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Ownership duration?

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I got to wondering, I've seen many people post about the miles total on their car, but how long have you owned it for and how many miles did you put on it?

I'm at around 4 1/2 years and 70,000 miles.

What's everyone's stats on this?
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I had my LeSabre for four years and 40,000 miles.

I've had my truck for 5 years and 52,000 miles.
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About 6 months, just at 6k miles more than when I got it, so almost 50k! :banana: :P
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Approaching 11 years and 130,000 miles.
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95- Had over 5 years and put nearly 40K on it

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Blue one - 5.5 years and 63k

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ZiLLA: Owned for almost 9 years now (almost to the day). Got it with 60k on the ticker, it's at 125k or so now I think.
SLEeper: Owned it for 5 or 6 years? Forget what it had, but it's at 136k now.
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As of April 17th I will have owned my car for 4 years. I have racked up about 164,000 miles and still counting.
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2.5 years, 34k - SSEi

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Approaching 5 years of ownership..bought it at 77,000 miles its at 121,000 now..so 44,000 miles in almost 5 years.
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8.5 years and 140,000 miles.
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ChilinMichael wrote:I got to wondering, I've seen many people post about the miles total on their car, but how long have you owned it for and how many miles did you put on it?

I'm at around 4 1/2 years and 70,000 miles.

What's everyone's stats on this?

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1 month, 980 miles :mrgreen:
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3 years, 13,500 miles.

Pretty low average of 4500 miles annually
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2000 SSEi: have owned for 4 months, purchased at 151K. Already spent $2000 fixing it up (mostly trans partial-rebuild), and not done yet...

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Six months / 5,200 miles.
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Six years, 149k miles
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