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I've got a '00 base with 160k miles and I still redline in the mornings to work. Since we share a similar year and mileage and you were concerned about getting more miles out of it I wanted to share something going on with mine. Recently I had the driver side variocam timing chain guide disintegrate ( I have a recent post in the forum). It appears to be a common problema s the engine ages. I bought mine a few years back with 112k and zero history. You can do some of your own online research by looking up variocam. I'm learning there is a way to see this issue coming as the pads wear, but you have to have Durametric software to diagnose. You will see many posts on the subject. Hopefully this can help you get ahead of the issue instead of how I learned about it. I'm not intending to create panic here either, just check it out.
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