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stomper -> RE: How many miles? 1993 Cadillac STS 203,000 miles (5/21/2008 8:27:31 AM)
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I bought a 1993 STS that had 203,000 miles on it. It don't heat up and runs about 198 degrees, I only seen it at 201 degrees once and only uses about 1-1/2 qts of oil per 3000 mile change. It does have very clean green anti freeze in it and it runs very nice and smooth. My question is could I assume that the head qaskets were already replaced, could it possibly go that many miles without gasket replacement? If they were replaced and the head bolt kit installed are these engines good to go almost forever then? I really am surprised it don't need them and I bought this car expecting to have to replace them but maybe I got lucky.
Thank You
if the car was properly maintained, specially changing the coolant every two years ignoring the GM 10 year thing, the engine can and will most likely go 400,000 ++ miles ...
we have lots of 20 year old engines doing just fine, never having been opened .. but they all seemed to have ignored the GM 10 year thing and changed coolant often.
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