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How Many Miles You Drive A Year

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Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:24 PM
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...in your Scion.

I checked my odometer today and it had 13,427 miles on it. I've only had my xB since July 2003 so that makes it about 6 months of driving so far. On this pace I'm gonna drive 26,854 miles in one calendar year. I have to say that is not so good for insurance and warranty purposes, but it's my only car, oh well...
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:26 PM
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25k a year
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:34 PM
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i'm gunna be around 12
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:40 PM
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around 30k
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:41 PM
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i have had my s10 for 4yrs now and have 49,000 so i go about 12,500 miles a year(estimate)
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:47 PM
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i'm up to just under 18,000 on my xB, and i usually drive around 36,000 miles a year.
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by eric m.
i'm up to just under 18,000 on my xB, and i usually drive around 36,000 miles a year.
wow. That's a 3 normal year lease.
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 11:04 PM
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i usually average about 10-12k per year....had my xB coming up on five months and have about 4500 on it....
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 11:10 PM
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I have a 91 taurus with 64k miles....now that's good ____. When you first get the scion you drive the ____ out of it but I will ease it up soon.
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 11:38 PM
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man im at 9200 and i bought in july and im feeling guilty about it all. you guys blow my doors off.
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 11:39 PM
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My RS 1.0 will get 2k-3k, probably a lot less, a year and my wifes will get about 10k/year
Old Jan 7, 2004 | 11:58 PM
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Why would it hurt your insurance? Just tell them you'll use it for pleasure and not for business. Unless your car is registered as a Business Car for tax purposes :?:
Old Jan 8, 2004 | 12:02 AM
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I bought my xB on Sep. 28th. I have 10.5k miles on it. I figure approx. 36k/year...yeah, nothing like a 3 year/100k mile warranty.
Old Jan 8, 2004 | 12:10 AM
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My insurance is like 7k a year or something. It's signed up as a sunday toy kinda thing.
Old Jan 8, 2004 | 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by hatchbox
...in your Scion...
Both my wife and I live within a mile of our work, so we don't put on a lot of commuter miles. We just hit 5000 miles after six months of ownership. We try to use the Scion for all our errands since it's the car under warranty.

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Old Jan 8, 2004 | 02:00 AM
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On the civic i sold for my xb i was avg 50k a year so when i changed jobs i thought
lets get a new car so june 9th i drove out of my dealer at 945 am and now jan 7th
i have a grand total of 18845 miles on my xb and man did it go by fast
Old Jan 8, 2004 | 02:36 AM
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i have over 18,000+ miles easy. We drove to kansas and back from sacramento with no problems, in deed the scions are the most reliable car i've had.
Old Jan 8, 2004 | 04:11 AM
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My wife's car is 2 years old and has 6000 miles on it. My old neon that I had before my xB was 4 years old when I sold it with 24000 miles on it. Don't think I'll be putting much more than 5000 miles on it a year.
Old Jan 8, 2004 | 05:41 AM
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im at 19,000 in about months, but thats what happens when you have a girlfriend that lives 100 miles away...
Old Jan 13, 2004 | 08:19 AM
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I'll prob be between 20,000-24,000? My '96 Accord has about 155,000...



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