what's the average mileage before the engine gives out?

[dnehthend]

I was pulling some parts from a 94 at the junkyard today when I noticed that it had 307k miles on the clock, the body and interior seemed to have been cared for.

my 98 is at 123k, this gives me promise

 

[GMAN]

When properly cared for, these motors are bulletproof.

 

[LaserSVT]

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 light years.

 

[bryantaylor]

i all comes to how its cared for, and just some luck. i have seen neglected motors go 500k, and well taken care of motors let go for no reason under 50k. just take care of it and hope for the best.

 

[Sapperfire]

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 light years.

lies!

 

[Calabrio]

I wouldn't doubt the engine will go 300k with only modest mainentence.
It's the other stuff that will fail. Suspension, transmission, electric gizmos inside the car, but that applies to most every car... but the engine is incredible.

 

[mespock]

When you cross the 100K bench mark car is just starting to live. You can drive these engines like crazy ... just make sure you keep the oil changed and all the basics maintained. My first 93 230K before I parted it out ... engine was good ... body was rusting like crazy ... my 94 is at 178K and running strong. My 95 had 180K when I past it on to my son and now Pepperman drives it. My new 93 has only 86K long life ahead.

 

[s39burns]

My 96 LSC has 201,111 miles on the odometer with all the original equipment and a few minor mods... K&N air filter,MSD blaster coil packs,bigger plug wires,E-3 Diamondfire plugs,smoothed intake tube,25 holes-3/8" in air box inside the fender,B&M electronic shift kit, and racing oil and booster. Just find a good one.
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[BAD97LSC]

like any mechanical man made machine, its hard to put a mileage on it. machines fail at any given point at any given time. you could have 50k on it and it could explode for no reason, highly unlikely, but it could. these things can easily far exceed 300k.

 

[Screw-Rice]

Didn't Tommy have one that clocked out at 404k miles?

 

[LaserSVT]

Didn't Tommy have one that clocked out at 404k miles?

Yeah and I think it was stolen at that miles.

 

[14.6@97MPH]

My engine cracked a head with 250,069. That engine had about 185k on it. Of the 250k miles on the car, I put 225k of them on myself.

Except for Tommy's car, you won't see many, if any Mark VIII's with more than 250k on them with original drive trains. As mentioned above, everthing around the drive train also starts to break, or breaks for the 2nd time around at high 100,000's. When things break on the car they're expense fixes, engine, tranny, manifolds, cats, air suspension, front end suspension pieces, head gasket, ABS computer, etc. A lot of these fixes will be more expensive than the car is worth............which is what happened to my 1993.

If you have the mechanical ability to swap drivetrains they can last longer. If you don't you'll sell your car to the junk man for $300.00 like I did and by a lower mileage one.

I have driven 2-Mark VIII's for 267,000 miles and 13 1/2-years.

Ken

 

[Chris_Murder]

The highest milage motor I've seen in these cars was one a dealer was trying to sell me, it was a beautiful black 98 with gray leather interior. It was used by a taxi/escort/transporter/driver service and impeccably maintained with mostly highway milage and strict maintenance records which were included with the car, I was sold on it until I turned the key and noticed the milage which was 706,xxx! miles, it ran flawlessly. All synthetic fluids, oil changed every 2500miles, oil flush performed every third oil change, 3-part fuel injection/induction cleaner every 10,000 miles, transmission flush every 10,000, rear differential service every 10,000, even the transmission fluid was synthetic mercon 5, I was amazed by the stacks of records that came with the car but I couldn't justify paying 3 grand for that kind of milage. It just made me too nervous.

 

[Sapperfire]

how bout this... just drive the thing till the motor goes, then call Laser or myself and we can toss a painted motor in it ( for a small fee of course)

 

[Sapperfire]

My engine cracked a head with 250,069. That engine had about 185k on it. Of the 250k miles on the car, I put 225k of them on myself.

Except for Tommy's car, you won't see many, if any Mark VIII's with more than 250k on them with original drive trains. As mentioned above, everthing around the drive train also starts to break, or breaks for the 2nd time around at high 100,000's. When things break on the car they're expense fixes, engine, tranny, manifolds, cats, air suspension, front end suspension pieces, head gasket, ABS computer, etc. A lot of these fixes will be more expensive than the car is worth............which is what happened to my 1993.

If you have the mechanical ability to swap drivetrains they can last longer. If you don't you'll sell your car to the junk man for $300.00 like I did and by a lower mileage one.

I have driven 2-Mark VIII's for 267,000 miles and 13 1/2-years.

Ken

ive got $300 for the next broken Mark

 

[philly0420]

He bought it 13.5 years ago with 25000 miles?

I was 16

 

[Screw-Rice]

He bought it 13.5 years ago with 25000 miles?

I was 16

I was 11. :lol:

 

[ssmoparviii]

I was pulling some parts from a 94 at the junkyard today when I noticed that it had 307k miles on the clock, the body and interior seemed to have been cared for.

my 98 is at 123k, this gives me promise

What yard did you go to?

 

[MediumD]

Over nine thousand!!!!!!111

 

[14.6@97MPH]

He bought it 13.5 years ago with 25000 miles?

I was 16

Yup, I bought my first Mark VIII, a 1993 model, in Dec 1996 with 24,500 miles on it. I paid $16.5k for it, which was a great deal then. I was only 22 when I bought it. I drove it until it died, which was 250,069, the engine had ~185k. It was also on its 3rd tranny (2nd rebuild). I had every intention of keeping it as long as it lasted, I had hoped it would have been a little longer.

1993 Mark VIII's had a TSB for a "cam tensioner rattle", which meant the car would rattle at start up for a short amount of time then go away. It wouldn't last long, maybe a minute. In the early years of the TSB, Ford would actually replace the engine if you had a warranty. I had a Ford extended warranty on mine when I bought it, so they replaced my engine from this Cam Tensioner rattle. It took Ford and the Dealer a couple of times to get my car right as they had a bad batch of remanufactured engines. As I said above, that last engine lasted ~185k.

I now have a 1998 LSC with 97k miles that I bought with 55k miles.

 

[dnehthend]

What yard did you go to?

ecology, there was a guy going to all of the mark viiis pulling front trim pieces, there were maybe 4 of them there, the weird thing is that almost all of them had black interiors

 

[thaywood]

My '96 has almost 200K on it. The engine and tranny are original and running great. The '97 LSC has 180K with original engine and tranny doing great. I can't complain. We're gonna drive 'em both 'till they die. I love my Marks!!!

 

[1LoudLS]

my 94 had 197,000 on the clock before the trans gave out for the third time and i just gave up at that point, only thing ever dont to it was replaced the air ride with coilovers and replaced the ball joints @ 130K, replaced the coil packs and plugs @150k and a couple of trans rebuilds and thats it, and she still was running as strong as the day i got her.

 

[Icarus]

A guy at work had well over 400k kms on his Mark before he started having trans issues...