How do you currently afford your car?

Ebe_Scrooge

surfer91919 said:

I run it on recycled waste chip fat

Or do what one guy in our village did - run it on home heating oil.  Much cheaper than diesel ......... until he got caught :-(

surfer91919

Ebe_Scrooge said:

surfer91919 said:

I run it on recycled waste chip fat

Or do what one guy in our village did - run it on home heating oil.  Much cheaper than diesel ......... until he got caught :-(

I think heating oil is at least 60ppl now and as you say illegal unless you pay duty which then makes it possibly more expensive than diesel. It's possible to find clean waste rapeseed oil (counter-intuitively chippies are not the best as there's a lot of animal fat in it) for free if you get a bit lucky. Often it's 20ppl though as that is what big companies like oleco give their customers for waste oil offset against new. My fuel works out at about 10p per litre monetary cost. It takes me about 30 mins a week I would guess to make all the fuel.

Ibrahim5

You could save time and money with a £78k electric car.

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Why have prices risen so much? More cars crammed with technology or more people taking out PCP deals? As mentioned, I got my Fiesta back in 2013 for £9,500. I was only a few months old and had less than. 1,000 miles. CHEAPEST used Fiesta on Auto trader is like £15k

motorguy

Deleted_User said:

Why have prices risen so much? More cars crammed with technology or more people taking out PCP deals? As mentioned, I got my Fiesta back in 2013 for £9,500. I was only a few months old and had less than. 1,000 miles. CHEAPEST used Fiesta on Auto trader is like £15k

Yes prices have went up by about 20% on used cars over the last two years.

£9.5K in 2013 is £11.5K in 2021 prices (will be worse after 2022 with inflation) so thats probably about right in the current market.

Issues with supply of new cars, and then pent up demand after the covid lockdowns created a perfect storm.

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

You could save time and money with a £78k electric car.

You could get over it.

dipsomaniac

DB1904 said:

dipsomaniac said:

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dipsomaniac said:

I am not preaching to anyone just sharing my experience.  I am not bitter or jealous, another couple of traits that people like to use on here if you don't want to follow the pcp/leasing fraternity

Edit: What kind of fuel economy are you getting from the Galaxy? 

Interestingly, the wikipedia page for the Galaxy says:

"In 1999, the MkI Ford Galaxy was rated in a Top Gear magazine survey as the least satisfying car in the United Kingdom"

So I don't buy for a second that you actually think it's better to drive than a Golf that's 25 years newer.

Around 28mpg. That's why I am driving the focus

So you're not even driving the Galaxy you are raving about?

You wouldn't use a Ferrari on a daily basis would you?

The focus is the runaround, the galaxy for special occasions🙂

Wow, you really live the high life. It's a special occasion when you got out in a 20 years old van.  

I have enough🙂