Back in the "old days" when I used to do my exploration by using the visual parallax method in my Adder I once hit 1203c (recalled from my logbook).
As I kept going faster and faster I kept thinking to myself, "Am I really heading toward a local star or heading out to nowhere?" and I'd steer a little left and then right just to verify that the star was moving against the background
As time and Ls's kept rolling by I also kept saying to myself, "Well, I've gone this far, might as well keep going, there could be something really interesting orbiting this star". There wasn't
Back then I didn't even know about wear & tear. I only found out about it when my ship got damaged and I wanted to see what was broken that I noticed the W&T value at the top-right of the screen...and it was at 0%. I kept up with it after that
CMDR Andrew Reid