Haven't you had a re-map? What were you getting before? I wouldn't have though the extra weight would cost you that much MPG. I certainly don't drive like a grandad, I just drive to the road conditions and don't race up to every roundabout/junction/traffic light. These modern engines love to coast in gear!!
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Haven't you had a re-map? What were you getting before? I wouldn't have though the extra weight would cost you that much MPG. I certainly don't drive like a grandad, I just drive to the road conditions and don't race up to every roundabout/junction/traffic light. These modern engines love to coast in gear!!
[TW]Fox;22281719 said:
I thought a £300 per year budget on servicing was resonable, also back to the point that i wont need a service every year, more likely oil+filter one year, service the next, so a £600 budget for an oil and filter+ service i thought was pretty reasonable?
From my previous experience with the little mileage i do repairs do not tend to be a regular occurence and so i can justify not having them as a budgetted item. I have owned my current car for 4 years and the biggest (and only) repair i have had to carry out was after the cam belt snapped, total cost of repair £200, also something that could have been avoided had i not been slightly lazy when arranging a service, i have learnt from this mistake. (current car renault megane 1.4, so i am well aware that the costs of a newer, better car will be significantly higher)
If i take a wild stab in the dark and say that if i get a repair bill in the region of £1000 over the first 3-4 years of ownership i will not be upset by this.
Tyres are generally not a budget issue factor, i am likely to change all 4 tyres only once during ownership at the most so again a small impact over each year of ownership.
As for the mpg out of the car this is purely based on how i would drive. On the way to and from work the driving would be sedate, i like in MK so roundbaout, dual carriage way, roundabout etc with a more powerful car there is no need to have my foot to the floor and so i would comfortably be driving to the best econmical performance of the car most of the time.
[TW]Fox;22281822 said:The price for a set of brakes on that will rather blow your 300 quid a year servicing budget
change my brakes once in the last 4 years, again please consider my low mileage
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I can't see how this would put people off.
I'm spending nearly 10k on a car, but this one will cost £200 more a year to tax. I can't afford that
MPG hasn't been affected by the remap. The engine in the S60 isn't the same as the ST anyway, it's a 2.4 and produces 260bhp standard.
nearly 300 miles a week but you've accounted for 78 and nipping to the shops?
If you're doing 200 miles a week blatting round a-roads, firstly that's very impressive, but secondly with the engine warmed up economy is much better (in my experience - driving round the lakes gives me high 20's where as the cold engine drive to work puts me below 20).
I can't see how this would put people off.
I'm spending nearly 10k on a car, but this one will cost £200 more a year to tax. I can't afford that
I personally hate paying £180 a year road tax, so I really wouldn't want to pay £460. £270 sounds much more reasonable for a hot hatch, if a MPS was £200 cheaper to insure then that changes things for me, but they generally aren't.
I don't keep a full diary of every trip I do. There are many other trips involved on my weekly commute e.g. shopping outlets, restaurants, takeaways. But none of these involve motorways.
I simply put my every day commute on to prove that my drive is a cycle. It's very rare I do 300 miles a week. 150-180 is the norm.
How is it more to service? The figures you given were more expensive! Not one of those are £300, and certainly not £400!!!
I added them up, taking the ST I got £900-odd and taking reasonable (not the cheapest by quite a way) £705 for the CTR.
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It's not anything, it's a lab test performed on a rolling road.
Ford
Service 1 - 1 year - £155.00
Service 2 - 2 year - £275.00
Service 3 - 3 year - £280.00
Service 4 - 4 year - £209.00
=£919
Just realised this will be more expensive than the norm since service 2 and 3 you are getting RS plugs!!
Honda
Service 1 - 1 year - £163
Service 2 - 2 year - £241
Service 3 - 3 year - £207
Service 4 - 4 year - £262
=£873
I took all the prices on the list for every service interval and got the average. Fairly close in pricing I believe!
[TW]Fox;22282073 said:
And what does this prove? I have demonstrated that I do some of the worst miles possible in my car, the car is always cold on start up (I hardly ever drive for longer than 20-30 minutes). And proven that the engine in my car CAN and WILL get 30+mpg.
Accept you are wrong!
