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Has anyone ever had their radiator for the whole life of the car?

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Old 12-08-2007 | 12:20 AM
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How many miles Tony? I'm hoping my 6th gen cld do that too (minus the trans).
 
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Old 12-08-2007 | 02:59 PM
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i suppose if you clean and gap the plugs regularly, why replace them?
 
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Old 12-08-2007 | 07:54 PM
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I've owned more than 25 vehicles in my life and never replaced the radiator in a single one, they were all OEM. A few looked really bad but never oeverheated due to the radiator.
 
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Old 12-09-2007 | 12:24 PM
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Default RE: Has anyone ever had their radiator for the whole life of the car?

ORIGINAL: ckebottle

How many miles Tony? I'm hoping my 6th gen cld do that too (minus the trans).
202,100 km, or 125,579 miles - nothigh mileage for a 92.



ORIGINAL: nafango2

i suppose if you clean and gap the plugs regularly, why replace them?
My philosophy exactly, except that I've never cleaned the plugs, andthe first time I checked the gap was when I removed them to do the timing belt job in Aug of 06.I didn't have to adjust any ofthe gaps.

All the electrodeslooked like those "proper spark plugcolor" photos you see in technical manuals, and the engine runs smooth at silk, so I simply could not justify replacing them.

10 years down the road when we finally replace them (whether they need it or not), I will not feel that we didn't get a good bang for the buck on the originals.
 
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