Your High Milage Vehicle

[Forkman]

1994 Buick Regal Custom
3.8L V6
125,000mi
Running 3.5qts M1 10w30 1qt M1 0w40 (stopped a lot of the engine noise and fixed oil pressure problems)
ACDelco filter (because of location and fit of wrench)
Driving style: Moderate , 150mi/wk of short trips (10min or less). Biweekly long trips on highway.
Change interval 4000mi (because of the short trips).

 

[MNgopher]

Until August, when I sold it, my '97 F150 was my high miler.

-97 Ford F150, 4.6l V8, 2wd Supercab
-Sold with 162,500 on the odometer
-Valvoline Durablend 5w30 oil
-Valvoline Oil Filter (Champion) or Purolator Pure One
-Every 3000-4000 miles
-Driving was about 50% freeway, about 25,000 miles per year. Truck was not garaged and has no block heater for those cold Minnesota mornings. Ran like a champ, and never consumed any oil.

My '99 F150 is now my high miler with 92,500 on the odometer now. Previous regimen was the same, but oil changes are now extended to 5,000 miles plus on Havoline 5w20 with a WIX filter (think this site has had some influence?). Truck is also garaged at night which theoretically should help cold start wear...

 

[Norm Olt]

1991 Mercedes 420SEL, 139,000 miles, Penzoil LL 15W-40 & WIX filter every 5K, will be using same oil & filters in my 1973 450SE with 282,000 miles once the Auto-Rx regimine is completed.

1987 Ford F250 460 w/carb - 175+K - whatever FL-1 type filter I grab off the shelf in my garage and 10W-30 Chevron Supreme every 3K.

1992 Subaru SVX, 111K, Subaru or WIX filters (free at the dealership every 3K) and I change out the oil they put in for 10W-30 Chevron Supreme after 500-1000 miles, or so...

The 1984 Lincoln Town Car only has 64K on it, so I can hardly call that a "high mileage vehicle", but... 10W-30 Chevron Supreme every 2 to 3K

 

[harper]

-1995 Honda Civic EX Coupe-1.6L
-197,000 miles
-Currently Mobil Drive Clean Dino-5W30 Garage Installed it, Past was mainly Valvoline every 4-5k and some Castrol GTX all 5W30
-Filter AC Delco otherwise Honda OEM
-Change Interval-4000-5000 miles or 6 months
-mellow driver-country roads some highway a little city
-Never an engine issue just consumes 1/2 quart now every 3000 miles
-Still achieves 34-37 MPG

 

[crossbow]

Pontiac, 1974 Grand Am, 400 Cubic V8

280,000+

Mobil1 10w-40

K&N (Forget designation)

Interval is every 6 months.

(Doesn't get driven much anymore)

Driving style is rice eating.

 

[V6 Diesel]

1991 Chevrolet Caprice, 5.7L
237,000 miles

Mobil 1, 10w30 now, used Castrol 5w-50 for previous 130,000 miles, Dino first 87k miles. Oil use, less then 16 ounces per 10k miles

Wix, larger size for trucks

Oil changed at 10,000 miles with Mobil 1
Oil changed at 7,500 miles with Syntec in past.
Oil changed at 5,000 miles when it ran Dino.

Driven about 80% highway/paved rural roads.

 

[ALS]

Volvo 745 Turbo wagon with 290,300 miles.
Has a 2.3 liter (140ci) 4 cylinder motor.
Ran Dino with factory OEM Mann oil filters changed out at 3,000 miles.
Raised boost level from 7.5 to 14.5 psi at 125,000 miles.
Turbo replaced at 247,000 (Seized) and replaced motor at 282,700 (rod knock). New motor is being filled with Mobil 1 and factory oil filters changed out at Volvo's 5,000 mile recommended interval. Plan on keeping until at least 400,000 miles and possibly 500,000 miles.

 

[Starbreaker666]

-02 Dodge ram 1500 SLT (THE MAYOR BABY!)
-4.7L(287 ci) 250 HP 300ft/lbs
3k mile changes with Valvoline All Climate 5w-30
-Napa Gold filter(Wix)
-23,000 miles on the motor
-80% Short milege to work and back @ 6 highway miles round trip. Motor rarely gets warmed up. 20% highway milege round trip to town and back (140+ miles)

 

[jsharp]

My old daily driver and now my son's daily driver.

1987 Nissan Pathfinder 4WD.
3.0L V6, 5 speed. It's *really* slow, so we drive it like we stole it, but it's only been rolled once and has seen a ton of off-road miles.

Currently at 217K miles.

It's had M1 10W30 used in it year round since I bought it with 62K miles on the clock. 7000-10,000 mile changes. It's mostly seen Motorcraft FL-1A filters on a remote adapter I installed right away to get the oil capacity up to a whole 4 quarts.

The truck always ran very hot thanks to Nissan installing too small a radiator on the '87 models. I had an oil cooler on it for a while, until we finally replaced the radiator with a larger one at 200K miles.

It's had a K&N drop in air filter in it all the time I've had it also.

It's started to use about a quart of oil in 5000 miles using the M1 10W-30 and my son's driving which is mostly in town. I'm currently running Auto-RX through it with Penzoil 10W-30.

Once we're done with the A-RX I'm going to try using Rotella-T 5W-40 in it year round and 5K changes.

I can't wait for the first UOA on that. I'm expecting it to show the engine is plenty tired - but it's got every reason to be...

[ November 03, 2003, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: jsharp ]

 

[timzak]

quote:

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Originally posted by RL guy:
obviously anyone who visits this website concerns about maitaining their cars, and i think some are pretty much nutty, crazy and going to the extreme about it.

so i'm curious what kind of milage are you achieving in your highest mile vehicle.

please list the following:

- car manufacture/model/engine size
- mile
- brand of oil and grade
- oil filter
- oil change interval
- driving style


me, acura 99 rl 3.5l. 26k, 10w-30 mobile 1, pure one oil filter; change oil every 5k, and 70% of freeway milage. i'm planning to keep this car for a long time, 200k+ hopefully. i'm also switching to chevron 10w-30 dino oil on the next interval. i'm very impress with chevron uoa.

thanks

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1995 Hyundai Accent 1.5L SOHC
103.4K miles
Pennzoil 10W-40
Purolator/Proline L14619
OCI 3000 miles
90% highway driving, some stop and go traffic

My wife put most of the miles on before we got married, but I'm currently putting 300 miles/week as my work commuter for the past year or so.

Prior to meeting my wife, she changed the oil sporadically at quick lube places. We think she went over 20K miles without a change at one point (she didn't know any better). I just finished 2 AutoRX applications and am 2000 miles into my first fresh oil change after the 2nd application. Oil consumption has been reduced approximately 3 times, from 1 qt every 1200 miles to 1 qt every 3500 miles.

[ November 03, 2003, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: timzak ]

 

[Cary]

1991 Nissan Pathfinder; VG 30 3.0L V-6
182,000 Miles
127,000-180,000 M1 10w-30, 180,000-present M1 0w-40
Factory Nissan Filters
5,000 mile changes, up to 7000 once; 3.5 quart sump
Mostly in town driving, occational short trip, five speed, is regularly redlined and run at full throttle (hey it is only 150 horsepower and 4000 pounds).


The Truck burns NO oil. I have only ever one time added oil between changes, and it was 1/2 quart. Starts perfectly every morning and runs great. The Mobil 1 0w-40 (prompted by being able to use one oil in all 3 cars) made the motor run quieter.

Cary

 

[Volkster]

• `93 Volvo 240 Wagon/2.3ltr.(B230)
• 170,000+
• Valvoline Maxlife 10w30
• Mann/Volvo
• 3000-4000mi
• moderate/aggresive

 

[Schmoe]

'90 Olds Cutlass Ciera, V6, 3.3l with 4 speed AT. 180K. Pennz. purebase 5W-30 winter, 10W-30 summer. Purolator filter, Fram air filter. 90% highway miles. The sayings are true, the car is starting to fall apart (radio lights going out, molding and head liner falling out, seats pretty worn, etc. etc) but the engine is hanging tough. I drive it like your grandmother. Very easily, I don't think that the engine has ever SEEN 4K rpm's.

 

[jsharp]

quote:

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Originally posted by Cary:
1991 Nissan Pathfinder; VG 30 3.0L V-6
182,000 Miles
127,000-180,000 M1 10w-30, 180,000-present M1 0w-40
Factory Nissan Filters
5,000 mile changes, up to 7000 once; 3.5 quart sump
Mostly in town driving, occational short trip, five speed, is regularly redlined and run at full throttle (hey it is only 150 horsepower and 4000 pounds).


The Truck burns NO oil. I have only ever one time added oil between changes, and it was 1/2 quart. Starts perfectly every morning and runs great. The Mobil 1 0w-40 (prompted by being able to use one oil in all 3 cars) made the motor run quieter.

Cary

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The throttle on the old Pathy's could be replaced with a switch, but I still love mine...

 

[Cary]

quote:

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Originally posted by jsharp:
The throttle on the old Pathy's could be replaced with a switch, but I still love mine...

[/QB]

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The one upshot is the engine is at least willing to rev, headers and a exhaust helped even more. My wife keeps bugging me to sell mine, since we have a BMW and Landcruiser, but I keep driving it to work (in fact I took it on a 1000 mile round trip to Oregon two weeks ago). The Pathy will easily go 300k on the engine if I keep it that long.

Cary

 

[Sumerduckman]

93 Camry, 4 cyl and 5 spd tranny, bought new now has 232,000. Everything original except tranny bearings and halfshafts replaced at 210000. Mobil 1 10/30 after breakin and changed every 4000/5000 miles with misc filters, fram, wix, hastings purolator, OEM. Runs strong and is just now starting to use a little oil ( 1/4- 1/3 qt in 3000 miles). 'Poots' on startup sometimes. Daughter drives it like she stole it.
88 Toyota Pick up 4wd, 22re w/ 5 spd tranny. 168000, 0-98000 miles Pennzoil 10-30, 98000 to present 10-30 Havoline both changed every 3000 miles. Misc filter brands.
Engine still runs like new, tranny getting real tired and body is rotting. Not used much any more.The winter snow mobile.
95 Buick LeSabre,3.8 v6 auto tranny sons 'beater', 126000mi, whatever 10-30 and filter is on sale changed at 3000 miles. Son commutes in heavy traffic with this POS.
90 Chevy Celebrity wagon 3.1 six with auto,168000 mi,whatever 5-30 and filter were on sale. Just gave this away 6 months ago. Still ran like new but starting to get REAL ugly. Paint peeling, interior falling apart etc.
Have had a whole host of Volvo's , other GM and Toyota cars and trucks over the years,and most all of them had made at least 150000 miles with no engine probs with 3000 mile oil changes and all other routine maintenance
done on time.

 

[TR3-2001SE]

This has been very useful information. My toyota cressida has 250,000 miles with Castrol GTX 10w-30,10w-40 and currently 20w50. 3000 mile changes using purolator filters. Uses oil at 1 quart per 500 miles. No major work on engine or transmission. Hope auto-rx can help the consumption issue and have started a treatment.

 

[revn247]

1988 Toyota 4Runner V6 (3vze) 5spd.
282,xxx miles
Chevron DELO 400 15w-40 since bought at 185,xxx miles
OEM Oil filter
oci: every 5k miles
No usage that I can tell.
Some leakeage from valve covers.
Mixed usage of city/hwy/off-road.

I love this truck!

 

[pacem]

1985 Mercury Topaz, 2.3L CFI, 5 speed manual trans, 240,000 miles , Mobil 1 10W-30 since 2,500 miles (Dec. 1984) and Fram filters (before I found this site). Burns no oil. Oil/Filter Changed every 7,500 miles. Driving style, moderate,my wife, a little more aggressive.


Impressive.

Car: 1987 topaz, 2.3L OHC auto, 108,000 miles.
Oil: I don't stick with one thing. But vary between what's on sale. Usually valvoline, Castrol GTX and Pennzoil 10W-30.
filter: Purolator Pure one.
Interval: 3,000 miles.
Driving style: About half city, half narrow country roads. No sudden acceleration, but I like to go fast on highways.
It consumes about 1qt/800 miles.


1991 Chevrolet Caprice, 5.7L
237,000 miles

Mobil 1, 10w30 now, used Castrol 5w-50 for previous 130,000 miles, Dino first 87k miles. Oil use, less then 16 ounces per 10k miles


1993 Caprice, 5.7L, 108K miles.
Whatever is on sale.
Purolator Pure one filter, 3,000 miles.
Driving style cautious in city, fast on country roads.
No signficant oil consumption, probably 1qt/3000 miles.

 

[RL guy]

wow this is a lot of useful information. many thanks. i would definately want to take the same route with many here that have 200k+ miles on their car. castro gtx dino is showing up strong here. i'm surprise that we dont see more honda and other luxury brand. lexus and caddilacs?