Mechanical failure at what milage Options

[celicalibre]

Since many Celicas are advancing their mileage after all these years, what mechanical failures have you had and at what mileage did you have that failure. Were you stranded while traveling? I am planning some rather long trips cross country and want to be prepared for anticipated failures!

[micronian]

I'm at 214,000 miles, my Celica is a 98 model and the following things needed replacing between 130k to 200k:

1) an oil seal around the oil pump broke and oil would drip about a quart every 10 minutes. (timing belt was replaced too)

2) all 4 shocks, and shock mounts

3) front and rear motor mounts

4) flex pipe after the first catalytic converter ( i have a non federal type celica with 2 catalytic converters)

5) second catalytic converter joints ( they rusted really bad, broke)

6) valve cover gasket

7) had to apply teflon tape on one of the spark plug tubes, because oil was leaking into the spark plug tube.

8) had to clean and reassemble the brake calipers with new hardware , because one was stuck in the back, so i did all 4.

9) had to replace a part that would allow my air conditioner fan to work correctly, it only used to work when at full speed. i forgot the name of that part. it was an easy fix

10) put some tape on the top of the headlights because water would seep into them when it rained.

11) replaced many parts that deal with emissions (egr valve etc.)

12) replaced radiator

Also I need to replace the charcoal canister because it is failing somehow (check engine light is on).

I need to find the source of another small oil leak behind the engine, (could be distributor oil seal)

and lastly I need to fix the cruise control. It doesn't work at all.

other than those, the car has been very reliable.

the oil seal and radiator where the only big ones that could have stranded me, but they happened close to my home, so I didn't get stranded.