Originally Posted by gcfcos

When u look at cars from when I was a lad like the old mk1 and 2 fiestas, mk3 escorts etc u were lucky to get to 100,000 miles and still be running! My friend has an 1993 Bmw e36 316 and it's done 337,000 miles and still purrs like a kitten but most cars of the era have now been scrapped, and now there's a lot of new cars that are dying before 100,000 miles again but there's some that will do 300,000 miles. There seems to be no telling, I think the problem is lack of maintenance. Working in a main dealers for the first time u wouldn't believe how basic the servicing schedules have now become. In a year and a half of working there I've not changed one petrol fuel filter as there rated to 100,000 miles and there in the fuel tank and most services consist of oil and filter and Brake fluid change. 10 years ago every service had oil, oil filter, air and fuel filters, spark plugs etc etc. an good example is of a mitisubishi l200 we had in last week for a running fault that had been serviced 3 months previous. It sounded like the engine was struggling to rev so in middle of diagnosis I removed the air filter and it was one of the worst I'd ever seen, completely black and u couldn't blow and air line through it hardly! Replaced that and it ran fine. The owner had it serviced regularly according to Mitsubishi service schedule since new so that says a lot about these long life services!!