Re: delorean engines...miles or hours?

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

There are many things you can look at to estimate age-wear on an
automobile. The wear on the clutch, and brake pedal pads for instance.
The compression in an engine for another. The general apperance of the
car. If the NCT's are still on it and the amount of wear. Compare the
Lambda counter to the odometer for a cross-check. If there are any new
looking parts on the speedo like a new cable or angle drive. At this
point it matters more how it was taken care of than an actual # of
miles. Look at the title, that is a legal representation of the
mileage at the time you bought the car. Someone sweared to the mileage
of the car at the time of sale. I like to see what the presets are on
the radio, the type of music listened to can tell the way a person
drives a car!
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, billsfanmd@xxxx wrote:
> Just a curious question about automobile engines. I know the
standard way to 
> tell how "used" an engine is is by the mileage. On our cars since
many have 
> sat, had broken angle drives or had sporadic periods of use I was
wondering 
> other ways to tell how much use an engine has had. Just like the way
the car was 
> treated the past 20 years shoud be more important then 81,82 or 83 I
would 
> think there are other ways to help judge an engines life.
> 
> Since my brother is an avid boater they refer to an engines age by the 
> "hours" it has logged. Which made me wonder which is truly more
accurate, hours or 
> miles??? Are there ways on an engine that measure things that may be
more 
> important then miles? Can you tell how many hours your engine has
logged?..... 
> Since I have a relativley high mileage car this tells me he simply
drove it alot 
> and it was well maintained to do so....
> 
> MikeC
> 2109
> 
> 
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