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Right place for this, I don't know.
I was just gobsmacked, I have been logging in an exell spread sheet every time I fill up for the past 10 years or so.
My current spreadsheet is for my Volvo S80, logged since I purchased it Sept 2004.
To date I have spent £10,773 on petrol
plus all the other expenditure, tax, insurance, MOT, servicing, comes to a staggering £23,058.
Now if I hadn't bought the car, (cost £17,000), could be £40,000 better off.
I was just gobsmacked, I have been logging in an exell spread sheet every time I fill up for the past 10 years or so.
My current spreadsheet is for my Volvo S80, logged since I purchased it Sept 2004.
To date I have spent £10,773 on petrol
plus all the other expenditure, tax, insurance, MOT, servicing, comes to a staggering £23,058.Now if I hadn't bought the car, (cost £17,000), could be £40,000 better off.
Well, look at it this way - my train ticket is 3k. So since 2004 that's around 20k (it goes up a little each year of course).. And that doesn't account for car parking (£30-50pcm). And then I don't live within 10ft of the train station, so I have to drive there as well........
Which makes your car a bargain......
Which makes your car a bargain......
Vipers said:
Now if I hadn't bought the car, (cost £17,000), could be £40,000 better off.
No you wouldn't. Not if you lived the same life style you lived using the car. You would still have to get to work, out to the restaurant etc., use trains, taxis, pay someone to do all the stuff you did yourself with the car. I strongly suspect you would be worse off. Vipers said:
Now if I hadn't bought the car, I could be £40,000 better off.
How many miles have you covered in that time? How much would covering the same distance have cost you without owning a car at all? Without walking everywhere, it won't be £40k in your back pocket.
ETA: £40,000 over 80 months = £500pm.
That's not bad at all. It's not too hard to pay more company car tax and fuel benefit than that for a "free" car and "free" fuel over the same sort of period.
Edited by Zwoelf on Friday 13th May 21:33
Vipers said:
Right place for this, I don't know.
I was just gobsmacked, I have been logging in an exell spread sheet every time I fill up for the past 10 years or so.
My current spreadsheet is for my Volvo S80, logged since I purchased it Sept 2004.
To date I have spent £10,773 on petrol plus all the other expenditure, tax, insurance, MOT, servicing, comes to a staggering £23,058.
Now if I hadn't bought the car, (cost £17,000), could be £40,000 better off.
£2.3K a year in motoring? my next service is going to cost that much.I was just gobsmacked, I have been logging in an exell spread sheet every time I fill up for the past 10 years or so.
My current spreadsheet is for my Volvo S80, logged since I purchased it Sept 2004.
To date I have spent £10,773 on petrol
plus all the other expenditure, tax, insurance, MOT, servicing, comes to a staggering £23,058.Now if I hadn't bought the car, (cost £17,000), could be £40,000 better off.
Mr GrimNasty said:
Vipers said:
Now if I hadn't bought the car, (cost £17,000), could be £40,000 better off.
No you wouldn't. Not if you lived the same life style you lived using the car. You would still have to get to work, out to the restaurant etc., use trains, taxis, pay someone to do all the stuff you did yourself with the car. I strongly suspect you would be worse off. 
eldar said:
Try having kids. Just don't keep a spreadsheet, that is too depressing.
Had 3 wonderfull children, daughter 40, just given us a grandson 8 weeks ago, born in Sydney so he is an OZ, one 37, gave us a granddaugher 3 years ago, born in Vancouver, so she is Canadian, and my son 29, who is now off the hook as first sister had given birth to a boy, so our surname will continue (there are not many Goff's around - check your local phonebook) and agree they are bloody expensive to say the least.Bottom line is, they were expensive, and STILL are expensive.
I had my little Ford Fiesta converted to run on LPG as I was doing loadsa miled commuting to London and back, about 160 miles a day.
When I sold the car with 155,000 miles on the clock (bought with 25,000 miles showing), I worked out the total consumption for 130,000 miles.
If I had left it just running on normal unleaded, my fuel costs would have been about £20,000.
I actually spent just £12,000 on LPG.
The conversion was £1,500, so I saved £6,500 in fuel
Food for thought.
When I sold the car with 155,000 miles on the clock (bought with 25,000 miles showing), I worked out the total consumption for 130,000 miles.
If I had left it just running on normal unleaded, my fuel costs would have been about £20,000.
I actually spent just £12,000 on LPG.
The conversion was £1,500, so I saved £6,500 in fuel
Food for thought.
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I had my little Ford Fiesta converted to run on LPG as I was doing loadsa miled commuting to London and back, about 160 miles a day.
When I sold the car with 155,000 miles on the clock (bought with 25,000 miles showing), I worked out the total consumption for 130,000 miles.
If I had left it just running on normal unleaded, my fuel costs would have been about £20,000.
I actually spent just £12,000 on LPG.
The conversion was £1,500, so I saved £6,500 in fuel
Food for thought.
yeah but had your circumstances changed again, you could have been £1500 out of pocket struggling to sell a converted fiesta.When I sold the car with 155,000 miles on the clock (bought with 25,000 miles showing), I worked out the total consumption for 130,000 miles.
If I had left it just running on normal unleaded, my fuel costs would have been about £20,000.
I actually spent just £12,000 on LPG.
The conversion was £1,500, so I saved £6,500 in fuel
Food for thought.
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