How much per year does your car cost you ?

cost of car: Currently paying 127 pcm
TAX: 175? Dont remember
Insurance: 1100
Petrol: about 75 pcm, so 900
Maintenance Costs: had to get a new belt, cost 70
washing: 1-2 times a month, 10-20 pcm, depending where I take it

all in all, just shy of 4 grand a year.

Damn, I've never added it up before.....that's quite a lot considering I only use it to get to work and the shops now and then.
 
Including £5500 for buying the car, mine 'costs' 66p per mile. So the more miles I do, the more this goes down by.

Buying the car £5500
Insurance £2000 (insurance for 4 years)
Tax £640 (3 years)
MOT £200 (4 years)
all work/parts ever done on the car + labour £4500 (I've had many non essential things does, new alarm, clutch, flywheel, airbox, rebushed whole car, refurbed a new set of wheels. also this includes 8x tyres. New radiator, 9 oil/filter changes)
Petrol £5500

Fuel alone is 20p per mile, for SUL.
Oil works out just over 1p per mile. I change it every ~3500, twice a year. It's always had this done, had a pack full of receipts for it, so I've just kept it up.

~£18000 over 27000 miles
 
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bledd. said:
Including £5500 for buying the car, mine 'costs' 66p per mile. So the more miles I do, the more this goes down by.

Buying the car
Insurance
Tax
MOT
all work/parts ever done on the car + labour
Petrol

~£18000 over 27000 miles
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What about if you take out fuel?
 
Rough figures per annum for our E91 330i:
- MOT (£40)
- Insurance (£400)
- Road Tax (£225)
- Petrol, assuming an average of 25mpg and 7000 miles PA at a cost of about £6/gallon (£1800)
- Tyres. Calculated upon wearing a set out every 21k miles and them costing £500 a set (£170 PA average cost)
- Depreciation. Rough guestimate based upon cost of car, it's age etc (£1500)
- Servicing estimate (£250)

Total of approx £4385 PA
 
I don't really want to do this, since I've almost brainwashed myself into thinking I've barely spent anything on my car over 2 years and 5 months!

Ford Focus ST3 (29 months of ownership + 25,000 miles)

Depreciation: £3,500
Insurance: £950
Tax: £530
MOT: £35
Maintenance: £300 (major service) £140 (service + repairs) £140 (bushes) £72 (wheel alignment)
Tyres: x6 £570 (inc fitting)
Fuel: @~22ppm £5,500

Total: £11,737 (£404 per month)

EDIT: Insurance, Tax, MOT, Service, Tyres all recently paid for, so should run for another year on fuel and depreciation only :D
 
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Costs worked out from my fuel log app

Honda Civic Type R - EP3 (396 days of ownership + 10,529 miles)

Depreciation: £0 [i could get back what i paid for the car at this point still]
Insurance: £750 last year + £620 this year
Tax: £148.50
MOT: £55
Maintenance Costs: £240.96
Servicing Costs: £310
Current Tyres: £340
Consumables: 170
Trackdays & Cover: £280

Upgrades Cost: £2096.47

Fuel: 2033.86 litres @ £2872.56

Total: £7883.49

in the next two months i have:

my upcoming service will be £260
new tyres are due to cost £568
LSD fitting will cost me £250

Overall Total of £8961.49

now I need to lie down :(
 
My car

Finance - £200 a month. £1800
GAP insurance - £20 a month. £180
Depreciation - £500 in the 9 months I've owned it
Comsumables - £120
Insurance - £700
Tax - £460
New Cobra decat downpipe - £180
Remap - £350
New Tyres - £440
New front Splitter - £100

Fuel - This is the bitch - £240 per month. £2160

£6990 for 9 months of ownership. So around £9k for a full year.
 
Gibbo said:
two years with 911:-
Tax - £500
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Ace Modder said:
Tax - £460

9 months of ownership.
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Some of these numbers make me feel much better lol

Thought it was expensive havnig to pay insurance, tyres, service and MOT all in the space of a month (£1200 ish) but at least it is done for the year and tyres would last even longer than that.

Depreciation is not a concern as the car isn't on finance so there is no negative equity to worry about. It is just like the depreciation of my camera, I don't think about it once it is paid for.

So at least until November, nothing to spend on it apart from fuel. :) Fingers crossed.
 
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Cost of car: £600, however it’s worth that if broken in spares (decent alloys and half leather interior) so £0 really :p
Tax: £270 a year
Insurance: £580 a year
Fuel: 50MPG on 50/50 diesel/SVO, so 11p a mile at current prices. 25,000 a year, so £2750 per year
Maintenance: Sod all really, just the usual brakes and probably a clutch at some point in the next 20k. Say £300 a year tops
Cleaning: What?

Factor the lot in, and it’s about 15.6p a mile. Not bad.
 
Volvo 940 estate

- MOT - £30 / year
- Insurance - £200 / year
- Road Tax - £0
- Petrol - £90 odd a month
- Depreciation - Really not much. Could sell it for pretty much what I paid
- Servicing estimate - £50 odd / year
- Cleaning - £5 every 6 months at the eastern european car wash
 
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maccapacca said:
£nil

E60 530i

I get a car allowance and a fuel card that's nil cost to me.

Sorry it's true, I could make money by running something small and crap like everyone else but I'd need a lobotomy first
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Surely the car allowance comes in just as extra salary? So you are spending money on the car.

Mine (E89 Z4) works out at about £700 a month (tax, maint, petrol, insurance)
 
Nissan Primera GT. 10000 miles p.a

Consumables per year £200 (Oil, plugs, filters, coolant, brake fluid etc)
One off costs (Bits that need doing. Last year tyres, this year brake lines and cat) ~£300.
Tax £205.
Insurance £300.
Petrol (34MPG according to trip. It is my daily hack so is driven for mileage). £1796 @ £1.34

Total £2801

Toyota Celica GT-Four. 3000 miles p.a

Consumables per year £400 (Oil, plugs, filters, coolant, brake fluid etc)
One of costs £500 (So far I have replaced some rubbers and made some modifications.)
Tax £205
Insurance £600.
Petrol (22MPG ish) £885 @ £1.43

Total £2590

To run the Celica for the full 13000 miles would cost me £150 more than having the two cars plus adding miles and decreasing its value.
 
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Hi there

OK this won't be too accurate but gonna try to work out expense of last 18 months with 1999 Jaguar S-Type

Depreciation - £0 (paid £700ish, would aim to sell at £1500)
Insurance - £500
Tax - £250
Tyres - £200
Track days - Don't be silly
Front pads - £50
Oil changes - £50
MOT - £200
Front bearing - £140
Plugs / coil packs - £160
Radiator / coolant - £250
Header tank / top hose - £250
Electric window regulator - £50
Fuel - £1500

Total 3.6k :)
 
Only had it a week, a 2010 Ford Focus Econetic, old car was a 2004 Peugeot 407. swapped to save costs.

Tax - £30 p/a again old one of £200 p/a
MOT - Won't have to get one for 12 months
Insurance - £350 p/a
Diesel - Was 3/4's full when purchased. Have well over 1/2 a tank left and the MPG is way better than the 407, obviously.

Spent loads on the old one though.
 
ci_newman said:
Oh goodness :( Did you work out what your savings would be by doing this swap? I can't imagine that the Peugeot gave you much cash when it was sold?
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Thanks :D

And yes we did. The day to day running costs of the 407 were immense compared to the Focus. We part-ex'd the 407. Plus I only do one 80mile journey once a month to Birmingham and back. the little journeys round Peterborough are best suited for the Focus, not the 407.
 
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