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Mileages - "High" or "Low"? Definitions?
grey golfster:
Seeing a lot of posts and ads still referring to "High" or "Low" mileage covered.
Question: What is the current thinking on what should be a cars "Average" annual mileage these days? I guess things are changing as the Mway and dual cw network improves, and as people seem to commute further to work nowadays?
To me 12k pa is average...but I know several people who think > 25 k pa is perfectly normal.... father in law went thru a phase of 35k pa! :stupid:. Don't know how he had the time to do any actual work?
However, you do see some PCP & hire deals with insanely low mileage allowances.
Sometimes I wonder why folk who only drive <5k pa dont get a taxi, or indeed a bus rather than a new 4x4 SUV? Snob value?
berg:
got to be at least 12k hasn't it.
i only do under 8k a year which is why my Eddie is still on 69,000
Gary:
I'd say up to 12k pa is about average these days.
However my old man still thinks 10k pa. Saying that, his last car only did 4k between MoT's last year!
pudding:
My 07 Ed30 is on 113K, so not far off the 12K pa average.
My commute is 30 miles a day, so 7000 a year just to and from work. I'm not sure where the other 5000 goes tbh, but it just does!
The leasing packages are engineered to suck people in, incentivise for keeping the miles low, and just generally play on the mind. "Oh it'll be fine, I'm sure we won't do more than 6000pa". Yeah right. I'm sure you won't put more than £500 on your credit card each month either :grin:
It's yet another finance bubble waiting to burst. Humans learn absolutely nothing it seems, even more so in todays' status and ego driven culture. Yeah we can afford £500 a month a diesel Q5. Do we need it? No. Will it look better on the drive next to the neighbours 4 year old Qashqai? Hell yeah. Done, sign on the dotted line.
Juliand:
--- Quote from: Pudding on August 31, 2017, 11:13:00 am ---My 07 Ed30 is on 113K, so not far off the 12K pa average.
My commute is 30 miles a day, so 7000 a year just to and from work. I'm not sure where the other 5000 goes tbh, but it just does!
The leasing packages are engineered to suck people in, incentivise for keeping the miles low, and just generally play on the mind. "Oh it'll be fine, I'm sure we won't do more than 6000pa". Yeah right. I'm sure you won't put more than £500 on your credit card each month either :grin:
It's yet another finance bubble waiting to burst. Humans learn absolutely nothing it seems, even more so in todays' status and ego driven culture. Yeah we can afford £500 a month a diesel Q5. Do we need it? No. Will it look better on the drive next to the neighbours 4 year old Qashqai? Hell yeah. Done, sign on the dotted line.
--- End quote ---
Yep, my neighbour does the PCP / Lease thing on his Full Fat Range Rover Vogue; last one was £30k down and £1000 a month on 2 year contract. When he swapped it 2 months ago it was only 15,000 miles total, as he worked locally on developments at Sandbanks, with the car valeted every week by a mobile valeter. He's now got the Autobiography version, changed his job to doing more like 15,000 mikes a year. Goodness know what that will be costing him....... :thinking: His choice I suppose....
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