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How few miles a year do you put on your car?

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I was averaging about 15-20k a few year ago. Woman and I were sharing my 1 car.
Now, we have 2 cars, my car is DD for work, I do about 10-15K a year now.
Her car is for weekends, road trips, shopping, etc ... gets maybe 5-7K a year.
 
Viper GTS said:
I do 6-7k a year spread across two cars. So not very much.



You're going to change at 10 years as a precaution? At 10 years you should be headed into your 3rd set of tires based on precaution. For me 5 years is the most I will do for the Viper. It happens to coincide fairly nicely with the mileage I get out of them so I'm not tossing too much tread when I change but 10 years is just asking for death.

And yes, I have driven the Viper on 10 year old tires so I know what it's like.

Viper GTS
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I think I could get couple more years out of it no problem. But 11 years is good enough. Changing tires every 3 years as precaution is on the other extreme. I say 6 years is good. I'm no tire expert but it feels fine. I drive like a grandpa and mainly drive it to Costco couple times a month. If I was really worried, I would've changed it.
 
Somewhere between 10k-25k total. Varies pretty widely. Some years I didn't drive as much because I was just going between work and school most days on a bike. I'm on track for a lower year about now. I drove about 5k in last 4 months.

Here's how it worked out for my old civic. It got totaled in July 2015. I drove more on other cars too but not as much. I also lost about 3000 miles worth of records in 2014.

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
8657.7 17151.3 12476.1 13219.3 11176 13923

But in 2016, I drove over 15k in the first 6 months. I just don't have records for it. :/
 
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2003 Mazda 6 just turned 80k - 5300 year/avg
2015 Corvette 15k - 6000 year/avg

I end up driving the beater less than the weekend car somehow.
 
Zivic said:
what does this mean?

the car is boring? - not enjoyable to drive? too harsh? too slow? too fast?
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For some reason I lost interest in cars. I used to be a gear head. Now that i was given a company car and I dont have to worry about cars I enjoy the worry free mindset. I just drive from a to b.
 
About 3K miles a year on my Malibu. I only take it out to go to church, bingo games, and to see my friends at the senior living center.
 
i don't do too many road trips these days and have managed to find job very close to home the last few years. i'd say i put 10-11k a year and i love driving and even make excuses to go for a drive. bought a new car the last day of november last year... and it i've only managed to put 3200 or so miles on it in almost 4 months
 
We have 2 cars a truck and a motorcycle. The Wife averages around 12k a year with her Infinity FX35. My daily (Hyundai XG350i) commuter averages around 23,5k a year. My Harley used to go about 23k a year until I had to do a complete rebuild of the motor and trans after putting 48k on it in two years and now it goes around 3k a year since then. My truck (Ford F100) is driven less than 3500k a year.
 
We have two cars. One of them we do most of the "longer" trips with on vacations/out of state/ect. The one that doesn't get taken on long drives averages about 3000 miles a year. The other is only around 6,000 a year. Where we lived previously, we were doing about 15,000 miles a yer per car.
 
From '94 to '12 I averaged 18k (2 daily drivers taking me to 184k and 195k miles)....since '12 I'm averaging only 10k.
 
I drive a Tacoma. It's 6 mile round trip from my home to my office. I put less than 2,500 miler per year on it.

Fern
 
cant drive so i ride a catrike 700 , somedays 80 miles but on trainer its everyday 20 to 25 miles
 
This post is interesting to me in that more people than I thought average less than 10k per year on either their only vehicle or primary vehicle than I would have thought.
 
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