Well, I've had my MC since 3/17/08 and I'm currently at 13k miles. Looks to be almost 52k miles a year!!

I better start thinking about paying my loan down quick, this thing isn't going to last the full 60 months!

 

You a traveling salesman?

 

Did you go to MOTD? That would definitely account for some of them.

 

I commute 120 miles/day, 7 days a week..AND then drive more at both ends of my commute.

 

Hope you got the extended warranty and maintenance!

 

yeah, I'd look into the extended warranty now. That is a lot of driving. :D

 

Took delivery Oct.1 2007
11 oil changes,3 brake jobs and 2 sets of tires later:

 

11 oil changes??? I was under the impression that MINI uses full synthetic that's supposed to go at least 10K miles. Did that change?

 

Nope that hasen't changed.

 

My girlfriend has an '06 w/ 8,000 miles. It had 3,000 when she got it a few months ago.

 

Did your milage counter turn over then?

 

13k every 3 months... wow. so let's see, approx 27 mpg, comes out to 481.xxx gallons at approx $4.50... jeez, at this rate you're about to spend over $2100 in the next 3 months on gas alone!!1!

 

I'm sure I'm going to burn through a massive number of miles in my first year... Why must there be so many fun things to go do in a MINI!?!?!?

 

I've had mine for 13 months and have 8000 miles on it. But, I'm a wooly ned.

 

Update:

Just shy of 5 months. I'm at 21k miles!

 

MINI makes ya wan ot take more road trip

 

There is this guy featured in Whiteroofradio (MTTS Chicago) and he owns a 2002 MC 5-speed (Plain jane model) with 281K miles on the clock. He says the original brakes lasted him 181K miles (Yeah right), the 5-speed midland gears transmission is still original + the clutch (Another yeah right) but one thing I believe him is that he has followed the computer oil change intervals to the "T". So in 281K miles he has only gone with 15K mile intervals between oil changes.

So is it a myth and a waste of money to replace synthetic oil before 10K-15K miles?

You decide!

 

In 4 years you'll be at 150K miles.

 

I'm over 41k now but come October my JCW will arrive so I'll be sharing the mileage.

 

Wowie. I'm at almost 3 weeks and 2150 miles. Slowly cutting back... but I've also got Mickey and MINI coming up. Aye aye aye!

 

in the Mini group here in Manila, Philippines, i think i get the highest mileage in a month i got my 04 MCS last year with 7,2xx kilomoters, and it now has 23,3xx kms

 

Took delivery march 08. Almost 5 months into ownership we have 8,000+ miles, almost half of it road trip miles.

 

Jeez, I thought I was driving too much!

Took delivery May 31st, at about 4400 miles so far.

 

If you drive a lot of freeway miles, I'd think twice before getting the extended maintenance agreement.

I don't know if the R56 is the same way, but on the first-gen cars, freeway driving *really* stretches out the interval between OBC-recommended services. On my car, the first service didn't come due until 12,500 miles, the second service didn't come due until 33,200 miles, and the third service is looking like it's not going to come due until about 52,000 miles.

At 20,000 miles between services, getting a 100k mile service agreement might only get you three extra services after the standard 36k agreement ends, and at least one of those extra services is just going to be a simple oil change.

 

5,000 per year for me know.