ever worked out how much it costs to run a car?
 

its costing me £45 per week to run my car thats without buying it, this cost doesn't include AA, parking fees or consumables.

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this is what made me stop and think about this http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-t...px?deriv=41306 the road tax on the mazda rx8!!!!

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With no detail ... I am not sure how we can be shocked by that ... if you do 1000miles/week that is a bargain ..

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did some maths a while back and worked out i was paying about £1.20 per mile per year, mostly spent on petrol. that doesn't include repairs other then regular services

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:( tell me about it

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Got access to a old MK3 golf , cost 300 quid , had for 12 months no problems , went through MOT , does 40 mpg , always run old cars.

Cheers Steve

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at the end of the day, after servicing costs etc, it compares to having a second mortgage.

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Costs me around £34 a week to run my car (VW Golf, 1.6) and that includes road tax.

Doesn't include parking because I always use public transport to go into town and shop. On the rare ocassions I do park, its about £2 max. Any work related parking is claimed back on expenses. As is mileage (I can claim back 40p a mile).

Now Ive mentioned it, it probably costs me a heck of alot less to run my car because I mainly use it for work purposes and travelling to different hospitals and services...Id estimate it at £15/20 a week for personal use

Maria

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my wife works for the NHS and claims for mileage etc., but i find it doesn't compare to actual costs in terms of tyres, servicing, fuel, road tax, insurance(higher premium for buisness use), trade in value suffers with a high mileage car to boot.

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I didnt include insurance in my cost: with that included its £45. My insurance was about £2 higher when I said I use the car for work. The value of my car doesnt bother me because I plan to keep it until it dies :D

Anyway, the costs vary from week to week because if im the office all day then I get the train to work. on some weeks, £30 can last two weeks.

Im not too fussed about the cost because its the price you pay for a car (well...any veichle you choose to have). Nothing in life is free..!

Maria

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that just about sums it all up. my god i'm depressed.:(

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my company car is! (almost) :compress:

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Hmm don't know about depreciation but:

Insurance: £400 last year
Tax: £190
Petrol: 1600 miles last year @ approx £50/tank/300 miles, so approx £266.50
MOT: £55 (?)
Repairs last year have cost me approx £100

So last year it's £1011.50 - £84.29/month or £19.45/week....damn. I barely use it, thought it would be better...

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If my new motah experiences 100% depreciation over the time of ownership I'll have lost 200 quid. My Micra is currently depreciating at the rate of -200% per annum. I bought it for 200 quid in January (actually only paid for the MOT and tax and got the car for free), I am selling it next week for 450.

However, all is not rosy in Lozzo's garden - I've just bought a 2.7 litre turbo diesel 4x4, so expect my fuel costs to rise a little.

Running costs of vehicles very rarely bothers me - If I'm enjoying the ownership and ride/drive then I don't even think about insurance costs and fuel consumption. When I managed to empty the fuel tank completely on my old Firestorm in 63 miles I thought it was funny, because I'd obviously been caning the living crap out of it and having a good time. I once managed to get the Gixer thou to almost empty in less than 80 miles on the road.

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Well I don't have car.....

Though when I did my insurance was about £260/year TPFT my car wasn't worth jack so not worth comp, the insurance included full break down.

Tax was err about £115 for the year, MOT was whatever it cost.

It had a 55 litre tank and did about 300 ish miles with about 10 litres left in the tank, that was okay when petrol was cheaper.

Repairs and ruuning ie tyres were always cheap. Probally no more than £300/year, it was serviced at home. I did 60 000 miles in that car, never broke down on me once, it was awesome but at 14 years old, things started going wrong. I would have another escort or was that mine was just a dam good good car?

When it evetually got wrote off, it was parked and someone crashed into it. I got more money from the insurance payout, than I paid for it 4 years ago.

I may get another car in the next 12 months simply to keep the my NCB going for cars as I now have 7 years, so a cheap heap would fine. I don't see the point of an expensive car, as I just don't need to drive that much.

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I've had all the new cars I would ever want,Audi,BMW,VW and Mercedes and the killer has always been depreciation. Nowadays I buy a 10 year old with low mileage,run it for what would be normal mileage for a car of its year,i.e Currently 1993 Honda with less than 80k which should be over 120k so as it is an up and coming cheap classic hopefully in a couple of years I will recoup my initial purchase outlay.
There are loads of older cars out there with full service,well maintained histories which means that bargains are to be had if you look and don't require the image of driving a new car

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440 quid for road tax?!?! they must be fkn kidding!!!

i'm so glad my car is taxed in germany. england just takes the biscuit.

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I think I would kill myself if I found out how much my car costs me. Been trying to get rid of it but current climate means I can't sell it for a reasonable price. :( Poo bags

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I did the maths once and factoring everything in it was over 3x cheaper than public transport (as well as actually doable without arriving at work at 11.00am and going home at 3.00pm). The bike was marginally more expensive than the car concerned (Pug 106 1 litre).