My car will be 2 years old next March but I've clocked up 25000 miles already, I plan on keeping the car for at least another three years but at that rate it will be close to 75000 miles come trade in.

We've just bought a Smart car (mainly for the wife) we can use this for local journeys so this should reduce my annual mileage leaving the motorway jaunts to the Fabia.

Should I be concerned that on average I'm driving 15000 miles a year or is this now quite common?

Curious as to what mileage everyone else is at, if anything to alleviate my concern.

Des

15k a year isnt high.

Neo_VR has done 55k in his Fabia in 2 years and that is by no means the highest ive seen.

I've been doing roughly 26k a year for the last few years. Now cut down to about 15k a year The downside is that most buyers seem to be wary of buying anything over 60k and the prices take quite a downturn after that (which works to a buyer's advantage )

Chris

Used to do 60,000 miles a year in the company car, now I have a different job and dont use my car for work it's down to 12,000

My car will be 2 years old next March but I've clocked up 25000 miles already,

Snap on the age, trump on the miles though, mine clocked 37,000 today.

Mines at 14k in 7 months, so will be nearly 100k at 4 years old. I hope it will be worth peanuts then so I can buy it from my lease company!

10months old and just hit 16k

30k a year for me , if not more.

I have done 800 miles in mine 2 months old BLACK FABIA VRS

i do 500 miles a week

so have done 10,000 miles in 3.5 months

2815 miles in 16 days. Am going to start using my other car a bit more again to save running this one into the ground.

The idea was to use this vRS for driving instruction and the Omega for everything else, however, the vRS is too much fun, so it goes everywhere.

Hopefully will get it down to less than 40,000 a year.

Before I did driving instruction, I used to do between 25 and 45 thousand a year depending on work related travel.

Chris

6,000 in 4 months from mine

I do around 30k a year, mainly social - 10k for commuting. 20k for social. Its all these damn mini meets and trackdays. Put over 1000 on in last 5 days going oop North, will be another 750ish in two weeks time doing a repeat, then another 800+ doing it AGAIN the following week.... But I don't care to be honest. Car is there to be used and I shall as often as I can (afford to )

Did 30k miles for 375 days or about 80 miles a day. 70% city driving.

I do around 15K a year not quite sure how but it all adds up!

First year I clocked up 24k and I'm now just over 30k. and it's now 17 months old. So nope it's not really high mileage for a diesel.

Little bro's fabis VRS has now done just over 60k in 22 months. We went to the dealership the other day to see about trading it in for a new one. Salesman had to make half a dozen phone calls just to get a trade in value.

Turns out its worth bugger all! :eek:

The way I see it is that the car will be written off in 3 years - i.e. I've paid off the loan/finance thing, and it's worth a few grand.

This due to mileage, not coz the car can't handle it.

Generally speaking when you do over 10k/year you'll loose value pretty darn quickly. Combine that with the initial loss of owning a new car and you'll have lost 50% easily within the first 3 years.

I intend to drive the Furby for about 5 years minimum. I'm sure it will take the mileage etc without a big fuss, engine-wise it's definitely no problem.

Once the car has had it's modifications done on it, it will be worth less still, but I'll enjoy it more, kinda offsets it.

If I can convince SWMBO maybe we'll have leather done at some point, and that remap is going to happen, probably next year though..