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LiE said:
I get average of 22-24mpg in my Volvo. I couldn't touch 30mpg without driving like a granddad.
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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 dont get why you'd have a tight servicing budget but be not bothered about repairs.

Surely a car with servicing at just £200 a year but average repairs at £600 is no better than one with servicing at £400 a year but average repairs of £400..

Surely you have an annual amount you are happy to spend on cars. Whether this is made up of 70% servicing 20% repairs and 10% tyres or 30% tyres 60% repairs and 10% servicing or whatever is surely totally irrelevent?
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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 :p
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change my brakes once in the last 4 years, again please consider my low mileage
 
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rossk26 said:
Sometimes you are actually wrong you know
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rossk26 said:
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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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.
 
tax braket is not a massive factor, i have looked at it in brief and expect to be somewhere around the £250 mark per year for something in the spec range i am considering, correct me if i am wrong by all means
 
mjt said:
See!

That engine in a Volvo uses 10% more fuel. True story.
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LiE said:
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.
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The Volvo that was linked was an S40, which I'm sure is the exact same as the 2.5 V5 in my Focus ST, which can get 30+ on a CYCLE

True Story
 
rossk26 said:
Every other fill up is between 7-10 days. Of which my driving is made up of:

- 10 miles round trip to work (50miles per week)
- 4 miles round trip to gf house (28 miles per week)
I then have the odd trip to the shops, which is also a 4 mile round trip. And then the odd countryside drive/blast here and there.
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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).
 
mjt said:
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 :confused:
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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.
 
Telescopi said:
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).
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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.
 
Muffin` said:
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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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:
It's not anything, it's a lab test performed on a rolling road.
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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! :D
 
I just don't get it, you're so selective with your figures. It's like last time, you take your granddad-esque driving MPG and compare it to the EP3 when it's driven hard.
 
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