http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "How running car costs £130 a week" en Sun, 31 May 2026 17:31:24 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47739 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:49:22 +0000 amir 47739@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or a pedal car? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47733 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:36:53 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 47733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I partly justify the cost as £65 <em>each</em> for me and my other half as we only have the one car...</p> <p>I need to get a classic car which 'increases' in value to cancel out the running costs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47729 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:27:41 +0000 Smudge 47729@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting :-) imho well worth utilising the fuelly site to track any trends (we use noticeably more fuel over the winter months for instance)and letting others see a "real" consumption figure for the vehicle type.</p> <p>Still a quite scary set of numbers. Makes me wonder what else one could do with £130 a week! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47728 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:26:18 +0000 recombodna 47728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>16 year old Transit van. £64 per week plus many many hours stuck under it with a welder............ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47726 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:19:05 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 47726@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow, just worked mine out...</p> <p>Mini Clubman S</p> <p>Fuel £2792 pa (according to fuelly average of 29.3mpg and 12,000 miles (though I think we do about 5-6mpg better than that)<br /> Insurance approx £250<br /> VED £115<br /> Finance about £3600<br /> (no maintenance/MOT/servicing costs - new motah)</p> <p>Gives me... £129 per week.</p> <p>I'm so average it's scary. Although that doesn't include depreciation, although Minis do better than most for that, especially if you get them in the right colour - this is our third, and the first (ONE - red) did brilliantly 4 years after buying it (lost £3k?); the S (blue) wasn't as great after 2 and a half years; but the Clubman is in white (both wishing we'd actually gone for the blue again, but for resale the white is spot-on). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47724 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:08:13 +0000 Smudge 47724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Amir you need a bigger hill ;-)<br /> Home down to the station is an *easy* 40mph+ in places, mind you, going back up it on the way home is a little slower :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47723 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:01:49 +0000 DaveC 47723@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My bike costs me an extra 40p a day in fuel... 2 more bread rolls with my soup.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47722 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:00:41 +0000 DaveC 47722@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to tail (well not quiet) HGVs on the A14 each way. 56mph, gave me 50mpg easily, and if I really fethered the peddles, I could get +60mpg. I wasn't in the fast lane being strssed and could enjoy the radio and chill before work.</p> <p>I serviced my car yesterday. The lock on the front passebnger door needed replacing as it wouldn't open. 5 hours of work, £100 lock and service consumables cost me £473.18.... Ouch!! But then I gave a wry smile when the guy in the garage asked me to clarify the 238,018 miles on the clock. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47721 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:56:48 +0000 amir 47721@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah - bikes are pretty good on fuel. Though the commuting bikes use quite a few ml of oil per year. I can't get mine to go much over 40mph though (downhill - I am not Kaputnik). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47720 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:45:40 +0000 Smudge 47720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's pretty good (depending on the type). One of the reasons we bought our current one (2 litre turbodiesel) is that it will manage a fairly standard 40mpg on short hop cold start town work (about the same as most small hatches!) yet will do 60mpg on a long motorway run. iirc our best over a tank was around the 70mpg mark but that was a long gentle run so relatively exceptional.<br /> Now I've started logging it online it's becoming a bit of a challenge to get a better mpg figure each tank. (managed 72mpg out of the bike last fill up, whoo-hoo! lol)</p> <p>Mind you, I reckon the Surly is still a good deal easier on the fuel... except on the days wher the after run top-up consists of a single malt ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47719 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:40:38 +0000 amir 47719@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think my car will do about 58 mpg or so on good country roads at about 50 to 60mph. On the motorway at 60 to 70 mph that shrinks to about 52 mpg. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47718 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:30:21 +0000 Smudge 47718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course the other problem is that even when people ignore all the "hidden" costs and just consider the cost of fuel they still tend to chronically underestimate the fuel consumption of their vehicles, I calculate the mpg figures probably every second tank to keep an eye on things, and if you had asked me I would have said they both do about 60mpg, over the last few days I did it accurately and over months of useage and the car does just under 50mpg, the bike just over 60mpg... so I do the sums and *still* get it wrong by 10mpg :-/</p> <p>Yet still I meet people who never actually calculate their mpg yet insist their car will do "an easy 60mg" at 80mph on the motorway... (which is in 99.9% of cases utter rot, as well as obviously illegal) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47717 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:15:02 +0000 Baldcyclist 47717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wifes car, brand new Fiat 500, comes in at<br /> £159pm - cost to rent including servicing etc.<br /> £20pw - fuel<br /> £28pm - ins<br /> £30py - tax (sorry VED!)</p> <p>All in £62 per week, bargain!</p> <p>My car unfortunately probably costs an awful lot more! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47714 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:55:32 +0000 DaveC 47714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep prior to moving back up here My costs were:</p> <p>Car - £6k over 6 years = £1K<br /> Fuel, 30k mpa (@50mpg Ave) = £3k<br /> Service x3 @ ~£330 = £1k<br /> Timing belt (every 2 yrs) = £0.150k (Topup cost on service split over the 2 years)<br /> MOT = £0.06k<br /> VED = £0.14k<br /> Insurance = £0.5k<br /> Tyres @~£80 each corner = £0.32k<br /> Others (non annual - Exhaugst etc) = £0.3k per year<br /> TOTAL = ~£6k<br /> Thats ~£115 a week</p> <p>This doesn't include my ECU which dies at 120k miles costing £1.1k at the dealer, washing it, and hoovering all the many tonnes of broken biscuits my two son's lost behind their seats!!!!!</p> <p>We lived 30 miles from Cambridge as housing was vastly cheeper, and it was a dual carrage way nearly door to door. Cambridge has a disconected transtport system and it was actually cheeper to travel by car than train, plus more convenient. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47710 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:08:10 +0000 Smudge 47710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Although 130 is probably pretty b***y conservative! Our family diesel averages a sniff under 50mpg (properly calculated) and not that heavy useage, over £1600 this year already just in fuel...</p> <p>Try a look at fuelly.com for an interesting view of how much fuel vehicles <em>really</em> use. :-o</p> <p>Of course that ignores wear and tear, depreciation, servicing/repairs etc etc</p> <p>That 1.5 to 2K tourer starts to look like budget transport, even when you do keep buying goodies for it B-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47705 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:43:42 +0000 spitters 47705@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Title on the story should be<br /> "How running <strong>new</strong> car costs £130 a week" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4499#post-47690 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:54:18 +0000 chdot 47690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Drivers are now paying an average of £128.64 a week to run a new car, while those with a used vehicle are still forking out as much as £52.75 a week.</p> <p>The investigation, by motoring organisation the RAC, found that depreciation – how much value a car loses over time – had risen most rapidly, up 16.67 per cent over the period, followed by insurance, which was up 14.38 per cent.</p> <p>Fuel was 12.4 per cent higher than a year ago, while maintenance costs, on average, were 8.8 per cent higher.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/how_running_car_costs_130_a_week_1_1979727" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/how_running_car_costs_130_a_week_1_1979727</a> </p>