I can't fathom how someone could put 80k miles on a 2008 C300 in such a short amount of time or let alone any vehicle that isn't even 5 years old yet.

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1984 W123 300CD silver/blue *230k*
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I put 40k on my past SDL last year. I would probably be hitting 55k right now if I still had and and at the end of the year pretty damn close to 85k

My father had I think a 67k mile 10 month old F150 on his lot. I know it was out of warranty and he had the in service date from ford so it was over 50k miles and under a year old.

that's crazy. how'd you put that much on the SDL so quickly? I think the only reason I would be able to come up with is having to drive 100 miles to work everyday or being a traveling salesman

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1984 W123 300CD silver/blue *230k*
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school, work, as well as other things.. I live in the middle of nowhere so its a drive for anything

I average about 40K miles per year on my 300D.

I do over 1000 miles a week myself!

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

I have averaged 40k miles a year for the past 35 years. Some years I have done 80k miles. Its an hours drive to the nearest shop!

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

I put 180,000 miles on a Chevrolet Citation in three years as a computer service technician - AND LIVED!

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86 560SL
With homebrew first gear start!
85 380SL
Daily Driver Project

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dude buy a lottery ticket!!

Gads, that's lot of mileage.....

I've always tried to organize my home/work/activities to minimize as much as possible the time/cost/mileage.

Whilst I love to drive, I've found there is a huge difference between having to drive and taking a pleasure drive.

By reducing my "have to drive" miles, I save a significant amount of cash, which I can then apply to "want to drive" or.... maybe another car....

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

About 10 1/2 years ago or so I was working at a dealership and we took in a 5 year old E class (gasser) on trade. It had OVER 400,000 miles. The owner bought it new and he was a traveling salesman who's territory was most of the I 95 corridor between Jacksonville and Delaware/southern New Jersey. The only bad things were the driver's seat sagged, the D/S door hinges sagged and it blew some blue smoke on cold start up.

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1987 300D (230,000 mi on a #14 head-watching the temp gauge and keeping the ghost in the machine)
Raleigh NC - Home of deep fried sushi!

My "have to drive" miles are reimbursed (the current IRS rate is $0.50/mile), I suspect most folks that have to drive for business are in that situation.

I know two people who seem to rack them up.

One has a 2007 Camry that is has just about 100k on it, and my dads friend has a 2006 F150 that is probably at 225k now. The Camry is all work mileage, the F150 is mostly play.

OTOH I drive 12k miles a year and complain about gas and it costing to much.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

December of '08, I only had 32K miles on the Jeep diesel. Then the first '87 300D got t-boned. Then in Jan 09 Freightliner laid us off. That required two round-robin trips between NC, FL, and TX to get a job nailed down, then the move down to TX. In April 09 when I got down here, the Jeep had 41K on it. Damn near 10K miles in 3 months.

But in my new job, I'm only 6 miles one way from work. Now the Jeep has close to 47K on it - only 6K miles in the last year. At that rate, I'll be too bloody old to drive by the time it even hits 100K.

My last pre-diesel car was an '87 Subaru wagon I bought brand new. When I retired from the Navy in '97, it only had 86K miles on it - that after several cross-country trips home on leave from Seattle to NC, and the final trip back to NC. When I finally let it go back in '05, it had 165K on it.

One thing I did discover during the 3 month 10K mile marathon last year - if you have to do a lot of long distance interstae driving, diesel is the only way to go - that 4500 lb brick of a Jeep Liberty averaged 32 mpg over the course of that mess.

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Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club