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Originally Posted by JSH
Yes, short trips are killer on ICE vehicles. You don't hit operating temperature which leads to oil dilution and other issues. That is why short trips are considered "severe duty" driving cycle and requires a more frequent schedule for oil changes and other maintenance.
15 miles per day x 365 days ~ 5,500 miles per year. Are you pairing short work commutes with long personal trips?
I ask because if you are also driving long personal trips to rack up those other 25,000 miles per year you might not be severe duty as you may be warming up the engine enough to burn off water and gasoline that accumulates in the oil from short trips.
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Yes, I also drive long trips too. We go often, at least 4 times a year, to visit the in-laws who live 600 miles from here, so 1,200 in a round trip. We also have to go down to Denver several times a year, which is over 200 miles away, so 400 miles per trip. Also Grand Junction, and a lot of other towns, which are hundreds of miles away, several times per year. When I got the Avalon I put 30,000 miles on it in the first year. However, in 5 years I put a little over 90,000 miles on it, so not quite 20,000 miles average per year. It slumped a lot when Covid hit, we didn't visit the in-laws at all during that first year of Covid, but now we're getting back to normal.
I'd say the concern is that I can go for weeks, especially during the winter, without leaving town. Basically from the beginning of January through mid March we stay in town. It's mainly the summer months that rack up the miles.