How many miles a day are you racking up ?

[glocke12]

On both my 2003 4th gen and 2011 5th gen ( simply can't believe it's been 22 and 14 years respectively ! ), I racked up a ton of miles in short order due to a long commute (~32 miles one way ), and hobbies and interests that led me far from home.

With my 6th gen, I am trying to not repeat that, and being 58 years old its rather easy because once I am home from work and done dealing with whats turned into simply horrendous traffic over the past two decades in my area, I am just simply not interested in going back out on the roads, and fortunately a lot of what I had been doing in terms of activities outside the workplace I am no longer doing.

Still, I am dealing with a commute thats ~ 32 miles one way so am averaging about 320-350 miles a week which I am not thrilled about, but theres not a whole lot I can do about it.

What are y'all putting on your 6th gen daily/weekly ?

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[kburrito]

I'm about 100 miles round trip for my daily commute. Averaging about 25mpg the entire way, sometimes 23 when traffic is a lot. I'm at costco filling up about 3 times a week. Its been 4 months since I got my 6th gen and over 10k miles on it

 

[Nodak]

34 miles
morning home to work 16.5 miles
afternoon from work to home 17.3 miles

or

32 miles :
morning home to work 16.5 miles
afternoon from work to home 15.3 miles

if we avg it, 33 miles a day x 4 days a week (i work 4x10's) = 132 miles week

this doesnt take into account the winters and remote starts to warm up the vehicle (and yes i do 10-20 min remote starts, it gets chilly when it gets below 0F and -20F)

afternoon route varies on my mood, long way is straight home, short way is thru middle of town if i need to stop for something at the gas station

other thing, once thursday roles around i switch to the 23 tundra to run errands (thursday afternoon thru sunday) once the wife gets home or we go out. it doesnt get enough miles on it in a year (17k in 2yrs 7months) so i try to work it more than my morning commute to work @ 75 mph in my 14 4R

 

[SC4Runner]

I am four months into ownership and have put just over 5,400 miles on it. Having two other vehicles, I get to share the love of my 44 miles round trip three days a week as I work from home two days a week. We do use the 4Runner to drive to the coast about twice a month which racks up about 700-800 miles per month.

If I didn’t have a care in the world and could leave tomorrow in it, I’d drive from SC to Alaska and back and try to see as much of this country in between as I could!

 

[glocke12]

I'm about 100 miles round trip for my daily commute. Averaging about 25mpg the entire way, sometimes 23 when traffic is a lot. I'm at costco filling up about 3 times a week. Its been 4 months since I got my 6th gen and over 10k miles on it

mmm...100 miles round trip. thats a lot. I did a commute similar to that once (140 miles round trip actually) in a brand new Tacoma ( back in 1998 ). I didn't mind it at first but it eventually got to be horrible and I ended up throwing a mattress in the back of the truck ( it had a cap on it ) because there would be times traffic would be so bad and I would be so tired that I'd end up crawling into the back to nap.


I am pretty sure that on my previous two vehicles I had or was close to 10k within 4-5 months. At just under two months in I am at ~2500k and thats with putting effort into really curtailing my driving habits and asking myself things like " Will it really be the end of the world if I don't get in my vehicle and go do this, or that thing thats almost an hour or more away ?" Usually the answer is no..which is good because that tells me I can sort out the important trips from the unimportant ones.

Ultimately I guess it is the increased wear and tear that frequent driving and excessive mileage causes that I am trying to deter.

 

[kayleighk116]

Nearly three months since I picked up the Trailhunter and I have just under 1,400 miles on it. I am basically retired and only work one day a week with a 42 mile RT commute.

 

[odins_beer'd]

1 singular mile on the weekdays. 100 - 400 on weekends.

 

[IVD6G [SCAMMER]]

15 miles to and fro

 

[get.outside.75]

Weekdays I average 1 miles a day if I go to the grocery store once a week. This thing is gonna last me 20 years

 

[glocke12]

Weekdays I average 1 miles a day if I go to the grocery store once a week. This thing is gonna last me 20 years

lol....

yeah...thats my goal is make it last as long as possible. I've been trying to work from home or take a personal day once a week, that drops my work commute mileage down to about 1024 a month which I don't have that much of a problem with.

 

[Tonycap]

Not sure about per day since I don't drive it everyday, but I average around 2000 miles a year on most of my cars.

 

[quadna71]

We planned to drive ours occasionally but the daily driver promptly broke as soon as we brought the 4Runner home. That meant driving the new 4R to work for a week and a half (127m round trip) but I fixed the car this morning so now it's back on weekend goof-around duty. The daily driver has 264K miles on and it is a 2016....don't want that to happen to the new 4Runner!

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