Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:20 pm
Unsure how many kms my Subie would have on it. I'm guessing somewhere in the vacinity of maybe 400,000 to 500,000 km. But that isn't really anything worth considering, as the car has had a full rebuild and fresher parts are always replacing older ones. The other thing is the motor, which I believe is the original one from this car, but has had some use (till he couldn't trust it to stay running if he went outside town) in Rick's car (rtcb65 on here). He threw it my way when his new motor was built because I had just had two motors blow up on me and needed yet another. This motor is going stronger than ever now, while all I've done to it is work it hard (high revs with custom auto controler) and clock up lots of hard highway miles on it since halfway through last year.
I think Subies could just about last forever if you excersize them regularly and look after their health.
Impressive high mileage would go to the old Peugeot wagon I had for 10 years before the Subie. It had somewhere near 400,000 km on it when I bought it where it had sat for a year on the side of the street in Brissie. Put a battery in it and drove it to the nearest servo for the 200 km drive home. I put another 290,000 km or so on it and never ever had the sump plug out, even after blowing the head gasket and another time replacing the eaten out head. It cost me around $200 in maintenance the entire time I had it and was pranged/crashed a number of times (would have easily been a write off each time if it was insured), regularly crossed a local river (water lapping over the bonnet at times), towed things that no other car we had around could manage, did a problem free trip to Tassie and back towing my beach buggy on an A-frame and fully loaded and returned more fully loaded with the buggy loaded as well as a full roofrack crammed with furniture (in 2 easy days). The most impressive part would be the brakes. When I sold it, it still had the brakes that I got it with, and I'd only just replaced the front pads after all those years. Could not kill that car nomatter how hard I tried, and I tried pretty damned hard...
I think Subies could just about last forever if you excersize them regularly and look after their health.
Impressive high mileage would go to the old Peugeot wagon I had for 10 years before the Subie. It had somewhere near 400,000 km on it when I bought it where it had sat for a year on the side of the street in Brissie. Put a battery in it and drove it to the nearest servo for the 200 km drive home. I put another 290,000 km or so on it and never ever had the sump plug out, even after blowing the head gasket and another time replacing the eaten out head. It cost me around $200 in maintenance the entire time I had it and was pranged/crashed a number of times (would have easily been a write off each time if it was insured), regularly crossed a local river (water lapping over the bonnet at times), towed things that no other car we had around could manage, did a problem free trip to Tassie and back towing my beach buggy on an A-frame and fully loaded and returned more fully loaded with the buggy loaded as well as a full roofrack crammed with furniture (in 2 easy days). The most impressive part would be the brakes. When I sold it, it still had the brakes that I got it with, and I'd only just replaced the front pads after all those years. Could not kill that car nomatter how hard I tried, and I tried pretty damned hard...
