First 100K

[BozDMAX]

2003 K3500 Crew Cab - Here are the Stats:

1192 Days >>> 83.9 miles/day

6917.2 gallons at $1.98/gallon average
MPG: 14.46 (Actual)
Non-towing: 76K miles, 15.4 MPG (estimated)
Towing: 24K miles, 11.4MPG (computer calculated)
Max MPG: 21.2
Min MPG: 8.2 (24K GCW in the Rockies)

Engine Hours: 2465
Average Speed: 40.57 MPH

Tires: New set of stock Wrangler AT/S at 89K

Repairs: None.

Best of all, it is now paid off!

[Mark Rinker]

Great stats. What would your average cost/mile be?

Also, how did you get 89K out of a set of tires???

[FJ40INTOW]

Great stats. What would your average cost/mile be?

Also, how did you get 89K out of a set of tires???

Driving like you have a raw egg under your foot?

[BozDMAX]

Average Cost per mile? The difficulty of that is deciding on what to put in the numerator!

Acquisition cost - 50,367 (includes all the bells and whistles I added)
Fuel - 13,693
Maint - 4,330 (everything from oil changes to wiper blades)
Insurance - ? I didn't split out the single vehicle
Depreciation - Unknown

With the above - $0.687/mile
Operating cost - $0.18/mile (again, w/o insurance and depreciation).

Once I get 1,000,000 miles on the thing, that Acquisition cost will drop to 5 cents instead of 50 cents per mile.

As to the 89K: with 6 tires on a 3500, rotating on a good schedule and 76K of those miles not towing (and the raw egg on the accelerator) and some good luck, I made it. I would have liked to gone to 19" wheels/tires on the change out but it did not work out that way.