Well, I've had my `01 Windstar for about five years now and I just turned 200,000 miles on it. Aside from a major ($2,000) transmission repair at 170,000 miles and a few odds and ends the van's been pretty much trouble free. I've done the regular maintenance things like oil and filter every 5,000 miles, air filter once a year, fuel filter every other year, tires and brakes as needed and new plugs at ~130,000 miles or so. It still has the original plug wires, rotors & drums, wheel bearings, balljoints, shocks & struts and battery. I'm averaging 25 mpg highway and it starts and runs like new.

 

You do know that it is going to break now, don't you?

-Matt

 

Totally. I just expeirenced this. Mom ask me how truck was doing. I told her nothing else could go wrong. this morning, the alternator went bad, we had it rebuilt about 3-4 months ago tho..

WOw 200k You must put a crap load of miles on it?
My dads truck has 187k and its a 97

 

Our "newest" company truck, a '97 F150 4.2L v6 5spd, has passed 380,000 miles. At 383,000 we finally had to swap out the engine. And that was 383,000 HARD miles. Had to rework the diff a couple of times in the 100,000-200,000 mile range. The body is still solid and with the new motor may go another 300,000...