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Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

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Post by burnt-resistor »

mykowebhn wrote: post #31
userbinator wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1M km (Tm?) is less than 750k miles, for those more familiar with customary units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Gordon had a Volvo with over 3.25 million miles (5.2Tm), although it's also had 3 engine rebuilds.

"Customary units"? I hate to break it to you, but most of the world uses the metric system. And the conversion is actually fairly simple. 1M km is 600k miles, so you were in the ballpark.

Metrication will happen after Americans give up ICE vehicles like the Ford Expedition, ICE gestapo, ultraprocessed hamburgers, and climate change denial.

Metric is really far simpler, while Freedom Units are like going back to counting change in Roman-inspired £sd.

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Post by amelius »

franze wrote: post #29

> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has had work done on it. aka This is my grandfather’s axe. My father replaced the handle. I replaced the head.

Ship of Theseus

Re: Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

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Post by Sylarr »

swarnie wrote: post #28

> This car has 1,253,070 kilometres on it — and counting. > When it turned over from 999,999 kilometres to 000,000 kilometres in September 2017 The idea of averaging 31k miles a year is just insane to me. My car hasn't done that since i bought it new 8 years ago.

It's 31k kilometers so around 20k miles.

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Post by kentiko »

> Since then, he's used it as his daily driver, putting on at least 120 kilometres a day driving from his home in Wyses Corner, N.S., to Halifax and back each day of his working life.

120km per day of commuting is crazy to me. I work from home and occasionally do a 14km bicycle commute to the office.

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Post by hdgvhicv »

vntok wrote: post #40
hdgvhicv wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what if you took the other parts and built a separate car from them?

You've just answered your own question, haven't you? If it's a separate car then it can't be the original by definition.

If you completely disassemble a car then reassemble it, is it the same car?

What if you disassemble all of the car except the wheels and reassemble it but with new wheels?

How about if you also exclude the seats too.

At what point does the answer change? That’s the whole point of the ship of theseus.

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Post by HKH2 »

moffkalast wrote: post #3
SilverElfin wrote: post #2

> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has had work done on it. To me this makes it less interesting. I would be amazed if the original parts (outside of what gets replaced for maintenance) lasted that long. But it’s hard to judge how durable the car is when everything has been replaced

A literal ship of Theseus, arguably it's not even the same car.

Not literal.

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Post by SebFender »

Back in the 90's my dad and I put a more than 500k on a Volvo 740 and mostly running original parts (oil filters, brakes etc were changed throughout the decade 84/96 - Québec winters included).

The car ran fine and was ultimately sold to a taxi driver that apparently brought it to close to a million (no proof though).

I think now days people treat cars like phones. Minimal continual maintenance can work wonders and save you a bundle in the process.

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