Our 11 motoring tips to drive down the accelerating strain on your finances

MSE_Emily

Anyone who drives will know that costs are speeding into top gear. For example, petrol prices have risen to an eight-year high - up 21p/L from a year ago, average used car prices have jumped by £1,000 versus a year ago, and UK car hire prices are up by 84% compared with last year...
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Our 11 motoring tips to drive down the accelerating strain on your finances
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jimjames

Nice headline but how does having a hold of £100 on your card or not have any impact on driving down motoring costs? It looks like someone just threw together a few bits to make a list of 11 items.

No mention of maintenance like checking tyre pressures/tread depth or getting service work done rather than ignoring issues and turning up the radio which might actually save money. 

KeithP

I wonder why this article is tagged with Car park charges?

At the bottom of the article we can see...


...yet there is nothing in that article about parking charges.

Indeed, if I were to click on those bold words, I get shown this article, and only this article.

Or am I misunderstanding how these things work?

born_again

>>up 21p/L from a year ago,<<

Jez... Pandemic might have a bit to do with that, given for at least a couple of months the roads had hardly any traffic on then, so sales dropped worldwide. So prices dropped.... Supply & demand 🤦‍♀️

Still don't let facts get in the way of a good headline. Standard BBC fair these days.

7 to 11... 🤣

Username03725

Acc to my records diesel fluctuated around the mid 120p a litre from late 2019 up to March 2020, then fell to around 114 +/- when we were all locked in. Prices stayed low till March this year then started the steady creep northwards to the current mid 130p per litre.

PRAISETHESUN

https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time

It looks like petrol/diesel prices are back to roughly pre-pandemic levels (plus a bit). Picking an arbitrary 12 month period of abnormally low prices and then using it as a baseline for future increases is quite misleading, but that's sensationalist click-bait headlines for you.

There's nothing really new - all they seem to have done is linked previous articles together in one place. That's not to say it's bad information, but it could include so much more.