Not bad for presumably a petrol-engined car! I once took a mini cab home which had done similar mileage - this was an early 00's Pug 406 diesel though...

I wonder if the Lancer was belt or chain cam?

Yes these are petrol engines the engine code is 4g92 - I think.!

Like I said, I own a Carisma and that is a belt

When talking to a Mitsubishi salesman the 4g92 engine in the Lancer is slightly detuned for emission purposes, and he went on to say you wouldn't notice the difference from the Carisma, that being 100BHP

Mark

When I worked the cabs years ago, we had a Peugeot 305 (XUD engine) that had in excess of one million miles on the clock, granted it was on it's second engine, but was still going strong and often on the road for most of the day and night.

The cars were well looked after and most on the fleet had pretty high mileages, tyres were probably replaced the most often IIRC....

Oh for the good old PSA XUD engine.........

Thanks for the reply

Never owned a DERV car - But you are right, the PSA XUD was a great engine

Mark

I learned to drive in a Pug 205 1.9 diesel - slow, but very dependable. Saw the old thing around town for another 8 years - it must've done several 100,000s of miles by then (it had already done nearly 100k when I learned in it!).

Glad I didn't get the PSA-Ford 1.6 diesel in my Mazda3 (I had the choice of that for only £100 more than my 1.6 petrol [admitably the next version down in spec]) which consequently suffered from many problems as described here. Petrol one fine.

Those old diesels were really "agricultural" but almost bomb-proof. Shame about some of the more modern ones. let's hoep they've solved the problems, otheriwse its another petrol one for me next time (unless I'm doing astronomical mileage).

Unfortunately in this clean clinical world the output from the exhaust pipe by today's standards was not acceptable by a long way.

At one time they made the blocks for the Peugeot,Volvo and Ford plus the pistons in Bradford the only difference was the colour the blocks were sprayed.