Can a car drive 4 hours a day and be fine?
Due to some complications I have to move to my old town, but I'm going to school in the town I'm living in currently. The distance between my town I'm moving to and the school in the one I'm currently living at is about an hour and a half to two hours depending on traffic and such. My car is a 2001 Ford Focus. I've taken pretty good care of it for the 4 years that I've had it. I just need to get a new battery. Do you think it can make the drive for a couple of months or is that too much on a car so old like that. I haven't driven it for hours at a time. I just want to know if it will be okay for the next 6 months while I'm in school.
Yes it will be fine. Just keep an eye on the fluid levels under the hood and check tire pressures weekly too. A well maintained car can drive all day every day.
As long as the car is properly serviced it should be okay. The issue is that you are putting a lot of miles on the car and I'm guessing it already has a lot of miles on it so sooner or later, it will need maintenance and replacement parts. If you still have the original radiator, that will probably need to be replaced at some point
My cousin has a 2000 focus, and he drives it to college everyday 1 hour away, if you take good care of your car, it will take good care of you.
You should be fine provided you do your scheduled maintenance, though the 99-04 Focus models are known to be unreliable. However 4 hours a day worth of commuting is excessive and I wouldn't want to do more than 2 hours a day tops, and that's for an exceptionally good job. I'd be more concerned about your well being more than for the car's longevity.
Any older used car with higher miles can have problems, but driving it that distance is no problem.
I would suggest an oil change and switching to Valvoline High Mileage synthetic blend oil, get the serpentine belt check, drain flush the power steering fluid, drain and fill the transmission fluid and new filter.
The car should be fine.
It should be fine unless something is wrong with it except the battery
Oh yeah when we went to Florida, we drove 16 hours.
Any well maintained car is able to do long commutes. It increases wear and tear so it costs far more than just the gas.
I had a Ford Escort that lasted 238,000 miles. I have a Ford Focus that lasted 199,000 miles. You'll be fine until the car falls apart from around you.
Yes, I think so! Have done that several times.
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