Marlot wrote: 'Just over a million miles for me in just over 20 years of driving.'
Marlot,
That's nearly a thousand miles a week, every week, for two decades.
When do you eat, sleep, go on holiday, do the garden, visit the backroom, do any work other than driving, buy a house, get married, bring up kids etc etc.
Then there's shopping, getting a haircut, going for a walk, being ill(hopefully not, but it happens) or just plain old relaxing.
In those 20 years, there must have been a few when you didn't quite manage 50k on the road, surely?
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A hard-working minicabber or taxi driver can easily do a thousand miles a week or more (I can remember doing 200 one 12-hour shift). Really hammers the car that, if it's all urban and involves rush hours.
So can various kinds of rep, delivery driver and of course lorry drivers.
Edited by Lud on 14/06/2008 at 20:27
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From 17 - 43 now, I've driven an approx
Allegro 1.1 17-24 80k
XR3I - 24-25 10k,
Espace 25-32 180k,
Peugeot 806 32-36 165k ,
Esapce 2.2dci 36-now 90k =
525 +
probably another 10k in U.S.A, and other vehicles , thats roughly 20k a year.
so at 35 mpg at today's rate........ shed loads, probably 8 years work just to drive, petrol, new vehicle, insurance etc, but Ill leave that calculation to number cruncher
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Whenyou have worked out driven mileage...I must be on 500 000...how does this compare with total mlles done walking flying sailing or cycling etc. theres one for anyone with a mathematical brain to work out!
thats simple
500,000 divided by 2 multiple by 10 to the power 3 subtract 36.8 add 56.4365 subtract the square root of 457654.1 divide by the coeffiecient of x/y*z and carry the one
works out to...........alot
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MARLOT....surely '20' years is a typo?
Vauxhall Victor to Honda Jazz spans about 40 years.
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A man who has never driven a diesel is only half a man.
What's the other half ?
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>> A man who has never driven a diesel is only half a man. What's the other half ?
Come to think of it, maybe I can claim the other half as I learned to drive on a Bren gun carrier, a light open-topped tank. I guess it must have been diesel.
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Goodness bintang... I imagine you had no difficulty adapting to your Lotus 7 when the time came?
:o}
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"What's the other half?"
Choose your half carefully:
"There's been an accident!" they said,
"Your servant's cut in half; he's dead."
"Indeed!" said Mr Jones, "and please
Give me the half that's got my keys."
(Harry Graham)
Another one of his to share with you - better motoring connection!
That morning, when my wife eloped
With James, our chauffeur, how I moped!
What tragedies in life there are!
I'm dashed if I can start the car.
Edited by Avant on 15/06/2008 at 17:32
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privately about 500 000 PCV about 900k on top
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Hmmm, approx:
Triumph Acclaim - 14k
Rover 213 - 36k
Citroen BX - 35k
Toyota Carina - 13k
Ford Mondeo - 48k
Toyota Avensis - 32k and counting
So thats 178k in my own cars, can think of at least 5 hire cars that I put up to 2k on, plus plenty of driving my Dad's cars in the early years. Must be getting on for 200k, spread over 17 years. But for the first 14 I lived no more than 3 miles from work. The last 3 years have added 60k to the total.
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As i roughly do about 6-8k a year.
About 70k!!
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I scribbled out a few figures and came up with about 425,000 in 25 years.
The most, 120,000 in a Mondeo V6, followed by 110,000 in a 1.3 Maestro !
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Very rough guess 360,000 miles. About 10K a year for 36 years. Some years probably a lot more, others a lot less.
Penalty points / convictions - ZERO
Accidents - bumped from behind by builder's van / caught glancing blow by out-of-control moped / same by car whose driver was driving too fast on icy road.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 16/06/2008 at 18:13
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Another one of his to share with you - better motoring connection! That morning when my wife eloped With James our chauffeur how I moped! What tragedies in life there are! I'm dashed if I can start the car.
I thought you had a moped.
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Bren gun carrier a light open-topped tank. I guess it must have been diesel.
Actually Bren carriers were powered by a Ford V8 petrol engine. (during WW2 they were anyway).
My Grandad (being a tank driver) used to mention driving them regularly, he said they were 'fast' in their day and you could have a great laugh driving them.
He told me one day they were bored during a lull in training, some time before D-Day; they selected a steep muddy hill with a challenging ascent and conducted time trial races in the Bren carrier. Luckily none of the COs found out.
;o)
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Boringly, about 10,000 a year since 1972. I suppose that about 8 sets of tyres, with 5 mm of rubber for each, that's 16cm of my tread you're driving on, left on a limited number of roads in south east England.
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I'm another 50,000 a year for around 20 years.
Then around 1500 a year for 5 years (plus 45,000 on the bikes)
Last 6 years, done around 18,000 (car) and 55,000 (bikes).
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Been driving for 22 years now and reckon I have done well over 1,000,000 miles. Mainly in company cars most cars returned before 3 years or 100,000 miles what ever came first. Although that has has tailed of the last few years. I actually miss doing a lot of driving. I think mainly because when I was driving i was not working.
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In ten years of driving ive done about 300k personal mileage and easily another 400k for work ( used to drive for a living, alongside valeting ).
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In the last 5 years, probably about 50,000 miles. Only 22. :-)
I've flown nearly 9500 miles in the last 2 months though, which I think is quite exciting.
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I was discussing this subject with fellow dads, whilst our boys were playing football, one of them knew exactly the miles he'd done in his working lifetime - 7,500,000 miles but then he is a captain on a BA jumbo -slightly cheating but non the less impressive
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Around 750k with more than 50 vehicles - mostly cars - in exactly 42 years. Includes more than 80k in mainland Europe on the 'wrong' side of the car, because my dicky knee prefers me to get in and out of RHD.
And yes, sadly, I remember every motor and almost all the reg numbers.
Edited by mike hannon on 09/08/2008 at 15:42
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First five years of driving, would guess 15k in parents' cars;
Renault 19 - 14k;
Ford Focus (parents', used it for work) - ca. 20k;
Peugeot 406 (x2) - 42k
Peugeot 306 - 9k
BMW 523i - 8k
Renault Clio - 5k
Total in 12 years - about 105k.
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About 535k I reckon in 29 years averaging 18,500 p/a.
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about 575,000 miles.
at an average of 40mph thats 14375 hours/599 days/85 weeks with my bum on the car seat.
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