Thread: TD5 with a Million KM's

Originally Posted by Hendrik

How on Earth can you rack up a million kms in 7 years.

Quite easily actually. That's an average of only 391 km per day, which many vehicles out there easily exceed. The Falcon panel vans that used to do the daily paper runs from Kalgoorlie to Leinster and all towns in between knocked up a million k's in not much over two years - mostly running on gas.

Originally Posted by PAT303

It would but the everyday stop start is the thing that wears them out.A motor thats run without ever stopping would go for ever as the oil is always at operating temp and throughout the motor stopping metal to metal contact instead of cold in the sump each morning. Pat

Originally Posted by frantic

As has been stated previously , it's not the K's as such but how you do them and the speed your travelling at. An Isuzu doing an inner city run stop start 15-20 times per day at an average speed of 20kph would wear just as fast, if not faster than a td5, put them both on the highway doing a single run of 5-700k's per day(avg. speed of 90kph) and they would both exceed the million k mark.

Spot on.

I had a Toyota Hi-Ace with the 2.4 naturally aspirated diesel that had over a million k's on the original engine (third gearbox) when I sold it. I put the last 750,000 k's on it in about 3 years.

It was a pilot vehicle and did a lot of k's almost every day. Was nothing out of the ordinary to do 1,000 k's in a single day.

Must admit, the old girl looked nowhere near as tidy as that Disco at the end of it all though.

I thnk one of the fellas at British Off Road has a 300Tdi with One Million kms on it. Has had new heads etc but basicaly the same - cars in goodnick too.