Keeping Your 3Gen For A Long Time?

She still looks fine

 

My 1992 V6 4X4 had it's original clutch when I sold it 14 years later in 2006.

 

Nice!

I think it all comes down to the driver. Some people need 2k-3k rpms just get moving. Ive never had to replace a clutch in any of my vehicles. Im expecting my tacos clutch to last me 10-15 years easy.

There is this girl in my underground and when she backs up her manual jetta, it makes me cringe. She punches the throttle anytime she needs to move an inch, that poor car...

 

Same for me, same time frame. Bought my first car from a junk yard for $50 and drove it home. 1953 Buick! Had to rebuild the front end. Learned all about king pins! Thank heaven for J.C.Whitney!!

 

LOL!!! Oh yeah ... King Pins ... Been there done that. What we thought should be punched out/replaced easily (Bushings) turned into a nightmare 2-3 times.
Had a buddy who bought... musta' been a 58-59 DeSoto. He HAD to have a new 8-track player (12v) put in, so we thought that changing the 6v system over to 12 volt was easy-peasy, one afternoon. Little did we know. Finally did get it done and working, but ohhh, all the lessons learned.

 

that gives me great hope!!!

this is only the 5th car I have ever owned since 1985, so I drive 'em till they die...

 

I bought my first car - a 1969 Olds Delta 88 - from my grandparents for $75...it has sat in their backyard for at least 10 years...I replaced almost everything in that car over the 10 years I had it. My uncle used to race for Olds in the 50's and 60's, so he helped me get it going. 455 Rocket Engine was AWESOME!!! He actually bought the car off of me, dropped the engine into the body of a 1970 442 that he had on the farm, and raced that car. The Delta became the "farm car", and it still actually works to this day. My cousin now has it on his farm

 

Same here ... I'm bound and determined to get at least 250K out of any rig I've ever owned, and for the most part... Been successful at it. (I actually got 300K out of a Geo Metro, which I gave to a friends daughter, and is still running now.. Truth! LOL!)
I'm looking at my 2020 as I'll probably own this till I fall over dead one day...

 

LOL!!! I had a 72' Olds 98 once .. Back in my days of wanting a caddie, but couldn't actually afford one, so I bought an Olds because it had the biggest damn engine (455?) and had a hood long enough to launch/land F-14's on ... It wasn't quite my style, but the GF's at the time liked riding around in a cushy Land Yacht ... And the back seat was very roomy.

 

Just changed a handful of the fluids at 15k miles (got mine with 9k). Oil, both diffs, tcase. Figure it should flush whatever break in wear out.

 

My first car was a 72 VW Super Beetle. I can still hear my Dad saying "if you can get it running, you can have it". We got pretty damn good at working on that car out of necessity. And we always kept a set of fresh breaker points in the glove box as they would fail often. It got to where I could swap out the points in about 10 minutes on the side of the road and time the engine by ear. Good times!

 

OMG, Yes, cut my teeth on my buddies blue 1969 Chevy C/10 long box step side turbo 400 Auto 2WD Pick-up. We did all sorts of things to that poor old worn out 307 CID,. We always had break downs but were always able to get it going. But out of necessity. We could not afford anything else in the Mid 80's. Agreed good times. So much fun with that truck!

Had loved trucks ever since!

"Introduced in 1968, the 307 was a typically muscle-car-era response to squeezing more power out of a small displacement engine. Essentially a 283 block with the crankshaft and rods from a 327, the 307 served duty as Chevrolet's smallest small-block V8 until it was replaced by the 305 in 1973".

 

He goes into my philosophy.

do we need to do the 1k and 5k oil change? Maybe. Maybe not. It’s 35 bucks each time. I’ll risk my 70 bucks being extra vs trying to save 70 bucks on a truck I just paid 36k for.

 

Language geek here... A fiancé is a man you're going to marry. A fiancée (extra "e" on the end) is a woman you're going to marry.

 

Dudes can marry dudes though.

 

You're right. I didn't think of that. No judgement here, though. Whatever makes you happy.

 

I plan on keeping my 16' Taco for as long as possible. Its the first 100% NEW vehicle that I've owned.
I've had my 77' Scout for over 30 years and my 92' Subaru SVX for just over 10 years. So for me its kind of a trend.

 

Haha. I appreciate the correction; I usually try to keep my grammar in check, but it’s a truck forum. My fiancée is a woman, although no judgment here either. I’ll ignore the “e” in your judgment and assume you’re Canadian.

 

ill be keeping mine for a while. Ive kept vehicles into the upper 200k miles on the odometer but i bought them pretty high mid 100k i try to get my money worth and if i have to pop the hood and work on them in a parking lot im ususally up for the task.

my dad didnt teach me very much about fixing cars. older cars teach you that if you keep them long enough. (i was taught how to turn a wrench and had a knack for problem solving)

 

I expect I'll keep my 3rd GEN quite a while, considering I've had my 1st GEN for 25 years!