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

[Herr Kutz]

2012 - 16,728
2013 - 27,285
2014 - 28,798
2015 - 32,320
2016 - 25,488

 

[vi edit]

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.

It's weird for me. I used to do *A LOT* of miles. We lived 25 miles from a major city and had to drive in there every day. Sometimes it was multiple times in a day on a weekend. We racked up crazy miles on our cars. In the days of dino oil I was having to change every 2 months or so. Since then, I've moved to a different area and I live 6 miles from work, and have about anything I need within a mile or two of me. I put on a fraction of the miles I used to. Plus my cars are now synthetic based. I now find myself having to look at the "replace by" sticker for the date of service rather than miles. My cars could literally go years without hitting the 10,000 mile mark.

Crazy.

 

[manly]

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.

that's cause we're liberals and we hate Trump-land. j/k

 

[local]

On track for 30k or so on my truck and less than 500 on my toy.

 

[mindless1]

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

Nonsense. If you have good driving sense, which mandates driving conservatively, there is minimal risk. I have two vehicles with tires over 10 years old and neither has ever been in an accident (that was traction related, nor remotely close a friggin' tree fell on one, lol). You can tell when they're past their use by date by cracking. Less traction? Sure. It's just like contrasting any two different tires on different vehicles, not some kind of mandatory problem that requires having the max traction possible.

I don't drive on public roads like I stole the vehicle if it's not equipped for performance. It's really that simple.

Back on topic, one of those vehicles has only 50K mi at 20 y/o, so 2,500mi/yr. Long life tires FTW!

 

[Svnla]

I usually fill up twice a month and each fill up would last about 300 miles so one month would be about 600 miles or about 7200 miles per year.

I used to drive about 5000 miles a year before I picked up a small side job.

 

[rh71]

I work at home full time so I'm only at 55k after 8 years. Nearly 7k/year still sounds like a lot though. I love doing road trips when I can.

 

[Engineer]

Primary work car: 2003 Dodge Intrepid bought new. 130,050 miles currently. Average around 3,500 miles per year at my current job (15 miles round trip).

New car - 2016 Lexus ES350 - Purchased around August 2016 IIRC - 1,800 miles so far. Had just over 1,000 miles for the 6 month service, lol.

Wife's 2011 Chrysler 200 Convertible has around 29,000 miles on it but probably averages around 2,000 miles per year now (since my wife drives my daughter's Jeep Patriot much of the time). Helps that we live 500 ft. from her employer (school).