Theres no reason a gas powered car can't go 200,000 miles, then have top end work and go another 200,000 miles. You've been lied to your whole life about how often you need to replace your car... -Curt
From: Kyle Arola via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Kyle Arola <kylearola1...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Craigslist NC Florida I guess I am just not used to thinking of a drive train lasting an additional 600,000 miles in addition to the already almost 300k on it now! Hahaha! That would be amazing to be sure! I know there are OTR truckers that get 1 million miles on their rigs, and I am guessing their diesels are similar engineering wise as far as robustness goes... Just a paradigm shift in thinking for me as I am part of the throwaway generation and have been taught to replace my car every 80k miles, or 10 years at most! Kyle On Feb 9, 2017 12:10 PM, "Rick Knoble via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Kyle sez: >True, I am counting on the last and last part. I also want to be prepared >so that in another 100k miles I have the engine/transmission to replace and >get another 500k miles out of the wagon. If you do proper maintenance and repairs, the wagon should last your lifetime. The period for catastrophic failures from manufacturing defects is long over. You just have to stay on top of things and use premium parts for maintenance and repairs. Rust is not an issue for you, so no problem there. Rick _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com