It's going to happen today, I can feel it.
The Family Truckster is going to hit 140,000 miles on its odometer. I never thought it would last this long when I bought it as a single guy just 18 months out of college – when it was just my truck; the family wasn't even on the radar yet.
Though some of the trips it has taken are "spam" – grocery store voyages and the like – there have been adventures along the way. A wedding. A honeymoon. A trip home from the hospital with a new son. A 2,000-mile journey from Virginia to Texas with my grandfather's old wooden boat in tow. When it registered 100,000 miles, it was during a solo trip back to Virginia to visit family.
Few people keep cars for nearly as long (at least people we know; there are a few couples who've had at least four different vehicles each in the past five years). But the advantages of having your car paid off, and not having to keep full insurance on it, far outweigh the additional maintenance an older vehicle requires. That is, if you've bought the right car. Make sure it's one you like!
We keep cars that long. This is the third vehicle we have had to go over 100,000 miles. It's a 1995 Nissan Quest minivan, and it's just now starting to fall apart on us (at 104,000). Sad. We've taken that thing all over America, jammed with 4 kids, luggage and ice chests full of food. Now we have to decide if it is worth it to fix it, it's getting that bad. Some days it's worth it, others, it isn't. But then, you fill it up with gas and when you smell the awful gas fumes you're ready to get rid of it!
My 1998 Toyota Corolla was bequeathed to my younger sister. She still has it, and takes good care of it. But whenever I see it, the car still winks at me and acknowledges that she'll always have a soft spot for me, her first owner.
i drove my old truck well over that number...the steering wheel column would smoke when it rained!
My Nissan truck hit 100k a couple of weeks ago. I'm driving it until the wheels fall off. I love Nissans. They last forever.
My husband replaced his Pathfinder a year ago and it had 240k on it.
My daughter is driving a 95 Grand Prix with 220K on it. My 94 Grand Am has 230k on it and is still going strong (although I've passed it on to someone who needed it more than I did...lol) Pontiac has been good to us.