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Old 17th Dec 2008, 13:00
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sunday driver
 
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Well, 130,000 miles at an average speed of, say, 60mph (yes Rovers will do that) is more than 2000 hours.

Also, I can increase the sample size at a stroke to 2 Rovers with 130,000 failure-free miles (what else would a Sunday Driver use?)

So, more than 4000 hours without a failure.

We know there are some 4000 hour chaps out there, so what's your experience of MTBF?

Yours

SD

PS I HAVE had a Vauxhall engine put a rod through the block at 30 mph
PPS I have also had a VW engine run its bearings on the M4
PPPS and my old 4.2 Jag, but I was doing 120 (in 1977)
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