If tranny is bad..wat else does it kill? 413K Miles!!

[lil_ta]

My 94 413K miles Camry XLE just died.. the car stalled and started to smoke.. all of a sudden trannie fluid started to pour out.. something was making a ticking noise now.. ehh
well hope you guys can help me out any feedback will do!!

[Dr Tweak]

Congrats on 412k miles, now get a new car!

[BuDDHa510]

wow thats pretty good miles , i hope my camry will reach that , so far im at 213k

[lil_ta]

nah I like my camry.. drives better than my parents solara.. its like a lexus.. hehe.. i guess. it sticks to the road like glue.. ehhh.. need of help you guys thanks in advance

[Cyorke]

you say it started smoking, was it from the exhaust under the hood or what. If tranny fluid was everywhere I am assuming it was under the hood. Are you sure you jsut didnt have a tranny cooler line blow off or something like that. Guess you need to try and pinopoint where the fluid is coming from first then go from there. But like Dr. Tweak said maybe time for a new car. If you like that one so much maybe find another with less mile son it and start again. See if you can get 500k out of the next one.

[whocares04]

well the clicking sounds like the clutch trying to grab so that the car can go...

Off Topic, can u post up a pic for us of ur odometer...i wanna see that biatch at 413K +!!! cuz that's awesome! go for 500K!

[Mike Gerber]

Check to see where the tranny fluid was coming out. Hope for a transmission cooler line like Cyorke suggested. The ticking noise could have been the tranny fluid hitting the hot exhaust parts causing them to cool and contract rapidly. You will sometimes hear a slight ticking noise when you shut the car off after a drive in warm weather. That clicking is caused by the exhaust system contracting. Did it sould like that?

Mike

[500KCamry]

Yeah, how about some more info.

Good going on the mileage, you must have been doing something right.

[lil_ta]

My 87 camry has like way past 500K miles.. it still running.. original engine and tranny.. but the rear end is pretty bad..It burns a quart at every oil change.Its going everywhere.. so its all highway miles..

[bill23435]

Wow thats alot of miles. My 1994 camry has 156000 on it. I wonder every day how long the clutch will last. I hope to get to at least 300K

[Lumberg]

Ok so we're talking about an automatic transmission right?

AFAIK if the transmission goes it doesn't usually kill anything else on the car.

[lil_ta]

recently took a 2K mile trip to the west coast.. Loveit just hit 416K awesome!!!

[Mike Gerber]

Originally Posted by lil_ta

recently took a 2K mile trip to the west coast.. Loveit just hit 416K awesome!!!

Glad you got it running again and good luck on reaching 500,000 miles. You never said what the original problem was and what it took to repair it. Inquiring minds want to know.

Mike

[epinionator89]

Originally Posted by Mike Gerber

Glad you got it running again and good luck on reaching 500,000 miles.

To quote the 2005 Guinness Book of World Records (page 131):

"A 1966 Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvin Gordon (USA) had covered in excess of 2,219,751 miles (3,572,342 KM) by March 2004. The car is still driven on a daily basis and covers more than 100,000 miles (160,000 KM) per year, thanks in part to being driven to numerous events in Europe and the USA."

So 100,000 miles a year equals 281 miles a day.

By now it would have approx 2,375,951 miles on it. But being 39 years old, it has put on average 60,921.82 miles a year, or 166.91 miles a day since new.

With your '96 Camry having 416K miles (that's 9 years old) it has put on an average of 46,222 miles a year, or 126.64 miles a day. Assuming you'll do the same amount of driving in the years ahead, you should reach 500K in a little less than two years from now. That'll be when the car is 11 years old, so by the time you reach the current record of March 2004, your car would probably be 44 years old (2049).

[lil_ta]

rephrase that its a 94 camry so it 11 years old then that make it 104 miles per day.. it would bet about 1 to 2 mores years to get to 500K im hoping..
for others that didnt read the whole forum.. my tranny did die and I got an 2000 camry auto tranny with just a few thousand miles on it like under 10K miles.. It bolt up right but looks a little small.. but the thing is the ect button acts up some time??