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Old 28-07-2012, 04:36 PM   #1
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Default How many k's do you do in a year?

& what sort of Ford?
I've done about 7000km's in the last 6 months or so in my Rebel since I got it, so it looks like about 14,000 a year

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Old 28-07-2012, 05:01 PM   #2
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30000+ most years.
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:02 PM   #3
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30000+ most years.
That seems quite a lot. What sort of car?
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:04 PM   #4
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a change of jobs, down from 58,000K's to 6,100K's per year.
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That seems quite a lot. What sort of car?
That's only 570ish kilometers a week. Not that unheard of! I used to do about that at my old job, 42 km each way 5 days a week. 420km just to work and back, plus whatever I do during the week to see the mrs, pub, see mates etc.

These days I'm doing about 350 a week so about 18,000-20,000 a year.
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a change of jobs, down from 58,000K's to 6,100K's per year.
that's a big drop
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That seems quite a lot. What sort of car?
Spread over the BA and whatever other car Ive bought during the year.
This years its an AU Ute as well.
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:10 PM   #8
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Recent history.
EA2, 270,000km in 5 years
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AU2 110,000km in 2.5 years
BA GT-P 84,000km in 20 months
BA2 F6 105,000km in 3 years
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There were a few other cars in there but they were either not Fords or I only had them a few weeks/months.
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that's a big drop
not much work in the central coast, travel to sydney...well used to.

now work local..
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:25 PM   #10
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Hmmm I did 205,000km in the Festiva over the course of 10 years. That included it being off the road a total of around 2.5 years due to travel.

In the Focus... well lets see. Bought Late Jan 2011 with 8,000km on the clock and it now has 42,000km.

So... whats that... 18 months minus around 5 months where it was in the garage while travelling.. makes it 34,000km in 13 months.

So... still around the 30k a year average give or take.

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Old 28-07-2012, 05:30 PM   #11
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maybe just over 15,000 over 3 cars
my wife's rav 4 does the most at around 12,000 a year
her little 121 that i drive would be lucky to do 2,000-3,000 a year
the coupe, maybe 1,000


it is great living around 5 k's from work - and my wife works around 11 k's from home
so all up we cover around 32km each day going to work
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:31 PM   #12
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last 12 months = 2800 klms
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:33 PM   #13
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I spread driving duties between three cars and four motorbikes so none gets much milage. My wife probably does about 5000km more than me a year .. Shes doing about 28,000km / year ... Her vehicle is an '09 FG XR6 ute ...
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About 220,000 a year.............. but not that much in my car
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work i do about 55-60k a year
my car about 10 or 12
the last few years i did close to 20k in the AU, back and forth to Sydney quite a lot.
Im over it........
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last 12 months = 2800 klms
so low. what sort of car?

interested to hear about the Festivas & Demio's, as we had a Festiva, took it from 90,000km to about 180,000km, great car, very reliable, was still goin strong when we sold it
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I do about 7,500 klm's a yr in the Laser, and since owning the AUII XR8 from new I have clocked up 60,000 klm's so thats around 5,500 klm's a yr.
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Old 28-07-2012, 05:55 PM   #18
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Given the amount of time I've owned my car and the amount of kilometres I've driven, it works out to 11,700 km per year. I currently drive about 200-250 km per week, I reset the trip meter each week and try to reign in how much driving I do. So pretty low compared to some of you guys, and I thought I was doing too much driving! At one stage I was only driving 70 km per week.
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I do about 7,500 klm's a yr in the Laser, and since owning the AUII XR8 from new I have clocked up 60,000 klm's so thats around 5,500 klm's a yr.
It sounds like the AU is not having too hard a life.
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Given the amount of time I've owned my car and the amount of kilometres I've driven, it works out to 11,700 km per year. I currently drive about 200-250 km per week, I reset the trip meter each week and try to reign in how much driving I do. So pretty low compared to some of you guys, and I thought I was doing too much driving! At one stage I was only driving 70 km per week.
Yeah i thought I was doin a lot at 14,000 a year. But a lot of my driving is pretty local, so i guess Im not doin as much as I thought
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15-20,000km down to probably 5-6000km if I'm lucky. Change if jobs so the BA has become a weekender!

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so low. what sort of car?

interested to hear about the Festivas & Demio's, as we had a Festiva, took it from 90,000km to about 180,000km, great car, very reliable, was still goin strong when we sold it
The Festiva is the most reliable car I have ever owned. At 205,000km it had an accident. Prior to that, it drove like new, had the same economy from new. 'Repairs' included top and bottom radiator hoses, rear bearings a few times... thats about it.

Factory clutch, factory front rotors and bearings. Anyone who has owned one that has not been abused will tell you they are cheap, trouble free way to get around. Oh, that engine went into a mates Festiva to do another whole bunch of kays before it was crashed again lol.... The guy who did the engine details transfer said the engine number combination was "Lucky" for the Chinese lol... perhaps that had something to do with it???

Felt like it could have done another 200,000km...

Don't get me started... still in mourning.....
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As a driving instructor in the laser 1200 - 1500 / week (2 - 3 tanks a week). Since I retired, 1 tank every 4 - 6 weeks in the AU - about 11,000km in 18 months. But when I do drive it I really enjoy myself.
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60,000 odd however in multiple different vehicles
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But when I do drive it I really enjoy myself.
That's the most important thing.
I drove a taxi for a couple of years in mid 90's, it made me really bored with driving so I had motorcycles for years & drove a small car.
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60,000km in the Mazda 3
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The other cars are used only to keep them in good nick.
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In my FG I purchased new at the end of December 2011 and to this day has travelled 2490kms! So that will be about 4500kms by Xmas! My previous BF I owned I travelled 12500 kms in 3 years. I travel about 25000kms a year in my non-ford vehicle for work purposes.
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44,000k's over three years.
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120,000 per year. I am a tanker driver and average 2500km's per week
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120,000 per year. I am a tanker driver and average 2500km's per week
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