Ferrari Mailing List: Re: My Golf hits 600,000 miles!

[Ken Rentiers (rentiers]

you're right Paul. I read about a guy that put 1 million miles on his  
pickup, but he was doing a 200 mile run daily in the early morning  
hours in a quiet rural area, not running around metro SEA in the  
rain. Congratulations, Todd.

ken

On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Paul Bennett wrote:

> Congradulations on 600k of evasive driving in heavy traffic.
> Deduct the po's 160k miles and his 10 years. Still means:
> 440k miles - 40k miles per year  - 40 mph ave -
> half a work year is 1000 hrs driving for 11 years.
> Yep, numbers check out
>
> Mechanical reliability is assumed but the true accomplishment
> is 11,000 hours of dodging stoplight racers.  That's incredible!
> And it also means any fender-bender threatens instant totality on a  
> 20 yo car.
> Yes, getting to 600k is a real feat.
>
> (If you sense that I'm paranoid about cars hitting me your right...
> I'm never the hitter but the hittee even been hit 4 times while
> stopped at a light)
>
> Let's hope this celebration doesn't jinx it.
>
> > Today was the big day.  600k and no sign of stopping!
> > http://www.pureluckdesign.com/vw/600k/
>
>
>
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