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by blacklion 1954 days ago
It is funny, how here in Russia there are a lot of talks that modern engines need rebuild after 100K-150K of KILOMETER (not miles), we could not buy car with "million-worth" engine anymore!

It is very common view, that modern cars are much more safe, comfortable, ecologically sane, faster, and even reliable in first 1-2 years, than old ones, but they will break up and require very expensive repair (engine re-sleeving or re-boring with full rebuild) much, much sooner than older ones.
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fomine3 1954 days ago
Possibly social pressure for environment (fuel efficiency, exhaust regulation) affects the reliability. For example, some cars now uses 0W-8 oil.
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blacklion 1951 days ago
Yep, it is understandable.

What is interesting to me, that USA users write about new cars that they expect 150K+ miles from them and it was not so in the past. Completely opposite to what users think here.

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