well i have an 03 IS and I have 41k miles on it. what does THAT tell you.

 

It tells us you're going to have some high-mileage depreciation on it. But hey...if you enjoy driving it....and the IS is a great car.....I sure enjoy driving mine.........what the heck? It's only money.

 

tells me that you roll back your ODO meter?

 

ROTFLMAO...

I wish I could. I need more warranty time.

 

Well I really don't have much of a choice unless I got a different job. But we all know how easy that is these days. I have a 88 mile round trip commute daily. Plus all my friends live a good ways away so I have to drive a lot to get places. It sucks.

 

LOL

 

I do it all the time. Even on my lunch breaks during work. Go figure! Explains why I have close to 16k miles and only 6.5 months of ownership.

 

Hehehe...i'm following right behind ya!

 

You guys are nuts im like nervous because i've put 900 miles in like two weeks. But i have taken a road trip to gainsville and of course you are going to be more ready to drive when you just got the car. I would like to keep it to 12,000 miles a year if possible it will probably end up at like 15 though.

 

That's what I said.....when I got my ES300.

I averaged about 40K miles a year.

 

lol yeah i would say so!

 

If you all are that concerned about driving a lot of miles and saving gas, then try bumping the tire pressure up a little...no more than 2 lbs....to 35 PSI; keep the transmission switch in the NORMAL mode, not the POWER mode; use the A/C compressor as little as possible, try to combine trips so that the engine stays hot and you are not warming it up constantly (which uses a lot of gas) , clean all the unnecessary stuff out of the trunk so you're not dragging extra weight around, and of course, use the old-fashioned methods.....easy on both the gas and the brake pedal. The ride will be a little stiffer, you may not have as much driving fun, but this should be good for about 3-4 extra miles per gallon.....EXPENSIVE gallons out there in CA, from what we're seeing back East here.
In the D.C. area here unleaded 93 octane premium is going for $1.85 to $2.00 a gallon depending on the station. Out there in CA we see signs on the news here showing $2.30-$2.40.

 

40k a year what do you plan on doing with the car. I mean paying it off and it having just a **** load of miles?

 

I paid it off and traded it in for my GS at 150K. I still got over $6K on the 97 last december.

 

Nervous? Bah! I put my first 1000 miles in just 3 days. Just ask Rominl, RMMGS4 and espeically Silveraltezza, GreyIS4ME and LXOGOOD. Those 3 put that many miles on their car that weekend we went up for the NorCal End of Summer MEet.