A million miles on a clutch?!  Nope, never happened - not even a million
kilometers.

Sheesh

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Janne Ruohom�ki
<janne.ruohomaki@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Mark Tuovinen<mst@ak.net> wrote:
> > I know a woman whom had a `83 - `85 (not sure exact year) Civic that
> after she was done with
> > it passed it along to her daughter.  The daughter finally killed it
> around 600,000 miles and
> > it had the original clutch.  I also came across a posting once for a `79
> Civic that went
> > 979,000 miles.  Not sure which was more impressive, that the car went
> that far or that
> > someone drove it the distance.
>
>  Now these here are starting to sound like respectable amount of
> miles. My father had -82 Datsun Laurel 2.8 Diesel which went well over
> 1 000 000 miles. No clutch, engine, drivetrain repairs or anything.
> And for goddness sake this is a japanese car! The engine and
> drivetrain were in excellent condition when my father sold the car to
> some guy who had horses and needed cheap car to tow those horses in
> "horsetrailer" (wtf that thing is called where horses travel in a box
> behind a car). The only thing in that car that needed repairs was the
> body of the car: japanese cars of that era have more paint than metal
> everywhere in the car. There were 2 young guys driving this car as a
> first car after we got our driving licences: me and my brother. And I
> can tell you that we both hit the pedal to the metal _very_ often for
> over 4 years in a row. Eg. absolute full throttle to 75mph at least
> every second time when leaving traffic lights. That car was quite
> lightweighted, except for engine. It was also rear wheel driven so it
> was very much fun to drive with excessive sliding. Perfect car for
> young wannabe-racer. It actually outperformed most BMWs and audis in
> acceleration from 0 - 75 mpg that my friends (or their fathers ;) had
> at that time.
>
>  Ive followed this list and discussion about mileage and it actually
> makes me laugh when people are somehow thinking that some 200 000
> miles without opening an engine is a lot for a car. Thats utter
> bullshit. These guys have absolutely no idea how a good engine should
> perform. 200k is just a warmup lap for real Engine.
>

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