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Disagree Posted by Ari [Email]  (#2847) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Ari) on Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:04:25
In Reply to: Odometer mileage readings, for discussion, RayF, Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:01:07 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
First, if there were such a rash of mis-reading odometers, a cry would have gone up long ago. And I've never bought a car with a non-functional odo.
I buy cars and keep them a long, long time. I also know the distance between here and Boston, and it hasn't gotten shorter on any trip (as one would expect if the odometer weren't working properly). I've run a bunch of Saabs into the upper 100K range, and I can account for every darn mile.
It's more of a statistical thing. Many cars get less than 15K miles a year. A few folks drive regularly that much, and those are the folks with 200K+ miles. And many cars get driven much less. Heck, I have a '92 I bought new, and it only has 66K on it. It is the third car in a two-driver household, is used for road trips and if one of the others is laid up. Long trips don't add up as much as numerous shopping trips. I know lots of people that barely hit 5K a year, and they're not all grannies. I used to drive 20K miles a year just to get to work. I now live 7 miles from work, and am hard pressed to put 3K miles a year for commuting. My wife works at home. Between our three cars, we do about 15K miles a year.
So the guy that puts 15 or 20K a year on the car hits 150K, and goes looking for a used one to replace it. Does he buy another 150K car? No - he looks for the car with 50 or 60K. He buys that from the guy that didn't drive the car much.
I figure most of the older cars have two different lives - one where they didn't get much use, then one when they did.
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