Any idea how many km/miles you drive in your vehicle each year?

[Bretrick]

When I bought my vehicle in April 2024, there was 50,987 km on the clock.
Two years old, so 25,493 km a year.
I have owned the vehicle for 21 months. 77,130km on the clock.
Works out at 14,938 km a year.

 

[Jeni]

using mileage from bought it to know did the math 5,361 miles per year

 

[Bretrick]

using mileage from bought it to know did the math 5,361 miles per year

Not a lot of driving for you then.

 

[seadoug]

I bought my car with 2,900 miles in February of last year. I now have just over 6,000 miles. By my calculations, I will drive 3,400 miles per year. This will likely be my last car.

 

[Bretrick]

I bought my car with 2,900 miles in February of last year. I now have just over 6,000 miles. By my calculations, I will drive 3,400 miles per year. This will likely be my last car.

Very little driving these days then.

 

[Jules]

We get an insurance discount if we drive less than 5000 km per year. You take a photo to prove the mileage. Last year it was 3000 kms.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I bought a new car in July and just hit 750 miles yesterday.

Most of my driving is recreational/unnecessary.

It would be a much better value for me to switch to home delivery of groceries and purchase my transportation by the ride using Uber or Lyft.

A car is so much more than transportation.

 

[TeePee]

I bought my car in 2021 and it had 17,000 miles on it. I've had it five years and I'm sitting on 49.000.

 

[Imogene]

I bought my car new in 2002. It has a little over 78,000 miles on it.

I said when I retired I wasn’t coming off this hill unless have to……

 

[hollydolly]

I bought my car in July, and I;ve done just over 1000 miles... That's very unusual for me, but there's been various reasons for it..... including being unable to drive for about 8 weeks due to injury

Anyway..I do find now that the traffic has increased to such a level now.. that it's not a pleasure as I've always found it to be... in driving any more...

There's a huge difference in driving in wide open space like America and Australia, compared to dring in overcrowded narrow tiny roads in the UK....

 

[Bretrick]

There's a huge difference in driving in wide open space like America and Australia

I hear you. A drive down the way here could be a 400km round trip, encountering little traffic.
I remember one trip, returning from Goblin Swamp to Busselton, approximately 130km, 80 miles, I never had a vehicle behind me for the whole trip.
Even I was amazed at that.

 

[hollydolly]

I hear you. A drive down the way here could be a 400km round trip, encountering little traffic.
I remember one trip, returning from Goblin Swamp to Busselton, approximately 130km, 80 miles, I never had a vehicle behind me for the whole trip.
Even I was amazed at that.

That would be absolute heaven for me......

 

[horseless carriage]

My car and I are of a similar age, given my aches and pains I would
say that the car has faired far better at getting old than I have.

 

[QuietByNature]

Bought new in 2012
Has approx 152k kms approx 5900 km/yr or 3666 miles
Work was a 10 km round trip, car might see more now that I'm home everyday

 

[hollydolly]

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My car and I are of a similar age, given my aches and pains I would
say that the car has faired far better at getting old than I have.

Because you drive that only on high days and holidays...lol

 

[Been There]

I drive a lot less since retirement and moving to Florida.
I only drive around 10,000 miles per year, but I expect that number to drop this year.

 

[C50]

I'm around 14k a year with the bulk of those miles being trips to Lowes and Home Depot, or so it seems.

I drive more now than when I was working which surprises me.

 

[Ronni]

I average around 20,000 miles a year.

A lot of that is work related…driving to and from home, from one client to the next, running errands for them etc.

But my step kids live about an hour away in different directions, my own kids about a half hour, so there’s a lot of driving to and from them, too. We do family gatherings a lot. And even though I try and do my own errands on the way to or from work, invariably I’m running around on the weekends to different stores. Plus we typically use my car rather than Ron’s truck when we’re going out.

 

[Pappy]

Not much anymore. Bought my 2022 Kia Soul new and it has 11,300 miles on it. Mostly coffee and doctors runs.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

We probably drive 20,000 kilometres a year.

 

[BJintheUK]

Back in the 1980s when I worked as a motorcycle courier I did around 50,000 miles per year, but then I stopped riding bikes when I was 40 due to prostate problems, and only drove cars from then on. Now I'm retired I drive around 2,000 miles per year, if that, so the Subaru Outback I bought 2 years ago, with 142,000 miles on the clock will probably outlast me.

 

[hollydolly]

Not much anymore. Bought my 2022 Kia Soul new and it has 11,300 miles on it. Mostly coffee and doctors runs.

I remember when you bought it... Cor blimey, is it 4 years already..... ?

 

[hollydolly]

I'm around 14k a year with the bulk of those miles being trips to Lowes and Home Depot, or so it seems.

I drive more now than when I was working which surprises me.

see this is another point... Americans typically unless they live in the city... have to drive a further distance than Europeans, because we tend to have stores, and all sorts of thing pretty much on our doorsteps... at least not far away..usually within 2 miles.... and so we don't necessarily have to drive long distances just for groceries for example...

 

[Jackie23]

I bought my car new 3 years ago, it now has 8000 miles on it.

 

[JustDave]

About 10,000 miles a year.