How long can you expect a mazda 626 to last?

Answer 1

4 cylinders have good engines but troublesome Ford automatic transmissions (after 1994); V6 has a not so durable engine with good transmission( all years). In fact, it seems that the only good years were 1990-1994. Earlier years had headgasket issues and later years had tranny issues or not so great motors. Still even the best should reach 200K miles without issues. Any other choices? A 4 cylinder with 5 speed manual should be reliable. I know more than a handful of people who have over 200K trouble-free miles on manual trannied 4 cylinders.

Answer 2

If you maintain a solid maitenance program all around and drive the car with car, you can expect to drive it far past 10 years. As long as a vehicle is maintained it will keep going and going. Drive it like your at Indy and your gonna have issues earlier rather than later. Somwhere around 150-200K you can start to expect to replace parts, such as the starter, alternator, and such...however if you can do it yourself or have a friend who will do it for you, you can get even more miles out of a car. Parts usually are not the killer with cars, it is the labor fees that dealers charge...as a 10 minute install of a new probe costs you an hour of labor even if the repair doesn't really take that long.

Answer 3

10 years+

Answer 4

The ones from the late 1990's should still be OK if they were properly serviced all along. Before 1996 - forget it.

Answer 5

4 cyl car transmission is a ford unit and does not last. 6 cyl car is pretty nice but not the longest lasting engine but the japan transmission lasts longer.

Answer 6

626 years. isn't that why they named it that????

Answer 7

That really depends upon you and how well you take care of it.

Answer 8

150,000 miles with good care.

Answer 9

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