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Vince
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Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« on: Apr 17th, 2006, 5:11pm » |
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On the Honest John website I read this about the Scorpio
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Are these accurate comments?
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mr._floppy
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #1 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 5:20pm » |
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Nah, plenty owners on this site with ( or had ) trouble free 100k + miles autoboxes.
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Baz
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #2 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 6:26pm » |
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I guess honest John isn't then.....I had one Scorpio with 112,000 on when I sold it and I have one with 85,000 and another with 156,000....both boxes are sweet as a nut
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lonesomecajun
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #3 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 6:45pm » |
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I think we can safely say Honest John is talking through a hole in his backside.
I myself have had 2 Scorps and both sailed past 150k with NO problems at all with the auto boxes.
A few other things started popping (radiators spring to mind)
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Vince
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #4 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 6:47pm » |
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Thanks, that's more in line with what I thought guys.
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david_molloy
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #5 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 10:57pm » |
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Just goes to show that if on net - not forced to be true.
Have noticed many quotes / opinions / information on net are absolute garbage - honest J been an example.
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Jonnycab
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #6 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 11:22pm » |
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A fellow cabbie comrade of mine had 290,000 miles on a R reg 2.3 Auto facelift Scorpio estate (until he sold it). He had his own trusted mechanic, & as far as I know it still had the original autobox. Another fact that is not commonly known is that the A4LDE autobox is also fitted to alot of London black cabs & has proved to be a very strong autobox.
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sector-9
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #7 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 10:09pm » |
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Just goes to show that, like anything, it all depends on how they're looked after. I think (dis?)honest john is thinking about another gearbox such as the CVT which was less robust...or another car (easy to clock? maybe the old Granadas or Sierras...)
Darren
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Baw_Flinger
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Re: Autobox Life Expectancy/ Clocking
« Reply #8 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 11:01pm » |
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Been given the very good advice that you should have oil/filter done every 50K or so, this will keep it sweet (in most cases). This came from a guy who kept a fleet of scorps on the road well past 200K on the origonal boxes.
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