How many miles can an Impreza take?
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Does anybody have an opinion on how many miles a standardish Turbo Impreza is likely to manage before needing major engine work... Most cars these days are capable of 150 - 200, 000 miles if maintained carefully, but i rarely see Imprezas with high miles...is there a reason for this? other than maybe being short distance or weekend cars Anybody got a high miler? |
i know of a high miler (over130000miles) tuned quite a lot running at 1.6bar boost on original engine and internals no problem. tuned by OMA performance:) but the highest ive ever seen was a uk turbo with 250000miles but dont know the cars history.
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Originally Posted by mr.sheen
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i know of a high miler (over130000miles) tuned quite a lot running at 1.6bar boost on original engine and internals no problem. tuned by OMA performance:) but the highest ive ever seen was a uk turbo with 250000miles but dont know the cars history.
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my mate has over 150000 on his rb5, Full De-cat and re-map, dont know wat power but all standard components including turbo.
He hammers the sh1te out of it everyday but he lets it warm up properly and he has a turbo timer fitted. Everyday car and it runs/sounds great. |
High Milers....
Originally Posted by petedotuk
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my mate has over 150000 on his rb5, Full De-cat and re-map, dont know wat power but all standard components including turbo.
He hammers the sh1te out of it everyday but he lets it warm up properly and he has a turbo timer fitted. Everyday car and it runs/sounds great. I bought my RB5 a year ago with a full engine re-build into the deal. The engine had went bang at 52,000 miles with the previous owner who only had it two weeks:cry: :cry: , and it had a service history from eastwoods so seemed to have been serviced regularly....but then you dont know what way the car had been treated by the previous owners, maybe it had the s**t driven out of it and not warmed up cooled down, bad cheap petrol, bounced off the rev limiter every day....who knows. I know any car i buy i change the oil and filter every 4000 miles and service it regularly and i like to think this helps to keep the car going for many miles....but is suppose unless u buy a car brand new u cant be sure how well the car/engine has been looked after!!:thumb: Kevin |
loads of high milers on pistonheads. and a lot of RB5`s as I noticed when looking with over 100k.
had a load of bug eyes in work with 90-120 k on them too.... one had 118k and was minter than mint and the guy had it from new for hs missus, and had no bother with it |
my94 uk wagon has 143k and goes like fcuk.... all way's puts a big :D on my face when i have her out for a run
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milage means nothing as long as its looked after
mind u i personally wouldn t go out and buy a car with big miles on it |
just as was said, look after it and it will last a lifetime......my dads cars wer all serviced regularly and are still goin like clockwork..........scoobs are slightly different, as with other high performance cars, as they tend to be gunned a bit more than the average car!!! but true, keep it well maintained and ther should be no unexpected problems
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well tuned car u know in the back of ur head it s going have more problems :(
ie needing rebuilt at some point ( but its part of the fun ) i ve done 25 more miles in the last week ( 73k ) ......... all looking good keep u s posted :norty: |
Thanks for the responses guys and gals, all sounds good
I've got 87k on mine with a full history so there should be plenty of life in it yet then......doh shouldnt say that its doomed now:brickwall |
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