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Old 01-31-2007, 11:09 PM
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Answer:

The industry standard is ten years or 100000 miles.

Today an engineer who designs products that last longer is generally demoted or fired.

Between 60k and 90k is when most fail in hard service, ten years and they should be junk regardless of miles.




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