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> sdlomi2 wrote:
>> > wrote in message
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>> > wrote:
>> >> About how many miles could you expect to get out of a Ford Escort LX
>> >> engine before needing an overhaul? Looking at a 1996 with 191k,
>> >> asking
>> >> price $900.
>> >>
>> >> Doug
>> >
>> > Also: Owner says that 191k is mostly highway miles (used the car to
>> > commute).

> I would be happy to get a year or two out of it, for the price. I
> don't know where you get 115k from, I said miles not kilometers.
>
> Doug

Sorry, Doug, my bad. I focused on your earlier sentence distance
where you said, "Looking at a 1996 with 191k, asking
price $900." I had erroneously assumed from this sentence that 191k was
191km--again sorry for my error.(Where I got 115,000 miles from was using a
ratio of 1km =approx. 0.6 mile: thus, 191km X 0.6m/km= approx.115,000
miles.)
However, this yet higher miles of 191,000 makes me even more skeptical
about the remaining life in that engine. Sorry I could not be more
positive, but this is MHO. s