| tbear853 |
08-10-2013 07:49 PM |
I averaged 30-33K a year as a Trooper for near 32 years, pursuits, radar, emergency responses, and hours and hours of idling in all kinds of temps (used to pop hood in hot summer so to let heat out from under hood so AC would blow colder for when I got back in with vest and uniform and "batbelt" on) ..... and the Crown Vics with 4.6 were trouble free. My last assigned car had 86K on it when I retired and the guy who transferred in to my spot wrecked his so they reissued mine to him .... over 160K on the clock when a cat went bad and they called it in and issued him a new one. Other than that bad cat, it used up one alternator, a few batteries, and the day I brought it home from SPHQ it had a leaking Rt Rear axle seal and Ford fixed that good. .... (and there was that dear at 70+ that set off first stage air bag and pretensioners that costs $7,000 to fix everthing ..... but I could have drove it home that night.)
Many of them get used 90-150 K in police service, and then get sold to small town PDs to be used another 50-100K or a taxi co and they try to get another 200-300K out of them.
Why then would a well maintained and conservatively driven Mustang (a clutch would get tiresome if much city but OK on highway running) not last a few years at 40K a year ..... I think it would .... as long as it was properly maintained.
Roads are better, filters better, oils better, and even gas is cleaner .... cars last much longer than those of 30-40 short years ago. Even better than those from the '80s .... and those cars will last longer on todays roads. It's a matter of how you treat them.
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