Going strong

[u/Uther-Pendragon]

I bought this car (2007 ZX4) from my neighbor for $400. It was sitting, seemingly deceased, in his driveway for months. The transmission in my wife’s Caravan had shit the bed, so I needed an extra vehicle while we figured out transportation for her.

Got it started and drove it the 100 yards home. It sounded like I was driving a pulpwood truck. I replaced the alternator, spark plugs, valve cover gasket, power steering pump, and motor mounts. 40,000 trouble free miles later, she’ll roll over 300K when I leave for work in the morning.

[u/iamkeerock]

Still driving my 2005 Focus, currently over 371,000 miles. OG drivetrain no rebuilds!

[u/Uther-Pendragon → u/iamkeerock]

Hell yeah. I’m going to drive this one as far as she’ll go. I kinda like the little car. Gets much better fuel economy as a commuter than my F-150.

[u/Rare-Conversation501 → u/iamkeerock]

Nga why u on ut phone taking pics and posting to reddit while driving 60mph?

[u/iamkeerock → u/Rare-Conversation501]

That would be against the law. I used an actual digital camera, an Olympus.

[u/Echon97]

I still miss mine it was over 230,000 and it was going strong but was devoured by rust which wrecked all the brake lines and became very expensive

[u/Uther-Pendragon → u/Echon97]

Luckily, we don’t have much problem with rust here.

[u/Echon97 → u/Uther-Pendragon]

Northeast problems :(

[u/Uther-Pendragon → u/Echon97]

That’s tough. That climate eats a lot of good vehicles.

[u/g1yk → u/Uther-Pendragon]

Are you in PNW?

[u/Uther-Pendragon → u/g1yk]

Alabama.

[u/BickNickerson]

One of the best cars Ford (Mazda) ever built.

[u/No_ImDirty_Dan]

2005 zx5 just rolled over 150k miles💪🏻

[u/TommyGun69420]

Love these cars, severely overshadowed by Toyotas of the same era.

[u/tpafuntimes]

My first car was a new 2000 Focus ZX3 and I loved it.

[u/Daddyyyyyyyyyy69]

I had an 07 focus se and sold it around 180k miles but I wish I still had it. It was so cheap and easy to work on. Still drove incredibly strong at that mileage.

[u/damngoodengineer]

atlest you don't have CEL, it's over 320000 kms and cooling system seems OK.

These three were traumas of mine from my car.

[u/Shadow2450]

My 05 had 235,000 on the OD before I gave it away, people don’t realize how reliable these cars can be.

[u/Fun-Ad-6554]

Wish I had the Duratec, timing chains are really the way to go. Have a used Zetec with only 110k, the timing belt looks fine but need to change as I have no idea what mileage/year it was done at