I know, it’s silly, but …
Today, coming home from running some errands around town, my mostly-trusty little ’02 Subaru Outback Sport rolled 100,000 miles – yay! I picked it up, all shiny and new, on April 1st 2001, and it’s taken me all over California and into Nevada and Oregon. As the photo below, taken in July ’01 shows, it has even actually seen a small modicum of light off-roading.
It hasn’t been without its warts, with a creaky driver’s-side window motor, a broken drive belt, a recent left-front axle replacement, and several sets of brake rotors & pads. It currently chirps cheerfully when idling, which I choose to think of as a bird calling until I get around to getting it fixed, and the right-front axle is now making the same noise the left one did before it was replaced.
Still, those issues, and the poor fuel economy caused by it being full-time all-wheel-drive (I average around 23mpg in mostly city driving) aside, it’s served me well for the past 6 1/2 years, and hopefully will continue to do so for quite some time to come!
Adam Paul 
We do get attached to them, don’t we? My old Jeep is at 146K and going strong. It has been a good friend for a lot of years.
It’s not silly Adam, it has served you well you should be proud, I have an old 88 nissan truck behind my garage that I haul junk in and drive in the snow. 209,000 and still kicking.
I do try to practice non-attachment, as in the end, the car only exists as a tool to convey me around, but hey, 100k is a good milestone 🙂
This cracks me up. For miles and miles I kept watching my odometer because I wanted to photograph it when it read 123456. But, I missed it.
Lucky for me, Jennifer, it rolled 100k just a couple of blocks from home so it was easy to get a photo of the odo 🙂 And thanks, now I have another goal in approximately 23449 miles 🙂
I liked this post it really made me giggle.
Glad you enjoyed it, Aullori.
I am pretty attached to my Subie, a Forrester XT. I traded the little red sportscar in for it when I got pregnant. It DRIVES like a sportscar, but it is safe and has some room. I’m a fan.
Thanks for dropping by, ExPat! I had a Forrester loaner while some work was being done on my OBS – it was very nice!