How old a car would you trust

Scrabbler
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 04:57:39 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

Is there a point beyond which you wouldn’t trust a car for a long trip based on mileage/age alone, even if the car was well-maintained and had no obvious issues? To put it in concrete terms, assume a 2013 Subaru Outback, 2.5, with about 173,000 miles on the odometer, maintained according to the manual, with no known mechanical issues. The transmission valve body was replaced at around 130,000 miles. Other than that, just minor repairs and normal maintenance. Mix of highway driving, city driving, and mountain driving. We take long road trips, and, in between, often go to remote trailheads where cell service is nonexistent, so reliability is, to say the least, important.

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