What a great car this has been!

[Johnny b]

Dude, that’s fantastic. Back when I was commuting 150 miles a day (plus a whole lot of extra miles joining jobs that I wasn’t running) I bought a brand new Hyundai Accent off the lot because it was the cheapest car I could find with great fuel economy. It was a total stripper, with roll-up windows, manual seats, no door clicker, cloth seats, yada, yada, yada. I gave it to my daughter two and half years later with 236,000 miles on the clock and not a single repair. I only put tires on it and did a single brake job. Crazy!

236k miles in 2 1/2 years!!? What you do for living? Uber cross country?

 

[speeding_Infraction]

My BiL got a 2017 golf r with the apr stage 3 (?) tune on it for my sister shortly after they got married. Fastest car I've ever driven, I went 112 in it which is my pb right now, not much but I was running out of room. I will beat that record some day with this:

5.0 5 speed, TMU.

 

[Dan B.]

236k miles in 2 1/2 years!!? What you do for living? Uber cross country?

Yeah, it was pretty ridiculous. I was a site supervisor in the asbestos field and worked all over New England. 3:30 wake up every morning (unless it had to be earlier) and leave Vermont, cross the entire state of Massachusetts to the CT border and start my day at 6:00. Then drive to who knows where (VT, NH, MA, CT, NY, the states I was licensed in) and then reverse it all to get back home. My cars were consumables. The least mileage I ever did in a single year was around 60k, iirc. And that was normally me taking a company vehicle after I got to the shop in the morning, but if I was on a long term job I’d set up shop there and take my personal car back and forth to it. Lots of mileage on both the cars and on me, man. I did that for over 15 years before my wife said, “yo, you’ve made enough money, you’ve got to stop before you’re dead.” I went in the next day and gave my notice! I never would have done that on my own, but once I had her blessing I couldn’t get out of there fast enough! When the owner of the company found out he met me at the shop a few days later and offered me a huge raise and a $25k cash bonus to finish out the summer. I happily declined. I can’t remember if I ever told my wife that part…

 

[Johnny b]

Yeah, it was pretty ridiculous. I was a site supervisor in the asbestos field and worked all over New England. 3:30 wake up every morning (unless it had to be earlier) and leave Vermont, cross the entire state of Massachusetts to the CT border and start my day at 6:00. Then drive to who knows where (VT, NH, MA, CT, NY, the states I was licensed in) and then reverse it all to get back home. My cars were consumables. The least mileage I ever did in a single year was around 60k, iirc. And that was normally me taking a company vehicle after I got to the shop in the morning, but if I was on a long term job I’d set up shop there and take my personal car back and forth to it. Lots of mileage on both the cars and on me, man. I did that for over 15 years before my wife said, “yo, you’ve made enough money, you’ve got to stop before you’re dead.” I went in the next day and gave my notice! I never would have done that on my own, but once I had her blessing I couldn’t get out of there fast enough! When the owner of the company found out he met me at the shop a few days later and offered me a huge raise and a $25k cash bonus to finish out the summer. I happily declined. I can’t remember if I ever told my wife that part…

Wow Dan! 25k to finish summer!!!?? You must have really had it with that place!

 

[Dan B.]

Wow Dan! 25k to finish summer!!!?? You must have really had it with that place!

It was a good company to work for, and they compensated the supers well, including bonuses. I had mainly had it with the lack of sleep and three hours round trip commuting every day.