How many miles are on the transmission?

or more so what engine/trans are actually in it, if I remember correctly supras came with 3 transmission variants.

If the engine blew, that means the car wasn't taken care of / was beaten on so you have to think what else might be going bad?

In my opinion, don't get excited over new engines / transmissions or low mileage. A car with 200k miles can drive exactly the same as a car with 20k miles. Two things kill cars, that is miles and age. Once the miles get high, age doesn't matter. Once the age gets high, miles don't matter. This car is 25 years old, the miles don't matter. When I look for vehicles I personally stay away from vehicles with new major components (engine, trans, etc). My truck did get a new engine about 70k miles ago and the reason I still bought it was because there was paperwork from a Ford certified tech / Ford dealership that put it in, and everything else checked out as far as parts not worn out.

As far as the price, I'm not sure what the market is for these vehicles (check Craigslist?), but I do know there is no way in hell I'd pay $5k for a 25 year old car.

Supra's are on the rise, same with most 90's Japanese cars that appeal to enthusiasts. If you're not an enthusiast, don't bother but yeah that price is sounding about right for a supra tbh.

Can't find any of the 1992's on the UK's two most popular ad sites, so yea..

002 wrote If the engine blew, that means the car wasn't taken care of / was beaten on so you have to think what else might be going bad?

In my opinion, don't get excited over new engines / transmissions or low mileage. A car with 200k miles can drive exactly the same as a car with 20k miles. Two things kill cars, that is miles and age. Once the miles get high, age doesn't matter. Once the age gets high, miles don't matter. This car is 25 years old, the miles don't matter. When I look for vehicles I personally stay away from vehicles with new major components (engine, trans, etc). My truck did get a new engine about 70k miles ago and the reason I still bought it was because there was paperwork from a Ford certified tech / Ford dealership that put it in, and everything else checked out as far as parts not worn out.

As far as the price, I'm not sure what the market is for these vehicles (check Craigslist?), but I do know there is no way in hell I'd pay $5k for a 25 year old car.

Two things kill cars, that is miles and age.

i have to disagree with that, miles & age does not kill the car, maintenance does if you keep up to date with maintenance and put money into the car you will have no issues with the car at high miles. age is just a number i know cars that have low miles for being 10 years old it depends on the driver.


On to the topic - Yes, that is a great deal, fix that supra up and you can get double that.

EagleUS wrote

002 wrote If the engine blew, that means the car wasn't taken care of / was beaten on so you have to think what else might be going bad?

In my opinion, don't get excited over new engines / transmissions or low mileage. A car with 200k miles can drive exactly the same as a car with 20k miles. Two things kill cars, that is miles and age. Once the miles get high, age doesn't matter. Once the age gets high, miles don't matter. This car is 25 years old, the miles don't matter. When I look for vehicles I personally stay away from vehicles with new major components (engine, trans, etc). My truck did get a new engine about 70k miles ago and the reason I still bought it was because there was paperwork from a Ford certified tech / Ford dealership that put it in, and everything else checked out as far as parts not worn out.

As far as the price, I'm not sure what the market is for these vehicles (check Craigslist?), but I do know there is no way in hell I'd pay $5k for a 25 year old car.

Two things kill cars, that is miles and age.

i have to disagree with that, miles & age does not kill the car, maintenance does if you keep up to date with maintenance and put money into the car you will have no issues with the car at high miles. age is just a number i know cars that have low miles for being 10 years old it depends on the driver.


On to the topic - Yes, that is a great deal, fix that supra up and you can get double that.

Miles kill cars, plain and simple. Look at all the moving parts, once they start moving they start going bad. Just like the human body, you are young alive and well, but you are also slowly dyeing. Also vehicles are very unpredictable. I travel the country and get a ton of rental cars and I had a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with like 100 miles on it and the tranny blew. There was another car (not sure what it was, but just a little 4 door sedan) with around 2k miles that threw a rod. Maintenance prevents issues at higher miles, but by no means does it mean the car will be immune to issues. Just food for thought, it wasn't that long ago that all cars used conventional oil. These cars were engineered and designed to use it, but most people use synthetic. Same thing with gas, older cars were designed to run on leaded gas but now we all use unleaded. Standards of today are changing and that can be an issue for older cars.

Fluid does not stay new. Over time rust will build and kill a car. Especially on an older car with low miles, rust can build inside the engine block. This is because coolant is mixed with water and when water sits on metal, the metal rusts. This can make solid flakes in your engine block that can block the flow of coolant and overheat the car. Of course that's just 1 issue with age and an extreme but age most certainly does kill vehicles. That is not even touching on the fact that all the rubber parts degrade, things gas filled (like your shocks) will lose pressure, oils become more fluid, etc.

002 wrote

EagleUS wrote

002 wrote If the engine blew, that means the car wasn't taken care of / was beaten on so you have to think what else might be going bad?

In my opinion, don't get excited over new engines / transmissions or low mileage. A car with 200k miles can drive exactly the same as a car with 20k miles. Two things kill cars, that is miles and age. Once the miles get high, age doesn't matter. Once the age gets high, miles don't matter. This car is 25 years old, the miles don't matter. When I look for vehicles I personally stay away from vehicles with new major components (engine, trans, etc). My truck did get a new engine about 70k miles ago and the reason I still bought it was because there was paperwork from a Ford certified tech / Ford dealership that put it in, and everything else checked out as far as parts not worn out.

As far as the price, I'm not sure what the market is for these vehicles (check Craigslist?), but I do know there is no way in hell I'd pay $5k for a 25 year old car.

Two things kill cars, that is miles and age.

i have to disagree with that, miles & age does not kill the car, maintenance does if you keep up to date with maintenance and put money into the car you will have no issues with the car at high miles. age is just a number i know cars that have low miles for being 10 years old it depends on the driver.


On to the topic - Yes, that is a great deal, fix that supra up and you can get double that.

Miles kill cars, plain and simple. Look at all the moving parts, once they start moving they start going bad. Just like the human body, you are young alive and well, but you are also slowly dyeing. Also vehicles are very unpredictable. I travel the country and get a ton of rental cars and I had a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with like 100 miles on it and the tranny blew. There was another car (not sure what it was, but just a little 4 door sedan) with around 2k miles that threw a rod. Maintenance prevents issues at higher miles, but by no means does it mean the car will be immune to issues. Just food for thought, it wasn't that long ago that all cars used conventional oil. These cars were engineered and designed to use it, but most people use synthetic. Same thing with gas, older cars were designed to run on leaded gas but now we all use unleaded. Standards of today are changing and that can be an issue for older cars.

Fluid does not stay new. Over time rust will build and kill a car. Especially on an older car with low miles, rust can build inside the engine block. This is because coolant is mixed with water and when water sits on metal, the metal rusts. This can make solid flakes in your engine block that can block the flow of coolant and overheat the car. Of course that's just 1 issue with age and an extreme but age most certainly does kill vehicles. That is not even touching on the fact that all the rubber parts degrade, things gas filled (like your shocks) will lose pressure, oils become more fluid, etc.

This literally sums up the part where i said "Maintenance" if you jeep blew at 100k miles you must be doing something wrong, these cars last forever thats why the value of them is so high. bringing it to a dealership/shop every few months will prevent these issues you described above.

EagleUS wrote

002 wrote

EagleUS wrote

002 wrote If the engine blew, that means the car wasn't taken care of / was beaten on so you have to think what else might be going bad?

In my opinion, don't get excited over new engines / transmissions or low mileage. A car with 200k miles can drive exactly the same as a car with 20k miles. Two things kill cars, that is miles and age. Once the miles get high, age doesn't matter. Once the age gets high, miles don't matter. This car is 25 years old, the miles don't matter. When I look for vehicles I personally stay away from vehicles with new major components (engine, trans, etc). My truck did get a new engine about 70k miles ago and the reason I still bought it was because there was paperwork from a Ford certified tech / Ford dealership that put it in, and everything else checked out as far as parts not worn out.

As far as the price, I'm not sure what the market is for these vehicles (check Craigslist?), but I do know there is no way in hell I'd pay $5k for a 25 year old car.

Two things kill cars, that is miles and age.

i have to disagree with that, miles & age does not kill the car, maintenance does if you keep up to date with maintenance and put money into the car you will have no issues with the car at high miles. age is just a number i know cars that have low miles for being 10 years old it depends on the driver.


On to the topic - Yes, that is a great deal, fix that supra up and you can get double that.

Miles kill cars, plain and simple. Look at all the moving parts, once they start moving they start going bad. Just like the human body, you are young alive and well, but you are also slowly dyeing. Also vehicles are very unpredictable. I travel the country and get a ton of rental cars and I had a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with like 100 miles on it and the tranny blew. There was another car (not sure what it was, but just a little 4 door sedan) with around 2k miles that threw a rod. Maintenance prevents issues at higher miles, but by no means does it mean the car will be immune to issues. Just food for thought, it wasn't that long ago that all cars used conventional oil. These cars were engineered and designed to use it, but most people use synthetic. Same thing with gas, older cars were designed to run on leaded gas but now we all use unleaded. Standards of today are changing and that can be an issue for older cars.

Fluid does not stay new. Over time rust will build and kill a car. Especially on an older car with low miles, rust can build inside the engine block. This is because coolant is mixed with water and when water sits on metal, the metal rusts. This can make solid flakes in your engine block that can block the flow of coolant and overheat the car. Of course that's just 1 issue with age and an extreme but age most certainly does kill vehicles. That is not even touching on the fact that all the rubber parts degrade, things gas filled (like your shocks) will lose pressure, oils become more fluid, etc.

This literally sums up the part where i said "Maintenance" if you jeep blew at 100k miles you must be doing something wrong, these cars last forever thats why the value of them is so high. bringing it to a dealership/shop every few months will prevent these issues you described above.

The jeep had 100 miles, not 100k. 100 as in one hundred, one zero zero. As I said, cars are all different and you can do everything right but moving parts break.

002 wrote

EagleUS wrote

002 wrote

EagleUS wrote

002 wrote If the engine blew, that means the car wasn't taken care of / was beaten on so you have to think what else might be going bad?

In my opinion, don't get excited over new engines / transmissions or low mileage. A car with 200k miles can drive exactly the same as a car with 20k miles. Two things kill cars, that is miles and age. Once the miles get high, age doesn't matter. Once the age gets high, miles don't matter. This car is 25 years old, the miles don't matter. When I look for vehicles I personally stay away from vehicles with new major components (engine, trans, etc). My truck did get a new engine about 70k miles ago and the reason I still bought it was because there was paperwork from a Ford certified tech / Ford dealership that put it in, and everything else checked out as far as parts not worn out.

As far as the price, I'm not sure what the market is for these vehicles (check Craigslist?), but I do know there is no way in hell I'd pay $5k for a 25 year old car.

Two things kill cars, that is miles and age.

i have to disagree with that, miles & age does not kill the car, maintenance does if you keep up to date with maintenance and put money into the car you will have no issues with the car at high miles. age is just a number i know cars that have low miles for being 10 years old it depends on the driver.


On to the topic - Yes, that is a great deal, fix that supra up and you can get double that.

Miles kill cars, plain and simple. Look at all the moving parts, once they start moving they start going bad. Just like the human body, you are young alive and well, but you are also slowly dyeing. Also vehicles are very unpredictable. I travel the country and get a ton of rental cars and I had a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with like 100 miles on it and the tranny blew. There was another car (not sure what it was, but just a little 4 door sedan) with around 2k miles that threw a rod. Maintenance prevents issues at higher miles, but by no means does it mean the car will be immune to issues. Just food for thought, it wasn't that long ago that all cars used conventional oil. These cars were engineered and designed to use it, but most people use synthetic. Same thing with gas, older cars were designed to run on leaded gas but now we all use unleaded. Standards of today are changing and that can be an issue for older cars.

Fluid does not stay new. Over time rust will build and kill a car. Especially on an older car with low miles, rust can build inside the engine block. This is because coolant is mixed with water and when water sits on metal, the metal rusts. This can make solid flakes in your engine block that can block the flow of coolant and overheat the car. Of course that's just 1 issue with age and an extreme but age most certainly does kill vehicles. That is not even touching on the fact that all the rubber parts degrade, things gas filled (like your shocks) will lose pressure, oils become more fluid, etc.

This literally sums up the part where i said "Maintenance" if you jeep blew at 100k miles you must be doing something wrong, these cars last forever thats why the value of them is so high. bringing it to a dealership/shop every few months will prevent these issues you described above.

The jeep had 100 miles, not 100k. 100 as in one hundred, one zero zero. As I said, cars are all different and you can do everything right but moving parts break.

i think this is BS 100miles and new trans ? you must of been driving it wrong or something.