How much does your car cost to run?

DaveMacD

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

No one seems to have factored in the costs of parking or road tolls either?

Well, I don't/won't pay for parking, and there are no toll roads around here:)

mark5

I very rarely pay for parking and only pay road tolls if I cross the severn bridge.

Good point though!

Raksha

Insurance - £400 a year (ish) / £7.69 a month / £1.09 a week / 15p a day
LPG & Petrol - £400a year / £7.69 a month / £1.09 a week / 15p a day
Road Tax - £200 a year / £16.66 a month / £4.16 a week / £0.59 a day
MOT - £70 a year / £5.83 a month / £1.34 a week / 19p a day
Servicing/Parts etc - allowed £300 a year / £25 a month / £6.25 a week / £0.89 a day
AA (included in insurance through Tesco)


All in all, works out about £2.00 a day. Pretty good for a 5 series BMW touring (OK, so it's a '95 and has probably done 90% of it's depreciation, but it does all I need it to do, it's great fun to drive, even if it is only a 1.8i and I LOVE IT!!) Parking/toll costs - free parking at work, rarely go anywhere else where I need to pay to park.

savemoney

Dont do much mileage and this is a rough guess

2000 Ford Focus 1.6

Road tax £160 I think
Annual MOT £58 Passed this month without any work needed
Petrol around £30 a month mainly used for around town
Annual service £100
extras oil, screen cleaner, polish etc etc £30 per year
Insurance-£180 tops

Car runs around 30mpg around town even though I dont thrash it about

No parking costs as rarely park in town as its not far from us. No tolls

Mids_Costcutter

Well done on this initiative JustKeepSwimming: most people I know only look at the cost of petrol when comparing the cost of making a journey by car versus public transport.

For those who haven't kept records of all their car-related costs for the year the AA have produced a quick reference guide which uses national average costs:

https://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/running_costs/advice_rcosts_guide.html

karenx

Oft mine will be a bigy!!
I own the car outright never had a loan/finance etc on it
2.4 vtec engine- I usually do about 200 miles a week, double that when working but im on maternity leave just now. So thats £30 a week
Insurance- im on traders policy at £400 a year
Road tax- £116 for 6 months
Tyres- £750 for 4 every 6 months

So with those it works out at £71 a week and thats not including any repairs and mot/service etc but in the year Iv had it Iv not had anything wrong with it

boyse7en

Raksha wrote: »

Insurance - £400 a year (ish) / £7.69 a month / £1.09 a week / 15p a day
LPG & Petrol - £400a year / £7.69 a month / £1.09 a week / 15p a day
Road Tax - £200 a year / £16.66 a month / £4.16 a week / £0.59 a day
MOT - £70 a year / £5.83 a month / £1.34 a week / 19p a day
Servicing/Parts etc - allowed £300 a year / £25 a month / £6.25 a week / £0.89 a day
AA (included in insurance through Tesco)


All in all, works out about £2.00 a day. Pretty good for a 5 series BMW touring (OK, so it's a '95 and has probably done 90% of it's depreciation, but it does all I need it to do, it's great fun to drive, even if it is only a 1.8i and I LOVE IT!!) Parking/toll costs - free parking at work, rarely go anywhere else where I need to pay to park.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you've miscalculated on both your Fuel and Insurance - you need to add an extra 95p per day for each - bringing your total up to about £3.90 per day.

hieveryone

Oh no, I've just realised I forgot to add my loan payments into mine haha! Oh well.

Anyway, for those who have an iPhone, this might be pretty useful - an app called Road Trip - you input your fuel and how much it cost etc, your mileage and it tells you on average miles per gallon etc - it's good for dummies like me who don't know how to work it out!

jaydeeuk1

Toyota IQ 1.3

Insurance - £240/year
Petrol - £720 / year
Road Tax - £35 / year
MOT - £0
Servicing/Parts £100/year approx
PPC - £2400 / year


= £9.50 / day

catflea

1971 Morris Minor

£0 Tax
£10 Insurance
£4 MOT

1994 Rover 114GTA
£28 Insurance
£4 MOT
£10 Tax

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So before using any of the cars they cost me £56 a month - £14 of that being the minor. I spend approx £20 a week on fuel so that works out at £85 a month

Assuming general maintainance of about £10 a month too...

Total monthly cost approx £151.00


So that works out at about £5.03 a day for both cars