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Old 10-28-2011, 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by cele_997 View Post
I read in another thread that once one component of a system fails, it maybe an indicator that the other components of that same system are waiting in line to fail also - so i just happened to buy a car that had reached end of life for the cooling system component. At 159 000 miles - is this more or less expected behavior?
Most people have some combination of water pump / radiator / head gasket (because of radiator) issues by 100,000 miles. So the fact that you made it to 160,000 is above average. I bought my car with a bad radiator, bad headgasket, and replaced the water pump when I was in there @ 125,000.
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