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Hey Guys,

I have had my Stagea for about a year now.

I live at Lewiston and travel to Regency Park every day for work, traveling about 480KMs a week.

I am about to hit the 150K mark on the stag, Most of the cars i have every had have had under 150K as i usually sold them by that mark.

The problem is, i really like the stagea, and happy with mine, even thinking about getting new wheels.

The question i have is, how many KMs on a stagea is too much, how may KMs most people have, and the amount of problems that come up when they start clocking up the KMs.

I have coilovers, and all new sway bars, sway bar links and rubbers.

Most of the motor is stock, just a pod, intercooler and shift kit

Any advice and insight would be great.

Thanks

Kris

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If you've spent some money on maintaining it, and you love it, why not just drive it until it dies? Keep up the fluid/brake pad/rotor/shock absorber changes over time and it'll serve you well for years. If the engine dies it's not like RBs aren't thick on the ground, and autos can be rebuilt and strengthened. Really I see no reason not to hold onto a car until its chassis is consumed by tin worm.

We've followed this policy with our VS Commodore, and now it's worth practically nothing but only costs us maybe $2-300 per year in maintenance for another year or so of bogantastic motoring. There's no way you're going to treat your Stag as badly as we treat the Commie so expect at least 300,000km out of it.

TL;DR: A lot more than 150,000km if you maintain it.

If you like you could get your odometer set to 200,000ks now so you can see your car won't explode because of a number on the dash :)

its not that, i just know of certain cars that as soon as ya rack up the KMs shit fails.

I don't plan on keeping it till its done 300ks, but as soon as the KMs get up there i am also worried about re sale value, from looking at the net the c34 has dropped in value a lot in the last year

If you like to change cars every few years for something newer, theres no way around the fact that you will pay for that luxury, with taxes and inspections, rego changing and depreciation. I figure its most economical to buy a good 2nd hand vehicle, maintain and run it until it dies.

Of course you can never be 100% sure whether you will get a vehicle that will have many problems in its life. Even though the stagea is quite heavy on fuel, the old technology seems to be simple and rugged.

If youve done major work on the engine or suspesion, like the 100k service, then you might as well get your money's worth out of the components.

Its not going to all of a sudden fall apart. but obviously components do wear out, so you replace them.

Resale value is going to depreciate no matter what car you have, so kind of a non concern really.

If you want a car that wont devalue, buy one for $1000 and get your money back in 5 years =)

Bushes get worn, distorted and loose. The suspension arms aren't difficult to fix, but something like the rear subframe bushes are much more difficult. If you haven't installed polyurethane subframe collars, that would be a good idea. The reduced movement of the subframe should help extend the life of the factory bushes. However, if you need to replace completely torn ones, you have to take the subframe out.

My Stagea just had its 240,000km service (every 5k oil and filter).

Only things that's let me down is the rad started to leak from the tanks.

I've done timing set and seals as a precaution, and water pump.

Other than that it's the tightest and smoothest running car I've ever owned. No rattles or squeaks.

Agree with everyone on here, k's don't mean anything. its all how the cars been looked after. My Stagea is nearing 230k and has (while in australia) been really well taken care of and you can tell. Seriously they are cheap cars for what they are, well worth fixing and keeping longer than 2-3 years.

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