17-09-2015, 02:58 PM
Er....
Well, I put £180 aside a month, which pays for the car and covers my years insurance, tax and MOT - the car cost £4k. I've done about 55k miles in the time I've had it since July 2013 and I've done the following maintenance:
Tyres - I've had to buy 6 in the time I've had it, call that £650
Brakes - £202.21 all round
Wheel Bearing - £68.45
Cambelt and Waterpump kit - £108.95
Coolant change whilst doing above - £19.05
Servicing - x5 @ £55 ish for oil, filters, cabin filters etc = £275
= £1325.45
Estimated for insurance etc:
Insurance @ x2 years of £420
MOT @ x2 years of £50 per MOT
Tax @ x2 years of £180 (Band G iirc?)
= £1300
Plus price of car and insurance = £5578.45 over two years.
But then that includes the price of the car, which I don't separate from what I put away for tax/insurance/mot since these are recurring costs, which might as well be factored into the price of the car...
Over 3 years, the car will cost me a total of £6480 in terms of the car being valued £0 after 3 years, and I reckon on probably £2200 of maintenance probably which will come to a total of £8680. I'll also do 75,000 miles I'd guess...
So plus the fuel, which will cost £7842 for 75k I reckon - maybe more, maybe less... That comes to a total of 22p/mile - it maybe more than that if the fuel costs me more, or I get a nasty bill, but I'm not going to cry about it - I think that's cracking value personally.
Well, I put £180 aside a month, which pays for the car and covers my years insurance, tax and MOT - the car cost £4k. I've done about 55k miles in the time I've had it since July 2013 and I've done the following maintenance:
Tyres - I've had to buy 6 in the time I've had it, call that £650
Brakes - £202.21 all round
Wheel Bearing - £68.45
Cambelt and Waterpump kit - £108.95
Coolant change whilst doing above - £19.05
Servicing - x5 @ £55 ish for oil, filters, cabin filters etc = £275
= £1325.45
Estimated for insurance etc:
Insurance @ x2 years of £420
MOT @ x2 years of £50 per MOT
Tax @ x2 years of £180 (Band G iirc?)
= £1300
Plus price of car and insurance = £5578.45 over two years.
But then that includes the price of the car, which I don't separate from what I put away for tax/insurance/mot since these are recurring costs, which might as well be factored into the price of the car...
Over 3 years, the car will cost me a total of £6480 in terms of the car being valued £0 after 3 years, and I reckon on probably £2200 of maintenance probably which will come to a total of £8680. I'll also do 75,000 miles I'd guess...
So plus the fuel, which will cost £7842 for 75k I reckon - maybe more, maybe less... That comes to a total of 22p/mile - it maybe more than that if the fuel costs me more, or I get a nasty bill, but I'm not going to cry about it - I think that's cracking value personally.
