HIGH miles

Aug 12, 2004 5 Replies

I went to pick up the plates for my new Subaru, and as I waited a few minutes, I idly looked at the used vehicles. They have "stickers" on them, basic vehicle descriptions. I was astounded by one. I don't remember if it was a sedan or wagon, but it was a 2003 model, with ~199,000 miles. Is it _possible_ to get that many miles on a passenger car that fast?



Yes, especially if it was a company vehicle driven by multiple drivers virtually 24/7/365. I have known commercial document couriers, blood labs, ski resorts, ect. to put 100K miles per year on a car.

Caveat Emptor

Sure...

The car could have been driven by a salesman, courier, delivery person, among others. Or kids filling their tanks on Daddy's credit card? A young fellow working for me years ago bought a one year old Nissan pickup that had belonged to a doctor's high school aged daughter. Daddy took the truck away from her when he found she'd put close to 100k on it the first year.

Rick

Assuming that the car hit the road in the middle of 2002, it has two years of use behind it. Say 750 days. Hence, it works out to about

265 miles a day. Not hard, is it?

Yes, rural mail carriers do it and we don't even rack it up on the highway..stop and go. TG

When I worked for a Ford dealer, we had a customer who would buy a new F-350 crew cab (full-size 1-ton pickup with four doors) every six-to-eight months. He ferried fifth-wheel camping trailers from Indiana to California, making the round trip in about three days. He and his wife and teen-aged son ran the truck nearly 24/7/365. They removed the rear seat and put in a porta-potty and a small cot so one person could always sleep. Not the life I would want to lead, but he made $1 per mile, so in three days, he could gross about $4,000 -- this paid for his fuel, truck expenses and a nice salary for the three drivers.

In six months he could easily rack up 150,000 miles.

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