Any high milers on here?

Edwood_Woodwood

My Mondeo has 257,000 miles, 2006 TDCI.

A colleague got to 320,000 on a similar model before getting rid, still ran fine I may add.

Great cars for cabbies.

Edwood_Woodwood

SailorSam wrote: »

When i was on the Cabs we could easily do over 100k a year.

Crikey!

Where did you work?:eek:

That's about 300 miles a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year!

As a rough rule of thumb, £2 back for every mile, £600 a day!:eek:

Plus, prob the need for a new car every year or two.

Herzlos

100k/year is only 36miles/hour assuming a 40 hour week and 6 weeks holiday.

If you taxi outside of the city you can achieve that pretty quickly (particularly on airport runs).

Share a cab with someone on another shift and you can double that.

harveybobbles

Herzlos wrote: »

100k/year is only 36miles/hour assuming a 40 hour week and 6 weeks holiday.

If you taxi outside of the city you can achieve that pretty quickly (particularly on airport runs).

Share a cab with someone on another shift and you can double that.

Doesnt sound as bad when you say 36 miles per working hour.

harveybobbles

TheVatican wrote: »

Going on 237k on my 2005 Volvo S80. Rock solid, safe and has been extremely reliable. Over the years I have changed the clutch once, and the timing belt twice. Nothing has ever gone wrong.

I did take an S80 in px with 220,000 on. Drove really well. Lent it out to customer while was fixing their car and they nearly crashed it when she spotted the mileage lol.

Edwood_Woodwood

Herzlos wrote: »

100k/year is only 36miles/hour assuming a 40 hour week and 6 weeks holiday.

If you taxi outside of the city you can achieve that pretty quickly (particularly on airport runs).

Share a cab with someone on another shift and you can double that.

Think I'll wait for SailorSam to reply!

Unless you speak from experience as a cabbie?

Anyway, 36 miles every hour for 40 hours is obviously assuming a 36 mile job every hour, 40 of them, one after the other.

Highly unlikely.

Even if you were to miss just one job for the hour, on a slow day, then your miles double to 72 per hour.

Which is, erm, illegal!

What city are you on about to taxi outside of to do airport runs?

Who's on about cab sharing?

If you are on about 2 different drivers then that is 50k miles each, more to the average, 3 different drivers and that's about 33k per year, which is more than likely.

That is not 100k as Sailorsam said he did as a cabbie.

What self employed cabbie, as they are most likely to be, takes 6 weeks holidays per year?

You seem to have forgotten about the downtime whilst waiting for a job, or do you think cabbies get a job constantly for 40 hours?:D

To make economical sense, a driver doing 100k a year would need to change his car pref every year, or at least every 2.

Never once met a driver who does this in 20 years.

Plus, HMRC assumes cabbies travel 25k working miles per year (London is different), if ever a cabbie is pulled in for a chat.

SailorSam did 4 times that!:rotfl:

w211

When I was a same day courier, I was doing 70,000 miles a year. Did a few London to Scotland runs in it.

As a private hire driver now, I do about 40-45,000 miles a year. My car is on a 45,000 mile/year lease. Mileage is a lot lower than when I was a courier, as I'm mainly in London, and don't really go too far out, very rarely go further out than the Home Counties, though I do the odd run to Manchester, Leeds, etc.

Also, once you pass a certain distance, other forms of transport tend to be quicker, (i.e. train, plane), though it can be more cost efficient per passenger, if there is three or four of them.

As mentioned, that Mercedes, was probably used 24 hours a day by different drivers, and as it did airport work, which is why it covered that distance. The engine probably never had a chance to cool down, hence its' longetivity.

bigjl

Doing airport transfers easily racks up the miles.

There is a co called Capstar and i am fairly certain one of thier Jag XJLs was for sale at Grange Brentwood.

1yr old with nearly 80k on it.

They use them on shifts so likely up to 18hrs a day.

I have only done 33k this year as have had several weeks in clients cars instead of mine.

Car has just turned 3yrs old and on nearly 120k.

50k a year doing Exec work seems fairly typical for London.

30/40k for Chauffeurs seems about right.

I know a fair few Hertfordshire and Essex based drivers that easily hit 2000 miles a week regularly, usually round the M25 to Heathrow and Gatwick.

Excel in E14 used to have the contract taking BA crews from Airport to Airport but there was no way I was doing it at the rates they want to pay.

Unless you do it the way the chap with the 622k mile E Class has done.

Run it as far as it will go then out it for scrap money.

If he paid £30k for it new the car has cost just over £4k a year in depreciation assuming he got almost nothing for it.

And there have not been too many big money items needing fixed like turbos and gearboxes. Bet he wishes he got rid before the TQ went. But they go fairly regularly in Mercs so likely not its first replacement.

iolanthe07

You have to look at the USA for really high mileages. There's an owners' club for Dodge trucks with more than a million miles. I'm not sure whether that has to be with the same engine though, or it could be a bit like Trigger's yard brush in Only Fools & Horses.

lpt64

I worked for an out of hours Doctor's Service in the 80s. They ran 1 litre Fiestas which would do 12 hours a night & 60 hours over the weekend. They ran pretty much non stop except for driver swaps.
The cars were sold at about a year old with an apparently high 20000 miles. The poor buyer didn't know it was second time round!
I haven't done the maths on this - that was the talk at the time.

My highest was a Hyundai 1.6 petrol with 235k when the timing belt went.