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[Fireball27]

So i've been looking at a lot of old cars on the internet, and i notice that their odometers never seem to go above 99,999.9 miles. Was that because the manufactures didn't think the car would last past that? Or was it because they were too lazy to install a 7th digit?

[tmurph01]

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hmm,..never noticed that. Prolly a combination i would say. Manufacturers might not have thought that many miles would never have been achieved back in those days. Thats my guess.

[camaroman1181]

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mostly, cars werent designed, or expected even, to make it much past 100k miles... if a car rolled over the odometer, it was usually pretty aperent if a car had 112k miles or 12k miles... 212k was almost always out of the question.. however, with advances in technology, as well as much better quality controls in place, cars are now expected to last well over 100k miles. hence the need for the extra digit... hell, to blow out some of their old inventory, a local hyundai is offering a 200k, 20 yr warrenty on their cars.. that woulda been completely unimaginable 20 yrs ago...

[Earnhardt132000]

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My '86 Cutlass Supreme has 155,xxx but only shows 55,xxx. Its gone through 3 motors :).

[homedog119]

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my dad has a 79 chevy bonanza work van (traded in a 79 trans am for it because he hated it) and it has 280,000 but reads 80,000 original everything

[Vanquish]

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They are giving a 20 year warranty? Isn't it usually 100k or 5 year warranty whatever comes first?

That's a hell of a warranty, you should go to the dealership and find out what exactly that warranty covers? I love the loopholes in those warranty contracts that pretty much make it slim and none what IS covered, but from the look of it, it would make someone believe that it is a lot that is covered.

[Niko97RS]

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1989 chevy caprice classic...78K original miles(really)

[Fireball27]

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1989 chevy caprice classic...78K original miles(really)

Mmmm... hows it run? Post pics* I really want to get an old (late 70s, early 80s) Oldsmobile/Buick/Caddy/anything with a big V8 in it. Most of the ones on craigslist are turds tho.






*of your sister ;)