3 cylinder engines dont do meny miles?

Phil2008 · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:19

Is this true because people told my sister that they do about 100,000 miles and then the engine fails?

zegna · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:26

yeah why not

L0rdMike · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:28

Run one with no oil and it wont do many at all.

Phil2008 · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:28

Is it because the engine is running faster or something?

paradigm · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:35

What? This thread is full of wtf.

Must be one of those 15,000 rpm highly strung 3cyl engines we hear so much about :confused:

Akagi · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:35

My car is 11 years old and has 120,000 miles on the clock. It has a 1.2L counterbalanced short-stroke tri-cylinder VW engine developed by Ricardo's in Shoreham.

No sign that it is going to fail any time soon. I'm sure that it will easily last another 120,000 miles, or another 11 years easily if I take good care of it.

I'm not sure where you would hear such rumours... :rolleyes:

L0rdMike · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:36

paradigm said:
What? This thread is full of wtf.

Must be one of those 15,000 rpm highly strung 3cyl engines we hear so much about

JRS · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:37

Whose 3 cylinder engine are we talking about here? And is it petrol or diseasel?

zegna · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:39

acme15 said:
My car is 11 years old and has 120,000 miles on the clock. It has a 1.2L counterbalanced short-stroke tri-cylinder VW engine developed by Ricardo's in Shoreham.

No sign that it is going to fail any time soon. I'm sure that it will easily last another 120,000 miles, or another 11 years easily if I take good care of it.

I'm not sure where you would hear such rumours...

Its gonna go boom tomorrow, its 20k over bro

enjoy

Phil2008 · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:40

Well she said the car like the VW Fox will screw up after 100,000 miles or so. I too thought noway!

Jonnycoupe · 9 Aug 2013 at 23:45

Mines blown up twice!

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That said, not many 1.0 cylinder petrols cruise at 75mph doing 2500rpm.

opstrat · 10 Aug 2013 at 00:16

what car is that? the dash looks like something from the old enterprise

mattyfez · 10 Aug 2013 at 00:28

Some people will just drive a car for 5 years without so much as changing the oil.

Then the car will break, regardless of how many cylinders it has..

wingman · 10 Aug 2013 at 00:32

opstrat said:
what car is that? the dash looks like something from the old enterprise

Honda Insight.

Akagi · 10 Aug 2013 at 00:39

wingman said:
Honda Insight.

Is that the one that used to look like a boxy fish until they realised nobody was buying it?

Uriel · 10 Aug 2013 at 00:57

acme15 said:
Is that the one that used to look like a boxy fish until they realised nobody was buying it?

Might be but it was kind of Honda's engineering willy waving, basically selling a concept car at below cost price.

Jonnycoupe · 10 Aug 2013 at 00:58

Honda didn't sell it to make money anyway.... It cost £7k more to build than what it was sold for!

I think it still looks the way it was when new... Rather than how it 'used' to look.

Regardless get used to 3 cylinder engines!

Akagi · 10 Aug 2013 at 01:11

The new good looking Insight: http://carsfolia.com/icim/honda-insight/honda-insight-01.jpg
The... Other one: http://www.loxlee-loves-engines.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/honda-insight.jpg

Either way its pretty awesome that you can cruise on the motorway at such low RPM's.

Jonnycoupe · 10 Aug 2013 at 01:16

The new insight should have been the CRZ anyway.

I don't think a gap in production of 4 years suggests honda were trying to 'fix' the insight sales figures

Uriel · 10 Aug 2013 at 01:48

The Insight 2 also does around 2500 rpm at 75mph. It's a 4 cylinder though.