My car has a lot of miles?

Question

I have a 1998 Saturn SL2 4 door with more than 150,000 miles on it. It doesn't have any problems that I know of, but the ac is kind of weak and the passenger door has to be shoved hard in order to open (from the inside). What's the longest anyone has heard of one of these cars lasting? Can I expect a lot more miles out of this car?

Answer 1

a buddy of mine has a sl1 with over 285,000 on it and still going strong.

Answer 2

it all depends on what you're willing to replace when stuff starts breaking... most any garage could do a compression test to tell you how well the motor is holding up in general.

your AC probably just needs to be recharged if it comes on but just isn't very cold. pretty common for a 10 year old vehicle.

people will always be around to tell you "so and so has 3 million miles on such and such car" or "so and so's car died after 20 miles" - the life of a car depends on maintenance and when you consider it "dead". some people claim 300k on a vehicle but dont tell you that they've replaced the engine 3 times.