Million Mile Joe

[DucNaked]

A man in my home town hit a million miles on his Honda Accord.
"Million Mile Joe"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/maine-mans-honda-accord-rolls-over-the-1-million-mile-mark-gets-a-parade-new-vehicle/2011/10/24/gIQADrcHCM_story.html

Honda gave him a new Accord, but I was behind him driving home yesterday and he was still driving the old one. 

[Monsterlover]

[Punx Clever]

I keep telling everyone I know with a honda... change them timing belts and they'll last forever... now there is proof.

[duccarlos]

Next to selling my Monster, the Accord was the most painful. Had that thing from 0 to 140,000 of trouble free miles. Regular service every 3,000 miles is all that is needed.

[zooom]

I'll bet that 2012 doesn't last a million miles....

[mitt]

I'll bet that 2012 doesn't last a million miles....

+1

mitt

[Speeddog]

I put 280k on a '80 Civic wagon, sold it a 330k.
Still ran great.

I just couldn't stand driving it any more, ~5000 hours in the seat was enough.

[1KDS]

I wonder what this guy does for a living or why he drives so much

[cokey]

In my modest calculations i figured about 75k in gas

[ducpainter]

I wonder what this guy does for a living or why he drives so much

He says what he does in the video.

[1KDS]

I guess I didn't wonder too much then, didn't watch the video until now

[Ddan]

I wonder what this guy does for a living

He works on that damn car

[Latinbalar]

Apparently he is a floating Honda mechanic, he goes from dealer to dealer supplementing the service department. 

Now if everybody maintained their car like he did it would last forever as well.

[fastwin]

I love stories like this! I also love looking through ebay motors at the Ducati section and seeing the really high mileage 851, 888 and Tamburini bikes. Makes me wish I had become a chiropractor.

Worked with a guy at the courthouse who lived in the country on a farm. He had about a 180+ mile round trip commute every day. Worked with him for years. He had a pick up and his wife had a sedan but his commute car were Nissan Sentras. I can't remember how many he went through. He'd trade them in on a new one at about the 300-350K mark. Again, regular maintenance did the trick plus it was all highway miles. Probably applied the brakes about 10-15 times per day.

[lethe]

crazy people, driving all those miles