How much your car costs you?

[T_J_G]

Yeah although I'm significantly poorer swapping my 30 mile round trip commute to a 100 mile round trip

[JMallows]

I actually keep two spreadsheets for both cars, and put in all monies spent on everything, from fuel to purchase price to service,tax, insurance etc... I also put in the miles every time i spend, and for the two cars i then can work out the MPG each time i fill up (can be useful for diagnosing probs too like when the brakes were binding, the mpg went down by 10mpg so i looked into it!) .

For the Golf i have spent 33p every mile i have covered, and since 2005 when i started i have averaged 32mpg, in 2009 average price per mile was 12p, now it is 19p.
For the Fox, i have spent £1.80 every mile, but that does include the cost of the csr too, and it is coming down very quickly. Average 43mpg

I can provide a copy of the excel if anyone wants to be as sad as me and keep track of everything?!

[scarr89]

^ That sounds like a really sensible thing to do...I may consider this. Could still do with the the mileage off the V5 and then some rough guesstimates on the fuel costs...

[Gavv8]

I think if i owned a new car i might be interested in doing this over a year or 2 to see how it goes but my car is 16 years old now and i can't be bothered.

[Gti_Jamo]

I bought a Mk3 Gti in September for £235......

My spending on it since has topped £2k and it ain't even seen the road yet 

Don't dare ask me to make a list of purchases.....

I really should be in a straight jacket!!

[Dolly]

i just stick in the go go juice and be done with it.

Drive the 1.3 ibiza like a little old lady

Drive the 8v Gti like i stole it

it all evens its self out 

[Wayne]

This year so far the Octavia in fuel, insurance and repairs etc has cost me £552.01, miles covered so far 995 this is up todate @ the end of April.

As for money spent since buying it, giving up keeping a record now.

[T_J_G]

995 is two weeks driving for me!

[jnufcuk]

My first golf cost 3800 sold for 1300, got 1.8t for 2700 then insure 900 and that's were I'm going to stop 

All I know is its cos me ££££££££££ but puts a smile on my face every time I get init and it's not even mapped yet 

[ToddyGTi]

My current ABF Cordoba

£425 Purchasing
£55 MOT
£55 Servicing
£0 Tax
£640 Insurance P/A
£3000 Fuel P/A

£4175

The New Cordoba VR6

£750 Purchase
Tax'd and MOT'd already.
Insurance covered under above cost as it's trade policy.
£1,000,000,000,000,000,000 FUEL Per Month LOL