How much does your car cost to run?

djcat

Good evening,

I got a Saab 9-5 2.3t and I take note of every penny I spend with it. I know it is not the cheapest car to run, but its my baby. I got it low mileage in like new condition and I expect to drive it for a few years.

The sum of all costs (excluding buying it) comes to £ 5.155,81 from December 2012 to today:

Insurance: £1.115,00 (two years comprehensive)

Oil changes: £ 210,43 (only fully synth and including three times automatic gearbox flush done by myself)

Services: £ 880,54 (including an all over £620.00 when I just got it)

Repairs: £ 99.00 (new battery)

Full set of all season tyres 245/45R17: £ 420.00

Fuel: £ 2.427,59 (LPG, would be twice as much on petrol...)


I know that most of the above costs many would probably not have want to spend (tyres/gearbox flush/etc.), but I have my reasons and that car is build like a tank. I expect that I don't need to do much more than a regular oil change this year.

Fuel cost wise, according to the web site I use to keep the records, its cheaper to run per mile than a little car, I can go 100 miles with £14.10. I did just over 14k miles on it in the time I have it now.

Can anybody of you who own a larger car know how much you spend in a year on it on average? Can you please let me know which car it is and whats the main cost? Just for curiousity and comparison reasons, I didn't expect it to be as cheap as chips to run.

djcat

Ah, forgot to add the tax, £ 260.00 per year. So my total costs are £5.675.00.

Ultrasonic

Cost per mile excluding insurance is a better comparison metric, and it should really include an estimate of depreciation to be meaningful. I say excluding insurance since mine is less than a quarter of yours but this has little to do with the car.

For my current 9 year old Octavia 1.9 TDI my running costs are a not very impressive 38p per mile including insurance, and about 34p per mile without. (These figures include depreciation, and is for an average of about 10,000 miles per year.)

TrickyWicky

Too much

djcat

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Cost per mile excluding insurance is a better comparison metric, and it should really include an estimate of depreciation to be meaningful. I say excluding insurance since mine is less than a quarter of yours but this has little to do with the car.

For my current 9 year old Octavia 1.9 TDI my running costs are a not very impressive 38p per mile including insurance, and about 34p per mile without. (These figures include depreciation, and is for an average of about 10,000 miles per year.)

Including insurance mine costs 40 pence per mile, but I will not have to do a major service or change tyres this year (I hope...). I did ignore depreciation as mine is a 2004 and I want to keep it for a few years so doesn't matter too much. Site said that would be another 600 Pounds a year.

djcat

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Too much

Oh nooo, don't tell my missus or she will make me sell it.

Ultrasonic

djcat wrote: »

Fuel: £ 2.427,59 (LPG, would be twice as much on petrol...)

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Fuel cost wise, according to the web site I use to keep the records, its cheaper to run per mile than a little car, I can go 100 miles with £14.10. I did just over 14k miles on it in the time I have it now.

Are you sure about the fuel cost and mileage figures? That's about 17p per mile just on fuel which is more than I spend on diesel (about 12 p per mile). Your car is a bit bigger of course but shouldn't there be a larger advantage to running LPG?

Ultrasonic

djcat wrote: »

Including insurance mine costs 40 pence per mile, but I will not have to do a major service or change tyres this year (I hope...). I did ignore depreciation as mine is a 2004 and I want to keep it for a few years so doesn't matter too much. Site said that would be another 600 Pounds a year.

For info. my costs are more like 30p per mile including insurance but excluding depreciation (my car is an 05 reg. and I bought it just under three years ago).

Your figure is about 45p per mile including depreciation, with depreciation making up about 10% of your running costs so not totally negligible.

Rolandtheroadie

Have only worked it out once and previously posted it up on the bangernomics thread.

It was around 7p per mile all in (purchase, repairs, servicing, insurance, another MOT then selling again).

Fuel worked in at 4p per mile over and above at that time, averaging 30p per litre to produce (home bio fuel). Thats probably a bit less now.

djcat

scotsman4th wrote: »

Fuel worked in at 4p per mile over and above at that time, averaging 30p per litre to produce (home bio fuel). Thats probably a bit less now.

What car is that?

djcat

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Are you sure about the fuel cost and mileage figures? That's about 17p per mile just on fuel which is more than I spend on diesel (about 12 p per mile). Your car is a bit bigger of course but shouldn't there be a larger advantage to running LPG?

Its a big, fat, 1.7tons, 185bhp, 140mph able cruise ship of a car with a boot space of my bedroom.

On petrol, I would get 30mpg if I was lucky, my average is 22mpg now, sticking to the speed limit, yesterday I achieved 26mpg but that was cause of traffic slowing me down to less than 50mph for about an hour on the M4.

My worst consumption was 18mpg but that was in Germany.........