A milestone

In reply to Joe Gearin:

I'm sure I'm not the only one here with a soft spot for a 300 six!

I had one years ago, man that thing would purr! (after a tune up)

I'm pretty sure when I bought it at 200,000+ miles it still had the original spark plug in the rear-most cylinder.

In reply to The_Jed:

300

me too, one of my all time favs

4cylndrfury wrote: We had a guy in a first year Tiburon come in for an oil change, somewhere near 60k miles on the clock. Got to talking, and he says that its the first change the car ever had. We give him the face. he gives us the face Stuff came out like cold syrup with sparkles on top. He was under the impression that Hyundais new (at the time) 100k mile warranty covered him against damage to the engine. So he thought he was off scott free, no maintenance required. He was fairly upset when we told him that the warranty was void if he skipped routine maintenance intervals listed in the owners manual, and that there were bits of his engine in the oil.

Back in '04 we had a 2001 Elantra towed in. Car had an Arizona handicap tag, Colorado plates and the owner had an Indy address. Car was sitting at 64k miles. Never had the oil changed, they merely added oil when the light came on until it locked up. Pulled the valve cover and oil pan and both were completely filled with sludge.... as in the cams were invisible.

I've heard through the grapevine of a guy who ran either the Ford straight six or the old Mopar slant six (can't remember) in 5 demolition derby's (same engine, different cars) and the last 4 without oil--the oil pan had come off in the first, and he never bothered to replace it. The thing was still running strong after the last one.

Wally wrote: Wow, my inlaws haven't been able to get any of their VW's to go that far between check engine lights

Just because this is my favourite Internet quote of the day . . .

ZOO wrote:

Wally wrote: Wow, my inlaws haven't been able to get any of their VW's to go that far between check engine lights

Just because this is my favourite Internet quote of the day . . .

+1

Wife gave me strange looks when I LOL'd quite loudly.

Bobzilla wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: We had a guy in a first year Tiburon come in for an oil change, somewhere near 60k miles on the clock. Got to talking, and he says that its the first change the car ever had. We give him the face. he gives us the face Stuff came out like cold syrup with sparkles on top. He was under the impression that Hyundais new (at the time) 100k mile warranty covered him against damage to the engine. So he thought he was off scott free, no maintenance required. He was fairly upset when we told him that the warranty was void if he skipped routine maintenance intervals listed in the owners manual, and that there were bits of his engine in the oil.

Back in '04 we had a 2001 Elantra towed in. Car had an Arizona handicap tag, Colorado plates and the owner had an Indy address. Car was sitting at 64k miles. Never had the oil changed, they merely added oil when the light came on until it locked up. Pulled the valve cover and oil pan and both were completely filled with sludge.... as in the cams were invisible.

Had a Tempo come in once, complaint 'makes rattle noise and smokes from exhaust when turn right'. Yup, it did. ~42k miles, still had the original oil filter, we knew because it was painted gray with no numbers on it. The engine plants would install the filter before painting the engine.

Pulled the valve cover, there was sludge in the shape of the cover inside. The poor thing would pump oil to the top of the engine, the sludge would keep it from returning quickly. In a long right turn, the oil would work its way to the PCV inlet and the engine would get a gulp of oil, explaining the smoke. The rattle was spark knock, oil lowers the octane of gasoline.

Customer just could not understand why we could not accept his assertion that the oil had been changed regularly and that the filter was gray because he bought them from us. Ford's replacement filters are white with 'Motorcraft' and the part number on them.

Dang, and I thought I was bad for going 600 miles past the 'change by' mileage on my van...

I defence of the 2.7. An oil company ran a test in a Taxi. At 100'000 miles they took the engine apart to check wear. they said it looked good enough to go another 100k.