Just curious as to how many miles you guys put on your R per day (for those without a beater)
I, unfortunately, put on over 100 miles a day between work and my daily trip to the gym It kinda bugs the living crap out of me racking up almost 10k miles in over two months.

 

i try not to drive it too much. i don't know why... but yes.. i usually get like 300 or something every two weeks. but my first year of having it, i put on like 16k miles on it...

 

Good point George... I always tell myself that, but sometimes get bummed out due to the whole mileage thing. Good to hear it from fellow R owners though, it helps.

 

0 ...shes only driven for maybe 40-60 miles on the weekends ....


the rest of the week..shes a garage *****

 

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47,400 miles / 870 days of ownership = 54.5 miles per day.

I towed the ITR to the past two ITR expos AND I have a beater.

 

I don't worry so much about the miles on the engine, it's the rock chips, door dings, and the wear on the interior that gets me. It's almost imposible to have a 75K mile car still look like 10K on the outside and inside.

 

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LOL...

Wimp.

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i'd love to drive her everyday ...but my beater is alot better on gas ....cant beat 37.2 MPG in the city

 

Word of advice: Get a beater. ($2-3,000 beaters are quite reliable)

Sure, R is meant to be driven, but in my case, it used to be driven in gridlock traffic. Screw that! Now, I drive mine when I know I can drive it at WOT (i.e. autoX/track). Also, a lot easier to have the R in ready-to-track condition, when I don't have to switch parts back & forth between street & autoX/track.

Summary: R = in the garage. Beater = daily driver.

 

cosworth, didn't your R become a beater at the expo?

owned my R for about 775 days and 41,500 miles = 53.5 miles/day. there still isn't another car i'd rather own!

 

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Good point Aaron! That means Sean can sell me his ciBic now....

 

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Yeah, it did. It's a autoX/track beater now. Can't drive it in the rain, 'cuz I dont have the panels painted yet.

 

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Yes, but my case was when I bought my car, the condition somewhat like that(with dings and stuffs) and it was around 40Ks...and since then I hardly drove it.

 

When I got #1214 a year ago in March 2001 from BlackDragon, she only had 9500 miles on her. AND it was a 2000 model (he only drove it on 100% perfect days )

Now, it's got 30,100. That's too many miles for a year IMHO

Sure, it's meant to be driven, but dayum... though it's getting less miles on it now that I am not taking it to the track/autox every month because of the hatchy race kaa. Plus, now I have a trailer.

 

daily driven

32650mi./780days = 41.86 mpd *

dealer-maintenance-free for 300+ days

* mpd = miles per day

 

daily driven for another 3 weeks

so far I'm averaging about 20 miles/day now, will soon be more like 5miles/day. Living two blocks away from work ROCKS!

 

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32650mi./780days = 41.86 mpd *

dealer-maintenance-free for 300+ days

* mpd = miles per day</TD></TR></TABLE>

Wow, Kepani, we're almost identical.

31,919 miles / 772 days = 41.35 miles/day

 

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so far I'm averaging about 20 miles/day now, will soon be more like 5miles/day. Living two blocks away from work ROCKS!

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Ricer.......... Drive that thing!

 

2,829 miles/ 1187 days of owner ship = 17.54 miles per day. I dont get out too much and I have a beater as well

 

i dont drive alot during the week , just to work thne home , thne to school and home again. . on the weekends i go all over th epalce thoguh.
the miles are rackign up , i wanna get a beater soon

 

To do the math...

74,632 miles / 1075 days = 69.43 miles per day.

 

It's no ITR, but I'm doing approx. 27.5k per year. Not a single problem with a little upkeep.

 

I bought my 2001 in September with 28,XXX miles on it and now I have 41,XXX. *****!!! That averages out to 63 mpd!!! Hmmm...drive to work is only 20 miles round trip. Where the **** is all that mileage coming from? I drive it to work every day (no beater), and some trips to Raleigh and back. If I had to drive a beater to work, I'd wish I was back in the ARRRR...

No track time yet, at least not until I get a beater as a backup! I'd like to keep the R until she dies, and then strip her & use her as a trailer-ed track *****.

 

74,500 KM as of today

 

48074 miles / 815 days = 59 miles/day

But now that my company's folding and I'll be working from home, that'll be dropping by a lot.

 

300 miles/week. 50,000 in 3 years.

I say drive the snot out of it. I wouldn't be supprised if just as much damage is done by not driving it everyday to get the rings moving, etc.