Mileage

bottletops

Just looking at insurance and got to thinking... how much mileage do we do these days.

I'm sure the days of 12000 a year are gone!!

Poll is in Km's!!!!

Stark

How do you figure that based on insurance?

bottletops

Stark wrote: »

How do you figure that based on insurance?

Sorry, I was not clear. was looking at insurance quotes and saw the question, How many miles a year?

I just remembered someone saying once that the average is 12000 per year. Just got me thinking... that's all!!

Cookie_Monster

Who does 50k km a year?

Must never be off the road:eek:

TheNog

Crap, OP I voted in miles. Can you change my vote to 50k

TheNog

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Who does 50k km a year?

Must never be off the road:eek:

Always on the road. I used to enjoy driving alot but that pleasure has dimmed somewhat.

Stark

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Who does 50k km a year?

Must never be off the road:eek:

Not hard if you drive for a living. I'd do about 20,000km a year and that's only with driving to/from work and the occasional weekend trip.

bottletops

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Who does 50k km a year?

Must never be off the road:eek:

I do myself!!

80 mile round trip to work.
Live in Carlow, and go home to Cork a bit too.... adds up fast!!

34000 miles since April last year... thank god its a diesel!!

Actually on the topic of insurance companies asking your annual mileage. I have always wondered how can they prove how much I have done. Say someone puts down 8k but actually drive 20k, then need to claim for what ever reason. How would they find out in order to attempt to invalidate the claim*?

Stark

I'd imagine they can look at the odometer and get an idea.

Cookie_Monster

bottletops wrote: »

I do myself!!

80 mile round trip to work.
Live in Carlow, and go home to Cork a bit too.... adds up fast!!

34000 miles since April last year... thank god its a diesel!!

Thats mad Ted.

Personnally I couldn't do that to work every day.
For a start that would mean being sober on a friday morning:pac:

Stark

Stark wrote: »

I'd imagine they can look at the odometer and get an idea.

But they dont know what the odometer reading was at the start of the year.

stealthyspeeder

I do +50,000 km a year, regularly travel between Dublin and Belfast with work and my girlfriend is either in Roscommom or Galway (i live in Dublin), plus odd trips to England and I still loving driving!! (i think its the car!)

Vegeta

Stark wrote: »

I'd imagine they can look at the odometer and get an idea.

Could you explain this to me as I am not getting it.

Surely they'd have to look at it at 2 different times and get the difference between readings to check mileage done. Or ask you for current mileage when getting the policy.

Cookie_Monster

stealthyspeeder wrote: »

I do +50,000 km a year, regularly travel between Dublin and Belfast with work and my girlfriend is either in Roscommom or Galway (i live in Dublin), plus odd trips to England and I still loving driving!! (i think its the car!)

What do you drive?

Vegeta wrote: »

Could you explain this to me as I am not getting it.

Surely they'd have to look at it at 2 different times and get the difference between readings to check mileage done. Or ask you for current mileage when getting the policy.

But they don't ask current milage and I could never see them sending someone out to verify milage, not worth the expense.

Stark

Hibernian asked me for a recent NCT certificate when I was thinking of signing up with them before. Not sure if they asked me specifically for my odometer reading but the NCT cert would have shown it. That would be enough to give them an idea I reckon.

Cookie Monster wrote:

But they don't ask current milage and I could never see them sending someone out to verify milage, not worth the expense.

It would be an easy thing for an assessor to take a peek at when they're out assessing damage to the car.

I've never heard of them taking the trouble with someone who did say 15,000 and was insured for 12,000 but I reckon they would go to the trouble if they had suspicion that the person was doing something like 50,000.

cmcsoft

At the moment I'd say I'm around the 20,000 km per year mark. Used be more

boredatwork82

I do just over 40k when i converted it. although i selected 30-40k. It must be horrible to do that more driving than that. I hate having to drive. sometimes i wish i lived so far away from hometown, so that I could cut all ties and never have to drive up and down regularly.

bottletops

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Thats mad Ted.

Personnally I couldn't do that to work every day.
For a start that would mean being sober on a friday morning:pac:

Its actually not bad. Rarely traffic jams. 35 - 40 mins each way. Lots of ppl spend longer on buses trains etc. I sit in my car and relax to the music on cruise control!!

L1011

Daily commute is 70km round trip; football adds 400+km some weekends (Maynooth->Ballybofey->Maynooth); music ads 500+km some weekends (Portrush, Cork...).

About 30,000 a year at the moment, has been higher.

Cookie_Monster

bottletops wrote: »

Its actually not bad. Rarely traffic jams. 35 - 40 mins each way. Lots of ppl spend longer on buses trains etc. I sit in my car and relax to the music on cruise control!!

hmmm... I suppose if its not sitting-in-Dublin-trafffic-driving it might be ok.

Thankfully I'm in the position where work is 10 mins on bus/bike so driving time is purely for fun:)

biggus

Poll doesn't go low enough. i'm an enthusiast and have a collection but do less than 10k

TheBazman

Around 40k for me - 100-110km round trip communte + weekends. I actually quite enjoy the commute!

EPM

Was doing Cork to Clonmel up until recently. Will be doing Cork to Waterford soon all going well with work. Its true a lot of the enjoyment goes when you're stuck trying to get home but you really cant beat a good long spin early in wee small hours of the morning:D

Think my 45k is a year will head north soon

Beta Ray Bill

I drive around 5000 Km's per year but my car is a weekend car and I hardly ever drive it!

Matt Simis

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

hmmm... I suppose if its not sitting-in-Dublin-trafffic-driving it might be ok.

Totally, I moved from Dublin to Meath and generally, no traffic problems. If there is just one reason to give up the amenities of a city, this is it.

tech

do about 70-80,000 kms a year now

I have a 05 Avensis d4d with 270,000kms on the clock, going like a bomb

Scottie99

I do 100000km+ a year!:mad:

tech

when i started on the road 1st i did 75,000 miles a year for 3 years!! what are you driving ?

Holsten

Around 10-15k Miles.

crosstownk

I do more than 40k per year. My commute to the office is handy <5km, but I'm away from the office traveling about the country most days. Managed to do just under 1100km this week - all on one tank too :cool:

Alzar

About 25,000Km's just going to/from work.

Al.

GalwayKiefer

crosstownk wrote: »

Managed to do just under 1100km this week - all on one tank too :cool:

What are you driving?

crosstownk

GalKiefer wrote: »

What are you driving?

Citroën C5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQnPWjK5pE

SV

About 25-28000 km.

massey woman

Recently I changed my car and was aghast to see it advertised 3 weeks later on the net with 115,000 less on the clock and offering a full service record. How wrong.What can I do to help the next unsuspecting owner

galwaytt

massey woman wrote: »

Recently I changed my car and was aghast to see it advertised 3 weeks later on the net with 115,000 less on the clock and offering a full service record. How wrong.What can I do to help the next unsuspecting owner

Tell the consumer body - Director of Consumer Affairs. www.nca.ie and do it a.s.a.p. - make sure they call you to confirm they've got the complaint.
Tell the SIMI.
Tell the garage who you're telling and give them This link while you're at it.

kwalshe

massey woman wrote: »

Recently I changed my car and was aghast to see it advertised 3 weeks later on the net with 115,000 less on the clock and offering a full service record. How wrong.What can I do to help the next unsuspecting owner

Thats unreal, people would notice if the condition of the car not adding up to small? milage it has been changed to surely?
Anyway got my car in July '06 gave it back today with 163,000km on the button...

EPM

massey woman wrote: »

Recently I changed my car and was aghast to see it advertised 3 weeks later on the net with 115,000 less on the clock and offering a full service record. How wrong.What can I do to help the next unsuspecting owner

I dont want to put a bigger downer on things but the car you bought to replace your old one-if it wasn't new from the same dealer i would be getting that checked over pronto also. If they've done it to one car they've done it to a few more along the way...

EPM

tech wrote: »

when i started on the road 1st i did 75,000 miles a year for 3 years!! what are you driving ?

Are you driving a truck or a taxi! Thats huge mileage for a commute!

tech

a ZX Van followed by a 306 van! I work in IT and travel all over munster and beyond!

GalwayKiefer

galwaytt wrote: »

Tell the garage who you're telling and give them This link while you're at it.

"The company was fined €400 with €1,100 costs and witness expenses." Thats a pitiful low punishment for an offense like that, the article goes on to say "Suburban Autos was lucky it only had to pay out €1,500 as the maximum fine for the offence has since been increased to €3,000, Ms Fitzgerald said."
I bet the owner of the garage was laughing to himself when he heard the fine. Granted his business will suffer locally now as a result of the bad press but there will still be unsuspecting customers down the road...

GalwayKiefer

Sorry to keep on topic, I do roughly 25,000km a year.

tech

a walk in the park!

GalwayKiefer

tech wrote: »

a walk in the park!

For Sale: Lightly used, one careful owner, only driven to Mass and on a Sunday... :P