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Finally hit 175,000 miles :eek:

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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 03:16 PM
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And the car greets me with a nice stall when I tried to start it

Giving it the accelerator kept me from stalling out, no CEL, I'm going to hope it was just a fluke since I changed my MAF recently, and my IAC isn't even a year old.
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 03:20 PM
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congrats Mike, I think you car still looks pretty sweet with that many miles on it, I'll be hitting 62,000 very soon......
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 03:45 PM
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I've seen cars with half the miles that don't look that good.
You've hit 175,000 and I'm already imagining the trauma I'm going to endure when the Pace Car hits 100,000.:p I'm sitting at 69,000 right now, so hopefully it'll be a while. Actually, 70,000 will probably hurt a little bit, too. Then again, they're cars and meant to be driven.
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 03:46 PM
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 03:53 PM
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Congrats , My monte has 43,911 miles....
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 03:56 PM
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haha I wish mine had so few miles :P
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 04:01 PM
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Monte had 15,145 miles when I bought it in 2007 . paid $19,000 listed new for $31,000
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 04:02 PM
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Noone likes to see miles rack up, it jsut killed me last week when I cleaned my Dodge up and saw it had 10,003. I will have had it 2 years on the 26th of this month. Thats pretty good I think 5k a year and probably less thatn that since it went to Florida once already. Who really cares if you dont intend to sell it. Did you put them on it?
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 04:35 PM
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My parents were the original owners, we ordered the car in March 2000.

So I haven't put every mile on the car, but I have been driving it since 2002
 
Old Feb 21, 2011 | 04:41 PM
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Took you long enough to get there
 



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