Have you any idea what your car has cost you per mile?
Have you any idea what your car has cost you per mile?
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Nedzilla

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2,439 posts

191 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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I was just looking at my 'current fleet' car which is a BMW E46 M3 cab in my PH profile garage whilst replying to another post and noticed the breakdown of running costs per mile based soley on depreciation and fuel costs.
Ive never really taken much notice of this before and was quite shocked to see it had cost me 69p for every mile covered just in depreciation and fuel!

I thought i would have a quick add up of of all the costs involved of owning an running my current car which I have had for the last 4.5 years to get a better idea of what it has REALLY cost me.

This included:

-Depreciation
-Fuel
-Insurance
-Tax
-Tracker subscription
-Tyres
-Servicing/parts/repairs

I have calculated to as close as i can that it has cost me £39k in total to cover 38k miles in four and a half years.
That works out at £1.02 for every one of the 38,000 miles covered!!

I know it is probably not one of the cheapest cars to run but it is by no means one of the most expensive either,but just over a pound a mile really does make you realise just how expensive running a car is these days.

I best not complain though,im looking to sell it in a few months time and buy myself a nissan GTR......should be interesting.

Cheers.


Harji

2,223 posts

178 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Using the road trip app in the iPhone my Legacy so far costs 11.7p a mile. No expenses apart from bulbs and tyre repair.

Not bad as my commute us 116 miles a day.

Classic Grad 98

25,711 posts

177 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Diesel Mondeo has costed about 24p/mile over 25k miles and 3 years, including everything in the OP's list

djglover

424 posts

234 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Oh yes, I really am that Anal

My old diesel octavia cost 28p per mile (an '05 bought in 08 and sold last month)
I'd forecast my e90 330i to be 38p per mile over 3 years of ownership

Crusoe

4,100 posts

248 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/costs/car-running-costs...

£2.33 per mile in the GTR though sure you can go through lots more fuel and tyres if you use it hard.

Nedzilla

Original Poster:

2,439 posts

191 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Crusoe said:
http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/costs/car-running-costs...

£2.33 per mile in the GTR though sure you can go through lots more fuel and tyres if you use it hard.
yikes

to3m

1,228 posts

187 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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BMW 320d (owned Oct 2006 - Jan 2011) - £0.48/mile (all costs); £0.22/mile (fuel and repairs).

(All costs include every last car-related penny I spent, all added together, minus the amount I got in exchange for the car at the end.)

BMW 330d (owned Feb 2011 'til now) - £1.22/mile (everything); £0.24/mile (fuel and repairs).

(All costs include every last car-related penny I spent. I haven't sold it yet.)

"Fuel and repairs" is probably a better way of comparing cars, though I do quite like to track the cost per mile of absolutely everything...

Fastdruid

9,113 posts

169 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Ignoring tyres and servicing the RX-8 has cost £0.90/mile in depreciation and fuel at *current* fuel prices.

Quite scary to think I've gone through £12500 worth of petrol in the Mondeo (at current prices) but again ignoring servicing and tyres that comes out at £0.20/mile.

Dave Hedgehog

15,306 posts

221 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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R32 cost me 93p a mile from new for everything.

not bad at all considering it got 20mpg lol and a £450 tax disc

Dave Hedgehog

15,306 posts

221 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Crusoe said:
http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/costs/car-running-costs...

£2.33 per mile in the GTR though sure you can go through lots more fuel and tyres if you use it hard.
a lot more, my friend has one, and on hooning round his local area he tells me it avgs 8mpg over an hour ...

when you say what 40k car to buy people always yell GTR!! but they rarely take into account the cost of ownership

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

282 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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I have absolutely no idea how much any of my cars has cost me per mile.

Maybe ignorance is bliss. Certainly I was much happier with my RX7 after I stopped calculating the mpg.

bullitinhead

295 posts

186 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Just worked mine out

New SLK leased for a year 59 pence per mile
Fuel for 10000 miles
Lease costs
And insurance
Total just under 6K

Bah only money

Bullit

bennyboydurham

1,617 posts

191 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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42p per mile for a late '05 BMW 730d. Not bad per mile, but an eye watering £36,000 over the four years I've had the car!

ETA balls up the maths on my original post!

Edited by bennyboydurham on Saturday 18th February 00:18

supersingle

3,205 posts

236 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Berlingo van around 24ppm over 20k miles. Including depreciation, tax, insurance and maintenance.

ZX12r around 100ppm due to low mileage and high fixed costs. Fuel, servicing and tyres is only around 35ppm. Tyres cost almost as much as fuel! The rest is depreciation, tax and insurance.

You've got to use 'em to get value for money.


Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

200 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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£150 per mile, but I have only driven the car for two miles since I bought it. wink

markCSC

2,987 posts

232 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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No idea what mine costs. But I read an article in EVO that said a Veyron (excluding fuel) costs £40 per mile to run!!!!!

Dave Hedgehog

15,306 posts

221 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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markCSC said:
No idea what mine costs. But I read an article in EVO that said a Veyron (excluding fuel) costs £40 per mile to run!!!!!
http://www.tyrepress.com/index.php?news=18526

24k for a set of rubber, which you can knock out in 2500 miles if you drive like monkey boy smile

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

200 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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Mine's down to £66 per mile. I went to the shop earlier.

Glosphil

4,689 posts

251 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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6½ year old 2-litre Civic bought when 1 year old has cost me £0.30p/mile including ALL costs over 61K miles.

philmots

4,660 posts

277 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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25p a mile in fuel.. Dread to think everything else!