20000 miles

[Stevei3]

Hi guys,

just a short new thread to celebrate our twentythousandth mile
It's been real. Not without troubles, but never so grave as to leave us stranded.
Room for imporvement: lots. Second thoughts: none

Regards and whirr on !
Steven

 

[Tomasz]

Way to go!

 

[websterize]

20,000 miles, wow. That's a lot of metric tons of environmental karma.

 

[jelloslug]

How are the tires holding up?

 

[WoodlandHills]

Great question! Did the sound change as the miles increased?

 

[Stevei3]

Hi guys,

the 19" summer tires were changed @ km 26000 due to a light 'whooping' noise, not unlike the 20 inchers, but much, much more subdued and only in combination with specific types of asphalt. Nevertheless, Bridgestone wanted to test a new set on my car, hence the change. I had driven 20000 km (12345 mi) on the first set at that time, I drove the first 6k km on the winter set (starting in feb '14). There was hardly any wear apparent on the 'old' summer tires.

The oil of the REx has never been touched, AFAIK, unless it had to come out when the torsion axle between the gasoline engine and electric machine was replaced.

Regards, Steven

 

[TomMoloughney]

Congrats Steve! I'm closing in on 15K myself in a little over 6 months of ownership. So far so good!