How To Drive A Million Miles In 5 Years 

"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 12/20/2018 at 09:08 • Filed to: None

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#1 - Have a huge bladder.
#2 - Get lots of all of the audiobooks.
#3 - Never take vacation.
#5 - Drive 6 days per week, 9 hours per day (not including stops)
#6 - Average 71 miles per hour.

Holy crap, I just realized this lady’s average speed for the 5 years was 24 mph! What?! (EDIT - not really - see comments below)

Ash78, voting early and often > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:21

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I can’t even conceive of the 25k miles/year that my brother drives.

My wife is in the car about 3-4 hours a day (kids to/from two schools, errands, etc) and even with a couple week -long roadtrips throughout the year, I think we only broke 15k miles one year.

facw > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:23

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It’s completely nuts. That means averaging ~23mph over a 5 year period.

Pancake > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:23

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#7 - Have balls the size of your kidney

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often 12/20/2018 at 09:25

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My wife’s car (our family/trip car) averages 25k per year, for the past decade , but we travel a lot. This past year included a 5k roadtrip over two weeks.

CobraJoe > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:25

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Live somewhere where traffic is light and where there are long distances between anything. 

facw > Pancake 12/20/2018 at 09:27

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She must have really small kidneys?

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:29

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what did she do for work that had her driving so much?

Pancake > facw 12/20/2018 at 09:29

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I meant like for each of them.

functionoverfashion > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:34

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I thought we did well to average 71mph over a 24 hour period, on a road trip I took in college. Including stops.

Wow.

facw > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 12/20/2018 at 09:36

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FP article said she delivers  auto parts.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:37

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Pretty amazing I think to log that many miles so quickly. In an Elantra as well. An optima would have been a better choice.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:39

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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:41

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Or:

1. Buy a new car

2. Reverse for 1 mile

nermal > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:41

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My math came out differently:

Working 6 days / week X 50 weeks = 300 days / yr. This accounts for standard 2 wks vacation .

1M miles / 5 yrs = 200k / yr.

200k / 300 days = 666 miles per day.

Conclusion: She’s basically Satan.

The Dummy Gummy > Ash78, voting early and often 12/20/2018 at 09:43

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I drive over a 100 miles per day. 25k really isn’t that bad. At highway speeds it’s a bit more manageable. 

BigBlock440 > Ash78, voting early and often 12/20/2018 at 09:44

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It’s not that difficult, 35 miles one-way on the highway comes out to almost 20k just commuting 30-40 minutes.  If you don’t have a highway drive, it would be tougher.

Tekamul > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:44

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#1 - Own a dyno
#2 - Put car on dyno, set cruise to 50
#3 - hook up feeder line from massive external gas tank to car’s gas tank
#4 - go about your business

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 12/20/2018 at 09:48

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The optimal choice? 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Tekamul 12/20/2018 at 09:49

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Okay, now I need to know what her total fuel cost over the 5 years was...

AdverseMartyr > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 09:54

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#7 replace ass & spine with cyborg ass & spine made out of adamantium to survive sitting in seats for that long.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Tekamul 12/20/2018 at 09:55

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#5 - have a steady flow of fresh oil in, and sightly used oil out.

Tekamul > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 12/20/2018 at 10:00

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Good thinking.  Thankfully, that’s pretty easy to accomplish with some hose and a drill.  Total loss oiling is about as basic as it gets

ranwhenparked > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 10:02

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I would guess somewhere around $100,000, using an average fuel economy of 30mpg and the average gasoline price over 5 years of $2.85. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ranwhenparked 12/20/2018 at 10:05

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Two thoughts: either she gets  reimbursed mileage in such a way that it’s basically making overtime the farther she drives, or she owns her own “hot shot” business and builds fuel costs into her fees.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 10:08

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If you had not gone there i would have.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Ash78, voting early and often 12/20/2018 at 10:08

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We used to do 25k a year, it was 80-100 miles a day of commuting plus two or three road trips.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 12/20/2018 at 10:10

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At least she does not  Aspire for something better. 

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 10:16

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I imagine that’s 24 miles an hour avg for all hours of the day, not 24 miles/hr for the hours the car is driven. So when she’s driving she’s probably at least double that. Would actually need to be more than double unless she spends 12 hrs a day doing 48 mph.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 12/20/2018 at 10:18

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I assume that number is from the trip computer, but m aybe she regularly leaves the car running when she goes in to drop off her deliveries. Waiting in line for fast food would also drop it some. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often 12/20/2018 at 10:20

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25k/year was easy. 52 mile round trip commute on the interstate every work day, living about 10 miles out of town so a trip to do pretty much anything involved some miles, going to the lake 75 miles away many  weekends, a road trip here and there and semi regular 500 mile trips to Albuquerque got me 25k/year without spending all that much time in the car all things considered.  

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 10:26

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Even with that it seems like 24mph is far too low to practically reach a million miles. 10 hour days, 6 days a week, that’s only 72k miles.

E90M3 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 10:26

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It’s not 24 miles per hour while driving, it’s 24 mph period. 1,000,000 miles over 5 years comes out to be 1,000,000/(5*365*24) which is 22.83 mph. 

E90M3 > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 12/20/2018 at 10:28

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It’s straight up 24 mph, because assuming it took her 5 years exactly that’s 1,000,000/(5*365*24) which is 22.83 MPH. 

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > E90M3 12/20/2018 at 10:32

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that’s what I figured. She has to be averaging far far above that to do this within human limits, haha. At like a 55 mph avg this starts be very possible.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > E90M3 12/20/2018 at 10:33

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Ah, okay. I re-read it and they were talking about if she actually drove 24/7...

Roman Savchuk > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 10:49

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Reimbursement is a pretty good reason for faking odo a little bit. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Roman Savchuk 12/20/2018 at 10:50

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There’s really no faking it. 

RallyWrench > Tekamul 12/20/2018 at 12:42

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Mobil did this with an E30 325i, ran a million miles on a dyno and took the engine apart to check for wear. Only a couple of valvetrain parts were slightly out of new spec, as I recall. Here:

http://www.rtsauto.com/million-mile-e30-325i-mobile-one/

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 17:57

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ranwhenparked > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 12/20/2018 at 17:57

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If you have a cheap car, you pretty much always make out at standard mileage rates, regardless of fuel economy. I remember my first job out of college, I had a 13 year old Cadillac and figured that at 50  cents a mile, I was making a profit of over 30 cents, whereas my coworkers with shiny new pickups and SUVs were probably breaking even at best.