Whats Your Mileage??

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Boz Mon

Boz Mon

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Just out of curiosity what kind of car does everybody here drive and how many miles are on it (them)??

heres mine:

1983 Chrysler LeBaron 2.6L 98k
1995 Honda Prelude SI 104k
 
1988 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe - 142k (228k)
1994 Ford Mustang GT - 104k (167k)

^^^^Those are mine^^^^

Cars I frequently use...

2001 Volvo S80 - 66k (106k)
2003 Dodge Stratus SXT - 11k (18k)
1997 Mitsubishi Mirage LS - 48k (77k)
1994 Ford Explorer XLT - 211k (340k)

miles (kilometers)
 
My dad 2 years ago sold his 99 Honda Accord with 215K. His 2 year old Infiniti G35 now has some amount over 50k. Both vehicles we bought new. My mom has a 4 year old VW that we are going to get rid of, because it is old, that has 100K.
 
cardude2004
My dad 2 years ago sold his 99 Honda Accord with 215K. His 2 year old Infiniti G35 now has some amount over 50k. Both vehicles we bought new. My mom has a 4 year old VW that we are going to get rid of, because it is old, that has 100K.
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4 years old is old?! :ill:

If that's the case, my T-Bird is a dinosaur. :ouch:
 
MrktMkr1986
4 years old is old?! :ill:

If that's the case, my T-Bird is a dinosaur. :ouch:
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My parents think so. They never drive a vehicle for more than 5 years without buying a new one. Most of the time the vehicle fails to make it four years before we buy a new one. We don't buy used vehicles either. My mom just chooses to get a new car, but my dad gets paid by the mile when he drives for business so he can't have a car older than four years. In Wisconsin 5 years on salty roads is a lot.
 
My '97 Talon - 124k (20k-ish on built motor and trans)
My '04 Rubi - 27k (gets most of the work, since the Talon is a gas hog)
Her '03 Denali - 34k (her daily car this time of year)
Her '04 Coop S - 9k (doesn't get a lot of use, only fun times)
Her '97 Miata - 145k (DIE ALREADY!!!! Car is gone soon, so who cares :grumpy: )

Hilg
 
I've got a '67 LeMans with 270,000 on the clock.

My '95 Neon ACR currently has about 91,000. The '80/83 Supra it replaced had about 260,000 on the chassis, about 200,000 on the engine.

The Battle Bus has about 50,000 on it - 2000 Grand Caravan.

My wife's '04 TSX has 1700 miles on it, give or take 50 miles.
 
neon_duke
The '80/83 Supra it replaced had about 260,000 on the chassis, about 200,000 on the engine.
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Why '80/'83? That's 2 different generations :confused: .
260,000 is pretty average now, at the last Supra meet I went to sombodys '85 rolled over to 500,000 (!).
 
Boz Mon
if you are in need of a car i have an 83 LeBaron that needs a new home :lol:
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Yea, send it on over. Hell, maybe she'd get attached to that too, and then we'd have it around for WAY longer than it should. I just want the damn Miata to die. I'm so tempted every time I drive it to just get going like 80 and throw it in 2nd. "Sorry babe, the thing just blew up. Guess we can start looking at new cars, right??" I'd be couching it for a while, but at least the piece would be gone.

Hilg
 
A 2004 Dodge In"tepid", my company car, that has 23K miles on it, I've had it since June 2003.
Hopefully when its up for renewal in 2006, I'll get a new 2007 Dodge Charger instead. Otherwise I'm going to have to pick between 2 different Dodge Caravans :yuck: or a Jeep Liberty Sport :crazy: What an awful choice!

My weekend toy / car I bought for the wife, is a 1995 Mazda Miata which has 62K miles on the clock.
(Its getting its 60000 mile service tomorrow $896 all-in, including replacing the timing belt and filling it with Mobil 1 oil! That's the cheapest of 3 quotes I got! The Mazda dealer service department wanted $650 just to do the timing belt swap, as well as $550 for service with synthetic oil! :ouch: )
 
Emohawk
Why '80/'83? That's 2 different generations :confused: .
260,000 is pretty average now, at the last Supra meet I went to sombodys '85 rolled over to 500,000 (!).
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It was an '80 Supra, but after 3 head gaskets and a cracked head, I was tired of changing the dman thing, and I put the engine from an '83 Cressida in it. Believe it or not it was easier to pull the engine and trans, move the trans over while putting a new clutch in, and reset the newer engine than it was to pull the head off the engine in the car. Plus I no longer trusted that engine.

That car was a pile. Worst-engineered vehicle I ever owned besides my wife's '81 Fairmont, but at least the Ford was easy to work on. The Supra was a maintenance nightmare. Simple stuff like changing the back brake pads was an all-day trial.

I kept it because it was cheap and fun to drive, if quite skittery in back. I sold it for $550 when I bought the Neon in '95.
 
cardude2004
How many vehicles do you have? The most we have ever had at one time was 4. It seems that you have like 10.
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I've got 3 that are registered to my name. There's also my girlfriend's car, but that's her's, not mine. :)
 
porsche 1977 924 -64,XXX miles. i have yet to even move it a foot because on day one my brother snapped the shifter while "feeling the throws" and the minute after i installed the new one it stopped running :ouch: and now the snow is here :grumpy:
 
2003 Nissan Frontier EX-V6 Crew Cab : 40237
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:: It's starting to have problems now. I'm suprised though since its a fairly new truck. And I dont understand why it would be. On a new car, when is the engine replaceable? or when do you need a new engine? at what Mileage?? :guilty:
 
Smallhorses
My weekend toy / car I bought for the wife, is a 1995 Mazda Miata M-edition which has 62K miles on the clock.
(Its getting its 60000 mile service tomorrow $896 all-in, including replacing the timing belt and filling it with Mobil 1 oil! That's the cheapest of 3 quotes I got! The Mazda dealer service department wanted $650 just to do the timing belt swap, as well as $550 for service with synthetic oil! :ouch: )
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Congrats on the Miata purchase. The investment of money in the 60K timing belt service is all that's really needed to keep the car running for a long time. Lots of people on the Miata forum have between 200-300 thousand miles on theirs, still going strong. There's even lots of people that put fairly large turbos on high mileage engines and they still last way longer than they should. Them powerplants are sturdy!

For the record my latest Miata (2004 Mazdaspeed) has 2,200 miles on it.It's been in storage since the end of November.:guilty: My 1988 Nissan 300ZX Turbo just flipped over to 70,000 this week. My wife's 1999 Protoge that we purchased new has about 62,000 I think.
 
scoobyonline200
2003 Nissan Frontier EX-V6 Crew Cab : 40237
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:: It's starting to have problems now. I'm suprised though since its a fairly new truck. And I dont understand why it would be. On a new car, when is the engine replaceable? or when do you need a new engine? at what Mileage?? :guilty:
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You need a new engine when the old one breaks badly enough it's cheaper to replace rather than fix. If you take care of the engine, that may never happen. I certainly wouldn't consider a decently-maintained ending to be 'worn out' until it's getting in the 200,000 mile range.

You keep talking about this truck with major problems. At 2 years old and 40,000 miles, it should still be under warranty. Take it back to the dealer and have them look at it.
 

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