getting closer

[milehighbear]

well, im only 247 miles away from 200,000

[25Horseplay]

Take a pic at 200k!

[ejp2fast]

Nice! I only have 67K on the odo, but it was disconnected for somewhere around 50K.

Next is 300!

[milehighbear]

im going to take pic at 199,999 and at 200,000

[Festiva_Fred]

Cool, I'll have to take a pic of Old Red once it hits 250,000 or 300,000. Right now it's got 211,000 on it.

[jglutz]

Dang that's alot of miles! Congrats!

[stefan]

Nice! I like racking up miles on my car.

[spiko]

The engine that was put in my car had 200,000 + miles and it runs like a champ

[elcamino1]

Any major work in those 200,000?

[festyxfi]

I keep buying rusty parts festys with 200K+miles, the engines have been running like new. Oil changes and minor maintanance, there's no end to these little buggers!

[25Horseplay]

My green Festiva has around 230,000 mis on it and runs great! Original engine too!

[milehighbear]

Mine is original engine. It has had no work done on it at all. Now on the tranny i reved it too high in 2nd gear and it broke the speedometer gear. When i tried to take it out the gear and little shaft fell out and dropped down into the tranny. I drove it around to see what would happen and for while everything was ok. Then when i pulled to stop sign i tried to put it back into 1st gear it wouldn't go. I tried to force it a little and it put the gear thru the bottom of tranny. I did get it home and the gear and little shaft were sticking out of the bottom of the tranny. All the fluid was already out of it. To fix it i made the hole a little bit bigger, took rag and wiped it down real good, took carburator cleaner and sprayed inside and around bottom real good. I let it dry real good. I took a piece of aluminum and some jb weld and jb welded the piece of aluminum to the tranny plus i took and put a small screw in it to hold it in place. I made sure none of jb weld got into the hole since the shifters were right there. I let it dry for couple days. Went out and ground everything as smooth as possible and filled it with fluid. Not a drop came out. Its been like that for about 7 months now. Like i said, no engine work at all, but i have put all new wheel bearings in, new brakes, front rotors, tie rods, ball joints, sway bar bushings, front struts and gas filter. I change the oil every six months (for five years) and it comes out clean as it went in. I use 5w-30 synthetic oil and no addititives other than fuel injector cleaner in gas tank. It runs like a top. Im now down to about 170 miles from the 200,000 mark. Im getting 40-45mpg