Not great pics, I admit. Was just curious how clean or dirty it was from what little I could see.

2002, TL-S. Basically stock. 10 years old on 12/31/11. 105,400 miles.

What do you think?

 

clean You must change your oil at good intervals

 

I got 196k mine looks pretty much the same.

 

By the book - 7,500 miles. Changed to synthetic (Mobil1 or Pennzoil Platinum 5W30) with a Mobil1 filter 3 or 4 years ago.

 

looks normal to me ~
wonder what the oil trapped in upper manifold - as seen when egr port clearing is done- looks like

more important- what do the valves and piston tops look like?

who has a boroscope?--harbor freight keeps having them on sale,,,tempting....

 

Thanks Tom. But seriously, you don't need to buy a borescope and drive all the way out here just to look my old engine.

Appreciate the thought though.

 

Looks like my motor!

I do oil changes 3/3

Borescope at Costco was like 150ish? Could be lower. Really tough to check valves, great for cylinder walls and piston face I should add.

 

196k 02

 

2002 & only a 100k miles? Damn you short distance driving people!

 

Now there's a good pic.

You must have a 'real' camera (compared to my POS phone cam).



We spread the miles around. Since 2002, We've put something like 438,000 on 7 cars all told (5 of those were 'repmobiles'). Works out to about 43,500 per year.

 

Actually, took that with my BlackBerry, lol.