kav1187 wrote:

My 56 plate 2.7 has just gone over 130,000 miles and going strong. Serviced it myself last week and seems like it's been well looked after. The only issue I've had is the common coolant sensor problem but it only comes on every now and again so it doesn't bother me.

Both my VW golf project cars have had 1.8t engines put in them with over 90k miles and they run sweet. High mileage isn't really the issue - it's how well they've been taken care of.

+1

I use an easy way: half kilometers to engine oil and filters and 3/4 km of manufacturer recomended interval for belts, water pumps and idler pulleys, no more than 75.000 km for auto trans oil and filter, 125.000 km for manual trans, 40.000 km for diffs & tranfers.

more than 20 cars at home + business over last years, all remaining ones now with more of 180.000 km without one single mechanical breakdown, encourages me to continue doing the same maintenance planning, based on manufacturer intervals wherever it applies.

i dont believe (as an engineer and lover of mechanics) in "fill for life" fluids. and now manufacturers must be "green" so they must overstrech oil change intervals to acomplish this goal. we see it in our trans fluid...

over maintenance? well, at automobile world there is no predictive maintenace as in the industry, where we use a lot of methods, from oil analisys to vibration analisys, spectrography (all so costly, but the cost of a mayor breakdown is so often measured in millions...) so, at small scale, we use the trow it away..before you must throw it the hard and costly (for your personal pocket) way.

at the end if you put the numbers on the table, the no breakdowns reality compensates the over maintenance costs by far.

as i say always:

you want the car to drive like if you have just stole it and sell it after a few years? get cheap on it, do what manufacturer says.

you want the car to last? care it. it will compesate you without doubt.

for us, our cars are our tools, take care of them and you will work relaxed and confident (and cheaper too..)

CUCO wrote:

+1

I use an easy way: half kilometers to engine oil and filters and 3/4 km of manufacturer recomended interval for belts, water pumps and idler pulleys, no more than 75.000 km for auto trans oil and filter, 125.000 km for manual trans, 40.000 km for diffs & tranfers.

more than 20 cars at home + business over last years, all remaining ones now with more of 180.000 km without one single mechanical breakdown, encourages me to continue doing the same maintenance planning, based on manufacturer intervals wherever it applies.

i dont believe (as an engineer and lover of mechanics) in "fill for life" fluids. and now manufacturers must be "green" so they must overstrech oil change intervals to acomplish this goal. we see it in our trans fluid...

over maintenance? well, at automobile world there is no predictive maintenace as in the industry, where we use a lot of methods, from oil analisys to vibration analisys, spectrography (all so costly, but the cost of a mayor breakdown is so often measured in millions...) so, at small scale, we use the trow it away..before you must throw it the hard and costly (for you) way.

at the end if you put the numbers on the table, the no breakdowns reality compensates the over maintenance costs by far.

as i say always:

you want the car to drive like if you have just stole it and sell it after a few years? get cheap on it, do what manufacturer says.

you want the car to last? care it. it will compesate you without doubt.

for us, our cars are our tools, take care of them and you will work relaxed and confident (and cheaper too..)

Exactly