baha the problems are Sextons Hill (NSW), and the rest are all in Qld (i go to uni/work in qld).
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How many miles do you drive per day on average?
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baha the problems are Sextons Hill (NSW), and the rest are all in Qld (i go to uni/work in qld).
I do around 3,000 miles per year in the car which averages out at 8.2 miles per day.
I cycle to work most days and probably do a 1,000 miles per year on my bikes.
I cycle to work most days and probably do a 1,000 miles per year on my bikes.
I average pretty much the same. Walk or DLR to and from work. Only use the car at weekends...
not to sure on that one but. i generally do about 600kms a week, so i divided by 5 then converted into miles for you guys
I now drive 0 km. Why? Because I now live in Melbourne and we actually have public transport. Shocking, I know.
I now drive 0 km. Why? Because I now live in Melbourne and we actually have public transport. Shocking, I know.
oh wow i didnt know you lived in australia!!!! ill keep it a secret
ive heard that the transport is alright there in melbourne. it take about 3hrs via bus to get to uni, its a 40min drive.
bed calls work/uni tmrw!
It may not last forever..... 2.2 miles is hardly enough for the engine to reach optimal temperature especially in the cold Boston winters. That is bad for an engine.
I drive 8-16 miles a day. My car only has 16,800 miles in 3 years.....
i drive about 7000 miles a year on average over the last 9 years
Nice!
My car, a 1990 just hit 125k
Nice!
My car, a 1990 just hit 125k
Varies. My office is in my home. When I have field work, I might drive 150 to 200 miles a day. But that's my work vehicle.
My personal car hardly gets driven any more. Maybe 10-15 miles a weekend, if that. I'd really like to sell it, but then cases like this weekend come around. My wife took her car to see her parents and I needed to get to my second job and to church. (Can't use the work car for personal use.)
My personal car hardly gets driven any more. Maybe 10-15 miles a weekend, if that. I'd really like to sell it, but then cases like this weekend come around. My wife took her car to see her parents and I needed to get to my second job and to church. (Can't use the work car for personal use.)
Around 44 miles round trip. I fill up once a week, so I try to do it on the weekend so that I don't have to worry about it before/after work.
Same, that's about what my commute is and I use a little over a half a tank each week, I just fill up once on the weekend and I'm good.
Although my car's been driven from St. Louis to DC, then up to Reading, PA and back, Chicago and back, between St. Louis and Rolla (a podunk college town in MO about 100 miles each way) several times so the miles have really piled up. My car is just under 11 months old and it's already at 15,000 miles, probably closer to 16k now.
Public transportation in St. Louis is a complete joke so I drive everywhere.
I might get a TDI for the next car. This baby has hit 135k, a 2000 Nissan Sentra SE. I drove to to San Antonio when I was doing contract work, and although my commute there was fairly short (10 miles round trip), I drove to Dallas/Austin and back to Chicago, so that added a few thousand miles on it.
It would be nice to take public transportation. I can actually take the train (Metra Rail) from home to work, however, the bus shuttle from the station to work is confusing and I seem to only find the shuttle that makes me wait 30 mins at the station. Add to that some construction and closed sidewalks, and I can't walk from the station to the office (but it is freezing outside, maybe not a good idea).
My daily commute is only about 23 miles each way, my wife's is about half that, yet somehow we put 24,000 miles on our new vehicle in the past year. Must have been the occasional trips home to Wisconsin and a side-effect of living 40 miles from downtown Minneapolis...it's at least 15 miles to almost everything!
Must have been the occasional trips home to Wisconsin and a side-effect of living 40 miles from downtown Minneapolis...it's at least 15 miles to almost everything!
My daily commute is only about 23 miles each way, my wife's is about half that, yet somehow we put 24,000 miles on our new vehicle in the past year.
We got a 2nd car in 2004, a 2002 Accord. That car had only 16k miles on it when we got it, and in the past 6 years we only added another 60k. It is amazing how the weekend trips and errands add up to the extra miles. We didn't really even the work between the two cars, that is why one has double the millage of the other.
Unfortunately that translates to uneven wear and tear on one vehicle, and thus more maintenance.
My office is 30 miles from my home so that's 60 miles a day round trip just for work. I've been carpooling with a coworker about 10 months now though. She lives farther from the office then I do. She does not like to be a passenger and thus, won't let me drive and refuses to allow me to give her gas money because "I'm going this way anyway". It's been such a blessing since my wife lost her job last year and this has really cut down on the gas expense and the car wear and tear.
Living in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex means having a car is pretty much a must. Certain areas around don't have public transportation and its' such a huge area that you can easily drive 30 to 60 miles depending on what you are doing and where you are going.
Living in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex means having a car is pretty much a must. Certain areas around don't have public transportation and its' such a huge area that you can easily drive 30 to 60 miles depending on what you are doing and where you are going.
You sound like the previous owners of my current Protege. It was 4 years old when I bought it and had around 25k miles. I have since put 35k miles on it in a bit over 2 years.
I put over 140k miles on my last Protege in about 7 years.
One way to work from me is 4.9 miles. It takes me longer to get a space in the parking garage then it does driving to work. On the trip home tack on about 10 minutes because I drive my co-worker to the surface lot which is about two blocks away.
You sound like the previous owners of my current Protege. It was 4 years old when I bought it and had around 25k miles. I have since put 35k miles on it in a bit over 2 years.
At the current rate, I wouldn't need to dump it until maybe 10 years from now and it would have roughly 130,000 miles on it by then. So I will be looking for a new car in 2020 at my current rate.
Though I am sure my commute will change by then. This is why I hate year limits on warranties. In two years I will be roughly around 27,000 miles and if the engine decides to blow up, I am out of luck because I will be out of GM's 5 year/100,000 mile warranty due to being 5 years old...... I still have less then 30,000 miles and out to water with a blown engine. It should be strictly by miles that determines when a warranty expires.
I used to drive on the only two lane highway (one lane on each side) which served major traffic in Silicon Valley. Gee, only a few million people within commuting distance of a huge transportation company I worked for.
So the distance was only 30 miles, but unless you were on that stretch of road after 8 PM, it took an hour to drive that 30 miles. Huge pain in the butt.
About once a week, there was a fender bender, and that would turn the 30 miles into a two hour drive. That patch of highway has been referred to as "blood alley" after the previous "blood alley" we used to have in the area. While it's gang territory, the stretch of road takes more lives.
So the distance was only 30 miles, but unless you were on that stretch of road after 8 PM, it took an hour to drive that 30 miles. Huge pain in the butt.
About once a week, there was a fender bender, and that would turn the 30 miles into a two hour drive. That patch of highway has been referred to as "blood alley" after the previous "blood alley" we used to have in the area. While it's gang territory, the stretch of road takes more lives.
My commute is only 3 miles a day (round trip) but I average 1,200 miles a month once you add in my recreational driving and track time.
Zero miles driven in the four years since I sold my civic from being tired of it getting stolen all the time. I've been in around a dozen pretty major car crashes as well so simply avoiding them as much as possible has become second nature. I average about eight miles per day on the bike though, and I spent about two hours total on the bus yesterday because I went snowshoeing this weekend and was feeling too beat to ride still, though I have no idea how far I went. I live in a pretty dense and smallish city so even when I did drive it was never very far, and our public transportation is well decent, the other factors that inspired me to de-car myself. Staying fit and saving a bit of money are also nice.
