Car Porn II

i just got my oil changed this monring and had some other routine stuff done this morning on my beloved Volkswagen... i will be rolling over 150K miles probably by the end of the week, and that is pretty exciting...

when the Rabbit GTI died it reached about 140K miles (the odometer stopped shortly before 130K, so ican't be sure of the mileage) and i nursed that thing along for more years than i really should have...

But my mechanic gave the Corrado a clean bill of health because luckily the two previous owners took really good care of the car (and the guy that i bought the car from had bought it to be a tuner project-- all work that he did he used top quality parts).

i put a LOT of miles on the car in just the first year that i had it (over 22K in one year). the Rabbit, with all of it's time in the shop i never drove more than about 10K miles in a year... and never traveled far from home, either. the ONE time that i drove more than 100 miles from home ened up being the road trip that killed the car for good.

With the high gas prices, i'm not driving as much right now as i was a year ago... but if i was able to get 60,000 miles out of the Rabbit (which was mistreated before i owned it and was maintained by a questionable repair shop) the Corrado should last me a very long time