Welcome mr pcotton. I've had my 99 for a year and a half. I'm just under 60k, but I've put 25k trouble-free miles on it. Its a daily driver for me as well, and not a single problem. You might check out some of the threads on oil consumption and see what you can do to get the engine checked carefully. I think the oil consumption issue is fairly uncommon, but when it strikes its pretty devistating.