How much has your car cost you in total?

[thedazman67]

Was the car free?

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[Serj]

Car - £2500
Insurance Year 1 - £850 TPFT
Insurance Year 2 - £880 FC
OEM Exhaust System - £280
Air Filter - £200
Strut Bar - £30
Rear discs and pads - £90
Front Pads (not fitted) - £65
F2 Evo Alloys - £300
GS-D3s - £368
Labour Charges - £100
MOT - £30


Total - £5693

 

[CypherPunk]

1997 Citroen Xantia 1.8 16v LX (with Aircon) inc. 1 Year Tax and MOT - £650
Insurance (10 Months) - £450
Oil and Various Filters - £70
6 Brand New Suspension Spheres - £120
Sphere Removal Tool - £35
Petrol - £50 a week x 6 months = £1200

Total Cost Over 6 Months (inc. Car Purchase) = £2525
Total Mileage Cover = 8000 miles (approx)

Or

£105 a week

£0.31p per mile.

Estimated Running Cost per Year (exc. Car Purchase)

= £3300

Or

£64 per week

£0.21p per mile

All calculations are approximate obviously, and some figures have been rounded up slightly to make the maths simpler, but I’d say that quite a reasonable price for a car that hasn’t let me down at all in 6 months of ownership and is very nice to drive even over long journeys, I bet most people would struggle to beat the price per mile over 6 months of ownership.

 

[thedazman67]

mines about the same 0.20p per mile covered 7000 miles in 6 months

 

[Matt82]

£1050 car
£470 insurance
£16 oil
£6 oil filter
£10 gearbox oil
£3 sump plug
£80 cam belt job
£50 brakefluid and 4 wheels balanced
£25 gearbox mount
£25 waterpump
£15 dizzy, rotor, plugs
lots of petrol
£5 millers injector cleaner


thats what i can remember!! ffs

 

[JRS]

Olds:

~£500 to buy.
Around the GDP of a small country to fuel.
Something close to the USA's military budget to pay for all the times I destroyed a village just by driving through.

Or something similar.

 

[James_N]

Volvo 740GLE Estate

Car - £100
Insurance - £650 (paid monthly - 0NCB)
Tax - Free (Disabled)
2 New tyres - £70
fixing a few various niggles - £100
Cambelt - which is being done tomorrow - £30 parts plus a few quid labour (friendly mechanic)
paying for MOT which it passed - got it at trade price (£30 odd quid iirc)

 

[CypherPunk]

mines about the same 0.20p per mile covered 7000 miles in 6 months

Yeah I noticed your post just after I posted and realised your car cost about the same to run as mine, my fuel economy is letting me down a bit I think, it averaged about 24mpg over the last 6 months which is pretty terrible when you think about it.

Nice cars those Toyotas though, bit different than the norm and cheap to run too, you must be well chuffed with it.

 

[Spamalot]

13,000 on car
3,500 on insurance
500 on tyre and alloy when it met with the central reservation
360 on shocks and toe-link as pre-existing conditions (though got 200 back from the dealer).
and however much this dead headlamp will cost, probably about a tenner

£3.5K on insurance ? What car have you got, how old are you?

Edit-

Elise. He's 18(?)... and it's only third party!

Wow, how did you manage that?

 

[agw_01]

Wow, how did you manage that?

By being a very silly billy, that's how.

 

[GT3]

Passed last year

£3000 on 1999 Saxo VTR
£170 Tax
£2100 Insurance
£300 on front tyres for it for a year
£400 ish on new shocks, brakes, clutch + gearbox

This year

£3000 on 2001 Saxo VTR
£700 Insurance
£170 tax soon (if it was 2 months newer it would be £120!! )

 

[JollyGreen]

£3.5K on insurance ? What car have you got, how old are you?

Edit-



Wow, how did you manage that?

Maybe I should just keep this link in my sig
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17555090

 

[James_N]

Maybe I should just keep this link in my sig
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17555090

and my mates thought i was mad having a CTR at 21 and paying £1700 insurance, but that is fully comp mind.

 

[[TW]Fox]

and my mates thought i was mad having a CTR at 21 and paying £1700 insurance, but that is fully comp mind.

Thats staggeringly expensive.

 

[Dr House]

TT I have now

10 000 for the car (saved a lot because I bought a lhd in the uk and drove it to prague)
£2500 for new alloys
£500 for winter tyres
£400 for summer tyres
£1100 insurance
£600 service with cam belt
£500 fix theft damage
£500 replace sump tank and fix a few problems
£800 Revo Remap + SPS3
£400 Miltek ss system
£80 per month in parking

Come to think of it I don’t need a car lol

I have had it for around 10 months

 

[Oblivious]

£0 54 Seat Leon 1.9TDI
£0 Fuel card for Social and Business
£0 Servicing and maintance
£0 Insurance
£0 Insurance excess

Tax... err lets not go there

 

[thedazman67]

Yeah I noticed your post just after I posted and realised your car cost about the same to run as mine, my fuel economy is letting me down a bit I think, it averaged about 24mpg over the last 6 months which is pretty terrible when you think about it.

Nice cars those Toyotas though, bit different than the norm and cheap to run too, you must be well chuffed with it.

I love it, its a nice car to drive and i average about 45 MPG as its mostly motoway mileage i do, around town i see around 35MPG which is still not bad its coming up to 53K on the clock now so its big service time, involving cambelt, coolant change and sorting out my rear crank seal which has gone, after all thats done it shouldnt need any other major working doing to it, apart from its 9K service intervals and other service items. But for a grand i can't really complain.

thedazman

 

[Forbidden]

Car - £2,000
Car Insurance - £1,100

Modfications - £635 (Including Ones Below)

Lexus Tail Lights - £65
15" Alloys W/ Low Profile Tyres - £350
Brake Disk & Pad Kit - £35
K&N 57i Induction kit - £85

 

[eidolon]

Well, I've only had mine for 5 days so apart from the purchase price all I've bought is an air freshner, £1.89 from ASDA last night.

I'm sure that will change soon enough though

 

[Von Luck]

Had my current car for 10 months.

Purchase price: £10k
Insurance: £430

Erm, that's it apart from petrol.