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I am not in the market for a car but when I saw a 2011 Sonata for $8600 I had to look. Well, there is a reason for everything: almost 210,000 miles. This is right up there with professional truck drivers. Who drives that much?
About 70,000 miles/year, give or take? Rural mail carriers, salespeople, couriers, people who transport organs for transplanting... it's a bit out of the ordinary, but not unheard of. If they'd run as many miles as an OTR truck driver, the car would have 330 - 450k on it.
Actually a 2011 was probably sold in 2010, so it is almost 5 years old, ~ 40K miles per year. I drive 20K miles a year and that is not my job, so if someone has a longer commute or works as a courier, 40K mile per year is nothing. I know a few drivers that work as couriers and they have close to 500K miles on 2011 cars (Toyota Yaris and Ford Fiesta).
Either way, still a lot of miles, considering the anticipated average is what? 12 - 15k/year? But yeah, even a long daily commute could do it. There are people who live in Colorado Springs and work in Denver, so they're looking at 70+ miles each way.
Know of several. A bud of mine works the pad sites for the oil wells in the Eagle Ford project in S Texas. His 2014 F250 has 78,000 miles on it as of last weekend. He got the truck in May. The R&D firm I worked at had an F150 that picked up reports in and test samples in San Antonio, took them to the offices in Houston. He then picked up reports and samples and took most of it to Dallas. Picked up reports and samples there and brought them back to San Antonio. That went on 24/7/365 with 5 drivers. The oil changes were every weekend and that was the only time the truck got to cool off. The trucks would have 250,000+ miles a year put on them. At one time, I was putting 50-60,000 a year on my truck. Thankfully that's over. It's not fun having a 4 wheel office.
i had a company car when i had to run "routes" all over WI and MN; some weeks i put 1500 miles on the odometer so for anyone who has to do some serious and routine travel that sort of mileage is easy to hit
Just out of curiosity I checked the Edmund's price. Says $13,000 retail. Now that is pretty darn good for a car that was perhaps $25K new. Here is the kicker. Changed the mileage to 60,000 miles and the price went up by a paltry $1300. If true, it says don't lose sleep over racking up miles.
Just out of curiosity I checked the Edmund's price. Says $13,000 retail. Now that is pretty darn good for a car that was perhaps $25K new. Here is the kicker. Changed the mileage to 60,000 miles and the price went up by a paltry $1300. If true, it says don't lose sleep over racking up miles.
Yep, now adjust the year one way or another. It shocks me how much more the model year affects the value then mileage.
When I was working as IT support for a hotel group I drove my company car across europe constantly. I had over 190,000 Km on a two year old Volvo V70. It can be done.
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