Hours on your engine

[HansonBro]

So my friend n I were talking cars as i sat in my driveway idling away. I said i wish i knew how many hours were on my engine, like how they measure forklifts or excavators etc...

Well the next day a random video showed up on my snapchat on how to check that on my old rig. (If you think your phone isnt listening to your conversations, guess again)

Anyways, so on my old guy, no key, just press the dash button once and then hold it... it showed the hours!

6614 hrs. Did some math and that was 275 days of running time. Did more math 6614 x 60 to get the total minutes. Then divided that number by my mileage (264,000 kms) to get my minutes/km of 1.69

Id be curious what you guys have. My brother tried it and had a 1.57

 

[JMCx4]

So the moral of this story is ... We should all drive a LOT faster, to keep our mins per klicks low?

 

[cjm502]

I wish vehicles would track the total amount of rotations the crank has made. They would have to move the decimal like 4 spots to the left and go with the x10,000 scale, but it would be a useful number nonetheless. Overall miles can be a better representation of chassis wear, while lifetime RPMs could better represent engine wear. There are also variables like RPMs under load and less than optimal operating conditions, cold RPMs and older oil counting for more and things like that, but I don't think it would take much for engineers to come up with a formula for a decent estimation of engine wear. It has probably been thought of countless times by people smarter than myself and avoided since it would probably do more to hurt a vehicles resale vale than help a cars resale.

So the moral of this story is ... We should all drive a LOT faster, to keep our mins per klicks low?

Yes we should all drive faster. Why? I'm not sure, but we should.

 

[MikeFolignosHelmet]

5700 hours on my 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 165,000 miles.

 

[biturbo19]

I'd care a lot more about "hours" on a fleet vehicle and particularly a truck or van. For my car, there's no way that number is more relevant than the overall mileage. But it's a good reason to stay away from those "bargain" fleet sales trucks and stuff, which may have a billion and a half hours of idling on their clock, that isn't ever represented in the odometer.