is the 95 model year as reliable as the 96?

[BlackVert]

Sorry, I should have mentioned I was talking about Josh95GT's signature. It mentioned he was looking for suggestions. My mistake. Anyway, ON topic, you can't go wrong with a 5.0. A lot of people think it is the best engine ever made by Ford. I guess 27 years of production backs that up. Plus, as somebody mentioned before, they are cheap to fix IF they do break down.

i understand, no problem. your comments on the 5.0 were my thoughts exactly.

thanks to everyone for the peace of mind that this '95 is most likely going to be reliable.

 

[joesuniverse]

110,000 miles and everything is still original... including the convertible top... which I guess should be replaced now... it is after all 9 years old... but other than that, no major failures of anykind...

 

[Marks01L]

I'm hoping mine will last me the rest of my driving life. I bought it new in 1995 and it now has 4,965 miles on it. It's a Rio Red body with a white top and white leather interior GT that I bought new in May 1995. It sure is a great car. Mark

 

[scottie1113]

4,965 miles? Are you kidding me? Is that a typo? I thought I didn't put a lot of miles on a car--about 500 a month--but that's incredible. You must have another car.

 

[KingDiamond]

Mine has almost 102,000 miles and it's still running strong, actually it's running better than when I bought it when it had 84,000 miles. The engine burns no oil, or at least none that I can tell, because every 3,000 miles when I change the oil there's just as much coming out as I put in. Besides the balancer going out, I haven't had any major problems.

 

[JJ95GTID]

The only parts of my Mustang that has failed is the balancer at 80k miles...seems to be common . The other is the A/C pressure switch which died at about 77k miles. I bought my car in 4-02 with 64k mile and now have 84k miles. I DON'T BABY MY BABY!!! It sees 5k rpms shifts everytime I get in it and dead reliable so far .

 

[Venom351R]

Mine has 119,000 and I just added a Paxton Supercharger. Compression test of the cylinders before the install yeilded 130 PSI on a cold motor. Only thing that has broken has been the U Joints and I just replaced that w/ an Aluminum FMS drive shaft. Oh yeah and the Passenger side strut went out a few yrs ago, the other one kinda squeeks now and could prob be replaced. Other then that its run awesome, cant ask much more out of a car thats almost 10 yrs old. My ballancer even lasted the 119,000 miles, I just recently replaced it w/a Romac not b/c it was broken but b/c I dident want to push the issue after putting the supercharger on.

 

[Marks01L]

4,965 miles? Are you kidding me? Is that a typo? I thought I didn't put a lot of miles on a car--about 500 a month--but that's incredible. You must have another car.

No, not kidding!!!! 4,965 original miles!!!! I also have a 1988 Lincoln Town Car that has just turned 100,000 miles and still runs great, a 2002 Ranger "Edge" 4x4 regular cab(everyday driver) and a 2001 Ford 150 "Lightning" with (and this is correct also) 1,713 miles. I also bought this truck new. My thought is that if I live long enough to retire, I'll have at least two great vehicles to drive as long as I want to drive!!! Mark

 

[scottie1113]

Amazing. I don't know how long you have until you retire, but that seems like a lot of money to tie up in two vehicles you rarely drive. Hey, it's your choice.