Isn’t that just normal? I’m glad that my car has that sensor. I try to take it regularly to get the tires inflated and rotated. It’s an EV or I’d throw in an oil change, too.
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My current Subaru just turned 20. Has 270000 miles 
Looked at “replacing” it several times ( most recently in fall 2021) but couldn’t like anything as much.
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I had a 2006 Pilot that I “retired” when it hit 200K miles and deemed unreliable (it was starting to have issues). My DC drove a 2005 Pilot (same color as mine - it just worked out that way!) until this past January 
We are trying to hold off until summer to get another car.
My DH drove his 1998 Honda Accord for over 23 years - would still have it if one of the kids hadn’t wrecked it.
I have a 2006 Honda Odyssey minivan that I love. Had a new alternator installed in it last month. It only has 95,000 miles so we hope to keep it a while. Mostly it is used for errands around time, sometimes skiing. I love the high driving position.
The back seats are folded, and the bucket seats stay in the garage. After emptying my mother’s apartment summer of 2020, I never got around to putting those bucket seats back. It’s just hand to have the space to take yard waste to the dump etc. It’s a bit like my “pickup truck”.
Our prior minivans were keepers too (1989 Caravan - 8 years, 1996 Transport - 17 years)
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We usually buy new, and keep for at least 10-15=years. I’m currently driving a 2016 Subaru Forester, which still seems brand new to me. It should, there’s only 14,000 miles on it😆. I’d still be driving the ‘06 one but D needed a reliable vehicle for clinical rotations in grad school. It was in better shape, and with 35000 miles and regular dealer maintenance, we felt it was safer than anything we could help her find used. (Before I retired I worked less than 3 miles from home and we drive my H’s larger car on road trips, so my cars stay in very good shape)
ETA - longest driving trip was Texas to Seattle by way of Durango, Orange County, and several Nat Parks. Being retired is great!
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How does it only have 95,000 miles?! That’s awesome. I love my 2006 Honda Odyssey but mine is closing in on 230,000. I’d love to hang onto it even after the kids are off to college. Hoping it lasts!
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Our 2005 Honda Odyssey just died-- we’re so sad. We took it on so many road trips and it had 345,000 miles on it. I think it would have lasted longer but my husband drove it on a super-cold night and I think it was too hard on it.
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We still have H’s 2003 Jeep Liberty, but it got demoted to backup status last year when we got a new suburu. It mostly functions as our bad weather car, but the reason we got the new one was because it needs a $500 fix for a heater. Driving in snow without heat/defrost is interesting. We may suck it up and have it fixed.
My sonata will be 10 years old this summer. It’s still doing well and I hope to have it for at least 3-5 years. I’m not big on fancy features. I just want it to start and stop on time. And have good heat/ac!
Our cars typically run to 200-225k, but it doesn’t take many years to accumulate. My wife’s 2010 SUV was handed down to our oldest in 2016 with about 170k. It’s now with our youngest, nearing 225k.
I finally traded in my 2002 in 2019 with 225k as it was falling apart. Unfortunately, wife’s 2013 just died at 150k - very disappointing - and we’re shopping the currently overpriced market.
Hondas from the ‘80s and ‘90s made it about 150k. Others since then generally made it to 200k.
All but the 2010 were purchased ~3 years used.
So ours could theoretically last another 100,000 miles… 
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25 year old Toyota with270k miles
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My 2006 Odyssey only has 95,000 miles because we bought it after our oldest had her driver’s license and kept the old minivan for kids to drive. When working, I was only 9 miles from work and for many years was often working from the home office. When I did go to work, there was often a chance to carpool in hubby’s car.
In recent years I’ve been only doing about 3000 miles/year (less during Covid). Since hubby and I do many things together, I’ve become “the little old lady that mainly just drives her car to church on Sunday”. And 1.5 miles to our neighborhood lake trails. We probably should take it on a longer trek, get some highway miles on it
18 years, it had 180,000 miles, we donated it to charity and it’s sold for $750. The people who came to take it away asked why we didn’t sell it. But it’s very good car, a Ford Explorer XLT.
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We’ve had a Pontiac Fiero, Ford Windstar, Honda Odyssey, (3) Toyota Camrys, (2) Lexus 300s, (2) Subaru Foresters, and a Subaru Impreza. The only cars that made it to high mileages were the Lexuses and the Camrys. Subarus were our biggest disappointments.
It really could! In the last year or two, our Ody would seem dead and then it would turn out it would just need a $10 part or something. We called it the Zombie car because it kept coming back to life. We’ve never had such a reliable car-- all those miles and it mostly needed just the usual maintenance. Fingers crossed for yours!
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It took out 2 hours of my day.
Beauty of going to the gym before 5:00. Nobody is at the air pump at the gas station across the street. I always used to get slow leaks in my tires from rubbing up on granite curbs. I’d have to go in every 2 weeks for awhile before caving and getting new ones. But it’s the last free place in town, so usually there is a line.
Checking tire pressure and checking/adding oil are the two things I know how to do. Though I confess I haven’t done the oil in years since the death mobile is long gone.
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I have 3 cars that are each ~15 years old. The oldest is a 2005 Lotus. It drives flawlessly and has never had any kind of engine, drivetrain, or other issue that notably influences driving or safety. However, the car has had its share of issues with the interior cabin (much of it relates to damage with attempted theft), minor electrical + audio issues, and cosmetic issues. This fits with differing reliability between the Toyota-made engine/drivetrain and Lotus-made chassis.
While the car is older, I do not see that as a good reason to get rid of it. The car drives well, and I enjoy driving it… more so than all newer cars I have experienced. It was a unique car when released in 2005, but today, it is even more so – manual transmission, no power steering, no selection of computer-controlled driving modes, no stopping engine at traffic lights, no shifting at undesired times, no touch screen or steering wheel buttons, … just natural driving + exceptional handling. An article on top gear describes my feelings well:
Unless you’re getting out of one Lotus and into another, chances are that in car number two, everything will feel… wrong. And it’s an unnerving feeling to realize that, in most modern cars, you’re connected to the driving experience in about the same way that Mike Tyson and Neil Degrasse Tyson are connected.
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My husband has a 2002 Dodge Dakota that has about 92Kmiles. It’s our backup car. He was going to buy a hybrid Ford Maverick this year, but put it off too long, and has to wait for the ‘23.
He usually pushes to buy new or low mile vehicles when our cars hit 100K. He hates to deal with car problems. We let our girls drive our old cars for a while, then when they went off to college and started driving long distances, we bought them both new Honda Fits after sophomore year. He doesn’t want them breaking down far from home.
I know this is a huge generalization, but all the cars we’ve bought pre-2000 bit the dust at most around 10 years. All we’ve bought post-2000 are still going strong (avg maybe 15 yo). So a lot of appliances, etc. don’t seem to last like they used to, but cars for us are a happy exception.
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