XCITEXR Member 18 Member For: 19y 4m 26d Posted 03/02/07 02:11 PM Share Posted 03/02/07 02:11 PM (edited) What sort of things would you look for or could start to go wrong when buying a car with high Km's, I'm talking the well over 100,000 km mark? Edited 03/02/07 02:12 PM by XCITEXR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blonk Iconoclast Donating Members 4,330 Member For: 20y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: CH Posted 03/02/07 03:10 PM Share Posted 03/02/07 03:10 PM What sort of things would you look for or could start to go wrong when buying a car with high Km's, I'm talking the well over 100,000 km mark?←BA -ClutchMotorBrakesSuspensionBrakesCheck whether Chip has been fittedDiffBrakesGearbox (if manual)Just to mention a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INPURSUIT Fastest Taxi In Melbourne Donating Members 701 Member For: 18y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/02/07 03:20 PM Share Posted 03/02/07 03:20 PM What sort of things would you look for or could start to go wrong when buying a car with high Km's, I'm talking the well over 100,000 km mark?←BA -ClutchMotorBrakesSuspensionBrakesCheck whether Chip has been fittedDiffBrakesGearbox (if manual)Just to mention a few← that's pretty much everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCITEXR Member 18 Member For: 19y 4m 26d Posted 04/02/07 12:27 AM Author Share Posted 04/02/07 12:27 AM What about engine wise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cro Flower Power Lifetime Members 6,114 Member For: 22y 3m 8d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 04/02/07 12:35 AM Share Posted 04/02/07 12:35 AM The engines are pretty strong, my one lasted 90,000kms of complete trashing including many track days without a problem (I.e. no smoke, no oil loss, absolutely perfect).The turbo is something you need to beware of though. That was on it's way out from 80k, and finally died at 90k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkuzxr6t Member 4 Member For: 21y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 06/02/07 09:35 PM Share Posted 06/02/07 09:35 PM Well I have had two high km Falcons now. The AU had a heater core go about 120kmsMy Ba xr6t has 137kms needs clutch, heater core has started leaking and it is burning about a ltr of oil between services. Recently got rear suspension redone as it rattled like a taxi in the rear (Bushes and ball joints of some sort) Not much else has gone wrong (well besides bloody rotor issues)New BFII xr6t arrives next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceofSpades Boostaholics anonymous Member 202 Member For: 18y 5m 8d Gender: Male Location: Broady Posted 06/02/07 10:09 PM Share Posted 06/02/07 10:09 PM 95K klms still going strong!straight up klms dont mean much, you need to know the STYLE of klms its done. HWY/Country klms are MUCH softer than city klms.in reality there shuold be an engine hour meter that show us the hours run time vs klms to help make the assesments.My truck for example has over 1.6 million klms and is still very tight ( body wise, the engine has had it obigitory rebuild at 1.4mill. )vs the old truck I had that was absolutley buggered at the 1.1 mill mark, but it spent its life in the traffic, wherer the new one is ex interstate so therefore, easy klms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crans Member 275 Member For: 18y 8m 17d Posted 07/02/07 04:09 AM Share Posted 07/02/07 04:09 AM Mine it comming up to 150k soon and so far the on ly real problem ive had is alittle bit of a rough idle but mostly that's when thr tb gets clogged upits a 5speed manual and ive had no gear box problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmac450 Member 1,650 Member For: 18y 4m 15d Gender: Male Location: NSW Posted 07/02/07 04:13 AM Share Posted 07/02/07 04:13 AM Don't forget, cars age with Ks. The higher they are, the shorter they have left. Plenty of well maintained people make it well into old age.Same with a car. If you're happy with the history, and keep up the maintenance then all should be OK. But, 100ks+ can also amount to a lot of neglect.Then again, plenty of youngsters have things go wrong as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muncher Member 42 Member For: 18y 10m 8d Location: Bay of Plenty, NZ Posted 10/02/07 07:43 PM Share Posted 10/02/07 07:43 PM I would be very suprised and disapointed if a well maintained 4ltr straight 6 Falcon could not reach 100,000K's and beyond with no probs. Coming from UK I am used to miles not K's and 100.000K's equates to approx 62.500miles. Now the average milage over there is approx 12.000miles a year. So that means after around 5 yrs you would expect to rebuild your motor etc. I don't think so. With regular oil changes and serviceing I am expecting my T to do well over 100.000K's before I even need to think about rebuilds. Or have I bought a porcelain car?..........................muncher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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