What make is your car and how much does it cost you??

kylehp04

Hey Everyone,

I see a lot of people here asking general questions about what car they should buy that is good value for money.

So I thought it might be nice to start a thread for people to discuss what model they have, how much it costs them in petrol a week and how many problems they have had with them.


So I will get the ball rolling...:rotfl:

I have a Honda Civic 1.6 vti

I use it a lot during the week, for the kids, work etc so it costs me £45/week

I have had it for about 2 years and so far...touch wood.....I have had no problems with it. :cool:

Ultrasonic

kylehp04 wrote: »

I use it a lot during the week, for the kids, work etc so it costs me £45/week.

Just thought I'd say you probably haven't had any replies because a cost per week in fuel really isn't very meaningful, since it will vary dramatically by how many miles you drive. That's why a fuel efficiency in miles per gallon is much more useful for comparisons.

cherylim

I have an old (1998) Vauxhall Corsa - automatic.

It's on 30MPG now. Lasting well, but since I got it three years ago I've had to replace the MAP sensor, radiator and exhaust. Plus, new tyres (of course), and new brakes (once before, and probably again at this month's MOT). I'm also going to be replacing the windscreen wipers at the MOT. Obviously most of this is natural wear and tear, but it does alright for my commuting and didn't cost me a lot to buy.

buscape

Alfa Romeo 147 1.6, fuel costs me about £20 a week and I do around 75 miles a week.

In the two years I've owned it (aside from the usual maintenance such as cambelt, tyres, brakes etc) it's needed a clutch, a thermostat and a lambda sensor.

Not too bad for an unreliable (so people will tell you) 11 year old Alfa Romeo with 120,000 miles on it.

Paradigm

Saab 9-5 (slightly modified )

I've never worked out the costs, it'd scare me!!

Joe_Horner

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Just thought I'd say you probably haven't had any replies because a cost per week in fuel really isn't very meaningful, since it will vary dramatically by how many miles you drive. That's why a fuel efficiency in miles per gallon is much more useful for comparisons.

A "cost per mile" figure is even better because if you manage 95mpg but it costs you £2k in servicing every 6 months you're probably better off with something "less economic".

Easy enough to work out if you know roughly what miles you do per year:

Work out the amount (in £) of fuel those miles take and add on your annual insurance, MOT, road tax and maintenance costs. Doesn't need to be to the last penny, a "best guess" still gives reasonable accuracy.

Then divide that by your rough annual mileage and you get pounds (or pence) per mile, which is by far the best way to compare motoring costs!

As an example, for my 1966 Daf 32:

Average 8500 miles per year at 38mpg = 224 gallons or £1345 per year fuel

Road tax = £0 (historic tax class)
Insurance = £82 fully comp
MOT = £50
Avg maintenance = 8l of oil, 2 spark plugs and half a set of cheap tyres = £92.50

Total annual cost = £1570.

Divide by 8000 = 0.196 = 19.6 pence per mile.

And that's cheap



eta: in theory you should also factor in depreciation as an annual cost but, in my case, that's really not an issue seeing as the car was free and is more likely to go up than down in value

tiff

Saab 93 1999, spend a fortune on petrol every week. Considering a v cheap car lease with no tax, no MOT and prob about £15 a week in petrol. Should work out a little cheaper.

worried_jim

Rover 600 - cost £500 with 12 months MOT
Does 26 mpg (£70 last about 5-6 weeks)
Insurance £280 per year
Tax £220

Spent no other money on it since I bought it 16 Feb 2012.

im-lost

/I don't have a car but I have a scooter, so I'll put my figures
down to save being left out

The reason I don't have a car, well I haven't learnt to drive, I can
drive, I just don't have a licence ha, and every year that passes
the cost of having a car is going up and up.. I live near a mainline
station, trains throughout the county ever half an hour, decent bus
service etc etc

So just got a scooter to potter around on.

125cc scooter.

100+mpg
Road tax 16 quid pa
Insurance 93pa TPO
Mot 30 quid

Servicing, done myself, next to nothing cost wise, just
a couple of hours of my time and some oil and other
consumables.

Tyres, 30 quid a pop roughly once a year, brake pads / shoes
25 quid every 10,000 miles, they aren't completely worn by then
but I like to do them and know it's done for the year.

That's about it, costs peanuts

Joe_Horner

worried_jim wrote: »

Rover 600 - cost £500 with 12 months MOT
Does 26 mpg (£70 last about 5-6 weeks)
Insurance £280 per year
Tax £220

Spent no other money on it since I bought it 16 Feb 2012.

Assuming the last 2 weeks is fairly normal mileage for you, and that you throw it away at the end of the MOT, that works out at about 35p per mile which isn't bad at all.

As a comparison, the Mitsubishi Colt diesel we had on Motability averaged 48mpg overall over the 3 years we had it (yes, we noted every drop of fuel used over 36k miles!) but total cost per mile over that time was 34.5 pence per mile, even with the Motability lease payment covering all insurance, maintenance etc.

A pretty clear example of how basing "economy" on fuel consumption only can give very misleading results!

Weird_Nev

Nissan 200SX (1998 2.0 turbo): 54p per mile all in (including some upgrades and stuff)

Toyota MR2 (1988 1.6): 35p per mile not bad considering it was 20 years old. Utterly reliable. That includes completeley new upgraded suspension.

BMW 328i Touring (1997): 29 pence per mile over 2 years and 16k miles. Top shedding. Sold for what I paid for it (£700)

Subaru Impreza (2004) 2.0 WRX Prodrive: Currently standing at 34p per mile but there will be a fair whack to add in depreciation when I come to sell.

Most expensive car I ever had was a 1.9Tdi Audi 80 which cost me more in repairs and maintenance then it did in fuel and insurance.

Now I run petrol turbos and big capacity luxury barges, they work out cheaper in the long run.