You can get great deals on quality cars with high mileage. When my Grandma was looking to replace her 15 year old Corsica (28,000 original miles) I saw an 01 Avalon with 104,000 miles at a local used car lot for $8875. I checked out on Pricewheels what 01's where selling for and with about 40-60K miles they were getting 17-20 grand . After a good test drive I told her this is a great buy and so she wrote the check. But he would not budge 1 cent off the asking price, said he wasn't making much profit. But it's good to know that 03 MAX held up well with that kind of work load, 34K on mine now.

 

We dont know what that lady's business was, was it her employer taking good care of her or she just had to make a living that way, it looks like she had enough incentives to loose 20 grand on a car in 1 year, and having to go through cars more than we do. In my own preference, if my job required me to drive like that, I'd rather buy a late model domestic for dirt cheap and drive that **** to the ground rather then buy a new Max and lose that kind of money.

 

I come up with 315 miles a day. We don't know when she got it though. Per year there are 260 week days, there are 7 paid holidays at most companies and if she only take 3 weeks vacation that's another 15 days off, total 238 days per year.

She's probably getting more for her car expense than she is paying. A lot of places pay 0.36 per mile plus paying for insurance and maybe even a monthly/yearly allowance. Just on the mileage that's $27k a year, not to mention what she makes a year. She spends about $6k a year on gas.

I bet she's got a nice car at home when she's not on the job.

 

had the loot to throw away or had a good employer who is prolly covering the expenses including car itself, gas, etc...

just the fact that she was trading it in and still mint, shows that she didn't care for the car, and was just using it for it's luxury. but i guess, to each his own. if i were her, i'd do the same.

 

imagine how much better she'd be off if she spent 10 grand on the car and not 30...

 

i think alot of other things happen in that car besides driving...........-_-

and y would u wanna buy a 2k3 car with 150,000 miles.......i wouldnt dare even if it had it was cheap....

 

what if it didn't matter and spending the extra money was worth the fact of driving in comfort. pay less, get less....a bmw would get her to the same place as a civic would, but would you feel better in the bmw. prolly. again, she prolly has a real pimp ride. also, to get rid of the car in that mint a condition and look at 05's already tells she either doesnt' care or doesnt' pay. so if either is true, then it don't matter what she paid.

 

Uhhh... NO. What... does she live in PA and commute to NY??? That's a sh!tload of miles.

 

If you think that is bad.. think about what the flights to cover all the miles would cost... i fly as a copilot on a kingair 200 ( small 8 seat turboprop) on open days and it does about 280 nautical miles per hour at a fuel burn of roughly 90 gallons per hour. assuming 150,000/280= 536 hours x 90 gallonsx $3 per gallon= $144,645 JUST FOR GAS... the saying of time is money comes to mind... a real jet is about twice as expensive in gas.. this is why all companies don't have planes- they just pay the employee a little more and wait longer.

 

I just bought my 2k2 perfect condition it hat 95K on it

 

If money wasn't an issue to her then she would have been chauffered around in a limousine at $65-85 an hour or a Town Car sedan at worst at $35-45/hr. The fact that she drives a lot tells us that she is a very hard working person, and money do matter to her. Again, I dont know her situation, but I would rather put those extra $15-20 grand in my pocket.

 

would you like to be chauffered rather than drive the car? i sure as hell wouldn't. half the enjoyment is driving it, and the other half is the car itself. again, i agree with her ideals, if in fact those are her ideals. i'd rather have a nice car, enjoy it, then trade it in. my mom has a crv, but has decided she wants to trade it in for a lex. and in 2 or 3 years, she's gonna wanna trade that in. do i agree, not really, but do i understand why she's doing it, COMPLETELY.

 

Ironic to the topic- i work for a valet parking company and i think it was last week this couple, maybe in their 60-70'S rolled up with a 2000 max se...full loaded ...i steped in and pulled out the suspension was crazy seemed like it was right outta the dealership...it basicaly was it had 8K on it.

 

Haha... I took it out quite a bit this summer. (for me at least) Now it's collecting dust in my garage for the winter.

 

Hahaha, I'll help you wash her Weird thing, the temp. are in the 40s down here and I don't have a winter car to drive around!

And to address the topic of the thread, my friend traded in his '01 Maxima when it was 2 years old with 120k on the clock on its 2nd transmission and he NEVER drove it outside of South Fla, so I guess he would come the closest to this lady.

 

I drive about 50k a year in my '03 max. It's a shame to rack up that many miles on my baby, but, when it comes down to it, I live off commision so I have to drive that much. The more miles I put on my car the more cash I make. No, sorry, I don't get a car allowance, however, I will be writing off 45,000 miles this year. That's a $16,650 write-off. I also write-off lunches, part of my mortgage (I have a home office), golf outings, ect, ect. All in all, my income drops 30k in the gov't's eyes realy fast. I imagine this woman is in the same position. When you drive that much, you don't want to be in a KIA. You need a reliable car first and foremost. After that, your next priority is comfort. Then you gotta look at utility (the ONLY reason I didn't by the 350Z...). I figure that I'll drive my car into the ground in about 4-5 years. Buy that time, I'll have paid for the price of the car (gas and maintenance not included) just in write-offs alone. The rest will have been made up for by not being left on the side of the road while my competitors make the sale that should have been mine!

 

I recently bought an 01 SE with 61,000 miles on it. The dealer originally wanted close to 17K for it. It sat on his lot for 5 months before I bought it. I went in on a rainy Friday night and walked out with it for 13K. It's in great shape and is my 2'nd car so I only drive it on weekends. It all depends on maintanence. I'll keep it till it dies.

 

Can you read? She's not in the car 'coz she likes it. She has to drive lots for work, wisenheimer.

-piga

 

Jeez i thought my 38,134mil in 11months was a lot....

 

it is a lot

 

whoa thats a lot..... people who drives 40000+ miles per year must be commuting like crazy.... 100000+ is just insane....

I think 15000 miles per years is a lot... lol i guess not...

 

Dude, that's like ~30 oil changes in 2 years.

 

my old landlord used to work 2 hours away, what a horrible comute. That's 4 hours of your life, GONE!, each day. But that around LA, so maybe that was only like 10 miles.

Still, I would hate to spend that much time driving every day.

 

I have a 2003 and have put 55K on it in 2 years, along with the 42K I put on my truck in the same period. That does not include my wife's mileage added in...

 

dammm, that's like 100K in one year. That's basically using the entire life of a car in 2 years (I think roughly a car can last 2000k miles give or take).

My girlfriend bought a new car in 2000, that thing has 23k miles. Ridiculous.

 

yeah i've done about six or seven oil changes since september

 

Can't imagine how many bugs died on that Maxima.

 

this all goes to show if you traet your maxima right itll last a LONG time.

 

I have 114k on my 2k, I bought it in Feb with 82k. That's why i bought a max, it'll go 300k no problem if you take care of it. I know many 200k+ max's still on the road, and even one that doesn't smoke.

 

Have had my max for about a year and 4 months. Bought her with 50 miles on the odo, and it nows has 43,500 miles on it. I thought I drove a lot but nothing compared to that lady. Geez.

 

You do drive a lot compared to me. I have had my Max since January 02 and it has about 33K miles on it now. I have 1 month left on my basic warranty.

 

I work in a nissan dealer, and one of our customers bought his 04 max new in june of 04 and he just hit 50k. He will probably hit the 100k miles before he even has the car a year.

 

The car may not even be 2 yet since 03's were on sale until around late 1st quarter 03! Any way that it alot of miles, I wouldnt even consider an 03 with that many miles no matter how good a shape its in, I have 22,000 on my 03 Max and 24,000 on the 350Z both purchased the same day in 03.