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I am now over the 380 mark. I should hit the 400 mid to late summer I believe. I will have to have a celebration.

Although, my speedo right now only reads about 11,000.

Now I have to add. I have my old speedo at home in the box in the basement just in case no one believes me.

I still think you are good for at least 500000kms. Really would love to see you pull off the million mile club. But that would be another 9 years at least.

I hope so. I need to get a minimum of 2 more years out of this baby. The longer the better.

That's awesome Laura. You'e giving me a lot of hope when it comes to my car's longevity. Nothing major has gone wrong so far (knock on wood), and I keep up the routine maintenance. I'm at 208K right now and hoping to keep her for another 3 years.
On a side note, thanks again for selling me your steelies. Although I haven't really seen a lot of snow myself around my area, I'm glad I ahve them for my winter tires and not ahve to break off tires twice a year. Thanks again. Let me know when you hit 400K, we should all go out for a drink or somethng.

I have seen a ton of snow up here. My snow banks are higher than me now. It is getting hard to shovel. Oh well that is winter in Canada.

I cannot remember the colour of my car though. It has been this funny beige colour for past while. I know there it black under there somewhere.

Awesome idea! We should have a 400K celebration with Laura.
Seems like a good excuse to get the local gang together!

Laura,

How is your car for rust and that? Has any started to show up yet or do you get it Krowned?

I have some rust. A small spot forming on the roof on the passenger side and also around the wheel wells and a small spot near one of the windows but that is about it. Until 2 years ago I had it Krowned every year. I try to wash it down and get the salt off as much as I can in the winter. Eventually it is gonna rust.

I do have an issue on both of the back windows whre the rear sale is in the window the mouldings there are bad, not the ones on the outside but the verticles ones on the back window. Probably not explaining it good but I know what I mean. I need to look at replacing them in the spring. They are really bad.

Seems to be holding up pretty good in my opinion.

Contours seem to have rust issues around the lower inside seam of the doors. I've got it starting on 3 out of 4 doors on my 96 SE and my friend has it on his 99 SVT as well in that area.

Krown does seem to work pretty well. My dad had a 90 Volvo 740 wagon with 300,000km on it on not a speck of rust. Even the paint looked great.

Don't have problems there. Not that I have noticed anyway.