Well Eli, your friend might have a bad luck with his car, if we dont watch to change the oil, oilfilter and air filter than it wont work for a long time . Here in Iceland we have cold winters and longones to and we take our cars to the carage and ask them to look over everything that might matter in the Engine.And there are more thing to watch. So I take mine Ford Taurus to oil change every 3000 miles, I change oil on the shift every 6000 miles baybe thats why it´s still running????????. Taurus is a great strong car, before I had volvo,volvo volvo volvo and more volvo´s but today Volvo in Iceland is so Expensive that I cannot get one. All the best skarpi Iceland.