How many miles have you driven?

[1995hoo]

I have probably driven 40-50K miles in my lifetime.

Ah, I found your answer in there.

And I just got my license in Jan 2019..

I call BS that someone who got a license in January 2019 and lives in New York City, and makes comments on this forum that seem to reflect not having driven much outside of New York State (especially comments about exit numbering), has "driven" 40,000 to 50,000 miles in his lifetime. "Travelled" 40,000 to 50,000 miles by car, sure. That's plausible. But "driven"? I highly doubt that and I suspect "driven" is being used to refer to car travel in general, including as a passenger (like how my wife might say "we drove to Florida in May" even though she didn't do any of the driving).


(Edited to add a point to clarify my thought process.)

[Bruce]

It is possible to drive that much without leaving your state (in 2020, I put about 35K on my car without leaving Western WA mostly because of work). For a multi-state metro like NYC, however, it's less plausible.

[1995hoo]

It is possible to drive that much without leaving your state (in 2020, I put about 35K on my car without leaving Western WA mostly because of work). For a multi-state metro like NYC, however, it's less plausible.

Oh, I know it's possible, but given the types of posts he's made, I strongly suspect that in his case it is highly improbable. I suppose the timeframe also bears noting in view of most people's generally-reduced travel during 2020.

[Mike2357]

I have probably driven 40-50K miles in my lifetime.

Ah, I found your answer in there.

And I just got my license in Jan 2019..

I call BS that someone who got a license in January 2019 and lives in New York City, and makes comments on this forum that seem to reflect not having driven much outside of New York State (especially comments about exit numbering), has "driven" 40,000 to 50,000 miles in his lifetime. "Travelled" 40,000 to 50,000 miles by car, sure. That's plausible. But "driven"? I highly doubt that and I suspect "driven" is being used to refer to car travel in general, including as a passenger (like how my wife might say "we drove to Florida in May" even though she didn't do any of the driving).


(Edited to add a point to clarify my thought process.)

I've only driven in 5 states, NY, NJ, CT, PA, and MA.

[Mike2357]

It is possible to drive that much without leaving your state (in 2020, I put about 35K on my car without leaving Western WA mostly because of work). For a multi-state metro like NYC, however, it's less plausible.

Oh, I know it's possible, but given the types of posts he's made, I strongly suspect that in his case it is highly improbable. I suppose the timeframe also bears noting in view of most people's generally-reduced travel during 2020.

Actually I drove more for fun during 2020 because with 97% of the traffic gone I could finally floor it on the highwys.

[kphoger]

my car has more than 228,000 miles on it, but only about 70,000 of them are our miles.

And that's the end of that.  Threw a rod on Friday evening.

Purchased another vehicle yesterday.  The used car market sucks right now, in case you didn't know, and I was hoping my car would last long enough to outlive the current situation, but no such luck.  It's in the shop now, getting its first round of repairs, then I'll take it to one more shop after that for another repair.

(I now realize that I probably had a loose rod for about 8,000 to 10,000 miles but thought it was occasional valvetrain clatter instead.  I've driven to and from work every day like that, all around the area running errands and deliveries, one trip to Kansas City, and another trip to Galveston just six weeks ago.  It finally broke free 2½ blocks from my house, didn't totally seize up, and I was able to limp home and park on the street right in front of the house.  God is good!)

[TravelingBethelite]

Before I had a car of my own, I did some driving in my dad's car, on a few road trips too, but not that much I suspect. Probably 3  to 4 thousand in his car. I had a few cars before my dad helped me buy my 2018 Fusion. On the most recent one, I put on about 10,000 and probably the same or a little less total on all the cars before then. I'm closing in on 10,000 in the Fusion now. I'd put an estimate for me at about 30 to 35,000 miles driven on my own so far. If I had to nail a number down, I'd say somewhere about 32,000 miles.

[ET21]

My first car I added about 30,000 miles before trading it in. So far I've added about 70,000 miles on the second car. So roughly 100,000 total in my 11 year driving career