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Will you be able to sell the Prius for what it cost you?
Of course not, but it's paid off and I'm not selling it any time soon. Look, for the third time, [b]I'm not saying depreceation doesn't cost money[/b] I'm saying it is not a [b]running [/b]cost.
did you use to work for Enron?
Insurance - 400
Tax - 400
Service/MOT - 500
Two tyres - 720
6000 miles @ 25mpg = 1560
Depreciation - 3000 (a guess)
Two tyres - 720
WTF do you drive?!
Oh and to the chap up there who was doing 6k a year and replacing tyres every two years - you can get far more out of tyres
Depends on the car and how you drive it. never seen more than 12K out of my celicas front tyres, it's a nose-heavy 4wd driven hard. I suspect, from his figures, he's got a RWD fast car IIRC
it's not a running cost.if.you never buy another car to replace it. otherwise it is. you're kidding yourself.
Just remember people next time you use pubic transport it costs extra to take someone with you.
I said you CAN get more out of tyres. He was asking how to reduce his running costs - driving smoothly and sensibly is a good way 🙂
I do not class it as a running cost. If I die in three years' time having not replaced it, then the depreciation was not a factor. Running costs are what it costs me to drive the car about and keep it on the road. How much it cost when new and how much I might make when selling it are NOT related to the monthly cost of fuel, insurance and whatnot. It makes no sense to me to include it in monthly running costs - if you are about to change the car then change your mind and keep it another two years, do you go back in time and give yourself another £20 each month you are driving it? Of course not. I am paid monthly, my budget works on a monthly cycle, my car purchases are every 5-10 years.
My Smart CDi has done just over 25k miles since I bought it in Sept 09, it's had two services (£300ish total) insurance around £175 a year (£350 total) Tax £0, I put half a litre of oil in it once, and fuel is currently working out at 10p per mile (it was 7p when I bought the car)and I've not had to buy a tyre yet. If I put the depreciation at £3000 a year I make it under 15p a mile to run all in. 😉
But I do have to drive around in a Smart and put up with all the p**s taking.
Mol
Is the fact you only look at running costs due to you knowing that taking the depreciation of your 'appliance' into account - you could actually afford to run a proper car?
Insurance - just gone up to £1600
Tax? - around £200
Tyres - one set a year £360 (mates rates)
Servicing x3 - £350
Fuel - approx £7000
MOT - £30
Cam-belt & brakes done at last service - £450
Total - £9990, or £832 pcm.
However, 90% is business use, so £83 pcm
Is the fact you only look at running costs due to you knowing that taking the depreciation of your 'appliance' into account - you could actually afford to run a proper car?
I don't drive a Prius because I can't afford anything else 🙂
I don't only look at running costs. I look at running costs independently of purchase price. I can't see why this is so complicated. It is a cost, just not a monthly running cost. When I finally do sell it I could go back and re-calculate what it actually cost me per month, but what's the point of that? Wouldn't retrospectively make any difference to my monthly spending power back then.
humm....
an old oil burning stove aka Focus estate
On that website my running cost is 5p per mile... Which is nice.
Purchase Costs Amount
1 Cost of car £1
2 I could sell my car for £2,000
3 I have owned my car for 12
Borrowing Costs
4 I borrowed * £0
5 Length of loan * 0
6 Monthly repayment * £0
7 Total loan cost including interest £0
8 Total interest paid £0
9 Interest paid each month £0
Finance Options
a. I bought my car without borrowing any money
10 Each month my car is worth less -£167
11 My annual purchase costs -£1,999
But I have also lost interest on the money I spent on the car
b. I am still making loan repayments
12 Each month my car is worth less £0
13 My monthly interest is £0
14 My annual purchase costs £0
c. I bought my car with a loan which is now repaid
15 Each month my car is worth less £0
16 My annual purchase costs £0
Annual Fixed Costs
I pay these every year no matter how little I drive:
17 Car tax: depends on fuel used & carbon emissions £500
18 Car insurance £500
19 Breakdown membership * £0
20 MOT test fee (excluding repairs needed to pass) * £21 (I pay 42 euro every 2 years)
21 Garage costs (e.g. rent/council tax) * £0
22 Parking permit costs (home and/or work) * £0
23 Total fixed costs £1,021
Running Costs
Every time I drive I spend more:
24 Miles per year the car is driven 10000
25 Miles per gallon of fuel on average 49
26 Miles per litre of fuel on average 10.8
27 Litres of fuel purchased per year 927.8
28 Price you pay for fuel 146
29 Total cost of fuel £1,355
30 Estimate of 12 month's parts, servicing costs, repairs and oil * £150 (i service myself on the drive)
31 Estimate of 12 month's parking, tolls and car washes * £0
32 Driving fines (parking, speeding etc) * £0
33 Total variable running costs (pa) £1,505
Total Annual Costs
34 Total purchase costs (pa) -£1,999
35 Total fixed costs (pa) £1,021
36 Total ownership costs (pa) -£978
37 Total running costs (pa) £1,505
38 Total annual cost of car £527
Other Totals
39 Total monthly cost of car £44 40 Total weekly cost of car £10
41 Total car costs per mile driven £0.05
It's thrown out a lot as I was given the car, but then I pay much higher tax and insurance here, allowing for buying the car it's about 21c per mile.
oh, and I'm with molgrips on depreciation - but then I've always gone for bangernomics.
it will if you can't afford to buy a new one because you didn't save for the depreciation ...
Zilch - don't need one for the most part. When I do I hire...
I understand depreciation, financing and saving.
However it is NOT a running cost!
Its a cost of ownership though, and it is linked to the milage.
Just drawn up a projection for my 330i. 37p per mile, so a big 6 year old petrol about 40% more expensive to run than a 3 year old diesel
But not in terms of monthly outlay, plus a 6 year old diesel would be cheaper still 🙂
Just done that spreadsheet and my 54 plate Mondeo is coming out at 26p per mile.
Molgrips - of course it is a cost - you buy the car for £10000, sell it 2 years later for £7000 it has cost you £125 a month to own. Even if you are paying cash tts £125 you did not have to spend on other things.
Depeciation is a part of the cost of owning a car.
Well my car cost £0 and I only pay for petrol.. With this in mind, I did the speadsheet and it came up with this..
Monthly cost £51
Weekly cost £12
Cost per mile £0.12
It's a piece of shit Ashtray 1.6, had it for 5/6 years and still hate it, but it's free!
"Depeciation is a part of the cost of owning a car. "
However it is NOT a running cost!
You don't what the depreciation is until someone offers you a price, so it's not a running cost is it.
Why do people still use mpg btw? Mpl surely!
I've no idea, but I do wish that the price of petrol and diesel would go up. Judging by the ever-increasing number of vehicles on the road and the fact that none of them seem to function correctly below the relevant speed limits, it probably needs to double in price.
RS6:
£750 insurance
£240 tax
£400 service
£50 MOT local honda garage offer
£400 tyres
£4400 petrol @ 14mpg 10000 miles
My Audi has depreciated 5k in 7 years, does 50mpg
200 tax
300 ins
Servicing is 100 or 200 on alternate years
Mot 40
Tyres 400 (but I probably get 18 months out a set)
16,000 miles pa
So 25p per mile?
on that spreadsheet mine worked out as 92p per mile including depreciation
Molgrips - of course it is a cost
Jesus.
[b]Yes it's a cost.
No it is not a running cost.[/b]
A running cost is actual cash that comes out of my monthly budget. Depreciation does not come out of my monthly budget. There is no direct debit on my bank statement that says 'car depreciation'. When doing a monthly budget I do not need to factor it in.
A running cost is a regular cash outlay.
Asset depreciation is a reduction in value of something you own.
molgrips is right ffs!
Mine worked out at 40p a mile (excluding depreciation)
I only do 6,000 miles a year as I try to avoid using it as much as possible. Most of my journies are over 30-miles and include trips to the alps and Wales.
If I increase the mileage the cost per mile goes down. If I stick in 12,000 miles it's 28p a mile!
Not bad for a 12-year old VW Bora with the very very old 2.0l 8v lump in it.
molgrips is right ffs!
Agreed!
... it probably needs to double in price.
Disagreed! ... but whole other argument I'm not getting into.
well according to that spreadsheet my car costs me 34p all in, and the fact it is on a lease i am going to call the lease payment a running cost. I see it as me hiring the car.
Tax - £260
Insurance - £300
Service - £170
MOT - £60
Tires - £400 for a set of non ditchfinders!
15k @ 30 Mpg - not working it out cause i will cry as its all private miles!
Owned the same car for the last 5 years and its depreciated like a lead balloon, possibly 2k per year - but its a vauxhall so to be expected..!
Audi A3 Sportback 2.0TFSI Quattro. Owned from new, now 5 and 1/2 years old.
Insurance £480
Road Tax £225
BreakDown Cover £100
Servcing £250
MOT £50
Tyres £250
Fuel £1800
Total = £3155, for about 7500 miles = 42p per mile
Taking into account depreciation to date estimated @ £3300 per annum = Total £6455
Giving an overall cost per mile of [b]86p[/b]
The whole depreciation argument is semantics. If I was doing 100K miles a year I would have to budget more for depreciation than if I did 10K. Look at leasing. Its all packaged up for you into one monthly payment. I am budgeting monthly for my depreciation on my new car by paying for the car on an interest free credit card and paying it off monthly for the term of the card. So I have made it a monthly outgoing, albeit interest free.
About 50p per mile, apparently.
That's a 2 litre Renault Trafic.
2 cars here - one is a company car, upon which I pay tax and relinquish a car allowance for. Other one is our own, a few months old, bought ex demo and will be kept for 5 yrs plus.
whichever way we work it, each one costs £350/£400 per month, incl fuel/insurance/tax/depreciation/loss of allowance. We try and keep costs down by doing the majority of the miles on the diesel company car and sub 7K miles pa on the private petrol one.
Hells Bells, 'cause I only do 3000 miles a year in a 3.0 Beemer, my cost per mile is £1.14, or £285 a month.
And what can I buy from peugeot's 3 year all-in except fuel deal close to £285 a month? The incredibly fugly 207 SW.... nice.
So, when you buy a car for ten grand, do you say 'well this is only costing me six grand cos I can sell it later for four grand?'
And that affects your budget how? Are you continually saving, so as soon as you buy a car you start saving for the next one?
Leasing is different.
So is TJ thinking about getting a car yet? Most people seem to have running costs that are lower than my examples of public transport.
We run 2 cars, which i won't go into....
But my weekly train pass costs just over 38 quid, and covers 530 miles - less than 8p per mile! Bargain!
DrP
my weekly train pass costs just over 38 quid, and covers 530 miles - less than 8p per mile
Yeah I have no doubt there are examples of public transport being cheaper but it isn't necessarily the case (and my examples prove it really isn't in my circumstances) - the three journeys I exampled are the three journeys I most regularly make using public transport - and even then I based them on a single person travelling - the public transport costs multiply when more than one person travels whereas with using your own vehicle the cost only increases fractionally. And I have more freedom to travel at times and on routes/destinations that suit me too. And I don't have to sit next to someone smelling of urine.
It's only infrequently that I smell of urine TBH...
DrPee
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