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by **Cap** » Mon May 10, 2010 10:00 am

We have a company car at work, a Peugeot 306 95 model diesel with 301000 km. Is this concidered alot and how does it compare to your cars milage?

by **Gasman** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:08 pm

I've put 120K on mine in the last 3 yrs in Cyprus. I've been told mileage doesn't matter on modern diesel cars? I know nuffink about cars except how to drive them.

by **Svetlana** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:13 pm

Gasman wrote:I've put 120K on mine in the last 3 yrs in Cyprus. I've been told mileage doesn't matter on modern diesel cars? I know nuffink about cars except how to drive them.

Wow Gasperson, as you work from home you must drive a very long way to the shops - unless you have a sideline as a taxi driver!

I once bought a BMW 735 which had done 240,000 km and it was fine; if cars are well serviced and spend most of their time on motorways, they can last a very long time.

by **Gasman** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:38 pm

Hi Svet. Don't always work from home - more correct to say I work on the laptop - so the laptop can come with me wherever I go and I can do a few hours as long as I have a connection to remote servers in the UK. Lots of my work has been done during the small hours, from hotel verandahs in picturesque spots all over the island!

I also tend to work either very early in the mornings, or very late into the early hours, leaving my days quite free during most of the year. Fortunately I never need nor get more than about 5 hrs sleep - never have for as long as I can remember.

I am lucky - I can work as much or as little as a like as long as I manage to put in about 30 hrs minimum over a month. So I tend to adjust my working hours according to how much I might want to make some extra money or if there is not much going on or the weather is either too awful or too hot to want to be out and about in it.

I've travelled the whole of the island more than once and seen every town and village that I am allowed into - and been back to my favourite spots loads of times. I have friends all over the island that I visit and stay with and, when I have visitors staying, I sometimes do all the favourite bits of the island (North and South) in a week with them!

I won't be doing quite so much gadding about right now as I have a new puppy and she is not fully trained yet nor old enough to be put down in the street. And I cannot take the dog North anyway and she is too young to go into boarding. In fact, I have let my annual insurance for the North lapse now!

by **Gasman** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:42 pm

And my poor old car is booked in for more work to be done on it tomorrow morning. Then back to the MoT garage to get it passed.

by **rigsby** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:45 pm

I have a E280 Merc diesel estate 2006yr with with under 30,000mls on the clock I don,t get much pleasure in driving these days

by **Paphitis** » Mon May 10, 2010 1:00 pm

Gasman wrote:Hi Svet. Don't always work from home - more correct to say I work on the laptop - so the laptop can come with me wherever I go and I can do a few hours as long as I have a connection to remote servers in the UK. Lots of my work has been done during the small hours, from hotel verandahs in picturesque spots all over the island!

I also tend to work either very early in the mornings, or very late into the early hours, leaving my days quite free during most of the year. Fortunately I never need nor get more than about 5 hrs sleep - never have for as long as I can remember.

I am lucky - I can work as much or as little as a like as long as I manage to put in about 30 hrs minimum over a month. So I tend to adjust my working hours according to how much I might want to make some extra money or if there is not much going on or the weather is either too awful or too hot to want to be out and about in it.

I've travelled the whole of the island more than once and seen every town and village that I am allowed into - and been back to my favourite spots loads of times. I have friends all over the island that I visit and stay with and, when I have visitors staying, I sometimes do all the favourite bits of the island (North and South) in a week with them!

I won't be doing quite so much gadding about right now as I have a new puppy and she is not fully trained yet nor old enough to be put down in the street. And I cannot take the dog North anyway and she is too young to go into boarding. In fact, I have let my annual insurance for the North lapse now!

I didn't know you had friends!

BTW, I have seen diesels that have done 1,000,000koms and don't miss a beat.