Xr6t's With High Km's

[XCITEXR]

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

[Blonk]

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?

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BA -

Clutch

Motor

Brakes

Suspension

Brakes

Check whether Chip has been fitted

Diff

Brakes

Gearbox (if manual)

Just to mention a few

[INPURSUIT]

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?

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BA -

Clutch

Motor

Brakes

Suspension

Brakes

Check whether Chip has been fitted

Diff

Brakes

Gearbox (if manual)

Just to mention a few

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that's pretty much everything

[XCITEXR]

What about engine wise?

[Cro]

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.

[Morkuzxr6t]

Well I have had two high km Falcons now.

The AU had a heater core go about 120kms

My 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.

[AceofSpades]

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.

[crans]

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 up

its a 5speed manual and ive had no gear box problems

[tmac450]

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.

[muncher]

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