Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
Originally Posted By: grampi
Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
Originally Posted By: circuitsmith
At 300K+ miles metal fatigue might be the cause of some engine failures.
Even the fanciest oil won't prevent that.
That would actually be massively pathetic. Toyota-braggards (paid or voluntary) think these little water-cooler testimonials are extolling the product, but I absolutely would not want any engine that spontaneously and catastrophically loses it's fundamental friction materials in the absence of overheating, over-revving, oiling system failure or other obvious abuse.
Originally Posted By: Vlad_the_Russian
Next time you get a Corolla -
"Next time you get a corolla" he says... because that's just a given and of course it's the oils fault for not letting the great toyota run for 3 trillion miles. lmao
These posts always crack me up. You act like it's no big deal for vehicle (insert name here) to go X amount of miles, and yet you site no reference to anything you had that lasted this long or longer. 300K is a big deal, and it doesn't matter what type of vehicle it's achieved with, it simply isn't something you see every day...
Naah, not really. 300,000 isn't anything spectacular...I have driven many with that or more. I drove a car with 580,000 miles (it went 640K), saw several vans over 400,000, and dozens of cars and vans with 250,000+. I saw several with relatively low miles, but 10,000+ engine hours due to 100% city use. I saw 553,000 on an F-550 that sees the brutal duty of a repo truck!
You're missing the point...my point isn't that the Corolla will last more miles than anything elae, my point is it's not every day you see vehicles with this many miles...I've seen vehicles with 4, 5, and 600K miles too, but maybe like one or two of each, it isn't like it's common place to see them every day. Heck, every time I take my Corolla to Discount Tire for a set of tires, someone there will ask me if those are the actual miles on my car. Apparently, even they don't see that many high mileage vehicles either, and think of how many vehicles they see...and you DROVE vehicles with that many miles or more, I've owned them, also not the same thing...
Originally Posted By: grampi
Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
Originally Posted By: circuitsmith
At 300K+ miles metal fatigue might be the cause of some engine failures.
Even the fanciest oil won't prevent that.
That would actually be massively pathetic. Toyota-braggards (paid or voluntary) think these little water-cooler testimonials are extolling the product, but I absolutely would not want any engine that spontaneously and catastrophically loses it's fundamental friction materials in the absence of overheating, over-revving, oiling system failure or other obvious abuse.
Originally Posted By: Vlad_the_Russian
Next time you get a Corolla -
These posts always crack me up. You act like it's no big deal for vehicle (insert name here) to go X amount of miles, and yet you site no reference to anything you had that lasted this long or longer. 300K is a big deal, and it doesn't matter what type of vehicle it's achieved with, it simply isn't something you see every day...
Naah, not really. 300,000 isn't anything spectacular...I have driven many with that or more. I drove a car with 580,000 miles (it went 640K), saw several vans over 400,000, and dozens of cars and vans with 250,000+. I saw several with relatively low miles, but 10,000+ engine hours due to 100% city use. I saw 553,000 on an F-550 that sees the brutal duty of a repo truck!
You're missing the point...my point isn't that the Corolla will last more miles than anything elae, my point is it's not every day you see vehicles with this many miles...I've seen vehicles with 4, 5, and 600K miles too, but maybe like one or two of each, it isn't like it's common place to see them every day. Heck, every time I take my Corolla to Discount Tire for a set of tires, someone there will ask me if those are the actual miles on my car. Apparently, even they don't see that many high mileage vehicles either, and think of how many vehicles they see...and you DROVE vehicles with that many miles or more, I've owned them, also not the same thing...
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