lowest annual mileage

[Faker]

Just purchased a samba cabrio and it's covered very little miles. It's 33 years old with 73k. Over the last 20 years it's covered a few thousand! All mots to back it up. Over the last 13 years it's covered 1,300. From its last mot which expired in August it covered 15 miles.... yes 15 miles. Chap I bought it from drove it home from the testing station, and didn't drive it again as it had a bit of a missfire! I swapped the carb and sorted the missfire and put 4 miles on it. Making it 19 miles since it was mot'd a year ago.

 

So. Who here has the lowest annual mileage?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

You I suspect!!

[Faker]

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[garbaldy]

I have vantmans old 79 colt which has 36k on it.

 

Forgot to say the 82 colt has even less at 16 or 19k miles although it has been if the road a good few years.

[cort16]

My Cortina has done 14 miles since it passed its last mot over 1 year ago. Does that count?

[Faker]

My Cortina has done 14 miles since it passed its last mot over 1 year ago. Does that count?

Beats the samba cabrio by 1 mile!

[Guest Hooli]

My '76 Triumph Bonnie hasn't done a single mile since breaking down near Dublin five years ago.

 

Does that count?

[overrun]

I just drive mine without MOT's, Well kinda with one atm.

[Doctormop]

I hate to sound all let's talk about modern cars at length blah de blah etc but is such a low mileage on a modern BMW something to seek out or worry about?

I've read many 'expert' views that a modern engine should be thrashed daily to bed it in but still think of "Running in please pass" stickers as sound advice from engineers that knew what they were talking about,

 

Retreats to 1953 with a pipe full of loose tobacco and a milk stout;

[captain_70s]

When I bought it my Dolly 1300 in 2011 had 24,000 miles on the clock. No idea if this is genuine as all the history from the deceased first owner is MIA and he had the car for 30+ years. Looking at the MOT history it seems to have been doing about 100-500 miles a year until I got hold of it and started racking up a few thousand a year, I think it did 8,000 between it's last MOT being passed and expiring!

[doobietoo]

My 1977  VDP did 4,000 miles for each of its first 11 years and has not done any since unless you count the 18 miles it did on the back of a lorry.........

[Doctormop]

Fair enough, you know more about the car than I do but can't forget the advice I got from my first real world gaffer in 1987;

"The worst treatment for any machine is non regular use"

or something more Anglo-saxon than that anyway, I'm sure things have changed since then, my 14 year old mass produced banger tolerates my lazy approach to regular loving care much more easily than the 75 HC Viva that suffered the indignity of being my first car.

[Guest Hooli]

Yup the best way to fuck a car is not use it.

[wuvvum]

The Volvo has done about 100 yards in total in the last year.

[RustyNuts]

The renner did 4-5 miles across town last year when we moved... though it was on a recovery truck lol. Prior to that it probably clocked up half a mile being shunted around the car park.

[dollywobbler]

Our Nippa was doing just 900 miles a year in the first few years of life. It was still getting serviced annually too!

[Bren]

My SD1 has covered 400 ft since 2010. It has gone further vertically ie being jacked up.

[Vince70]

My Cortina has done 14 miles since it passed its last mot over 1 year ago. Does that count?

Mine old winter beater had been moted every year but inbetween 2010 and 2015 it had only done just over 200 miles.I didn't realise when I bought it that it hadn't been used for such a long time but I picked it up and did a 150 mile drive home in it and it was spot on.The guy I bought it from had the car 14 years and just couldn't part with it.To be honest I've still only put a couple of thousand miles on it since I've had it.

[mercrocker]

My annual mileages are pretty low.... 

 

Cowley 3000

Minor 3000 

Merc 190E 6000

VW T25 Camper 4000

 

T25 is stored for 4 months of the year but being what it is can sometimes do 700 miles over a weekend (it just has)  

 

Minor is in daily use but mainly over a short commute, Merc is probably down to 3 times a week but mainly runs of over 50 miles. 

Cowley is my pleasure car (probably a quarter of its mileage is towing a small caravan). 

 

With the exception of the camper which gets  a proper lay up each November I make a point of using everything properly at least once a week,

 

Merc and T25 never get used unless they are brought up to full temperature, the cast iron stuff I am less fussy about - I doubt the Minor gets properly warm on the coldest day's commutes.    

 

Edit - I should add that Mrs Rocker is predominant Merc user, these are not all my own miles.

[HMC]

All my cars are well over 100k and look it. They're in some kind of retirement facility for old well used cars with me as I do loads of catch up repairs/maintenence, douse them in wax, mop up any dribbles of their fluids, trickle charge thier batteries and cover very few miles in them- they are all regular users but I hardly cover any miles with day to day life.

[worldofceri]

There's a difference between something that's in genuine daily use as someone's main vehicle and a car that's just parked up most of the time.

 

My Mum's had a 2003 Clio from new.  At the mot this month it had 25774 on the clock - or just shy of 1600 miles a year - although she'll use it several times a week and we occasionally borrow it when all our cars are b0rked.

[danthecapriman]

My 1984 mk2 Transit has done only 19k in 32 years. I think it only did 50 miles between MOT's last year.

[AMC Rebel]

Most of my shite does zero but that probably doesn't really count does it?  I did 3 miles between July 2010 and May 2011 in my AMC - that was to and from the MOT station, but it failed in 2010 and took me until the following May to be arsed getting it back up to scratch so that probably doesn't count either.

[alfetta]

Noticed a rather mint 1996 MX5 merlot near me with 3500 miles on the clock!  So less than 200 per year, thought MX5's are for driving?? At least it's 100% rust free!

[willswitchengage]

My car was born in 1991 and ticked over 30,000 miles this week. I bought it two years ago on 17,000!

[Asimo]

My Transit's early years were odd: less than 2000 miles a year! Perhaps because it was petrol engined?

[RoadworkUK]

My annual mileage has fallen into a black hole since my 35 mile daily round trip was binned off in favour of working from home.

 

Now I'm a fat bastard and my cars will seize up.

[quicksilver]

Our Maxi has done a genuine 36k in 38 years. For the last few years the previous owner was only doing 200 miles a year and we did that in the first ten days of ownership!

[inconsistant]

Last year I filled the car up on New Year's Day and didn't have to refuel again until late November which felt good, although that was mainly due to the car being off the road with omghgf and associated mechanical issues combined with the need for extensive mot sill weldage so probably not entirely the thrifty motoring experience it might have been.

[Cavcraft]

I've just cracked 2,000 miles in my new car since getting it last November.