Is putting too many miles on my car at once bad?
I have a 2001 ford mustang. It currently has 104,000 miles. I bought it at 93,000 miles in early 2013. I'm taking trip on Sunday and from here to there and back it will be around 174 miles. I maintain the car, change it's oil all of that.
174 miles is not a long trip. It'd probably be good for the engine if your regular drives are short. Almost all the wear that happens to your engine is in the first several minutes of operation. If you drove to a nearby nail salon or 174 miles, the engine wear would be similar.
It's a 13 year old car, no matter how many mile you put on it shouldn't affect the car's relatively low value. Go out and enjoy driving it, that's what cars are for, not sitting in some Maccy D's car park looking pretty.
174 mile round trip? Heck I've driven further than that to get a pizza. Like that's not even one tank of gas.
If your car doesn't make it, then it had a fault already…
Unless you left a digit out of the length of your trip. That isn't even a full day for many people. Your vehicle has averaged ONLY 8,000 miles a year. 12,000 to 15,000 is considered normal. An occasional 1000 road trip is not considered unusual. Actually, you are FAR more likely to have problems parking a vehicle too much than driving no stop.
No, it's not bad. I've driven three times that in one day - highway miles are easy on a car.
174? Maybe if you are riding a bicycle. I do 600 a day and the only thing bad about that is that I'm tired. And that is manual shift and driving like the engine is new(when in fact the engine is from a 60's car)
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