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My Spider is approaching 1,000 miles! :eek:
 
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82000 and still feels like a new car...
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I bought my car with 6,000 miles in July 2019 and it currently has 15,000 miles as of May 2021. I expected to have broken 20,000 by now, but the plague and an unrelated spousal health crisis intervened to curtail long road trips. I'm looking forward to that changing this coming summer and fall.
 
oh wow! I thought I'm already using mines a lot. Did you get any extended warranty for it? I got the max care mopar vehicle protection for another 75thousand miles or 5 years because I know problems would happen again. I'm just thinking if the parts would still be available since they stopped making it this year. Even record monza I got it used.
I bought mine about 3 months ago and bought a 8 year 85,000 mile MOPAR warranty $100 deductible for $1305. I think that's a ok deal.

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Let me introduce my 2017 124 Spider. It reached 91,000 miles yesterday. I bought my brand new black Classica, with manual transmission, in January 2017. I have a daily round-trip commute of 120 miles to work. I might have gotten closer to 100,000 but I was home from work due to covid for two months last spring. I drive it everywhere and year round. For me, it works fine as a daily driver; running errands, commuting, and the fun weekend trip. I brought our Christmas tree home from the tree farm by sitting it in the passenger seat with the top down. I even brought home 7 large bags of mulch from the nursery. During the summer, I take back roads (top down) to and from work. During our Michigan winters, I mostly use the freeways.

First thing I bought for the car was a new set of wheels with Bridgestone Blizzak tires, which I swap in every winter. I made a few mods; GoFastBits diverter valve, AlfaRomeo coil packs, EuroCompulsion V1 Air, and a catch can. The car has been mostly reliable. One major problem I had, was that the oil separator failed early on, and was replaced under warranty. Other than that the car has been good to me, and has made the last four years of commuting bearable.

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Wow! I thought I got the most miles of 68thousand months ago. I had to trade in mines to a challenger because of 2 big issues with cylinder heads and dealers being douche.
 
Aldo, time to sell before the inevitable water pump/camshaft/meteor strike/hoard of locusts/<insert random global disaster>.
 
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Aldo, time to sell before the inevitable water pump/camshaft/meteor strike/hoard of locusts/<insert random global disaster>.
:ROFLMAO:

The car got a new water pump at 4,000 miles, so I should be good for awhile.
 
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