How much does your car cost to run?

Paradigm

I daren't even try to work mine out, I'd cry....

jay213

What's the best way to work it out? anybody got a formula I can plug my details into to work out the cost per mile.

TrickyWicky

djcat wrote: »

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

Lol. I can't even be bothered to calculate it. The current car is a 1.4 auto (Honda) and I've no idea. Add road tax and insurance and yes it's simply too much quite frankly. Soon we won't even get our round bit of papers worth for the road tax either.

As for the bigger car (the really thirsty one) I really don't want to know. I don't even use it now but 'er' indoors won't make me sell it. I have no fear there of that.

andydiysaver

I recently did the maths and with some horror worked out that my mk 2 focus 1.6 was bestowing on me just over 20 mpg...so as well as being an awful car it's expensive as well.......


then I went to see an RX8 today, figured if you wanna guzzle gas, at least enjoy doing it.. part ex comes to very similar . No reason why I shouldn't really......only difference is I'm sure I'll spend less time online and more time driving , paying about the same, if I'm not driving the P**s poor ford focus!!!

TrickyWicky

andydiysaver wrote: »

I recently did the maths and with some horror worked out that my mk 2 focus 1.6 was bestowing on me just over 20 mpg...so as well as being an awful car it's expensive as well.......

Is that a manual or auto? Manuals are better for MPG, autos drink fuel compared to a manual.

Reason I ask is that I would be shocked if that was a 1.6 auto returning that MPG. I get 17MPG in a 2.3 auto. Your 1.6 if its a manual has something sinister going on that you need to get fixed. There is simply no way a 1.6 manual or even auto should be giving you only 3MPG more than a 2.3 auto.

forgotmyname

You have flushed the autobox 3 times in 13 months? I do advise people to change it every few years or 50,000 miles bt 3 times in a year?

£620 - £800 for a service?

You have spent more in 13 months that i have spent on mine, And I bought mine in 2009.

Ultrasonic

jay213 wrote: »

What's the best way to work it out? anybody got a formula I can plug my details into to work out the cost per mile.

There's no magic formula, just add up the total amount spent and divide it by the number of miles driven. I keep track of my accounts electronically, so it is easy for me to do as all my car related costs are stored in one category and I can just check what the total for that category is.

LandyAndy

Less than I can afford

Netwizard

Not much. Its old. Cost £800 3 years ago, does 15mpg (but my annual mileage is very low, maybe 5,000). Costs about £50 a year to service, needs very little to keep it going and its bulletproof reliable. Insurance is about £300 a year.

Rolandtheroadie

djcat wrote: »

What car is that?

It was a 1997 Astra F 1.7 Diesel. It's not so much the car as what it ran on though.