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Old Aug 12, 2004 | 02:22 PM
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I have been reading these post for a year now. It seems like there are a lot of common problems such as Diff. leaks, CL's, etc. What is the forums opinion on what causes these problems. From a lot of the post I read a good many of these problems happened on low mileage cars. Could not driving them cause problems? The reason I ask, is my car is my daily driver with 50,000+ miles and I have never had one single issue with this car(other than gas guage, but new brand of gas fixed that). Maybe just lucky(crossed fingers)or maybe I just cursed myself!

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Old Aug 12, 2004 | 02:34 PM
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my 03 started leaking diff fluid at about 40,000 miles
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Old Aug 12, 2004 | 03:58 PM
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My 99 FRC has never thrown a code, leaked a drop nor had any malfunctions after 73K. Only problems were gas guage (fixed) and mild case of rocking seat (living with it..)
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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 05:03 PM
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We traded our '98 with 60K miles on the '02, but never had any real problems. I expect to get well over 120K outta this one.
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Old Aug 14, 2004 | 12:30 AM
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Only problem with my '02 with 12000 miles has been with one of the headlight motors running after the door shut. Everything else has been trouble free.
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