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    How do I find a table that showed the average kilometres a second car "should" have travelled for its years?

    I remember a few years ago seeing a table that showed the average kilometres a second car "should" have travelled for its years. For example a 2020 car you would expect it to travel "x" amount of kms. It helped my research a lot. Can anyone point me to that table please?

    Answered by CarsGuide
    22 May 2023
    David Morley

    I've not seen any information where cars were distinguished on the basis of being a household's second car. The average distance travelled figure I keep finding is between 12,000 and 15,000km per annum for the average car registered in Australia. From there, it's a pretty simply piece of arithmetic to multiply that yearly figure by the age of the car in years and figure out whether the car has more or less kilometres than it `should' have.

    The Australian Bureau of Statistics has a very informative page that looks at this subject and includes passenger and commercial vehicles and breaks the info down on a state-by-state basis. You can find it here: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/survey…

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