Barefoot motoring costs 2014

[barefoot]

Following on from the horror of my £6766 spend last year, here we go again.

Every last penny accounted for...

 

I dare you all to join in.

 

Fuel is added on at the end of the year.

 

Then you can divide total costs by miles travelled and make yourself feel a little,

tiny bit better.

 

So far...

 

Porsche tax - £235

Scirocco service - £200

Porsche h/brake adjustment - £ 30

New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£140

Van insurance - £219

 

Total so far -£824

 

Van to tax/mot/service & Scirocco to tax this month

[Bobthebeard]

Following on from the horror of my £6766 spend last year, here we go again.

Every last penny accounted for...

I dare you all to join in.

Fuel is added on at the end of the year.

Then you can divide total costs by miles travelled and make yourself feel a little,

tiny bit better.

So far...

Porsche tax - £235

Scirocco service - £200

Porsche h/brake adjustment - £ 30

New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£140

Van insurance - £219

Total so far -£824

Van to tax/mot/service & Scirocco to tax this month

If I joined in and actually published my spending on chod purchase/maintenance/running costs I run the risk of being found out by Mrs Beard. Hence I'm oot!

The actual cost being far in excess of the admitted cost.

[barefoot]

I've had quiet a lot to drink tonightand just interwebbed two new tyres for the Scirocco

Another 74

That' s £898

 

wcpgw

[Bobthebeard]

I dare you.

wcpgw

If Mrs Beard found out the true cost of my chod habit her anger would result in a new ice age at Beard Towers!

[mat_the_cat]

Problem is dividing into essentials and frivolities though...I'm trying to find a new bumper for the van as the original is cracked. It's something I can live without, but it'd be nice to tidy it up a bit. Only fitted to 3 model years out of 21, discontinued by VW and a whopping £200 for a NOS item I've found. I can't afford or justify that, but it would really skew the running figures. Not to mention get me in a load of trouble!

[Grundig]

If Mrs Beard found out the true cost of my chod habit her anger would result in a new ice age at Beard Towers!

If it's anything chod related or expensive, I always tell Mrs G "my mate got me it cheap"  (unless it's for her of course)      

[barefoot]

No it's not.

 

There's no such thing as a frivolity.

 

Two hundred quid is about bog all in your motoring year.

 

It's essential to know how much you spend or bangernomics just doesnt work.

I read a Telegraph review of something utterly mundane and over three years it worked out at 55p/mile

Porsche was 42p/mile and Scirocco just 29p/mile

I appreciate that its horrendous, but the alternative is unthinkable.

Do you lot really have no balls?

[Bobthebeard]

Do you lot really have no balls?

Technically, yes. I personally haz balls in the physical sense. Where wife and old car actually interface I haz no balls at all and just tell massive lies!

[twosmoke300]

200 is a lot of cash for a bumper mat . But for a nos one I don't suppose it's too bad.

Bet one of my customers wishes he could get one for his maserati for that money. He has been quoted 800 to have his repaired and recromed. It's only got a couple of small dents and slight pitting.

Ouch

[garygazgazza]

other than fuel I'm only on about £5 for the screen wash I put it, I'll need to put a couple tyres on the front soon so that will bump it up a bit.

[gordonbennet]

Last year was a dear bugger for me too.

 

The usual service and MOT in the spring, course it had eaten another bottom ball joint, which is part of the wishbone, not seperate on mine.

 

OMGCHG on the old Benz plus new water pump oil cooler and timing chain whilst in bits.

 

Then 3 weeks in my favourite little bodyshop, got all four jacking points well sorted and 3 other smalley bits of welding done,  2 panels needed painting, 8 wheels in total painted.

 

Then the sodding drivers window regulator started slipping at the top, pillarless so a bloody great regulator frame, the motor gear was also worn so new motor too.

 

New discs/pads.

 

Just had a new rear screen fitted (most of element fooked and started to delaminate, again), bloody lucky i did was the last one in stock, they won't make another pattern batch till there's ample orders, so the next poor sod who needs one for a 124 coupe will be getting bent over dry at the main dealer, and thats serious money little if any change from a £grand, cheap mind, some CL coupe rear screens are over £2k just to buy.

 

'kin 'ell, thats just over £3k there at very good prices, without even thinking about running costs and there must have been a few other odds and sods i've forgotten.

[Micrashed]

Micrashed:

Feb 2013 - Feb 2014.

 

Insurance: £167

Tax £135

Fuel £692

MOT £45

Work to get through MOT £170

Wiper blade £4

Tyres £1 (off eBay)

 

Total: £1214

 

Cost per mile =7000 miles / £1214 = 16p/mile.

[320touring]

Micrashed:

Feb 2013 - Feb 2014.

 

Insurance: £167

Tax £135

Fuel £692

MOT £45

Work to get through MOT £170

Wiper blade £4

Tyres £1 (off eBay)

 

Total: £1214

 

Cost per mile =7000 miles / £1214 = 16p/mile.

Running my e30 last year as a daily, i spent your total for the year in 4 months on fuel alone!

 

*buys k11*

[Pete-M]

The Happy death express got through £2k in fuel alone in less than three months. ..

[Negative Creep]

£450 on brakes and tracking thus far

[Micrashed]

MicraShed

Motoring for tightwads since 2009.

 

I havent worked out the C8 yet - that costs a LOT more to run....

[barefoot]

Porsche tax - £235

Scirocco service - £200

Porsche h/brake adjustment - £ 30

New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£140

New battery for Scirocco - £45

Van insurance - £219

Two new Barum 185/60X14 for the Sirocco

Another £74

That' s £943

 

Yesterday I spent £245 on a Porsche FTP

 

And I've just taken the T2 for MOT

 

This is looking like an expensive month.

[beko1987]

XM - 2 part worn front tyres - £40

Insurance for XM and Meriva - £1800 / 2 = £900 being generous

 

£1840 / 450 miles so far this year = 4.1p a mile

 

Today was the start of a 40 mile a day commute for me so figures could change!

[messerschmitt owner]

 

Today was the start of me needing an oil tanker to support a 40 mile a day habit so figures could change!

 

I can stop anytime ...

EFA

[Micrashed]

Micrashed:

Feb 2013 - Feb 2014.

 

Insurance: £167

Tax £135

Fuel £692

MOT £45

Work to get through MOT £170

Wiper blade £4

Tyres £1 (off eBay)

 

Total: £1214

 

Cost per mile =7000 miles / £1214 = 16p/mile.

Well, the C8 results are in....

 

Insurance : £470 (FC with fare paying passenger cover)

Tax: £220

Fuel : £586.50

MOT £54

Exhaust Welding £ 30

Spring £ 39

Service Costs £ 330 (filters, fluids, labour, VAT)

EGR Valve £330

Timing belt, water pump, pulley set & labour £400

 

Total Spend: £2405.50

Miles travelled 6239

 

Cost per mile - £0.38

 

So, twice the cost of the MicraShed, but then its a bigger heavier car that apart from hauling my brood about gets to tow various things from time

 

Still cheaper than getting the train or bus though.

[r.welfare]

I have just returned from having my Accord MOT'd.

 

Costs over the last 12 months as follows:

Servicing, parts and repairs = £605.90 (the biggies being an oil cooler pipe, exhaust downpipe, steering rack gaiter and two new tyres)

Insurance = £146.78

Road tax = £225

Petrol = £1,766.97 (averaging out at 26.8mpg which is pretty poor for a 1.8 litre automatic, but my commute is cross-country and I tend to hoof it a bit)

 

That's a total of £2,744.65.  Spread over 8268 miles gives 33.2p a mile.  Not bad, but in a good year it'd be south of 30p/mile.

 

My wife doesn't keep fuel records but I reckon her Avensis does about 32-33mpg, and covers 15-18k miles a year.  That one has cost £280 in road tax (damned CO2-based approach for >1.3.01 cars), £188 in insurance, and £801 in servicing and repairs (including £150 on two vacuum switching valves to keep the ABS and TC lights off, £275 on 4 new Michelins and tracking, £100 on two new Toyota rear shock absorbers, and £50 on brake pads and drop links).  So that one comes in at somewhere around the 25p/mile mark.  Would be much less if I factored in that a third party's insurance company gave me a cheque for £792 for a bump, which I fixed for £35 (secondhand wing £20, paint £15).

 

In an ideal world, both cars would be <£500 for servicing and repairs in a given year.  I've also ignored depreciation because one cost £500 and the other £1500, many moons ago.  I reckon either is worth £4-500 in the right conditions (freshly MOT'd and taxed for 12 months).

[barefoot]

barefoot, on 14 Mar 2014 - 10:17 PM, said:

 

Porsche tax - £235

Scirocco service - £200

Porsche h/brake adjustment - £ 30

New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£140

New battery for Scirocco - £45

Van insurance - £219

Two new Barum 185/60X14 for the Sirocco - £74

£245 on a Porsche Heater control valve

 

 

T2 mot/service and brake overhaul ....

 

 

 

 

...836 - fucksticks.

 

I cant bring myself to add up at the mo

[barefoot]

barefoot, on 14 Mar 2014 - 10:17 PM, said:

Porsche tax - £235

Scirocco service - £200

Porsche h/brake adjustment - £ 30

New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£140

New battery for Scirocco - £45

Van insurance - £219

Two new Barum 185/60X14 for the Sirocco - £74

£245 on a Porsche Heater control valve

T2 mot/service and brake overhaul ....

...836 - fucksticks.

I cant bring myself to add up at the mo

T2 new coil - £30

Porsche - k seal - to cure slight dribble £12

And tax for T2 & Scirocco £460

 

Aaaaaargh

[barefoot]

So far...

 

barefoot, on 14 Mar 2014 - 10:17 PM, said:
Porsche tax - £235
Scirocco service - £200
Porsche h/brake adjustment - £ 30
New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£140
New battery for Scirocco - £45
Van insurance - £219
Two new Barum 185/60X14 for the Sirocco - £74
Porsche Heater control valve - Ã‚£245

T2 mot/service and brake overhaul - £836

T2 new coil - £30 

 

 

Porsche - k seal - to cure slight dribble £12
And tax for T2 & Scirocco £460

 

 

MOT and New continental tyre 235/50ZR16 -£187

 

 

£2713 divided by week 25 = 108

 

Bloody worse than last year!

[barefoot]

£90 split water pipe thing.

£180 Porsche insurance

 

£2983 / week 31 = £96.22

[barefoot]

 

 

£2983 / week 31 = £96.22

 

Bet you thought I'd stopped doing this.

 

Scirocco MOT - including a shock absorber & some brake shoes - £284.73

& I'm particularly pleased with this one - Scirocco insurance - comp £250 XS Aviva - £95

[mat_the_cat]

Bet you thought I'd stopped doing this.

 

No, but it reminded me that I'd forgotten to keep it up!

[John F]

Hmm... OK.

 

Common costs:

Multi-vehicle insurance: £550-ish (for Calibra, Discovery, Maserati and Series IIa 109)

Share of unit costs: £1120

 

Calibra:

MoT £35

Exhaust back box: £60

Two new Nankang NS2s - £102

Calibra Turbo gearchange cage (in preparation for forthcoming engine / box conversion) - £15

6 months' tax: £120-ish (just cashed in with 3 months left to run)

 

Total: £317, with approx: £50 refund to come.

 

Discovery:

Boot floor: £60

Steel for fabricating boot floor sides, etc.: £20

Paint: £6

Clutch: £90

Clutch slave cylinder: £26

Gearbox reconditioning: £430 (ouch!)

P gasket and water pump gasket: £15

Rear prop doughnut: £20

Oil & filter: £40

Front propshaft: £60

Tax: £230

Austrian motorway toll: 10,75 € (= about eight quid)

MoT: £35

 

Total: £1,040

 

Maserati:

Nowt

 

Series IIa 109:

Steel for fabrication: £60

Clutch slave cylinder: £19 (crappy Britpart item, needs changing)

Water pump: £20

Fluids: £20

Sundries: £60

 

Total £179

 

Grand total £3206. Gulp. But the Disco's had a fairly major rebuild, it shouldn't need anything like that much money chucking at it again for a few years... I hope.