I don't know where you got such high mileage numbers for me.

I started driving my father's Olds in the summer when I was still 15 years old -- just before my 16th birthday. That gives me 53 years of driving this July-August. If I averaged 10 K miles each year, that would only give me about 530,000 miles. I know it was less than that before I got my own car at the age of 20. It has been higher with retirement (57 K miles on the Max -- I did about 90% of that total or 51 K -- since June of 03 = almost 13 K miles a year + an average of 3 K miles a year on the truck). I certainly could not be over about 750 K miles in my lifetime. But I will try for a better estimate.

- 9 recent retirement years at 16 K a year = 144 K miles
- Last 4 years of work driving at 14 K a year = 56 K
- 31 years of work (taking train to work) at 10 K a year = 310K
- 4 years of college with a car at 12 K a year = 48 K
- 5 years of college/HS w/o car at 5 K a year = 25 K

Total = 583 K miles = my best estimate -- certainly not a million miles for me.

 

I set the side mirrors just in enough to catch the view of the door handles, and only have to check directly to either sides when changing lanes; I have not had any close calls yet on my part.

I have a small convex mirror on the right side mirror on my Suburban though, just to look out for the little rodent roadsters.

 

this is exactly how I set my mirrors too and have also never had any close calls

 

Compaired to my Ranger truck and my girls Eclipse. My max has 100x more visability.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

http://www.tranquilityhomecomfort.ca...pics/Interior/

THats all i HAVE TO say about THAT.

Kamski