My Car Turns 100k

During my morning commute today, my car finally hit 100k miles. I have been watching the odometer for the last week in anticipation of the big moment only to be disappointed when I noticed that I missed it due to me singing along to some random song on the radio while trying to make the morning commute more bearable. When I looked down the odometer read 100,002. I guess I will just have to wait another 100k!

Here are some of the car highlights over the years:

• Bought the car in 2002 with 29k miles for $7k


• Put 3,381 gallons of gas in the tank for a total cost of $8,452 over the last 6 years


• Spent over $7,200 on car insurance


• Spent a total of 1,578 hours or 66 days driving in the car


• Natalie was rear-ended only once in the car when maya was 6 weeks old


• I only rear-ended someone once in the car


• Brought Maya home from hospital in the car


• Took many road trips in the car


• Drove for 2 long weeks one winter with the moon roof stuck open which was very cold. I had to pay a sketchy chop shop in North Austin cash to close it. The option was $50 to close it or $800 to fix it. I chose the $50 option.


• Paid a chop-shop cash for a very interesting tint job in North Las Vegas. I wanted a light tint and came a way with dark limo tint. At least it keeps the car cool in the summer.

For the most part the Malibu has been a good reliable car without many problems. I can only hope for another 100k miles!