On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Kenneth Waller wrote: >> I would suspect whatever effect it has is of only >> minor significance > > My point is it may have major signicance. I don't know but it is a > point to > ponder. > Would be interesting to have another data point, with same time in > use but > something closer to a normal amount of mileage.
John's high high mileage numbers are on a HSD Prius purchased on 10/23/2003. If you go to his top level page, http://john1701a.com/, you can see links to other Prius owners' information. What would you expect to see in a car of similar age with lower mileage? Said another way, if a 2003-2004 car is continuing to operate as normal with 230,000+ mileage, what would you be looking to see as difference for the same year car with ~30-40K miles on the odometer? and how would you attribute the effect of John's high mileage on the battery by that difference? I'm not sure why this is such a thing to "ponder". It seems to me that high-mileage cars have always been looked at to see what wears out or causes problems rather than normal to low mileage cars. In general, if a high-mileage car properly maintained is working normally and proving durable, one tends to extrapolate that same- model normal/low mileage cars properly maintained will be reliable and durable. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
