46 mile round trip, one hour each way through constuction zones and traffic lights about every 3 miles.

Let it rain or someone wreck or a traffic light go into flash mode and 1.5 hours one way is minimum.

When I got the job I was 10.5 miles from the office, then they moved the office!

Oh well, beats the alternative!!

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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Office #1 - 150 miles one way, all Interstate, stay one or more nights in the Sleep Cheap.

Office #2 - 90 miles one way, mostly interstate, once a week or so.

Office #3 - 0 mile, leave the car in the driveway, walk from bedroom to office in the next room.

Construction Site - 320 miles round trip, make for a long day just for a meeting.

Best Regards,
Jim

3.2 hours per day...wow!

If you crunch the numbers, it works out to 16 hours per week and lets say you commute 48 weeks in a year, you will be commuting 768 hours or 32 days a year
I guess it comes down to what is your time worth? My 20 minute commute to downtown TO is long enough.
Life is short, enjoy it while you can.

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1999 E320 4-matic Estate


"A ship in harbour is safe, but thats not what ships are built for". - John A. Shedd

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but buying and selling a house, finding a new one in a much more expensive area, changing school district enrollments, credits and writing 786 letters to guidance counselers, FINDING NEW JUNK YARDS, changing banks, a 100 addresses with people you get mail from, finding new doctors, making new friends, suffering the chance that your new NEIGHBORS might gave you GRIEF about your working on Cars~~~~~~It might be simpler suffering this for a year~~~

3.2 hrs a day is about what I spend. Fortunately I car pool so only drive every other week. 57 miles each way, across the Narrows suspension bridge mess. About 3.2 hrs most days in the car back and forth.
Thinking seriously of enhancing the sound system. Maybe adding some bass, and a satelite reciever.
Does that XM $119 reciever come with everything needed to install and use it?

My company has flex hours so some of the staff in my office who have long commutes like to get to the office earlier (7:00 am) to avoid rush hour traffic and leave the office before 4:00 pm to try to avoid the heavy volume. Alternatively, others start late and leave late for the same reason. Winter months during snow storms are the worst, sometimes doubling the commute time.

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7 miles one-way for me. Takes me 10 minutes. Only traffic I hit is if I have to follow a tractor on my rural road before I get on highway. In summer I commute mostly on my bicycle. It's a 9 mile ride (have to stay off the highway) and it takes 30 minutes.

Although I love driving, I have an extreme intolerance for commuting and traffic. I have turned down good paying jobs simply because I would not stand waiting in line to take a bridge in and out of Montreal every day.

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1979 300TD 189,000 Miles, now running WVO with a home-made 2 tank conversion
1974 230 Gasser 189,000 Miles, For Sale
1961 VW Microbus 162,000 Miles
1961 Ford Fairlane 500, 53,900 original miles
1951 Oliver Super 55 Tractor
2002 Chocolate Lab

3 miles. I mean 6, round trip. Probably harder on the engine than the 3+ hour drives! The downside: 60 miles to the nearest decent grocery store or restaurant. 120 to a city. So weekends I rack up 200-300 miles, just not on the weekdays.

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1983 300D- silver blue, tan leather, 205,000.
1975 Datsun 280Z. Stock, ready to restore.
1983 San Juan 23. Dry docked.

Takes me about 1 hour and 5 minutes in the morning, 1 hour 15 minutes evening. Been doing it for 10 years. I recently retired my '89 Mazda 626 turbo with 300,000 miles and replaced it with my '95 E300D. My Mazda was incredibly reliable, never opened the engine other than scheduled timing belts, original turbo. Electrical gremlins finally did it in.

Just shows to go you that gassers can be long mileage animals as well as diesels. But I love the 24 gallon tank in my 124, and I love the fact that diesel is much cheaper than gas here in MD.

Rgds,
Chris W.
interestingly enough, the Mazda and the E300 get about the same mileage, 30 - 32 MPG.

Back in the late 90's, I accepted a promotion to an office that was about 120 miles each way from home. Keep in mind I had to fight Chicago Expressway rush hour on the way to and on the way back. I'd leave at 5am and get home around 8pm. Did that for just shy of 2 years.

Now I work for a different company. My commute is about half of the above. 60 miles each way, give or take 5 depending on the route I take. I leave at 6 or 6:30 and get home around 5:30.

Started the long commute in a Caddy with the Northstar V8. It didn't take long to realize the need for something more fuel efficient. Got a new (at the time) Jetta TDI. No complaints. The Jetta has about 270k miles on it now and runs better than ever. Shortly after the TDI, I got the 300SDL. It's pushing the 300k mile mark and while it has been much costlier to maintain than the Jetta, it's still one heck of a ride.

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Current:
11 MB S550 4Matic, 55k miles, Designo Black/Black
14 Ford F150 XLT Lariat Crew, 73k miles, 5.0
Coyote V8 4x4. Black/tan.
09 GMC Envoy Denali, 5.3 V8, 4x4 SWB. 38k miles,
Jewel Red/Med Gray.

Gone:
87 MB 300SDL, 320k miles, Astral Silver/Blue.
98 VW Jetta TDI, 488k miles, Classic Green/Gray.
85 Olds 98 Brougham FWD, 4.3 DIESEL V6, 80k
miles, 3x Gray.

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For the last year I had ~110 mile round trip each day. Now for the next at least few months have ~5 mile round trip (can't bike since I have to dress up for work or I would do that). I have to say I really enjoy having that 1.5 hours back in my day. Now I take the car out on the highway a few miles at least every other day just to blow the carbon out.

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5 miles each way, 1/2 of that highway. Best commute I've ever had. I thought that it wouldn't make much difference, but boy it sure is nice. Please check out that commute at the same times you would drive it. I once had to choose between 2 job offers. Basically one paid 10K more/year but involved 2 hours extra/day commuting. For a number of reasons, I know I made the right choice. With 3 hours a day, you could setup some small, part time enterprise

I drive all over the state.. a minimum of 60 miles/day up to 300/day. Today I headed out to Danbury, CT which was a total of about 220 miles.

You should have headed out to CT on Sunday, LOL.
Me and Hatterasguy were all set to show you the two SDL's
The rain subsided at about 12:30 or so but it was a rainy ride up there, that's for sure.

I actually didn't get to bed until 6:30 AM sunday morning.. went to Atlantic City with a friend saturday night.. didn't really want to get up in 3 hours to stand in the rain... haha. Definately next time!!