pflowers

Hi guys, bought my 04 WRX new on 30 April. Mileage as of today ...............12,354 !!

I use my car for business and travel from west wales to hampshire at least twice a week. Could not think of a better car to do it in !!

Anyone else doing this many in a scoob ?

ScoobyDoo555

Have a chat with RecordProduction.com (Mike) He'll make you think your mileage is peanuts!!!

Dan

pflowers

Cheers, did a search and looks like he is doing 45K per year. If I carry on as I am I will be doing 55 - 60K !!

Anyone else ?

chris's scooby

My MY02 WRX, which i have just px'd went in for its 10k service just shy of having it for 3 months. So nearly as many as u! It worked out cheaper tho to move the girlfriend into the same county with me!!!!

Foxmod

MY03 STI - 20K miles in 8 months

Dave

chris's scooby

You've beaten me, it took me 10 months to get to that service!

wrxmania

My car I've had for nine months and it has now done 15,000 miles but I also run an old Nissan Primera (M REG) and have done 9,000 miles in that, so 24,000 miles in 9 months and I don't drive for business - this is just to and from work and for pleasure etc etc.

Otherwise the Scoob would be at 30,000 miles by the end of the year

Trade value = NIL!!!

Brian

Andy S.

SteelX did 1000 miles in his WR1 in 3 Days. Picked it up on the friday 1000 mile service on the Tuesday. Not sure what he is at now!

SLIGHT

I started a new job April 1 (April Fool's Day!). I now drive 44 miles each way. With the odd side trip, it's over 500 per week. (My old job was 11 miles, but they moved to Florida, too far to drive, even for L.A. drivers!) My 2000 2.5 RS (U.S. Model) has just turned 48,000. My wife's '96 Outback just turned 90,000. I've heard Subes are good high mileage cars, we'll soon find out. Our's have been great so far, really small problems. Outback water pump around 60K and a couple of sensors (fuel level, and throttle sensor) on mine, both warranty jobs. Good thing is that I'm getting 28 mpg with all the freeway miles. Wife's outback gets 18-20, mostly city. Let the good time miles roll!

pflowers

Thanks for the replies ! Come on, someone must be doing more than me, I would love to hear about it !

BAH

So all the miles you lot doing, what sort of miles per tank are you getting to a tank on long jurneys...

Im just to about to start doing a bit of mileage in my 03 STI so just wondered on the long motorway jurneys what you average.

pflowers

I am getting 300 - 340 before the light comes on. This is a mixture of motorway and A roads with a bit of town driving. I drive with the aircon always on and don't hang about !!

BAH

Well thats a 100 miles more than im getting now doing my usuall 40 miles a day...

Jolley

Me too! 200 miles normally, 250 miles if I take it easy!! When I was running it in I think I once saw 280 miles...

MY03 WRX 7 1/2 months old, 18,500 miles (which I thought was a lot - obviously not!!).

GarethE

iTrader: (1)

16 month old STi just had 40000 service, most of that is done on A and B roads in Wales (its a dirty job but someones got to do it ), mixed in with occasional long motorway trips (420 miles on Thurs).

I usually see 230-260 miles on a tank (although not really into the red), before filling up although the trip on Thurs would have seen about 310-320 if I'd chanced going to the next service station on the M6

pflowers

I can't understand why others are getting such low mileage compared to mine. Ok a lot of my driving is motorway cruising ( fast ) but there is also a lot of A roads etc and to be honest I always cane my car whenever I can.

I am usualy on my own but to compensate have a boot full of tools & spares ( for my job not the car ! ) and I weigh the wrong side of 14st.

I can't imagine only getting 200 to a tank, I am on 190ish miles when the needle hits halfway.

BAH

Must be Km not miles as ive never heard of a scoob doing that especially when you say you cane it and have aircon going....if i use my air con i can see the fuel needle failing by the second..

I going to a meeting in Birmingham on Monday 192 miles each way for me all motorway, im going to average about 80mph and see what i can get out of a full tank...

pflowers

Trust me it does, and no it clocks up miles not km !

Filled up today 330.1 miles 50.43 litres, just under 30 mpg to my calculation. I as a rule always use Sainsburys SUL, its cheap and seems good. I tried optimax and could not notice the difference.

BAH

Must be something to do with mine being a PPP STI

R1916v

Do approx 60 miles a day, and thinkin of finally getting an impreza, am I mental?

pflowers

Do it !!

Buying my scoob was the best thing I ever did !!

Echo

Yep, about 45,000 a year in my WRX plus about 5k in the Sport too but as I'm always in a hurry the Sport get's left parked up!

I'm getting around 300 miles to the yellow light when travelling off peak times but it drops when carving through the rush hour.



Mike

pflowers

Hi Mike, how long have you had yours and whats the total mileage ? I hope to keep mine for three years but I will have 160K + on the clock by then !!

Echo

Hiya!

I bought mine with 0 miles on 1st Nov 2002, it's now on 64,000 something. It may be worth looking at the unlimited milage warranty but it's not cheap. I didn't in the end because of the de-cat etc.

Way I look at it is that for the majority of miles it's not being stressed, I've had several Japanese cars before and have had them to 200k without incident and I'm hoping to do the same with my WRX. Even with big miles on it, in 2 years time some boy racer will fancy it and pay several thousand, but I am hoping to keep it as the Sport's replacement and get an STi

BTW, touch wood, it's not the most expensive car that I've run yet, fuel's not too bad, servicing is ok'ish and the F1 tyres last ages, got over 30,000 on them and at 90 a tyre that's pretty good. Also, every so often you can do a tweek here or there and feel like you've got a new car again.

Finally, a mate with a newish 996 said that it feels and looks like it's got 6,000 on the clock, not 60,000.

Hope you enjoy the miles

Mike

pflowers

Thanks Mike, its reassuring to know the car should keep going for many more miles. Talking about tyres, presumably you recommend the F1 then, I am not too impressed with the potenza's, whilst they are wearing OK I find them very noisy and grip in the dry not great Any thoughts ?

Jen_M

OMG!!!

Am I the lowest 26,00 June 01 ?

Jen

pflowers

Heh ? You must mean 26000 not 2600 surely ?

BTW Hi !

Echo

For the first few thousand miles I liked the Bridgestones but they soon started tramlining and were just plain nasty. I wore them out in under 10,000 miles and thanks to Scoobynet was pointed to the F1's. To be fair, I had Powerstation put on Eibach's and do the full 4 wheel tracking just as I had the F1's put on, amazing difference handling wise. Just to point out that you may not like that combination if you like a smooth supple ride, the Eibach's are a bit harsh but I'm happy with them. In any case, I really would go to Powerstation (or other reputable company) for the 4 wheel alignment, 60-80 quid well spent and extend the tyres life and enhance the driving experience.

Last service I drove an 04 waggon with Pro Drive springs and the Bridgestones. I was amazed at how less precise the steering was and how saggy and 'understeery' the feel was, I did notice that the tyres were quite worn though - at less than 4k miles too. The PPP was just excellent though!!!!

I'm intending to keep my car for as long as I can, a minimum of 4 years and aprox 180,000, fingers crossed it doesn't burn up, blow up or go pop! I reckon that I'm not stressing it out too much, first set of pads were at 50,000, motorway miles are not very hard on the car - or are they????? :-)

Cheers!

Mike

pflowers

Thanks for the advice, where are powerstation based ?

Echo

Cheltenham I think, sorry, it's been a long day! There are other places that people here talk highly of though. BTW, had it checked after 40k and was pretty bang on so seems like it doesn't need doing more than once per 100k As you can tell from my pad wear, I'm no boy racer, but the 4 wheel alignment really does make the driving much more fun and it's better for tyre wear, assuming you go for a sensible road set up.

If you're thinking of Eibach's or Pro Drive springs etc try to test drive the various set ups. I'd be happy to let you check mine out.



Mike