Your most dependable vehicle.....Mopar or not

[Cranky]

My 66 Belvedere /6 car was pretty dang good even though it's been apart since 98 but my 95 Dakota is right up there and is still kicking with working AC and the Belvedere AC worked too until I took the car apart. Gotta say, nothing works on the Dakota like it did when I got it in 98 when my dad passed on but it's still working ok. Got it with 25k miles on it and it felt like it had 125k miles and all I did was drive the crap out of it since including making some 1/4 miles passes (16.60 V6 w3.55 gears) but it still keeps on ticking like an old Dart. Thing is, it feels like it has 300+k miles on it but only shows 106k miles lol. Not complaining at all!! Just not stoomping on the brakes all that hard these days Yeah, probably need to replace the MC since it's original.....

 

[dadsbee]

44 years of driving the Bee and I've never walked home!

 

[Cliff Ramsdell]

My most dependable, ‘90 acclaim, 3.0, 604. Bought it with 141k did the heads and transmission and drove it to 318k, pan never off the motor.

Cliff Ramsdell

 

[Cranky]

44 years of driving the Bee and I've never walked home!

My 66 made me walk home (got a ride) once when the wiring harness found ground on the valve cover and blew out the fusible link when I was getting off work at midnight. Didn't take long to find the problem the next day though......

 

[Don Frelier]

It's hard to separate dependable and favorite.
I've had a bunch of Mopars one of my most dependable/favorites was a 2000 Grand Caravan Sport with a 3.3L leather seats and Infinity sound.
It drove like a car could pass people and was really comfortable we put alot of miles on it.
It could get nearly 25 MPG as well.
My 77 Fury 360 was very dependable as well.
A starter, ballast resistor and a blown bypass hose were the only things I recall stopping that car.
I sold it with 192,000 miles on it and the heads were never off of it.
At 150K it could burn the tires all day.

 

[JackR]

Hmmm
2005 Toyota Tundra. 150K not 1 repair
2010 F150 100K radiator, A/C compressor
2014 grand Cherokee. Steering rack and radiator and 4WD computer but warranty fixes
2021 grand Cherokee trail hawk. 6000 miles and airbag light was on before 1st oil change.

 

[Cojohnso1]

My GTX. GTX 1 never failed me. Had to sell for a mini van when 4th kid in 5 years was born in 1990. GTX 2. Same color/year/440 performance 4-speed 3.54:1 Dana. Although different personalities? It too has not failed in 3 years. Drove it home 250 mi after purchase. Both my car and Truck went down a week later. Had to drive 2 weeks in work city rush hour. Ran like a champ just like the first. Even after getting ran off the road by "I change lanes when ever" Rush hour driver. Then rear ended in a parking lot by an Uber driver. Once I brushed the plastic bits from the bumper from his Honda? I couldn't even find a scuff on the steel. Tow truck driver laughed. "That old timer won that battle"

 

[AR67GTX]

I was shocked many years ago when I visited my parents in Colorado and ended up working on my moms 6 cylinder Scamp that had died. We pulled the distributor and found a broken up plastic distributor gear. I thought, how can this be dependable. But as soon as we replaced it, my brother, my wife and I drove it to the top of Pikes Peak and that old car went on for many more years carting us around Colorado. I’ve had a few breakdowns in Mopars but usually nothing serious. They’re pretty tough.

 

[Billccm]

Simple. Grand Marquis. All three I've owned soldiered to 200k miles with minimal service. Probably the best car ever made by any manufacturer.
I'll keep my 2009 until gasoline is banned.

 

[Sahara]

Had two good ones; my first ever new vehicle, a 1994 Ford Ranger extended cab. 2.3 litre, five speed. Loved it, couldn’t break it.
My first “real” vehicle that I bought used when I started making enough to stop driving junk. A 1986 Chev half ton with 4.3 litres V-6 and four speed. Drove it until 250,000 kilometres, gave it to my friend who let his crew drive it. By the time I lost track of it there was 450,000 kilometres showing.

 

[Kern Dog]

As boring as this will sound.

It has to be this one. 370,000 miles and I’ve never had to walk away from it.

 

[DeltaV]

Dependable: trustworthy and reliable

My top 3 are:
'72 Fury III
'88 Gran Fury (retired Sheriff's dept car)
'98 BMW M Roadster

The first 2 are long gone. The M Roadster is my current daily driver. Small car with 3.2 liter inline six.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I got to vote for my old 96 Cherokee. I drove it for 17 years, and it had 336K on it when I sold it. Still ran great, but was starting to get a little crusty underneath.....

 

[PeteyDaMan]

2007 Charger R/T. Has 250,000 miles with nothing other than an EGR valve and normal maintenance. It still has a lifetime bumper to bumper Mopar warranty on it as well.

 

[SSmoothie]

As of right now 2003 Silverado SS. 146,000.

 

[Dave6T4]

The best car I have owned was a 1970 Buick Wildcat with 370 h.p. 455. I bought it as 2 years old, with 80,000 miles on the odometer. I night it cheap enough that I figured I could still put another engine in it if I had to. It required no repairs for its safety check. I sold it after 7 years for $500 less than I paid for it. The only time it quit on me was when the battery died in a Canadian Tire parking lot. I just went into the store and bought a new battery, and changed it in the parking lot.
The worst car I had was a 1981 Imperial. Too many electrical gremlins.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

My work vans have all been very dependable. 98 Chevy Astro 390k 1 rear diff. Wrecked my 03 at 405K 1 trans, 09 was 430K zero issues. I have 300K on my Transit 1 rear diff.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

I have a 87 Toyota 4X4 P/U I bought in 89 with 107K on it... It has areas where the paint was worn off from the previous owner polishing it constantly...... Currently it has over 550K & I still wouldn't have a second thought about jumping in it & heading to Florida... It's never let me down, even with no paint it hasn't rusted at all....

 

[MoparMur]

1977 Cordoba 360. Never an issue. Also had a 1988 Jeep Comanche pick-up as a demo at the Jeep dealer I worked at. We sold it at 10,000km and years later I bought the same truck back, and drove it to 370,000km. My son also bought an '88 Comanche we sold new to a guy, he acquired it with 535,000km. Those 4 liter engines are absolutely bulletproof.

 

[Wojo68]

I have a 87 Toyota 4X4 P/U I bought in 89 with 107K on it... It has areas where the paint was worn off from the previous owner polishing it constantly...... Currently it has over 550K & I still wouldn't have a second thought about jumping in it & heading to Florida... It's never let me down, even with no paint it hasn't rusted at all....

Holy crap! Def got your money’s worth!