before, high confidence in crossing 150k miles without major incident just like many of your vehicles (unless it's an issue related to hpde/tt use). Sold my truck at 210k miles and it was starting to need more then the little maintenance items, things like timing chains and catalytic converters and hvac repairs.
Which reminds me, I need to go shore up my front bumper this weekend, it's flapping in the breeze...