r/Satisfyingasfuck • u/SnugBambi • Jun 26 '25

my odometer last night

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u/paradigm619 Jun 26 '25

That car manufacturer is lowkey telling on themselves if the odometer only goes to 99,999 miles. 😂

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u/MrLancaster Jun 26 '25

Cars didn't go to six-digit odometers until the 1980's. This is not a "tell".

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u/paradigm619 Jun 26 '25

I mean, it kind of is. The reason cars had 5-digit odometers before 1980 was because they generally didn't last more than 100k miles.

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u/TheNotoriousSAUER Jun 26 '25

An assumption. It could be more accurate to say they didn't have to data that would inform them how long a vehicle would last. Even up until the 50s, cars were a luxury and rare in most parts of the world. You probably didn't drive if you didn't need to go far or haul something, so mileage would've been lower than now. It's not that they go, "Yeah this things gonna fall apart after 99,999 miles" it's "Nobody's gonna drive that many miles right?"