How many miles to you drive a year?

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Posted: 2/9/2006 11:59:27 AM EDT

Yeah so I'm looking at a Truck Trader ealier and I can't get over how many miles some people put on their cars. I saw a 2003 Explorer and it had 120,000 miles. WTF? How do you drive so much that you put 40,000 miles a year on something? Shit, people like that will wear their car out before it's even paid for. What are they doing, driving across the U.S. every other week?

That was real common too, 2001's with 150k 1999's with 230k.

I bought my 1989 Jeep in Feb. 2001 with 112,000 miles on it, 5 years later it has 172,000. I drive it to work everyday, 35 miles round trip, I drive it just about every day on the weekends and still I've only put about 12k or so a year on it.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:01:49 PM EDT

[#1]

<-- 2000 Dodge Neon, 160,000 miles in 6 years.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:01:58 PM EDT

[#2]

I drive average of 35,000 miles per year.
Going to and from office and home during the week... going to store and visiting friends on weekends.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:02:32 PM EDT

[#3]

~8-10k a year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:03:55 PM EDT

[#4]

Was 35k/yr
Now more like 15k or so.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:04:10 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
<-- 2000 Dodge Neon, 160,000 miles in 6 years.

Where do you drive that every day?

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:05:20 PM EDT

[#6]

20-25,000 a year has been my average for probably fifteen years now. That includes up and back 5 days a week to many different jobsites and driving for the family.

Basically it's an every other month oil change for me.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:05:31 PM EDT

[#7]

I've had my Wrangler since April and I've got over 19,500 on it now. And that doesn't count the miles I've put on my pickup that I'm still driving.

-K

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:05:50 PM EDT

[#8]

I drove 32,000 last year ............ it was all school and clinical rotation miles.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:07:26 PM EDT

[#9]

I drive around 30-35,000 miles a year, but that's just back and forth to work 5 days a week and 1 trip a week to the dump, dump is about 2 miles from home. we use the wife's vehicle on the weekends if we go out somewhere.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:08:10 PM EDT

[#10]

About 150,000.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:08:25 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
<-- 2000 Dodge Neon, 160,000 miles in 6 years.

Where do you drive that every day?

More like where DID I drive it. It's my wife's car now. I used to commute from Modesto California to San Francisco every day. It was 2.5 hours each way.

It's also been driven quite a bit around the midwest in the last year. Rather than take a plane for business trips, I've driven it to Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania. I've driven from California to Wyoming on a road trip. Basically, I used to drive the piss out of the thing.

It's the most reliable car I've ever owned, too.

Nowdays, it just goes to the grocery store every now and then. I also rent cars on the company dime now.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:11:05 PM EDT

[#12]

about 6,000 miles a year.

I only leave 1/8 of a mile from work.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:14:09 PM EDT

[#13]

14K a year if lucky, have two vehicles so each vehicle gets a measly 7K a year milage

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:15:36 PM EDT

[#14]

I average 30k yearly.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:15:58 PM EDT

[#15]

about 45k per year. i am a logger/forester

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:16:57 PM EDT

[#16]

Many of you would be amazed at the length of the commutes that many folks in the Bay Area make every day. People are buying homes 70-150 miles away from their jobs (because that's where they can afford a larger home with some kind of yard), which means that they put a ton of miles on their cars. When I was working in Oakland and San Francisco, we had a bunch of people from the Stockton/Modesto area working there (80 miles; 2+ hours each way), people from Fairfield/Vacaville (70 miles; 2+ hours each way), and even a couple from east Sac (120+ miles).

There is a big trend of people buying big homes in the foothills east of Sacramento and commuting into Sac or even the Bay Area to work.

I put almost 30,000 on my truck this year, but I was driving it for work.

-Troy

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:18:26 PM EDT

[#17]

I live about 4 miles from work - 10,000 or so miles a year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:19:23 PM EDT

[#18]

Almost 20k miles per year. The crazy thing is, I used to live less than 4 miles from work, and I was still putting on that kind of mileage. A lot of trips I guess. I've had the car for about 3 1/2 years, and I'm almost to 65k now. It sat for 4 months one summer while I was travelling for work.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:20:23 PM EDT

[#19]

Now that I have moved close to work, along with not wanting to waste expensive gasoline on frivolous trips across town, I drive right at 15000 miles per year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:22:53 PM EDT

[#20]

About 35,000 miles per yer traveling our great nation for my job.

Since the start of the year I've worked in four states from NY to NC. I'm home in PA and my next move is to Louisiana. Done that drive many a times.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:27:06 PM EDT

[#21]

I got a 2000 Grand Prix late last March at 75K. It just broke 99600 today. I drive 31mi to work, then 51mi to school(night classes), then 20mi home. Traffic blows all the time. I have no idea how people can put up with commuting +1 hours each way everyday in traffic.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:32:06 PM EDT

[#22]

Put on about 10k on my truck and 7k on my jeep in the last year..

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:34:32 PM EDT

[#23]

I average 135,000 miles driven per year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:35:08 PM EDT

[#24]

New concord in 2003, 960 miles to this date expected to roll over to 1000 this yr.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:39:12 PM EDT

[#25]

I believe most car companies use 12,000 miles as an average for the typical driver taking all the variables such as age etc into consideration.

Some years in our lives we will be way over that and others under it.

I've found high milage newer cars are actually in better shape than you would suspect since most of those miles will be highway miles.

Tj

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:54:52 PM EDT

[#26]

25K to 35K.

Posted: 2/9/2006 12:58:31 PM EDT

[#27]

25k

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:04:14 PM EDT

[#28]

about 30k a year. Wife does 25k a year.

I put 215K between 9/95-10/2001 on my Ford SHO before it died. More in repairs a month towards the end than the car was worth with all of those miles.

My car has 158K, and my wife's SUV has 178K. Both still run well, but the value of them is 0.

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:08:24 PM EDT

[#29]

Between 25,000 and 35,000 a year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:10:24 PM EDT

[#30]

10,000

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:17:37 PM EDT

[#31]

Used to commute 50 miles each way in the .com days. 100 miles x 250 work days/yr = 25,000 miles/yr. Actually a little more because they paid me double time on Saturdays and paid for my commute time too.

Luckily it was all highway and all rural so there was no traffic. Took me 45-50 minutes to get to work.

I put 55,000 miles on my Altima in two years.

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:20:12 PM EDT

[#32]

<---------------- 130,000 YES One hundred thirty thousand a year, give or take 5,000 each way!

What do I win?

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:30:08 PM EDT

[#33]

35-50k per year that's on my work car.
The wife has a 2002 Caravan has 10k.

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:34:07 PM EDT

[#34]

right around 160,000 a year

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:37:08 PM EDT

[#35]

I drive exactly 87 miles per year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:37:43 PM EDT

[#36]

~11,000

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:39:02 PM EDT

[#37]

20-25K

Posted: 2/9/2006 2:39:08 PM EDT

[#38]

I drive around 50k per year. Not all of us have office jobs. I would rather have a 100,000 mile two year old car than one with 20,000 miles that sat in a Chicago traffic jam all day long.

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:03:08 PM EDT

[#39]

About 10,000

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:41:00 PM EDT

[#40]

125,000 a year plus whatever travel I do on the weekends

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:43:49 PM EDT

[#41]

35-40k a year

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:49:34 PM EDT

[#42]

40k whole hell of a lot more if I get this job with Schneider

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:52:51 PM EDT

[#43]

30,000 to 50,000 a year.

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:53:29 PM EDT

[#44]

Doubletap.

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:54:50 PM EDT

[#45]

Chevy 05 avalanche. 25,500+- since July 1 2005

Posted: 2/9/2006 4:56:47 PM EDT

[#46]

I have a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT with 30,000 miles on it so in the neighborhood of 5,000 a year on it.

I have a 2005 Jeep Rubicon Unlimited bought in August with 2,900 miles on it so this would be roughly 5,000 a year on it also.