When I was a kid, I liked to watch the car odometer as we rolled along. Thinking about it, this might sound strange to some people, but probably only the ones that don't know me well. When I was 7 or so, my step-father-to-be took me on a ride in his '66 VW Beetle, and I got to watch as the odometer flipped from 99999 back to 00000.
Since then, my family and I have never had a car that got to 200,000 miles, though just about every one went past 100,000. Until today that is. The Taurus just flipped to 200,000 miles, and now stands at 200,000.1 (which reads 00000.1). Unfortunately, I was alone -- I would have liked to have made it a family event, but it was not to be.
I think the car had ~95,000 (or maybe 89,000) miles on it when we got it, so we've only had it for the second half of its existence.
Is 300,000 next?
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Knowing how long your first car has made it - despite me overheating it and just about blowing your head gasket, I'd say 300k is very possible, in fact probably even 400. That's an awful lot of miles. What sort of mileage do you do each year? I just checked our car today, and we've done 12000k (8000m) in 9 months. Once we've sold Bagshot, I expect that to drop dramatically.
P.S The nerd in me used to love watching odometer rollovers also.
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