Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Billy007
Drive the car until the engine fails. You may be able to get it to 200k miles. When the engine fails recycle the car, and get yourself a new car. Don't spend $6500 on a car with that kind of mileage.
Best advice here.
Run a high mileage oil like Maxlife 5w-30 for 5,000 mile intervals. I bet it gets well past 200,000 miles.
37,000 more miles with the piston pin failing is asking for a lot. That is assuming it's been correctly diagnosed.
I had a girlfriend drive to Vegas from Bakersfield (260 miles) to see me, she said her car was making a funny noise during the last few miles. I immediately identified it was a piston/pin issue. She insisted on driving it home so I decided to drive the GN in front of her (didn't want debris or oil hitting my car) to make sure she got back ok. We hit the onramp to the 15 and I look in my rearview and see a fireball. I popped the hood, had a 2-liter of diet coke and managed to put the fire out. These things can go at any time.