In article , G.R. Patterson III wrote:
Did you read my post? Only TWO letdowns, in 250 k!

Yeah, I read it, and I still say you're a lucky man. One shouldn't gamble on getting
that sort of performance.

Judging by the cars that have been owned in our family in the last 10
years or so, 2 breakdowns in that mileage is rather high. My Dad's
turbodiesel only let him down once in 350K miles and that was most definitely
operator error rather than anything wrong with the car.

It's only a gamble if you don't maintain the things. A properly
maintained modern car will last for a long time and should be fine for
at least 300K miles. Properly maintained, things that are going majorly
wrong don't have a habit of sudden failure - nearly everything that will
let you down in a car because of mileage happens gradually and it's
usually laziness that means they don't get fixed until they actually
break.

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