For the purposes of this question, count the vehicle you consider your primary one. The one you drive most often, or the one that is “yours” and not your spouse’s, or whatever. Obviously if you don’t have a vehicle with an odometer, this poll doesn’t apply to you. Sorry. If your vehicle gives kilometers instead of miles, just convert to miles, if you wouldn’t mind.
This occurred to me this morning because I crossed the 200k barrier in our minivan some time ago and realized that it is at least theoretically possible that it will get to 300k.
Stories and anecdotes about high-mileage vehicles are welcome even if that’s not what you’re driving at the mo.
We’re a 3 vehicle household. We just yesterday bought a new car that is now the primary vehicle, so I voted the first option.
My car, which is relegated to my random errands, demoted from primary car, has just over 100K miles after 6 years. I’m thinking it’ll now take lots longer than 6 years to get the next 100K miles, especially since I’m retired and hardly driving at all.
The third vehicle is a truck used for dump runs and lumber, etc, purchases - it’s around 25K, I think. It might be driven every other week.
Our personal record was my Aerostar which I had for 11 years and racked up just over 231K miles before selling it. I’m almost sorry I wasn’t able to take it to a quarter of a million.
Next year all of my kids are going to be taking the bus to school, which means that I’ll be saving about 20 miles round-trip per day in driving back and forth to the preschool. I am very much looking forward to this.
About 5500…but I just bought it at the end of October.
After working at various jobs in downtown Chicago for 22 years (and being able to take public transit), I started a new job a few weeks before buying the new car, for which driving to work is the only reasonable option. It’s a 25-mile drive each way, which means I’m putting 250 miles a week on the car just in commuting. I know a lot of people have much longer commutes, so I’m not complaining…it’s just that the miles are piling up on this new Mustang a lot faster than I had expected.
This is one of those posts that makes me realize that driving means different things in different parts of the country. I’m in the DC region. My office is about 10 miles from home, and the drive is the better part of an hour each way. The thought of driving that distance for preschool made my jaw drop before I remembered that sometimes people get to go above second gear.
My car is a bit more than a year old. It has about 13,000 miles on it, largely because it’s been on several significant road trips.
Yeah, I had some serious mental readjustment to do when I moved here from Seattle. There, I worked on the east side and commuted home to Seattle every night, and a 12-mile drive would routinely take me well over an hour. Sometimes close to two hours if I hit the traffic just wrong.
Here in C’bus, traffic is just never that bad unless they actually have to close the roads for a chemical spill or something. Driving 9 miles to the preschool usually takes me about 20-25 minutes, and that’s during rush hour.
Edit: Also, I should point out that we chose that preschool back when we only lived a couple of miles away from it. Then we moved, but the kids knew all the teachers there and we liked the place, so we kept going there even though now it’s a lot further away. I save on distance by bringing my laptop with me and working (or, okay, surfing the Dope) from the public library a few blocks away from the preschool while my kid is there, instead of driving all the way home and then coming all the way back for pickup.
We had an '86 (I think) which we traded far too early. Then in '96, we bought a shiny new '97 which racked up all the miles. I loved driving that thing, except for the gas mileage. Once our daughter was on her own and it was just me driving back and forth to work, I got my Scion. We held on to the van as a utility vehicle, but it was starting to show its age, and rather than have it die in the driveway, I sold it to a coworker who was handy enough to deal with it. I still miss it.
47K in 12 years. Short commute and working from home. I occasionally (once a month?) take it out on the interstate to blow out the carbon and other junk.
127,000 on my 2006 Honda Accord. I have a long commute, so now that it’s “my” car I put about 30,000 miles per year on it. (Before I began using it full-time it was my wife’s daily driver; she does about 10,000 miles per year.) I’ll be both surprised and disappointed if it doesn’t get to at least 250,000 before needing major engine or transaxle work.
My previous ride, a 1997 Mazda B2300, had 254,000 miles on it when we gave it to my in-laws in 2009. (It ran fine, but our requirements had changed and it no longer suited them. The book value was nearly nothing, so “donating” it within the family made all of us happy.) My father-in-law still uses it, although not very much; I’m not sure he’s put it past 260,000 in the three years he’s had it.
168,000 on my Subaru Forester. Hard miles too. I don’t take very good care of my car. In the next few weeks I hope to vote again with my new Outback, if the dealer can be a little more flexible.
Just yesterday I put the 30,000th mile on my car.
My dad had a Camaro when I was a kid that had 280+k when he sold it. He bought it brand new and I think he did that in about 12 years. To my konwledge, that’s the highest mileage car that I’ve ever ridden in.
My daily driver has about 125k on it ('00 CRV), but currently it’s being driven by my daughter in Nashville. I swapped cars with her so that I could get some work done on hers. Her car has 213k miles on it ('95 Accord). It still drives like a dream, I love her car.
Traded in my old truck last year. 2000 model, w ~200K on it.
We have four vehicles that are “daily drivers” in the household.
My truck: 11 months old, 18,000 miles
Wife’s car: 6 years old, 95,000 miles
Son’s car: 4 years old, 135,000 miles
Daughter’s car: 2 yrs old, 18,000 miles (she doesn’t drive much).
I’m not going for scientific accuracy here.
