Thread: How long will engine last

With the correct maintenance they should see 500000 ks
The highest ks on a vehicle that I have driven was 340000 this vehicle hadn't had its head off

my money says 250K Km to the head gasket (if a cooling system failure or injector seal fialure allows scouring of the injector wells or some other repair doesnt require pulling the head earlier)

the bottom end should go an exciting 500K Km and Im quietly confident of a lazy 1M Km

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291,000 on this one. Not mine, was considering buying. The guy said both the gearbox and the transfer case were rebuilt.

I have Tdi300 with nearly 600,000km not all mine. Have had two Cruisers all starting to chew oil around 300-400,000. Friend got over 900,000 on a Troopy but oil use was bad.

Mine has just reached 400,000 with a new head 10,000 ago, runs as new and does not use oil.

Woah very interesting stuff
Great to know they have a good long life ib them if well maintained
It was one area I never really looked into si thanx heaps for the info

Hi My TD5 inherited a 2nd hand engine at 125000km due to the old oil pump bolt failure. The 'new' engine had done 272,000 kms. The car now shows 245,000km, so by my calculations the 'new' engine has now done 392,000kms and is going strong. The replacement did get a new head gasket, metal dowels, sump gasket and big and main bearings…but the head is otherwise untouched

How about the V8???

Any high milers?

Originally Posted by Robgw

How about the V8???

Any high milers?

360,000 on the 3.5 from the Rangie when I pulled it out. It still ran fine and had good compression and no smoke, but the cam was rooted and I was starting to get low oil pressure problems. I think there are plenty around with much higher k's than that.