Do you do a lot of miles in your 86/BRZ?
 

I use my car as a DD. My workplace is around 125kms round trip. Roughly 80 miles. I'm already feeling sucky because I know after a year of use, the car will see around 40,000kms. 5 years, 200,000kms!

At least my drive into work is an easy 97% highway though. Lighter wear and tear I suppose.

I didn't opt for any extended warranties either. I didn't feel the need to as I am confident the 86 will be a long laster as with all Toyotas and Subarus.

Who else does a lot of mileage?

I did 14,000 miles on the first year, and I have also have a Tacoma that I probably put another 15,000 on it. Both cars are my daily drivers. Good thing I opted for the 15,000 miles/year on the FR-S lease.

Coincidently, I also have a white 91 MR2 Turbo (rare moon-roof version), but I sold it last year and bought the FR-S to replace it.

35,000 km's in my first year. Averaging 7.4L/100km. I'm sure 90% of my driving has been highway though.

Did 27.000km so far, looking at 40.k this first year (december)

I don't mind, I bought it to use it! Lots of trackdays and some hard driving too. Love it!

Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I only put ~8 miles a day when I take it to work which is usually only sunny days. The rest of the miles go on my Impreza. Owned since late April of this year and only have about 1,600 miles.

I'm jealous of how much some of you get to drive these cars, but my wallet is happy due to it!

Depends on what you consider a lot of miles.

For me, 1000 miles a month seems average. I have had more car for a year now (past the 1 year mark a few days ago) and I only have 11,100 miles on the car.

Looking at around 1,500 miles per month right now, so around 18k per year. Currently at 13k miles. (21,000 km)

This will probably be my primary car for the next five years at which point I guess I'll have 90k miles (145,000 km) on it, but who knows.

120 miles a day commuting. 18,600 miles since the end of Feb.

I put more miles on this car than I have any other. But that's only 1200 a month or so. A lot for me, not so much for someone else. My commute is 36 round trip.

I have about 23K done this year on the FRS, but there were two months were i barely drove at all.

Road trips tend to do that.

I've had my car for a year and 4 months and I have 41,XXX miles on it. I had a long commute to work, and drove to customer sites for work as well. No issues at all so far.

Considering I've owned my car exactly 3 months with only weekend driving, I've put 8200 miles on it.

-alex

That's approximately 26 days where you could drive if you consider Saturday and Sunday the weekend. ~315 miles per day or ~630 per weekend. Very impressive.

Well, so far I've been to:

CO > LA
LA > Mammoth > LA
LA > SLO > Monterey > LA
LA > Jackson WY > LA

Those 4 trips alone accounts for 5500 miles, and all 4 were done within a 3 day weekend.

(I need to stop driving... the gas budget for all of 2014 is about to be eaten up this year.)

-alex

P.S. did you really calculate the days I was driving the car? :)

Its kinda sad that i already passed my brother up in miles and only owned it for half the time. 8500 miles in 6 months of daily driving with a trip to vegas and multiple trips to L.A. I may need a beater commuter, maybe that'll be the goal with taxes..lol..if I dont spend it on the FRS

1) Awesome Trips. Jealous of your seat time.

and

2) I did indeed. Slow day at the office and as of 4PM EST (if I'm lucky) I'm off for a few days. Got all my work caught up and explained to my backup, so I'm just sitting here being bored.

I do 54 miles every day for work... It's adding up way too fast haha

My dd as well. 6k 3months :(

^me too 4k in 3 months :(

man, some of you guys drive a lot!

i've always been a fan of living close to where you work, and even being in the construction industry with job locations changing all the time, i've only put 1100 km's in the almost 4 weeks i've owned my vehicle now.. and that's with a bunch of pleasure driving on the weekends and the odd weeknight.. currently averaging 20-30 km per day round trip with my daily commutes

22,000 km in 5 months...I bought it to drive it baby....if not that, then whats the point right?

1 year 1 month.

23.8k miles

You high milage guys have little to worry about, this is something I've researched to death. These cars excel at long easy highway miles. I've talked to some of the leading Subaru shops in the country and the number one cause of head gasket failure so common with Subaru's is short trips, leaves gas and moisture in the oil which attacks the head gasket. Long commutes all that gets burned off, iiiideal for the boxer engine.

As far as the DI seal issue, what causes that is tip-in knock. Sudden acceleration, on/off throttle especially at high rpms and this car's knock sensor starts singing. So if you live in a hilly twisty area and drive the car in its power band (over 5k rpm) then you need a tune, even the new calibration cars.

But long constant speed highway miles produce virtually no wear on these engines.

Sadly, it doesn't always work out that way. Not all of us with a long commute likes it.

Nobody knows for sure how the engines will hold up over time. Also, even if the engine block & internals will last 300k miles what about the rest of the car?

1 year 1 month 29915 miles. 90% on the highway. My previous ride was an 2002 Tacoma. Got 300000 miles out of it before I sold it for $7600. Never had one issue with it. Hopefully my FRS will perform just as well.

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