250k on the F150

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Hit 250k today on the ol 2012 3.7 F150, absolutely great truck. Ive put 98k since buying 4-1/2 years ago. Lets see your high mileage vehicles.

5-6k ocis, coolant, trans every 30-40k, spark plugs twice, one water pump, nothing major

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I've got 253k on my '95 but I can't show you cause the odometer says 383k. The odometer stopped and I swapped it out with a junkyard cluster to see if mine was the problem and it was. Haven't felt like paying $250 to fix mine so I've left it as is
 
I'm a firm believer that (apart from a few years of 5.0 that were better than the others), the duratec 3.7, 3.5, 3.3 are the best engines in those trucks for longevitiy!

Friend of mine had a 3.3 with the 10 speed and 3.73 gears that would leave my F-350 with the 5.4 in the dust towing!
 
Love high mileage stories! Made it 289,000 miles in a Honda Accord once (but that took a ton of work). I own a 2008 CRV with 192,000 miles. And my daily driver (2016 Toyota Avalon) now has 145,000 miles and it quite honestly drives like it is brand new, not one single out of pocket repair. Meanwhile while my Mercedes has something go wrong every other week, right now it’s the EIS module, won’t start, costs a small fortune for a little poorly built unreliable ignition switch.
 
As primarily a Euro car driver, these types of mileage posts always leave my chin hitting the floor. I think it's fantastic and very jealous when I see what other cars can do.

The Altima my family purchased as a kid in 90s that I just recently disposed of (thirty years later), had 150k on it. That's the highest mileage I've seen.

My Saab has 118k and I have a Volvo just short of 103k. The other cars are too low in miles to mention.
 
As a lot of folks know here that how you care for a vehicle is a very large part of longevity. Some people will run even the most reliable cars into an early grave because they just beat them to death.

I had an E30 BMW that I sold at 330K miles on it's original trans and motor - and everything in the car worked as well as it drove well. I had definitely had a few things replaced by that point though., lol. I've had a few other cars I took to pretty high mileage too, but I'm pretty easy on cars in general. One thing I've noticed with even the best vehicles is that once you pass around 250K miles things start really going south as you're rapidly approaching the useful lifespan end of many parts, no matter how easy you are on the vehicle. Whether you want to keep replacing those things becomes the big question..;)
 
The Cyclone engine series (3.3, 3.5, 3.7) Fords are great engines in the longitudinal n/a form. Reasonable power and reliability; just what you want in a truck.
500k miles is certainly a goal that could be achieved.
 
Currently have 5 vehicles in the family fleet. Only one is under 100K miles. The rest are , 108K, 159K, 178K, and a 2006 Honda pilot with 263K. All but the lowest mileage has been pretty much trouble free.
 
My '07 4.6 2V is at ~240k, but I also couldn't show you because I swapped the instrument cluster with an XLT donor to gain the tach.

The new cluster read 99k and change less when swapped, so at least I can just add 100k to the reading for easy math!!

I don't usually mention it because 240k really isn't unusual for a 2V Triton
 
Kira said:
To E150GT: Make a "-130K" sticker for your odometer.

What year range(s) do these engines cover?
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09+

The Essex v6 (4.2) that was before it in the F-150s wasn't a bad engine. But it didn't make a lot of power and was hindered by only a 4 speed automatic or the not-great-for-towing M5ODr2 manual.
 
doublebase said:
Love high mileage stories! Made it 289,000 miles in a Honda Accord once (but that took a ton of work). I own a 2008 CRV with 192,000 miles. And my daily driver (2016 Toyota Avalon) now has 145,000 miles and it quite honestly drives like it is brand new, not one single out of pocket repair. Meanwhile while my Mercedes has something go wrong every other week, right now it’s the EIS module, won’t start, costs a small fortune for a little poorly built unreliable ignition switch.
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I love people who get maximum use out of their vehicles. Our four car fleet has a combined total of 550k miles. Lowest mile car has 55K on it, yet it feels like a newborn to me. All four of our cars have been so well cared for I’d trust any one of them to drive me across the country at this very moment and be 100% trouble free.

Scott
 
Nice job! I’ll say you are having a better experience with your f150 than I am. Mine has largely been a good vehicle except for the transmission, which is currently held together by “mechanic in a bottle,” with no help from the dealer. My goal is to get it to 100k miles, but if the trans starts to act up again before then, it might get traded. We did tow a TT a lot with this one early on.
 
My wife's family is hardcore Honda loyal, but they've run a few to over 400k. They buy new and run 'em 'til they die or the blue smoke is too great.

In fact she only ditched her '05 Civic when we got together because she needed a truck (sorry, the Ridgeline doesn't count). Caretaking for our non-profit and hauling stuff for my machine shop, she's got something large, bulky or greasy in her bed several days per week

I warned her that going from Hondas to a 3V Ford was about as polar opposite as you can get ;)
 
They have the engines, now lets get the bodies to last that long!! Maybe apply some science to ice melting technology!!
Its good to hear high milage stories on those V6 engines, that's where I'm headed with my next truck.
 
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