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Originally Posted by fastfredracing View Post
The one car I serviced ran to 200k before he got sick of chasing all the little gremlins, the other at 130, was eating oil as fast as it drank gas, and would foul the spark plug on one cylinder every 5k miles from oil consumption . It was setting misfire codes, and plugging up the egr ports , so he could not pass emissions anymore .
Boat anchor at that point
Exactly why I dumped mine- the interior plastics were all wasted (warped badly) from the sun, except I had zero oil consumption. Cooling system and regulators were a routine PITA.

Little things.

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