New to the MMM community...I have a 2001 Ford Freestar with 380,000 miles, still going strong. I don't expect any other car to even get close to that mileage. Downside is the terrible gas mileage, only 17 mpg city.
I also have a 2006 Nissan Altima with 220,000 but the AC went out, the fuel sensor doesn't work, and theres a leak in the coolant line.
Sounds like a good opportunity to pick up some new skills!
I don't know if our '06 Honda Odyssey qualifies as old or high-mileage, but I did a bit of cheap repair on it tonight. Honda Odysseys have a well-earned reputation for door rollers that fail (and cause all sorts of nasty scraping noises, and if you ignore it long enough, nasty scrapes along the bodywork). The actual rollers are made of
plastic, are sort of riveted in place, and rotate around a plain shaft. No lubricant as far as I can tell. Seriously designed to fail.
Rather than pay $40/door for the whole new roller assembly, I figured out a way to remove the solid (like a washer) retaining ring, pull the failing plastic rollers off, and replace them with nylon spacers from the hardware store ($0.59 ea!). And then I thought "there's gotta be a ball bearing this size."
As it turns out, there is. A standard, plain ol' 605ZZ bearing ($1.29 for a pair shipped all the way from China!) not only works,
it fits like a glove. That, plus a couple of e-clips ($12 for a set of several hundred in various metric sizes) and half an hour's work, and now I have a door roller that will not only last practically forever, it will also be easy to repair if/when needed. It sure seems like the engineers planned to have a replaceable ball bearing there, but then the beancounters told them to save $0.50 by putting plastic spacers there instead.