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I have my car on a limited mileage insurance policy,5000 km per year and has to be verified each year.last year I did 1060 km about 650 mile ,I didn’t realize I was so low.is this the lowest for a fully road legal car.
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Im about the same. Insured to 2-3000 I think but lucky to ever see 1000pa.
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seems i used to do around 10K

However that is now going to drop significantly now the car has been moved to a summer+weekend car.
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2018: 4,000
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I do about 1-1.5k miles a year. But thats mainly travelling to shows as if I just stayed local id do about 100 a month for the 6 months its taxed
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It’s good to know I am not the only one with a garage queen,I must make the time to enjoy it more.
Also as bad is the fact that the black car has done one track day this year.I think work life balance has gone wrong somewhere.
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9635 in 2020 and 7234 last year as it was off the road for 5 months for the new engine and front end refit.
Did nearly 300 miles alone last weekend.
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last 3 years has been 8K to 13K per annum
I try not to think about fuel and more about the smiles per mile ;)
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And 4000 so far since the last MOT
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thats a terrible mile-per-engine :D
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I got my insurance in December with 3,000 miles limited mileage per annum, which i am about to hit this week, so a phone call to my insurers tomorrow will be in order to increase it a few more thousand.
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Roughly 2.5k - 3k on the R3! May drop a little bit this winter as she will probably get SORN'd for a few months.
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Is there a prize for this, MOT September 2021 the mileage was 30,342 so far with a month to go its 31,149. :race: :oops:
£630 pa road tax to sit in the garage I think "money sense than more" applies there. :crazy:

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Delanor wrote:
Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:30 am
Is there a prize for this, MOT September 2021 the mileage was 30,342 so far with a month to go its 31,149. :race: :oops:
£630 pa road tax to sit in the garage I think "money sense than more" applies there. :crazy:

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I may have mentioned this before but with many superbikes the pence per mile on tyres was more than fuel - at least it was before fuel prices went nuts - but have you seen the prices for bike tyres :shock:

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My last weekend car covered only 200 miles in 12months, the MOT tester had an easy job this year 😂
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10,000 In my R3 in the last 12 months lol
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Insurance sorted for another 2000 miles, hopefully that's enough to take me through to December...
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Doubt I'll reach 5000 miles for the year since I bought Rex number 2. Half of that is long journeys down south to visit family a couple of times a year.
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Delanor wrote:
Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:30 am
Is there a prize for this, MOT September 2021 the mileage was 30,342 so far with a month to go its 31,149. :race: :oops:
£630 pa road tax to sit in the garage I think "money sense than more" applies there. :crazy:

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Rexy has only done 22k and is insured for 1,000 miles per year, which is more than enough.

It does spend more than half the year SORN to save on that tax. :roll:
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Ann last year it went for its MOT and when I went to collect it my friendly neighbourhood MOT tester said "I`m afraid its failed - you haven`t done enough miles" :shock: :lol: and it had done a whopping 687 miles that year. :race: :oops:

Think I need to put mine on SORN now. :-k

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Delanor wrote:
Wed Aug 17, 2022 3:43 pm
Ann last year it went for its MOT and when I went to collect it my friendly neighbourhood MOT tester said "I`m afraid its failed - you haven`t done enough miles" and it had done a whopping 687 miles that year. :race: :oops:

Think I need to put mine on SORN now. :-k

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:rofl:

Mine went in the garage in October 2019 and didn't come out again until two years later! :shock:

I've just had a look out of interest:

March 2010 - 10 miles
March 2011 - 5,740 (5,730 miles)
March 2012 - 9,006 (3,266)
March 2013 - 11,767 (2,761)
Feb 2014 - 14,080 (2,313)
Feb 2015 - 16,686 (2,606)
Feb 2016 - 18,592 (1,906)
Feb 2017 - 19,952 (1,360)
Feb 2018 - 20,422 (470)
Jan 2019 - 20,741 (319)
Sept 2021 - 21,463 (722)
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This is my KUROs latest mileage history;

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May 2015 64440 11000 miles
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