Commuter car

[gearheadesw]

I drive a lot to work, like 30k miles a year. That's filling up the truck 2.5 times a week, roughly half tank, don't like the $85 fill ups from near empty. So about $5-600 a month on fuel, it adds up, as do the miles, I have 52k miles on the truck, just under 2 years old, at this rate I'll have about 150k miles when paid off. Sooo, I went and bought a 2015 VW Golf Sportwagen, thing gets around 45 mpg's with my roughly 700 lbs of tools in it. Put in some taller rear springs and it sets just about perfect with the tools in the back. It gets almost 3 times the fuel milage as the truck, has 25k miles on it, and saves me around $350 right off the bat, so it pays for itself, saves miles on the truck, so I can drive it later after the car is dead and gone.

[KARNUT]

I drive a lot to work, like 30k miles a year. That's filling up the truck 2.5 times a week, roughly half tank, don't like the $85 fill ups from near empty. So about $5-600 a month on fuel, it adds up, as do the miles, I have 52k miles on the truck, just under 2 years old, at this rate I'll have about 150k miles when paid off. Sooo, I went and bought a 2015 VW Golf Sportwagen, thing gets around 45 mpg's with my roughly 700 lbs of tools in it. Put in some taller rear springs and it sets just about perfect with the tools in the back. It gets almost 3 times the fuel milage as the truck, has 25k miles on it, and saves me around $350 right off the bat, so it pays for itself, saves miles on the truck, so I can drive it later after the car is dead and gone.

That’s why my trip car is a Camry. 20-25$ a day in gas. The money I save buys our food. There’s no doubt it’ll go 200K miles. Not to mention it cost 1/2 as much as my truck. Got to have a truck tho, I had one ten years haven’t put 15K miles on it.


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[Colossus]

10 hours ago, KARNUT said:

That’s why my trip car is a Camry. 20-25$ a day in gas. The money I save buys our food. There’s no doubt it’ll go 200K miles. Not to mention it cost 1/2 as much as my truck. Got to have a truck tho, I had one ten years haven’t put 15K miles on it.


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Don't be so sure of that.  I've seen plenty of Crapotas and Hondas that have had major catastrophic failure before 100,000 miles despite being well maintained.  There are no guarantees. 

[KARNUT]

Don't be so sure of that.  I've seen plenty of Crapotas and Hondas that have had major catastrophic failure before 100,000 miles despite being well maintained.  There are no guarantees. 

I know a few people who have the older GMs before the cylinder deactivation that got high mileage usage out of GMs. I’ve owned little Toyota trucks from the 80s on. Used them to beat up and down pipeline ROWs and transmission lines. Indestructible. Know people with Toyota’s and Honda’s cars and SUVs. Never a problem.

 

 

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[Black02Silverado]

Nice choice! 

 

I love my Chevy Cruze diesel.  I have gone as far as 800 miles to a tank on a long trip.  I've gotten as high at 52mpg out of it. 

Edited November 4, 2019 by Black02Silverado

[gearheadesw]

Well, I paid $13,000 for this, so for so good.

One unexpected bonus in this is, when I drive the truck on the weekend, it makes me realize how kick ass my truck is.

I'm still getting used to driving a car for the first time in decades, it's low, real low, and small, real small.

Edited November 4, 2019 by gearheadesw

[gearheadesw]

This is about all of it, pipe wrenches and all kinds of other wrenches are in the black ammo box in previous pic, power tools, hand tools, batteries, hole saw bits, all kinds of sockets, up top. more wrenches, pliers, hole punch, 7 1/2" circular saw, full sizes battery band saw, ton of crap under here.

Edited November 4, 2019 by gearheadesw

[CamGTP]

The jetta wagons are all over the place for sale here. Tons of great deals on the TDI models that come with new VW warranties.

 

I think they are nice little cars, just keep up on the maintenance and they should be good to you.

[Colossus]

I really like the Audi's.  They are fun to drive, but good grief the cost of maintenance and long term reliability is terrible..

[gearheadesw]

So, about a month in, no problems whatsoever, have put on around 3k miles, at 38 mpg after the roof rack. The truck loves this thing, it still has 52k miles on it, how cool. Drive the truck on the weekend, and I’ve got a cool truck, seemed to take that for granted when I was driving it everyday, and everywhere. One thing I don’t like is, how computer controlled this thing is, sensors for all kinds  of crazy stuff, just have to get used to it, all kinds of things pop up in the info screen, load out of balance, close windows for fuel economy, but I’ll take that for it paying for itself in fuel cost savings alone. 

[SierraHD17]

Figured this out years ago.  Myself and one of my employees share a car and its expenses.  We just buy used stuff and the current one is a 2011 Malibu with the big bad 2.4 4 banger.  We get paid for our trucks and our travel time but why mile a pickup truck out when we can put all those commute miles on some clunker car.  We are both a 100+ mile round trip a day and the fuel savings alone buy the cars and all their maintenance costs.  Plus I don't incur 40000 miles a year on a truck... hell I still run my 05 because why not..