I totaled it at 200k miles.
I hope the shopping cart that dinged your bumper was okay…
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Irremarkable@fedia.io 5 months agoHad an old accord that started burning oil at about 100k miles. Lasted another 100k with only a handful of oil changes (I think none in it's last 50k, just topping it off as needed). Still worked perfectly fine besides very slowly burning oil when I totaled it at 200k miles.
I miss that car. I'm convinced I could've gotten at least 300k miles out of it.
wjrii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Irremarkable@fedia.io 5 months ago
Oh trust me, if It was drivable, I would've kept it.
Unfortunately a younger, much more sleep deprived me flipped it one morning.
Loved that damn car
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
This kind of neglect of proper maintenance is why it started burning oil at 100k.
If you want your engine to last, you change the oil every 5000 to 7500 miles.
OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Lol. Old Honda engines are known for essentially not needing oil. I have a B18 that refuses to die. It’s leaked so much oil before that I got barely a quart and a half out once. I try to top it up every once in a while but with 267k and just about everything else falling on the car, I’m about to stop bothering with oil on it all together so I can justify a new (to me) car.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Being able to take a beating and “not needing oil” are 2 wildly different situations lmao.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 months ago
My old jeep with the 4.0 was like that. I just kept adding oil every week or two when it got down past the safe zone, not doing any oil changes for about 60k. That thing had about 260k on it when the transmission blew up and I didn’t have the time or money to keep going with it. My 2010 is damn near the same at 180k (the pos 3.8), but that motor is due to be swapped soon due to loss of compression.
Irremarkable@fedia.io 5 months ago
We did routine oil changes between 5-6k miles until it started burning oil. I assure you, that was not the issue. We spent a while trying to figure it out before saying fuck it because it never gave us issues.