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300,000 miles!
AIRB842586
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 06:51 AM UTC
My odometer just turned over again! It finally reached 300,000 miles! And you thought your car had a lot of miles on it!



Grumpyoldman
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 07:18 AM UTC
Only 100,000 behind.... if the body doesn't fall off, the engine will make it........ :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
DRAGONSLAIN
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 11:55 AM UTC
I guess with regular maintainance and careful driving (e.i. NO holes, offroad, speeding, racing) my car will get there too!! 124,000 right now.

P.S. I once saw a car with half a million miles, and the car looked alright, it's owner had to change the engine by then though....
mlb63
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 04:48 PM UTC
the truck i drive at work only has 231,000 miles but its only eight years old so i dont get a replacement for four more years.
Henk
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 05:23 PM UTC

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the truck i drive at work only has 231,000 miles but its only eight years old so i dont get a replacement for four more years



The trucks we drive on milk collections run almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Cows don't have holidays or weekend breaks. Most of our trucks run back to back shifts and some have clocked up over 350000 KM in two years....... the average is about 280000. Mind you, driving up and down farmtracks and lanes wears them out, most will not last another two years..

Cheers
Henk