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Contrarium 2 Pobular Believe, that`s literally not that many Mile`s! Me Gr8 GranPabby drove his 1919 Jalopy for mile`s `n` mile`s `n` mile`s `n` mile`s `n` mile`s! Over 1000 Mile`s! The secret is MAINTENANCE, MAINTENANCE, MAINTENANCE. Remember these Key`s and you`re car will Last forever!
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Can you perform most standard maintenance with scissors?
 

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600K miles is a **** ton. Have you personally maintained the care throughout the life of the vehicle? I was reading it's mainly Mercedes and Volvos that can possibly reach 500K+ and even that is extremely rare. What type of car is it? My cars don't usually last more than 125-150K miles even with frequent preventative maintenance.

Mercedes carbed diesels and volvo redblocks will pass 1m miles with the right care fairly easily. Other than that, brands don't matter as much as the most specific details of the vehicle. The year, the TYPE of car, the position in the market a company is in(when a car maker has a good reputation with recent vehicles, they start to cut corners to recoup investments into whatever platform and the opposite, when a car maker is taking big hits for their reputation, they take a lot of measures to shut up critics and eat costs on better materials to do so). The supply chain, etc. If you buy a $20k car loaded with features, think about where the costs get moved around and how much weight is added. Opposed to a 20k car with basic features(and factoring in that you can do a lot of things aftermarket, sometimes better), the basic feature car, with exceptions to platforms grandfathered in for fleet, will have more of the kitty thrown into the things that matter if you're after sheer longevity.

This is my second car with over 400k miles. I only buy lightweight cars(for the respective class) 4 cylinder engines with manual transmissions. There is nowhere I go where I will get enough benefit of a rocket to justify the drop in reliability and the added maintenance/fuel costs. When I do preventative maintenance, I attack known weaknesses of the car early instead of investing in performance mods, although to be fair, performance does go up a bit, and in some cases, so does fuel economy. Shit pays itself off. Helps to be a boring nerd that is also a gearhead, but isn't into racing. Wifes car is near 400k, and her's is a 2008. Same philosophy. All are Japanese engines with German transmissions in a "world" platform of some sort, sold as an American car. Far more important information than brand, because the brand makes a lot of shit cars if you fail to do the research.

How does one put 50k miles on their car in a year, for 12 years?

Driving lol. Business stuff, family is spread out, and when I need to go out of state for whatever job thing, I take the car because #1, I'll need a car wherever I go, and #2, I have specialized equipment. Been trying to kill this car for years, figure if I get stuck, I have AAA. For example, one year I had to go to Salt Lake City and Denver then back 26 times in a 5 month period, plus all the driving around the locations. Thankfully, that's one of the easier trips with some nice high speed limits. And yes, I bought tires right before I went out there and right after I was done. I did 160k in 2009 alone, and in a recession year, going from side-hustle to full-time self employed right before it hit full-blown, you do whatever it takes to not throw away your life's work.
 

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Jesus. My car has 113k on it and I thought that was getting up there. I have no idea how you drive that much. Wouldn't it be more effective to just fly at that point? Not that I don't believe you, but can you post pics?

Only vehicle I have ever seen over 500k was an old 1 Ton farm truck.
 

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Hey! I'm all for fun! ..but technically, Scrooge wasn't wrong! It's commercial bullshit!

I like the George C Scott version lol


You're a dork and a charlatan fyi.
 

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Mercedes carbed diesels and volvo redblocks will pass 1m miles with the right care fairly easily. Other than that, brands don't matter as much as the most specific details of the vehicle. The year, the TYPE of car, the position in the market a company is in(when a car maker has a good reputation with recent vehicles, they start to cut corners to recoup investments into whatever platform and the opposite, when a car maker is taking big hits for their reputation, they take a lot of measures to shut up critics and eat costs on better materials to do so). The supply chain, etc. If you buy a $20k car loaded with features, think about where the costs get moved around and how much weight is added. Opposed to a 20k car with basic features(and factoring in that you can do a lot of things aftermarket, sometimes better), the basic feature car, with exceptions to platforms grandfathered in for fleet, will have more of the kitty thrown into the things that matter if you're after sheer longevity.

This is my second car with over 400k miles. I only buy lightweight cars(for the respective class) 4 cylinder engines with manual transmissions. There is nowhere I go where I will get enough benefit of a rocket to justify the drop in reliability and the added maintenance/fuel costs. When I do preventative maintenance, I attack known weaknesses of the car early instead of investing in performance mods, although to be fair, performance does go up a bit, and in some cases, so does fuel economy. Shit pays itself off. Helps to be a boring nerd that is also a gearhead, but isn't into racing. Wifes car is near 400k, and her's is a 2008. Same philosophy. All are Japanese engines with German transmissions in a "world" platform of some sort, sold as an American car. Far more important information than brand, because the brand makes a lot of shit cars if you fail to do the research.



Driving lol. Business stuff, family is spread out, and when I need to go out of state for whatever job thing, I take the car because #1, I'll need a car wherever I go, and #2, I have specialized equipment. Been trying to kill this car for years, figure if I get stuck, I have AAA. For example, one year I had to go to Salt Lake City and Denver then back 26 times in a 5 month period, plus all the driving around the locations. Thankfully, that's one of the easier trips with some nice high speed limits. And yes, I bought tires right before I went out there and right after I was done. I did 160k in 2009 alone, and in a recession year, going from side-hustle to full-time self employed right before it hit full-blown, you do whatever it takes to not throw away your life's work.

In all of that you didn't answer the fifty dollar question. Year make and model?
 

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You're a dork and a charlatan fyi.

dork? maybe..

charlatan? wait a minute, I look that up..... I never said I have a special knowledge or skill.
a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud.
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A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick or deception in order to obtain money,

I wish,but no.
 

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Please...let's not perpetuate the myth that Charles Dickens was a good author...he's the literary equivalent of Valium.

As for Black Friday...I don't get involved...with that or Cyber Monday. I just get gifts as the opportunity presents itself.
 

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Please...let's not perpetuate the myth that Charles Dickens was a good author...he's the literary equivalent of Valium.
Somehow he was able to get paid by the word.
 

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Please...let's not perpetuate the myth that Charles Dickens was a good author...he's the literary equivalent of Valium.

As for Black Friday...I don't get involved...with that or Cyber Monday. I just get gifts as the opportunity presents itself.

If you don't like crowds, then you're smart for staying away.
 

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EBay has a $10 off purchase of $30 or more coupon right now.
 

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oh man a Target doorbuster $45 Black Ops 4...i'm going to have to rush to Target on Friday to get that!


What a fucking joke
 

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oh man a Target doorbuster $45 Black Ops 4...i'm going to have to rush to Target on Friday to get that!


What a fucking joke

Last year all the games were $30 let’s see what Walmart and Best Buy do
 

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oh man a Target doorbuster $45 Black Ops 4...i'm going to have to rush to Target on Friday to get that!


What a fucking joke

Not worth going to the store for that. You can probably find it cheaper online earlier.
 

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Last year all the games were $30 let’s see what Walmart and Best Buy do

4-5 years ago, most EA Sports games were $20-$25 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target.
 

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