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My first car
Cost £200
MOT £35
New tyre £40
Tax £185
Fuel at 10p/mile £1,200
Died 12k/8months miles later, got £60 scrap for it, plus tax refund.
Insurance £620 (I was 23 with no NCD, 3 points and a 1.6 litre engine)
Total cost = 18p/mile, but a third of that is insurance.
Not worked out current car, 28mpg not good!
New running shoes £50, shop keeper siad they're good for 500 miles = 10p/mile for running!
looking at the missus car, 2005 diesel panda. bought for 4k in 2007 and looking at the cheapest on autotrader its still worth 3250.
35k miles at 62mpg.
3 mots at 40.
3 services at 30 for parts.
Discs and pads at 92.
4 tyres at 52 each.
3 tax at 35
3 insurance at 200
so 13.6p a mile. this is about as cheap as running a car can get although i have used genuine fiat parts and continental tyres so a bit could have been saved there.
The other cars and motorbikes cost far more and i dont want to think about it!
And here lies the lunacy of commuting by car. There are lots of people in this sort of situation. Add to the cost the time of commuting - see how much that brings your hourly rate down.
I was wondering when TJ was going to show up 🙂
It's only lunacy when you get a second car purely for commuting - most of us have a car anyway, if you use it for commuting too it's actually making the most of your investment. Given you'll be spending time getting to work whatever means of transport you choose (ignoring working from home) adding the time as a cost seems a little unfair.
[i]Somehow, I'm not surprised by the fact that the most expensive vehicle by far is the motorbike.
Presumably only because he didn't use it much, or wrote it off on the third ride or something
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No, it was a divorce present to myself (Monster) - replaced with a proper bike after 6 months.