How about LOW mileage Tours?

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With everyone posting their "warrior" mileages...how about those of us who have the LOWEST miles per yer?

Year/model: 98 SVT
Mileage: 37,002

i have a '96, and i just got to 41,000 today. my only problems have pretty much just been wear-and-tear stuff that needed to be fixed.

Originally posted by Nate S:
i have a '96, and i just got to 41,000 today.

2000
37,000k

We had a 98 come into my dealer for tires with 16,000 last week

Originally posted by tastethefury:
We had a 98 come into my dealer for tires with 16,000 last week

WOW, and I thought I was doing good with 29,700 on my 98.5!

Well, I HAD 24,000 miles a year ago... now almost 60,000

34,400 and trying to rack it up! I just can't stop driving this car!

Originally posted by SVT ST PETE:

Originally posted by Nate S:
i have a '96, and i just got to 41,000 today.

2000
37,000k

ah, i lied. ahah havent hit 41k yet.

i think when i get to 50k im gonna have a party and get her something nice...

How can you be called a Contour enthusiast if you barely ever drive the Contour?

(eh, I shouldn't be one to talk, but still...)

oh, i drive mine alot- i bought it with really low miles on it

Originally posted by path914:
Well, I HAD 24,000 miles a year ago... now almost 60,000

Doesn't count Paul...you should be put in the high mile drivers section...34k in a year??? OUCH...but they are fun to drive!

I posted in the high milage post but i'll post here too. I have a 95 Gl with 51K and change. Ive only put about 2K on it this year. In fact I haven't had to change the oil since late last year. Haven't put 3k on it yet. How about that??????

Do I Win???????????
-Rob

Originally posted by Robert S:
I posted in the high milage post but i'll post here too. I have a 95 Gl with 51K and change. Ive only put about 2K on it this year. In fact I haven't had to change the oil since late last year. Haven't put 3k on it yet. How about that??????

Do I Win???????????
-Rob

While your mileage is quite impressive...I THINK that you should change your oil more frequently...mileage is NOT the only factor in determining change frequency. Oil that is a year old cannot be good for your car...no matter how few miles you drive! *unless you are running some mobil 1 or equivalent*

well in about one week I'll have the lowest of all... on the engine anyway.. having a new engine put in because I just couldn't stand to be away from my 'tour... so yay for me lol.

I bought my 99 SE Sport with 46k on it back in late July, though I rolled 56k last night. Oh lordy, I'm probably going to hit 100k by next summer. Sigh.

- Ian in Tampa
99 SE Sport T-red MTX 56K

check the sig, and i have 45,000. not a winner, but fine with me.

I habe 59,200 miles and I bought it in April, 02. Yes I do change my oil every 3K with Castrol GTX 5W-30. My mom has a 2K Taurus SEL with 12K on it and bougth it new 3 years ago this past March. The car is still pretty much brand new. It never sees the winter.

Brian M. here in Ohio has less than 1500 miles(last time we met up 08-02-03) on his Black 2000 SVT...

Still looks and smells new!

i wanna see at the next meet

My 2000 SE had 13,829 miles on it when I bought it in May of 2002.

It's October, 2003.

Current Actual Odometer Reading:
40,805.

Still low for a 2000, but Jeeziz, I gotta stop driving.

well... i think i'm the winner

just passed the 35,000 mark on a '95 SE!

..oh dangit, that SVT w/ 1500, oh well, lowest non-SVT car-- and hey, mine's 5 years older than his

oh i hate you! did you buy it new or used?

I have a 98 tour with 75,000 oh wait thats high oh well paid $3,000 for it at 70,000

I think Dimitri has like 21,000 on a '99 SVT

Rod

35920 god awefully hard miles on my 2000 SVT in 3 years, 10 months, and 4 days.

Compared with 39000 miles on the wife's 02 Z24 in 1 year 10 months.

45,014 - 98.5 purchased new Feb '99.

Originally posted by jmgilman:
well... i think i'm the winner

just passed the 35,000 mark on a '95 SE!

..oh dangit, that SVT w/ 1500, oh well, lowest non-SVT car-- and hey, mine's 5 years older than his

Oh yah? How much you got on the SVT???

Originally posted by jmgilman:
alright, i have a T-red SVT, but i'm 16-- the insurance on it is crazy. would it be so wrong if i painted the SVT not one of it's signature colors? like maybe...really dark blue or an audi-esque blue? i was thinking black also, but it's really hard to keep clean. so...you guys think i shouldn't leave the SVT color palatte or what?

Mine is a 2000 SVT with 36,200 miles. Built in Jan. 2000.

97,000 = high
lowest/year will probably go to me though, since March 22nd of this year I've put on 220, probably won't be any more for a while either.

(whats even worse is since May 15th that # is 0

)

Something like 42,000 miles @ T.O.D.

52k on a 1998 CSVT purchased in. . . .[drum roll] 6/1997. . .yes, that's over 6 years. . .that's 8666 miles/year. . .i beat everyone for lowest average miles driven per year, give me a sucker. .

I just passed 24,000 miles on the 99 SVT last week.

Dave Keller
1995 Contour SE (at ~ 96,500 miles)
1999 Contour SVT (~ 24,000 miles)

Originally posted by ssmumich00:
52k on a 1998 CSVT purchased in. . . .[drum roll] 6/1997. . .yes, that's over 6 years. . .that's 8666 miles/year. . .i beat everyone for lowest average miles driven per year, give me a sucker. .

I have 37xxx on a 98 EO CSVT...and i don't even have a sunroof...i'm sure my car was born first!

that makes around 7k a year!

Originally posted by Vetterin:

WOW, and I thought I was doing good with 29,700 on my 98.5!

I bought this one in Aug 98 so that would come out to 5823 miles per year. But then too my 85 Vette has 83200 which is about 4380 miles per year.

Originally posted by SVZETEC:

Originally posted by jmgilman:
well... i think i'm the winner

just passed the 35,000 mark on a '95 SE!

..oh dangit, that SVT w/ 1500, oh well, lowest non-SVT car-- and hey, mine's 5 years older than his

Oh yah? How much you got on the SVT???
Originally posted by jmgilman:
alright, i have a T-red SVT, but i'm 16-- the insurance on it is crazy. would it be so wrong if i painted the SVT not one of it's signature colors? like maybe...really dark blue or an audi-esque blue? i was thinking black also, but it's really hard to keep clean. so...you guys think i shouldn't leave the SVT color palatte or what?

the svt is coming in less than 3 months, we already have made the deal, and we're just waiting for the owner to find another car

36,277 on my '98. Includes 2 trips to Florida.

just bought a 98 SE with 18000 on it.

I bought my 98 with 35000 miles on it and its parked for the winter with 63000.

i'm low, but not that low. 42,278 miles on a 1998 SVT.

So who won? Do we get a leader board or something?

-Rob

I've got a 98.5 E1 with 29,000 miles. It was built in May of '98 and I bought it in October of '98 with 3500 miles on it. Looks like I have one of the lowest!

a guy i know at dslreports.com forums has a 98 contour with a mere 18k, though he says its junk etc etc the common ford/emphasis:contour hate

he says they all suck
i point to this site

theres one in the classifieds with 9,300 miles. its about half way down. it is a 2000 though, so its not that old yet.

theres also one with 25,000 i think.

I know of a tropic green 2000 SVT with less than 5,000 miles on it . It's owned by a guy named John Parr . He's not a CEG regular , but the car was at SZ-01 with about 4,500 miles on it . Immediately after that it was put away into storage . He drove his BMW 6-series to SZ-02 (another immaculate ride) .

Well when I bought my 99 SE it had 4900 miles on it, and that was July of 2003. To date the car just rolled over 15k, and I think that was on my way into the office this morning.