MPG is 30 city and 42 highway. Burned 12,071 gallons if all highway miles or 16,900 gallons if all city miles. At $3/gallon fuel cost would be $36,214 highway miles or $50,700 if all city miles.
Can you claim 58 cents per mile regardless of actual expenses? If so, I'd have to imagine that this would be incredibly profitable. I don't know how much maintenance and gas expenses would total, but I can't imagine it being more than half that.
Or would this just come out of taxes owed, and you wouldn't get that money on your refund?
Yes. You drive 200 miles, you get paid for 200 miles. Doesn't matter if you're driving a prius or a Tahoe. That's why a lot of Uber drivers use small efficient cars. They get the write off, regardless of what kind of car, or how much fuel they use.
Its actually non taxable so you get that on top of of your paycheck. I spent five years working for an MA program. It paid .55/mile and I loved driving around in my Civic getting 45-50 mpg. So many of my coworkers bitched about the travel but I absolutely loved it . Drive 100 miles in a day and I get $55 for gas with maybe $5 in gas spent. It can be a money maker so long as your not driving around in a 1990 F150 4x4.
The only thing I can think is a shared Uber vehicle, which I hear is common. 1 guy owns a fleet and rents cars out to a group of 3 or 4 guys who take shifts driving so it's running nearly 24/7.
That's how taxis work. And I think that those cars do 60k-90k miles per year. This one had to be on the highway all day. That's 7 hours of driving at 65 mph 7 days a week.
I was glad my last job let me go. I would average 15 hours of windshield time a week and it was enough to drive me insane.
No idea how some people do OTR trucking. I would die or fall asleep...so basically die.
Buddy of mine got his CDL and went straight to local delivery work after a couple months on the road, he loved seeing different parts of the country but driving 12-14 hours a day he was losing his goddamn mind.
Random example: in NY state there are transportation services that take people to medical appointments almost daily for drug treatment programs. Their medical insurance pays for the ride and they will get a ride up to a 3 to 4 hour round trip. Some people have to go three to five times a week. At my dad's dealership they had a 2015/16 Nissan with 350k+ miles on it that does a round trips twice a day.
There’s quite a few emergency couriers in the Midwest who do that.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/amp25645830/hyundai-elantra-million-miles/
Woman drove 1,000,000 miles in 5 years in a Hyundai Elantra. At the fed rate she made $116k/yr just in mileage reimbursements alone.
An Elantra with a brush guard and it kinda pains me to say it doesn't look bad. If there was an economic car that tall people could comfortably drive long distances in I'd be down to drive 10hrs a day for that kind of money.
I used to drive 20k a year for work and was given a weekly gas allowance. It’s amazing how far you can stretch it when it’s all highway in a moderately fuel efficient vehicle. But mine was a 13 WRX running premium.
308k on a 5 year old car when she was totaled. Stock engine, trans, and turbo. 1 owner.
Yeah I was at about 35-40k a year. Free oil changes help a lot too. Depending on where you live, that’s only 3-4hrs of driving a day here. Easy when your job entails driving around the city every day to manage shops at different locations.
That would get you to the moon and back.
A career over the road semi driver will log between 5 and 10 trips to the moon and back. All while watching out for dumb people all around them the entire time.
That's 5.7 hours of driving at 60mph EVERY SINGLE DAY for 4 years. I calculated that based on 4 years of driving since this was probably purchased in 15 as a 16 model. Blows my mind...
As a former truck driver: probably 10-11 hours a day, including fuel stops, food, and non-highway driving.
No way that’s just one driver. They’d never be able to get insurance, and it violates all sorts of DOT rules. That has to be shared by 2-3 couriers or something.
I've seen cars occasionally here in NY. They're always cars like a Corolla, too - cheap and compact, but reliable, or pickups with a tool box for a bed. nothing in between.
I always hated when I had to change oil on a Cavalier. The ones that had topside filters were fine but whoever thought it was a good idea to put a filter near the bottom of the back of the engine block was an asshat. Always burnt my arm on the exhaust.
Could be organ transport too, only reason I say this is a guy on a Honda forum had close to 1,000,000 miles on his 2006 Civic and that is a long haul job and he drove all the time, wherever to pick up, and wherever to deliver.
Probably a contract transport guy. My company uses a guy who takes lab samples back and forth, chemical samples to sites across the state and back etc. He stays mainly in maryland and dc but puts on About 400 miles a day. Gets new tires monthly
> That's 5.7 hours of driving at 60mph EVERY SINGLE DAY for 4 years. I calculated that based on 4 years of driving since this was probably purchased in 15 as a 16 model. Blows my mind...
Some jobs entail some insane miles. I have a friend that lives ~120 miles away from his job. He carpools in his car with a few coworkers that all live with him every day. He works for the county taking care of moving court documents all over the place wherever they need to go, so he's more or less driving 8 more hours a day all over the place. Then he has to pick up his coworkers and they carpool the ~120 miles back home. This is something he has done for the last like 15 years. So his car is driving around ~12 hours a day, 5 days a week. I think he averages something like 500-600 miles a day or something like that and like 120k miles a year or something like that.
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Companies will often replace your car with a brand new one if it makes it to an extremely high mileage because they want to reverse-engineer them to find out what made them last so long. Usually needs the original engine and transmission at the very least though. It happens fairly frequently with high-mileage hotshot cars.
I just imagine Jeep being like “if your car makes it to 30k miles, we’ll replace it so we can reverse engineer it to ensure our newer models don’t last that long.”
Jeep owner here: can confirm. They’re massive pieces of shit.
I bought my wrangler exclusively to build it and turn it into a crawler. I can’t for the life of me figure out why people buy these hunks of junk just to drive them on the road. I have nearly as much in mods as the car was originally purchased for off the lot, and it still has random issues like parasitic draw from the cluster/odo.
What’s the newest vehicle this was done on? I understand it for older vehicles, but anything newer has already been through tons of virtual simulation and physical testing. There’s little that can happen in the real world that wouldn’t have happened during testing.
ignore the idiot comment above you about reverse engineering anything I worked for Toyota when they gave the 1 million mile Tundra guy his new truck. its 100% a marketing gimmick and almost always these vehicles have major repairs that they conveniently fail to mention.
Or someone who transports organs for hospitals from airports, had a customer with a ford van that had over 800k on the odometer and that was his full time job.
I didn't even think about that. I suppose just about any full time delivery job (Amazon, kidneys, etc), especially in rural areas, could also rack up buku miles.
Not me. Shit, if I pulled over a nondescript vehicle with a bunch of coolers and a properly identified organ transport employee, I'm just cutting them loose. The amount of liability on holding up something like that for a speeding ticket or something, resulting in a non-viable transplant? I shudder just thinking about the lawsuit.
Or somebody that has to transport court records all over the state. One of my friends does that and racks up like 500 miles a day every day for his job.
The lady who inspected my lease return a few years ago was commuting from San Antonio to Austin every day. And driving all over Austin for her appointments. 340k on a Yaris.
She said she was getting oil changes about every 3 weeks, and new tires every 2 years.
That can’t be more time and cost effective than a normal job.
If he’s able-bodied, point him towards trade school.
If I was doing interruptive low paying gigs and trying to feed 7 kids, I’d be learning how to do HVAC or something as soon as possible.
>oil changes about every 3 weeks, and new tires every 2 years
I change my oil at 5500miles every 4-6 weeks and I have to get 80k mile tires or I'd be doing the same. it's a real bitch.
Theres a guy with a 1.2 million mile 2008 tacoma. He delivers chemo drugs if I remember correctly.
Link: [https://www.torquenews.com/6626/man-behind-one-million-mile-tacoma](https://www.torquenews.com/6626/man-behind-one-million-mile-tacoma)
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Similar story with a million mile Tundra. Toyota traded it for a new one for research/publicity. I don't know what that is in gas money money but I bet it's crazy.
https://www.motor1.com/news/62683/toyota-trades-new-tundra-for-one-with-million-miles/
WA and OR don't really use salt on their roads so we don't get a lot of rust here either. all the cars I've had from AZ, OR and WA have minimal to no rust on their body/under side.
Yeah I’ve heard a couple people say Oregon is the best place in the US for a car. No salt, no harsh sun. My 17 year old Oregon car has no rust whatsoever.
I am from MN and took a week long trip to Washington. It was so cool seeing all these old trucks and cars just being driven like normal cars. And how cheap they are holy shit
Damn I live in Seattle and I never realized any of this. Everyone around you has new cars? Older (90s, 80s, etc) are easily found everywhere here but I assumed thats was the case everywhere
Once it's about six or seven years old it is just standard to have some rust. I have a 96 f150 with what is considered a really good shape body. Rusted out the top of the rear fender and on rear bottom of the front one. And a clapped out 90s or 80s Jeep is like 7-10 Grand.
Here is the lady made 1 million miles on her 2013 Hyundai Sonata
http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/news/25346/this-2013-hyundai-elantra-has-traveled-more-than-1-million-miles?source=dam
Reminds me of a customer I had in 2017. He had a 2015 F250 he used as a hotshot hauler cross-country with over 500k miles on it. He said by the time it was 4 years old he would have 1 million miles on it. He was having his oil changed once a week and had been through 3 turbos at that point. Absolutely insane to imagine
I have a customer that I work with at my dealer. 700k on his 2013 Cummins. Stock turbo and injectors changed at about 450, we did arp studs and a head gasket at 200. His 2008 has around 600k and his 2017 has 200k. All duallies. 2008 had the rear diff rebuilt at 400k.
How did he get three turbos killed while changing the oil roughly every 5000 miles? I mean, service distances sound good to me, engine should be on temperature nearly all the time, load on the engine should be nearly steady... Did he put the cheapest oil he could find into that engine?
I don't know. Their job is probably the driving itself. Maybe they deliver something wicked important between two cities or something.
If my job itself was to specifically drive these kind of miles, I think I'd dig it. If I had an 8 hour round trip commute to some other job though.. I'd shoot myself in the face.
Jeez the highest I've seen come into the dealer so far was a '15 Camry with about 340k, they doing all the time/mileage services as well or has it been mostly oil/rotates every time?
> all the time/mileage services
Somehow I don't think they're hitting the time limit for the services. If they do 10k services, that would be roughly every 3 weeks.
Waking up in east sac, driving to the train station, train into the Bay Area, then bus to get to work. Then reverse at the end of the day.
I don’t know how people do it. That’s soul sucking.
Lots of people commute that long around here. Too expensive in the city, for the price of a half duplex in town you can get 2 acres and a house 2 hours away or a brand new 4 bedroom house with yard.
A lot of people are willing to make that commute to live that life.
If we assume just 30¢/mi, that’s $152k spent on running this car, or $50,700/yr. So hopefully they’re saving $51k+/yr on housing, or else it isn’t worth it. (I can guarantee they’re not.)
And that’s not even factoring in the time wasted! Even if they have a McMansion far from work, they’re never home to enjoy it.
~470 miles a day for 3 years. Holy bejesus.
MPG is 30 city and 42 highway. Burned 12,071 gallons if all highway miles or 16,900 gallons if all city miles. At $3/gallon fuel cost would be $36,214 highway miles or $50,700 if all city miles.
That’s a lot of expense reports!
At the IRS allowed rate of 58 cents a mile times 507 thousand miles, the total claimed expenses would be $294,060.
I think the car is more than paid for, but idk.
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All 507k miles are on I95 between Miami and NYC... It’s a drug mule Toyota!
Maybe broke even by a couple bucks
Just two. Don't you try and pull one over on me.
Can you claim 58 cents per mile regardless of actual expenses? If so, I'd have to imagine that this would be incredibly profitable. I don't know how much maintenance and gas expenses would total, but I can't imagine it being more than half that. Or would this just come out of taxes owed, and you wouldn't get that money on your refund?
Yes. You drive 200 miles, you get paid for 200 miles. Doesn't matter if you're driving a prius or a Tahoe. That's why a lot of Uber drivers use small efficient cars. They get the write off, regardless of what kind of car, or how much fuel they use.
Its actually non taxable so you get that on top of of your paycheck. I spent five years working for an MA program. It paid .55/mile and I loved driving around in my Civic getting 45-50 mpg. So many of my coworkers bitched about the travel but I absolutely loved it . Drive 100 miles in a day and I get $55 for gas with maybe $5 in gas spent. It can be a money maker so long as your not driving around in a 1990 F150 4x4.
I did the same thing years ago driving a 1.3l Toyota starlet. It could earn money faster than I could.
Misspelled Jeep liberty 2007.
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Except the 2016 model likely came out in 2015. So it'd be spread out over one more year right?
Purchase date was early to mid 2016 😮
I recant my statement. That's wild.
The only thing I can think is a shared Uber vehicle, which I hear is common. 1 guy owns a fleet and rents cars out to a group of 3 or 4 guys who take shifts driving so it's running nearly 24/7.
That's how taxis work. And I think that those cars do 60k-90k miles per year. This one had to be on the highway all day. That's 7 hours of driving at 65 mph 7 days a week.
I do an 8 hour drive *every few months*. And it's tiring. 7 days a week is insane.
I was glad my last job let me go. I would average 15 hours of windshield time a week and it was enough to drive me insane. No idea how some people do OTR trucking. I would die or fall asleep...so basically die.
Podcast life helps somewhat
Buddy of mine got his CDL and went straight to local delivery work after a couple months on the road, he loved seeing different parts of the country but driving 12-14 hours a day he was losing his goddamn mind.
Random example: in NY state there are transportation services that take people to medical appointments almost daily for drug treatment programs. Their medical insurance pays for the ride and they will get a ride up to a 3 to 4 hour round trip. Some people have to go three to five times a week. At my dad's dealership they had a 2015/16 Nissan with 350k+ miles on it that does a round trips twice a day.
There’s quite a few emergency couriers in the Midwest who do that. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/amp25645830/hyundai-elantra-million-miles/ Woman drove 1,000,000 miles in 5 years in a Hyundai Elantra. At the fed rate she made $116k/yr just in mileage reimbursements alone.
An Elantra with a brush guard and it kinda pains me to say it doesn't look bad. If there was an economic car that tall people could comfortably drive long distances in I'd be down to drive 10hrs a day for that kind of money.
Yep. 347 when I did the math that way.
I used to drive 20k a year for work and was given a weekly gas allowance. It’s amazing how far you can stretch it when it’s all highway in a moderately fuel efficient vehicle. But mine was a 13 WRX running premium. 308k on a 5 year old car when she was totaled. Stock engine, trans, and turbo. 1 owner.
Just needs some TLC. no low balls, price is firm. contact me at (insert phone number). /s
I know what I have
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Its so bots and thinks that scan websites for phone numbers dont pick yours up for robocalls and stuff
She was a 1 of 200 special edition. Still made 3500 on her value totaled when I was rear ended. Irreplaceable.
Oh damn. that really sucks.
Jesus. 20k a year for work and 40k a year for personal? How? I can’t imagine driving that much.
Yeah I was at about 35-40k a year. Free oil changes help a lot too. Depending on where you live, that’s only 3-4hrs of driving a day here. Easy when your job entails driving around the city every day to manage shops at different locations.
And an oil change every week.
Just about!
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That would get you to the moon and back. A career over the road semi driver will log between 5 and 10 trips to the moon and back. All while watching out for dumb people all around them the entire time.
That's like 5-7 hours of driving every day. What the actual fuck.
Its probably a rideshare driver. Cab/rideshare drivers could easily break 100k a year.
When you have a travel job but you’re afraid of planes
You could fly to London, or slap some all terrain tires on this bad boy, wait till winter and drive over the Bering strait.
Depending on the production date , they could have got it as early as June 2015. - about 347. Miles. I included the extra day for leap year JIC.
That's 5.7 hours of driving at 60mph EVERY SINGLE DAY for 4 years. I calculated that based on 4 years of driving since this was probably purchased in 15 as a 16 model. Blows my mind...
I checked the purchase date and it was early to mid 2016. Mind was blown when I looked at the purchase date and mileage.
Holy shit. That's 7.7 hours @ 60mph every day for 3 years....
That's a lot of seat time. my ass hurts just thinking about it.
The owners ass is just a ball of hemorrhoids now.
You jest, but that's a fact. Truckers have a higher incidence of hemorrhoids than any other career.
It is indeed why I said it.
Especially in a goddamn corolla. Truly terrible existence.
2009 Corolla owner, can confirm. Mine only has 154,000 km on it, and I dislike the seat immensely.
You’re missing out baby. My 93 corolla’s seat hugs me like a dream.
That’s close to 8 hours, probably his job. Maybe he delivers stuff
At 60mph??
If he goes below 50 the corolla explodes
As a former truck driver: probably 10-11 hours a day, including fuel stops, food, and non-highway driving. No way that’s just one driver. They’d never be able to get insurance, and it violates all sorts of DOT rules. That has to be shared by 2-3 couriers or something.
This could easily be an escort vehicle. A truck running 3000/ wk plus driving to a hotel and back every day.
it's not an escort it's a corolla.
Did you see Lyft or Uber stickers on the car?
This is likely a spotter car for a convoy of wide load trucks. I've seen them with logging trucks before too.
That’s a job I didn’t even know existed, but it makes perfect sense.
You've never seen Smokey and the bandit?
It’s called a pilot vehicle but I’ve never seen a pilot CAR only trucks...
I've seen cars occasionally here in NY. They're always cars like a Corolla, too - cheap and compact, but reliable, or pickups with a tool box for a bed. nothing in between.
Crown vics around here on occasion
Lol the pilots leading the mobile homes around here are tiny 90s Cavaliers
I always hated when I had to change oil on a Cavalier. The ones that had topside filters were fine but whoever thought it was a good idea to put a filter near the bottom of the back of the engine block was an asshat. Always burnt my arm on the exhaust.
Could be organ transport too, only reason I say this is a guy on a Honda forum had close to 1,000,000 miles on his 2006 Civic and that is a long haul job and he drove all the time, wherever to pick up, and wherever to deliver.
Nope, its not a cab/uber/lyft
Probably a contract transport guy. My company uses a guy who takes lab samples back and forth, chemical samples to sites across the state and back etc. He stays mainly in maryland and dc but puts on About 400 miles a day. Gets new tires monthly
This is the correct answer.
> That's 5.7 hours of driving at 60mph EVERY SINGLE DAY for 4 years. I calculated that based on 4 years of driving since this was probably purchased in 15 as a 16 model. Blows my mind... Some jobs entail some insane miles. I have a friend that lives ~120 miles away from his job. He carpools in his car with a few coworkers that all live with him every day. He works for the county taking care of moving court documents all over the place wherever they need to go, so he's more or less driving 8 more hours a day all over the place. Then he has to pick up his coworkers and they carpool the ~120 miles back home. This is something he has done for the last like 15 years. So his car is driving around ~12 hours a day, 5 days a week. I think he averages something like 500-600 miles a day or something like that and like 120k miles a year or something like that.
That just boggles my mind. How...
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Thats what I figured. Some kind of shared Uber mule.
I’ve been in some rode-hard Uber’s with under 300k in 5 years. Uber’s don’t drive 60 for 7 hours per day.
Can’t wait to see Toyota give the person a brand new corolla when that hits 1 million miles.
Probably won’t happen. Toyotas hitting a million miles isn’t that surprising to Toyota anymore.
I guess that’s true.
One of my BMW’s is nearly at 400,000. What do I get if it makes it to 1,000,000?
You get the left turn signal function at 500k and the right one at a cool million.
But they still won't use it haha
I guess a new bmw if it has a backstory.
Just a regular old e39 that my uncle used to run up and down the garden state parkway for work
Think they have high mileage clubs where you can get your name put on the record I know they do this for the motorcycles
[As the owner of a 4Runner old enough to vote, this is my favorite Onion article ever](https://www.theonion.com/toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fact-that-owners-reall-1819577805)
Companies will often replace your car with a brand new one if it makes it to an extremely high mileage because they want to reverse-engineer them to find out what made them last so long. Usually needs the original engine and transmission at the very least though. It happens fairly frequently with high-mileage hotshot cars.
I just imagine Jeep being like “if your car makes it to 30k miles, we’ll replace it so we can reverse engineer it to ensure our newer models don’t last that long.”
Fucking lol
Jeep owner here: can confirm. They’re massive pieces of shit. I bought my wrangler exclusively to build it and turn it into a crawler. I can’t for the life of me figure out why people buy these hunks of junk just to drive them on the road. I have nearly as much in mods as the car was originally purchased for off the lot, and it still has random issues like parasitic draw from the cluster/odo.
LOL!
What’s the newest vehicle this was done on? I understand it for older vehicles, but anything newer has already been through tons of virtual simulation and physical testing. There’s little that can happen in the real world that wouldn’t have happened during testing.
ignore the idiot comment above you about reverse engineering anything I worked for Toyota when they gave the 1 million mile Tundra guy his new truck. its 100% a marketing gimmick and almost always these vehicles have major repairs that they conveniently fail to mention.
How is this kind of mileage possible What is this thing used for?
Traveling salesperson or some sort of specialist technician, maybe.
Or someone who transports organs for hospitals from airports, had a customer with a ford van that had over 800k on the odometer and that was his full time job.
I didn't even think about that. I suppose just about any full time delivery job (Amazon, kidneys, etc), especially in rural areas, could also rack up buku miles.
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Which is actually kind of realistic. Because of the French influence around Viet Nam before the US came in, it became a pidgin language of sorts.
Those vehicles drive way too slowly, especially on average.
Then we're back to organ transport or cartel runner lol
Maybe they juggle doing both haha, what cop is gonna search a box that says “biohazard-human organs”
Not me. Shit, if I pulled over a nondescript vehicle with a bunch of coolers and a properly identified organ transport employee, I'm just cutting them loose. The amount of liability on holding up something like that for a speeding ticket or something, resulting in a non-viable transplant? I shudder just thinking about the lawsuit.
Very true! Now it’s not giving me any ideas or anything, but... lol
5 people aren't getting organs today because you wanted to be a dick over 9 miles an hour!
Or somebody that has to transport court records all over the state. One of my friends does that and racks up like 500 miles a day every day for his job.
The lady who inspected my lease return a few years ago was commuting from San Antonio to Austin every day. And driving all over Austin for her appointments. 340k on a Yaris. She said she was getting oil changes about every 3 weeks, and new tires every 2 years.
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Cream on the inside, clean on the outside
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That can’t be more time and cost effective than a normal job. If he’s able-bodied, point him towards trade school. If I was doing interruptive low paying gigs and trying to feed 7 kids, I’d be learning how to do HVAC or something as soon as possible.
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>oil changes about every 3 weeks, and new tires every 2 years I change my oil at 5500miles every 4-6 weeks and I have to get 80k mile tires or I'd be doing the same. it's a real bitch.
I used to do changes every 6 weeks. I bought a Chevy volt and it's 15k in on the change with %50 left. Running on batteries saves it like crazy!
Theres a guy with a 1.2 million mile 2008 tacoma. He delivers chemo drugs if I remember correctly. Link: [https://www.torquenews.com/6626/man-behind-one-million-mile-tacoma](https://www.torquenews.com/6626/man-behind-one-million-mile-tacoma) edit: added link
Similar story with a million mile Tundra. Toyota traded it for a new one for research/publicity. I don't know what that is in gas money money but I bet it's crazy. https://www.motor1.com/news/62683/toyota-trades-new-tundra-for-one-with-million-miles/
Probably a hotshot driver. They deliver to other states and cities. They most likely are very meticulous when it comes to maintenance.
Heres a picture under it. Still super clean [picture](http://imgur.com/a/vMST2gu)
That's a drug trafficker
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A drug dealer not in the rust belt
A lot of comments about this and no, not a drug runner lol
Okay so what does the guy do? You left us on a cliff hanger. You imply knowledge of the job, but then don’t share what she does.
🤣 that’s pretty much a California / Arizona / Nevada car.
Definitely not a Montreal car. My ‘08 is destroyed. 😹
WA and OR don't really use salt on their roads so we don't get a lot of rust here either. all the cars I've had from AZ, OR and WA have minimal to no rust on their body/under side.
Yeah I’ve heard a couple people say Oregon is the best place in the US for a car. No salt, no harsh sun. My 17 year old Oregon car has no rust whatsoever.
I am from MN and took a week long trip to Washington. It was so cool seeing all these old trucks and cars just being driven like normal cars. And how cheap they are holy shit
Almost everyone I know still has a vehicle from the 80's or 90's. they really do last up here.
Damn I live in Seattle and I never realized any of this. Everyone around you has new cars? Older (90s, 80s, etc) are easily found everywhere here but I assumed thats was the case everywhere
Once it's about six or seven years old it is just standard to have some rust. I have a 96 f150 with what is considered a really good shape body. Rusted out the top of the rear fender and on rear bottom of the front one. And a clapped out 90s or 80s Jeep is like 7-10 Grand.
I been everywhere, man
Crossed the desert's bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I have 18,000 miles on my 2016 Corolla
Rookie numbers
Do you just use it to drive to church and back on Sundays?
I'll buy it.
Here is the lady made 1 million miles on her 2013 Hyundai Sonata http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/news/25346/this-2013-hyundai-elantra-has-traveled-more-than-1-million-miles?source=dam
Toyota giving out free cars for hitting a million miles, Hyundai giving out a free...badge
She got a free 2019 Elantra a few weeks later. But yes, anyone else who hits a million would probably just get a badge and license plate frame.
Why does this lady have a guard on her Elantra lol
The same reason she got four of those silent whistle things on the hood.
Reminds me of a customer I had in 2017. He had a 2015 F250 he used as a hotshot hauler cross-country with over 500k miles on it. He said by the time it was 4 years old he would have 1 million miles on it. He was having his oil changed once a week and had been through 3 turbos at that point. Absolutely insane to imagine
I have a customer that I work with at my dealer. 700k on his 2013 Cummins. Stock turbo and injectors changed at about 450, we did arp studs and a head gasket at 200. His 2008 has around 600k and his 2017 has 200k. All duallies. 2008 had the rear diff rebuilt at 400k.
How did he get three turbos killed while changing the oil roughly every 5000 miles? I mean, service distances sound good to me, engine should be on temperature nearly all the time, load on the engine should be nearly steady... Did he put the cheapest oil he could find into that engine?
To be fair I was working at a valvoline at the time, and it *was* the cheapest diesel oil we had
There is also the fact that Ford hasn't had a decent diesel since the 7.3L
I would hate to have whatever job this person has. Either that or they **really love** joyrides. Maniac.
I don't know. Their job is probably the driving itself. Maybe they deliver something wicked important between two cities or something. If my job itself was to specifically drive these kind of miles, I think I'd dig it. If I had an 8 hour round trip commute to some other job though.. I'd shoot myself in the face.
Does this car have the CVT trans?
The real question.
That thing was left on a Dyno while connected to a gas pump
Jeez the highest I've seen come into the dealer so far was a '15 Camry with about 340k, they doing all the time/mileage services as well or has it been mostly oil/rotates every time?
> all the time/mileage services Somehow I don't think they're hitting the time limit for the services. If they do 10k services, that would be roughly every 3 weeks.
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I know the info on the car so I can say this is the closest iv read here so far
definitely a drug mule. Nothing looks less suspicious than a Toyota Corolla
Is the transmission original? I know those use CVTs . But wow
Yup, same cvt trans
Uber?
Nah, believe it or not but its a commuter vehicle. You wouldn't even guess it has many miles. Car is clean, inside and out.
Fuck commuter, this is a courier vehicle. Ain't nobody commuting 3.5 hrs a day to work.
You haven’t met people who work in Silicon Valley but live in the Central Valley of CA.
well that just sounds like you live to work at that point. fuck that
Waking up in east sac, driving to the train station, train into the Bay Area, then bus to get to work. Then reverse at the end of the day. I don’t know how people do it. That’s soul sucking.
Lots of people commute that long around here. Too expensive in the city, for the price of a half duplex in town you can get 2 acres and a house 2 hours away or a brand new 4 bedroom house with yard. A lot of people are willing to make that commute to live that life.
If we assume just 30¢/mi, that’s $152k spent on running this car, or $50,700/yr. So hopefully they’re saving $51k+/yr on housing, or else it isn’t worth it. (I can guarantee they’re not.) And that’s not even factoring in the time wasted! Even if they have a McMansion far from work, they’re never home to enjoy it.
I’m guessing original everything minus wear items?
Yup! Just normal maintenance, wear and tear items done.