Who had the highest mileage?

[mazilla]

Originally Posted by DevilGirl

You don't have to be in the courier business to rack up 500+ miles a week. I commute 100 miles a day if I take the train for part of my commute, and about 150 miles a day if I drive all the way in to work. My minimum is 500 a week, but could be up to 750 a week depending on which modes of transportation I choose.

On average, I put about 32,000-35,000 miles on the car a year. 2009 hatch bought 8/7/09, 78,881 at last fill up (yesterday afternoon), but add about 100 miles to that and that's how many is on it as of arriving to work this morning.

You do have to be in the courier industry to get te astronomical miles we do/did. My car ran 500+ miles PER DAY, 5 days a week, until I bought it.

[why?]

Originally Posted by DevilGirl

You don't have to be in the courier business to rack up 500+ miles a week. I commute 100 miles a day if I take the train for part of my commute, and about 150 miles a day if I drive all the way in to work. My minimum is 500 a week, but could be up to 750 a week depending on which modes of transportation I choose.

On average, I put about 32,000-35,000 miles on the car a year. 2009 hatch bought 8/7/09, 78,881 at last fill up (yesterday afternoon), but add about 100 miles to that and that's how many is on it as of arriving to work this morning.

You have more miles on your car than mine, which I bought in May of 2006. That is a ton of driving. I don't know if I could handle it. I couldn't handle a 45 minute commute to a school for college.

Originally Posted by daf62757

I know that different regions in the country have different dealer practices with respect to options. I bought a Toyota Tercel from an Alabama dealer back in 83 and everything was an option that you paid extra for. I was in the Army and transferred away and noticed the same car at a different dealer didn't charge. The Alabama dealer...and the whole region...were charging for OEM options that were installed at the factory. This was before the internet so people's ability to check other regions was very restricted. The bottom line, dealers are thieves. They lie to you to make more money. Information and knowledge are your self defense weapons against them.

That is SE Toyota. Fully owned by someone non toyota, and yes they are shady.

[Golddeenoh]

My grandpa had a 79 toyota pick up that wouldn't die i think it had 625k miles on it when dad traded to a friend and that guy is still driving it around, so as long as you do your regularly scheduled maintenance getting a toyota to last 10 to 15 years is no problem. I'll keep mine until one of my kids needs something to drive and then i might let them have it but seeing as that i have not kids right now it will easily be another 18 to 20 years, lol.

[nookandcrannycar]

The last word in the last post by Why? (the word shady) brings back two distinct memories for me. During some of my growing-up years my dad was a car salesman. Only once was he ever cheated out of a commission, and it was NOT by a Toyota dealership.. He was about to go to the labor board over the lost commission (after he was (soon after) already working at another dealership), but then a DEAD BODY turned up in one of the new cars at the commission cheating dealership. He had heard (while working at the dealership) that the root of the ownership money re the dealership was mob money. He decided not to pursue the lost commission. Years later, in a different metropolitan area, I sought to buy a new GTI and pay cash. I purchased $1,000 money orders for 80-90 percent or so of the cost and was going to write a personal check for the remainder. I had totaled the previous new VW I had (with only 7k miles on it) and was driving an extra unneeded car that belonged to my mother, so I didn't need to worry about trading in the car I was driving. I had been watching ads for a few months and finally saw an under sticker ad that met the target price I was looking for. I figured out how many other VW dealerships I could drive to in one day while spending next to nothing on gas, and purchased the money orders re the car purchase (the purpose of the money orders was to show I was ready to buy the car that day and to dissuade the rep from trying to talk me into financing). I brought a friend I hadn't seen recently with me to drive my mother's extra car back to my house. I found one dealership willing to beat the newspaper ad I had in my hand. We agreed on the price and I waited for them to prep the car so I could consummate the deal and drive away. It was already late in the day and they soon said the car wouldn't be ready until the next day. I still had some catching up to do with my friend, and he didn't mind coming back the next day, so it was not a big deal to return the next day. I returned the next day to pick up the car and, the rep told me (after he handed me the keys and I was about to drive away) that the reason I had to come back was not because they hadn't finished prepping the car, IT WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD TO DEALER TRADE WITH THE DEALER FEATURED IN THE AD I HAD IN MY HAND TO GET THE CAR I WANTED! The car they had shown me the previous day was identical to the ad car, but it had already been promised to someone close to the owner of the dealership. I had already looked over the ad car with a fine toothed comb at the other dealership (and they moved it with a flatbed, so the trade didn't put any miles on the car), so I didn't have any issues with the car. I think the rep surmised that it didn't matter if this revelation made me mad or not because I lived far enough away to make it unlikely that I would use them for service needs. He should have cared about how this made VW of America look, but he didn't care.

[daf62757]

Originally Posted by Golddeenoh

My grandpa had a 79 toyota pick up that wouldn't die i think it had 625k miles on it when dad traded to a friend and that guy is still driving it around, so as long as you do your regularly scheduled maintenance getting a toyota to last 10 to 15 years is no problem. I'll keep mine until one of my kids needs something to drive and then i might let them have it but seeing as that i have not kids right now it will easily be another 18 to 20 years, lol.

I was watching some BBC show, their version of Top Gear and they were literally trying to tear up a Toyota Hylux Diesel. They did things to kill it off. Drove it though the streets of Bath, let the sea completely overtake it, dropped it from a high crane, then set it on fire. Mind you this was already a very high mileage Hylux. The final shot was of this burned out Toyota truck clanking into their studio. It was still running. I don't know how they can make a car or truck that good, but they do. Maybe its an accident, but they have discovered how to make reliable cars.

[allyart]

lets see..
i got 7000km on my yaris
yep, definitely not me :p

[why?]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

The last word in the last post by Why? (the word shady) brings back two distinct memories for me. During some of my growing-up years my dad was a car salesman. Only once was he ever cheated out of a commission, and it was NOT by a Toyota dealership.. He was about to go to the labor board over the lost commission (after he was (soon after) already working at another dealership), but then a DEAD BODY turned up in one of the new cars at the commission cheating dealership. He had heard (while working at the dealership) that the root of the ownership money re the dealership was mob money. He decided not to pursue the lost commission. Years later, in a different metropolitan area, I sought to buy a new GTI and pay cash. I purchased $1,000 money orders for 80-90 percent or so of the cost and was going to write a personal check for the remainder. I had totaled the previous new VW I had (with only 7k miles on it) and was driving an extra unneeded car that belonged to my mother, so I didn't need to worry about trading in the car I was driving. I had been watching ads for a few months and finally saw an under sticker ad that met the target price I was looking for. I figured out how many other VW dealerships I could drive to in one day while spending next to nothing on gas, and purchased the money orders re the car purchase (the purpose of the money orders was to show I was ready to buy the car that day and to dissuade the rep from trying to talk me into financing). I brought a friend I hadn't seen recently with me to drive my mother's extra car back to my house. I found one dealership willing to beat the newspaper ad I had in my hand. We agreed on the price and I waited for them to prep the car so I could consummate the deal and drive away. It was already late in the day and they soon said the car wouldn't be ready until the next day. I still had some catching up to do with my friend, and he didn't mind coming back the next day, so it was not a big deal to return the next day. I returned the next day to pick up the car and, the rep told me (after he handed me the keys and I was about to drive away) that the reason I had to come back was not because they hadn't finished prepping the car, IT WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD TO DEALER TRADE WITH THE DEALER FEATURED IN THE AD I HAD IN MY HAND TO GET THE CAR I WANTED! The car they had shown me the previous day was identical to the ad car, but it had already been promised to someone close to the owner of the dealership. I had already looked over the ad car with a fine toothed comb at the other dealership (and they moved it with a flatbed, so the trade didn't put any miles on the car), so I didn't have any issues with the car. I think the rep surmised that it didn't matter if this revelation made me mad or not because I lived far enough away to make it unlikely that I would use them for service needs. He should have cared about how this made VW of America look, but he didn't care.

not really sure why that would be a negative? You got a car you liked for the price you wanted? What is the big deal?

[nookandcrannycar]

I guess I should have made it clearer, the dealer led me to believe (before coming back the next day) that the car reserved for the person connected to the dealer would be the one I'd be getting. If the situation hadn't involved other people (and my caring about what was best for those people...more personal details that would only make things less clear) I would have walked away from the deal on principle and left the dishonest rep 'holding the bag' (although they wouldn't have had difficulty selling the car). The only reason I could think of that he told me was that I think he surmised I'd written down the VIN number of the ad car and might notice it was the same as the one delivered to me and write a complaint letter to VW of America... and that his disclosure before my taking delivery would completely erase the deceit in the 'eyes' of VW of America. I think the process matters, not just the end result. I think one of the things that is wrong with our society is that many people look at things through 'what can I get away with glasses' rather than 'what is right and what is wrong glasses'. I was listening to a weekly real estate show on a local radio station earlier today and the host read an email that had been submitted by a listener. He answered the listener with a real life example from his own portfolio. He owns a house that he leased to a family of three and the maximum number of people to live there was stipulated in the lease. He later learned that 5 people were living in the house. The tenants had broken the lease. He found out about the extra people at a point where there was no damage to the property (so the current result of 5 people vs 3 people was the same, which some people might find analogous to the two basically identical cars I mentioned), BUT HE SAID HE EVICTED THE TENANTS RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT LIARS LIVING IN A PROPERTY HE OWNED -- both on principle and re how that might effect the smoothness/efficiency of their future tenancy.