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furthest you have drove in your car?

hbk4894
hbk4894 Posts: 1,379 Forumite
in one go , what is the furthest you have ever drove in your car?
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  • Car_54
    Car_54 Posts: 8,896 Forumite
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    It's "driven".

    For once I agree with UKIP: get people to speak English.
  • tim9966
    tim9966 Posts: 496 Forumite
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    I've done John O'Groats to Gloucestershire in one day took about 12 hours and was just over 600 miles. I stopped a few times for the toilet, fuel and to eat.


    I can't do more than about 250 miles in one go as that is all my fuel tank will allow me.
  • bylromarha
    bylromarha Posts: 10,085 Forumite
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    650 miles. Hastings to Blackpool and back again. Left Hastings at midday. Returned from Blackpool with 1 extra nephew, arriving in Hastings at 2am.

    I like driving, but that day was a killer. The lashing rain on the M40 did not help.
    Who made hogs and dogs and frogs?
  • Around 480 with just toilet breaks, but there was an overnight train then another train to get to where the drive began.
    Done approx 820 miles once, but I spent about an hour at the destination before driving home again. No stops on the 410 there, toilet breaks and food on the way home again.
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    Drove from Malta to Cookham in Berkshire when I was about 21 - 1,900 miles.

    Friends dad lived 50/50 in the UK/Malta and wanted to get his new car back to the UK. He offered us flights, staying at his for a weeks holiday, and money for fuel, food and hotel on the 3 day drive back in his Mercedes 230CE.
    The man without a signature.
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    We drove to Spain, but they wouldn't let us in, So we turned around and went back.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • cajef
    cajef Posts: 6,283 Forumite
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    hbk4894 wrote: »
    in one go , what is the furthest you have ever drove in your car?

    More to the point what is with all the threads asking questions, every one you start appears to ask some sort of inane question.
  • Joe_Horner
    Joe_Horner Posts: 4,895 Forumite
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    Anglesey to South Devon and back in a day (710 miles total) but did stop in devon for about 3 hours to eat and load the car, so don't know if that counts as "in one go".

    Also did 720 miles Anglesey to Colchester and back in a day in a 746cc 1971 Daf 33, but shared the driving on that one with my partner (it was her car). No real stops on that one - just pull over, loo if needed, swap drivers and away again.
  • hbk4894 wrote: »
    In one go, what is the furthest you have ever driven in your car?
    Car_54 wrote: »
    It's "driven".

    For once I agree with UKIP: get people to speak English.

    Can I stay?
  • Nebulous2
    Nebulous2 Posts: 5,717 Forumite
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    On several occasions I have driven between 1000 and 1100 miles in less than 24 hours.

    Finish work on Friday, go home, get changed drive to Dover, ferry to Calais or Dunkirk or even tunnel early in the morning, drive through France and get to my Gite or campsite by teatime.

    Then - let the holidays begin..............
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