re: For the “drive it until it dies” folks, what are you driving and what’s the year/mileage?

2006 Civic, 140000

2019 Ram 2500 6.4

Traded in 9 year old 2011 Ford F-150 with 110,000 miles but I can promise you this, I will not buy another truck until this one just does not move any longer. I love my truck but regret that I could have driven the Ford anther 8-10 years. Won't happen again.

Vehicles have gotten way to expensive and I do not care what my vehicle looks like to others any longer. I am offically in the "Drive until it dies" group now...

2011 HOnda CRV and 2012 HOnda Pilot. Both have around 110k miles on them. Daughter (no pics)drives the CRV mostly and will likely take it to college this upcoming semester. Wife (no pics) and I drive the Pilot. Son had a 2013 Hyundai Elantra at school, it has about 90k on it. I am ready to get a new vehicle but just to damn expensive right now. Will likely be a HOnda. I have had 3 others prior to the two I own now.

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2004 Lexus 220,000 miles. Bought it used in 06 with 69,000. Number 4-cylinder isn't firing

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If it is a transverse 6 cylinder...

Almost certainly the coil over plug. #4 is the center on the front of the engine and can be changed in 10 minutes max. Just remove the plastic engine cover, remove the wiring harness from the center coil, then remove the 10mm bolt that secures it, I suggest replacing the spark plug then put the new coil in, replace the wire harness* and the engine cover and start it up. I suggest a OE Bosch replacement ~$100 in town or under $50 from a place like Rock Auto. Easy peasy for the front three, 1.5 hours to do the odd cylinders on the back if you know what you are doing, 3 hours if you need to step by step it with Youtube help.


*be careful with the wiring harness as they can crumble you can get a set of six off Amazon for ~$15 they will have wires coming out of them but you can remove then so you can just click the old wires right in and not have to pslice the wires.

2012 Tundra Crewmax. 278,000 miles

06 Chevy Siverado 1500 bought in October of 05 to replace the truck I lost in Katrina's flood waters.

Currently has just under 76K on it and looks and drives like new. Unless it gets stolen or gets totaled, it's going to be my last vehicle since I'm now pushing 70 and I'm only averaging around 4,500 miles a year on it.

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Most of us though probably have paid for newer cars for our kids though. That's where my money for a newer one went

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Wife got the newer car. Son drives an oldish Tacoma we got a great deal on. Daughter turns 16 next year and is lobbying hard for my 05 4Runner. I live it though, so it’s going g to be hard to give it up but I probably will. Then I’ll take wife’s car and buy her something newer.

2015 Jeep Compass. 131k miles. No car note.

I work from home, so I expect this thing to last another good 10 years

But this thread reminds me of a childhood friend who's dad drove a Toyota Land Cruiser that had over 400,000 miles on it, I shite you not. Said he's never done anything to it, but change the oil.

2005 Mercury Sable - 68,000 miles

2012 F250 6.7 diesel, 160,XXX miles or so.

It's more truck than I'll ever need but I've grown tired of daily driving it. So the plan is to eventually park it to use when I need a truck and get a beater to daily drive. I see no need for a new truck, as a similarly equipped new model still has pretty much the same power/towing capacity and would run me about $65,000 or more. So I'd rather just keep it and get something a bit more comfortable for my day to day.

I've done a bit of work on it over the last year or so that was needed but another factor to parking it is EVERYTHING on these is expensive. New front wheel hubs/bearings, ball joints, tie rod ends, sway bar end links, etc. Basically every wear item under the front end is entirely new. I do all my own work/maintenance on it as well.