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Average mileage of salvage yard 740s 700

posted by  Erwin on  Fri Jan 9 07:54 CST 2004
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I just got back from a local yard and I'm finding the average mileage on retired 740s to be about 180,000. The highest I've seen, on a VERY clean '90 760 turbo, is 212,000. Checking about 10 others recently they're between 160,000 and 190,000. They've all been automatics and one was a backseat fire victim. The rest? Who knows what failed. I was looking over an '84 and found LOTS of disintegrated insulation on most of the under hood wiring but not on later models.

So I'm wondering, if a well (maniaclly?) maintained, unabused 740 is good for over 300,000 miles, can one assume that an ignored or casually maintain model's lifespan is in the 200k range?

???



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Erwin in Memphis, '88 745t 193,000 miles, '95 855t 96,000 miles






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