A properly maintained car can be driven hard for a very long time. I've done it for many years. There is a very big difference between hard driving and abuse, which is nothing but a combination of inattention and incompetence IMHO.
Who here has the most miles on their MS3?!
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A properly maintained car can be driven hard for a very long time. I've done it for many years. There is a very big difference between hard driving and abuse, which is nothing but a combination of inattention and incompetence IMHO.
Wow, bought mine a day before you Aug. 31 of 2007 and I have 25150 miles!
Yeah but I also have a Supra and just sold a miata not long time ago.. An
SC300 was somewhere in between so the Speed3 got most of its 15k miles from the first 3-4 months of ownership.. then it sat for about 5-6 months last summer so.. Only for the past month have I been really driving the Speed3 at all due to the Supra going of to a shop.
FrequentFlyer
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Got my '08.5 on May 27th 2008 and I just passed 18,000 the other day, but I drive almost 100 miles a day, 5 days a week.
That bests me.
9/27/07
19,500 miles. Mind you it's a family car too. Several people use it.(confused)
squidmotion
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just hit 5000...
did the first oil change about 1400 miles ago, and in with the full synthetic.... ..i like the mystery oil level feature with this car... one day, above the full line a bit.. the next right on.. then back over a bit again.. oh well, it isn't EMPTY, that's good. i check it every tank of gas.
i like the way the synthetic looks just changed after 1000 or so miles..
did the first oil change about 1400 miles ago, and in with the full synthetic.... ..i like the mystery oil level feature with this car... one day, above the full line a bit.. the next right on.. then back over a bit again.. oh well, it isn't EMPTY, that's good. i check it every tank of gas.
i like the way the synthetic looks just changed after 1000 or so miles..
slo03.5msp
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Jebus you guys are crazy!!! I got my msp 1-19-04 and I have 40k on it.
pretty typical actually...the amount of oil that stays in the filter, turbo lines and turbo can all fluctuate a little making the dipstick reading slightly diff. Especially if you are checking it after getting gas and the engine was just running.
damn you really ARE a frequentflyer
mazdaspeedster3
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Sept. 30, 2007 now have 25,500.
Mazduh_Chick
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uhhh... i think you win!
i've got 29,000 on my 2007
i've got 29,000 on my 2007
squidmotion
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it is nice to hear of our cars putting up the miles... and yes, it is definitely refreshing over the 'my engine grenaded' threads.
i tend to drive mine into the ground... i take care of them, and put loads on of miles on them....
'traveler', my poor xterra... was a 2000 4x4 5-speed that i bought new and just punished.. i had to wait to get the manual trans with the 4 wheel drive, but i knew it would hold up for what was about to happen...
that thing too me everywhere surfing, fishing, hauling, so many trips to florida and the east coast, i've lost track...got me out of huge mud-hole mistakes, took me and buddies to port mansfield from the corpus side (60 miles of heavy sand)... towed boats, campers, trailers, etc. etc. and never gave me one problem.... only mods were a set of BFG all terrains, HD surf racks, a killer stereo, and of course, k&n and tint.
thought i would share this, as i traded it in for the speed... they gave me more than i wanted for it, so i traded it.. i'm trying not to think about all the extra miles i could have put on it. 165,000 trouble free miles... not one part needed.. i did a tune up on it out of guilt at 125,000 miles, and finally changed the factory belts
... a battery, brake pads (never did the rears.. never needed to!)... and that is it...
bought an '83 cherokee laredo from my dad (last of the big ones), 152,000 miles. rebuilt the engine and trans, and drove it for another gajillion miles... when i sold it, it had 352,000 miles, and i sold it for 1,000 more than i bought it from dad!!!!
i'll try to dig up some shots (probably negatives) of that one..
i tend to drive mine into the ground... i take care of them, and put loads on of miles on them....
'traveler', my poor xterra... was a 2000 4x4 5-speed that i bought new and just punished.. i had to wait to get the manual trans with the 4 wheel drive, but i knew it would hold up for what was about to happen...
that thing too me everywhere surfing, fishing, hauling, so many trips to florida and the east coast, i've lost track...got me out of huge mud-hole mistakes, took me and buddies to port mansfield from the corpus side (60 miles of heavy sand)... towed boats, campers, trailers, etc. etc. and never gave me one problem.... only mods were a set of BFG all terrains, HD surf racks, a killer stereo, and of course, k&n and tint.
thought i would share this, as i traded it in for the speed... they gave me more than i wanted for it, so i traded it.. i'm trying not to think about all the extra miles i could have put on it. 165,000 trouble free miles... not one part needed.. i did a tune up on it out of guilt at 125,000 miles, and finally changed the factory belts
... a battery, brake pads (never did the rears.. never needed to!)... and that is it...bought an '83 cherokee laredo from my dad (last of the big ones), 152,000 miles. rebuilt the engine and trans, and drove it for another gajillion miles... when i sold it, it had 352,000 miles, and i sold it for 1,000 more than i bought it from dad!!!!
i'll try to dig up some shots (probably negatives) of that one..
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