Yearly cost of running your car

CrackisWhack

-Insurance €600 per year
-Tax €500 per year
-M50 toll €1000 per year
-Petrol €70 per week * 52 = €3640
-Service €400

= €6140 €118 a week!

Jesus, It's not really worth driving anymore!

EPM

I just worked out my fuel bill alone and it's about €25 north of your total cost!

You also forgot about depreciation.

Ardennes1944

Tax=550
Tolls=50
Petrol=45 x 52=€2340
Service=150
Insurance=1300

€3,990. ouch

Raskolnikov

-Insurance €450 per year
-Tax €75 per year
-Tolls €100 per year
-Petrol €35 per week * 52 = €1820
-Service €250 per year
-Depreciation €400 per year

= €3,100 a year, or thereabouts. All I can say is thank God I drive a diesel and pay tax abroad.

Raskolnikov

EPM wrote: »

I just worked out my fuel bill alone and it's about €25 north of your total cost!

You also forgot about depreciation.

What kind of mileage are you doing in a year?

Tax - €1000
Insurance - €300
Petrol - €3000
Tyres - €250/€300 (two a year we'll say as I do 10,000miles/annum)
Servicing - €150 (self service so that's decent oil, filters and long life plugs)
Other - €300 (pads, battery, exhaust bit, whatever over a year)

Depreciation - €500 we'll say

Deutschlandfürimmer7

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

Tax=550
Tolls=50
Petrol=45 x 52=€2340
Service=150
Insurance=1300

€3,990. ouch

............ + €80 for the stereo

Cionád

Tax = €614
Insurance = €440
Diesel = €1,450 (10,000 miles, 1,000 litres @ 1.45/litre)
Depreciation = 0
Service = €40

Total = €2,544 ( €7 a day)

Ardennes1944

RoverJames wrote: »

............ + €80 for the stereo

.....+ VAT! :pac:

naoise80

Here's a spreadsheet I made up a while ago. Just fill in the blue cells.

It's scary.

EPM

Raskolnikov wrote: »

What kind of mileage are you doing in a year?

About 60k km

conzy

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Tax = €48
Insurance = €125
Diesel = € <700
Depreciation = +750-1000
Service = €100

Total = € flip all!

What do you drive? Clio 1.5DCi or something?

keithclancy

Insurance 48/month
Tax 110 / month
APK (NCT) 4.16 /month
Incidentals (Tickets etc) 80/month
Repairs: circa 40 euros / month
Fuel: 310 /month
Maintenence: 33/month * Excluding tyres

625 / month.

Thats not even taking Depreciation into account.

I get 35c/km back in my taxes in one direction only to work, thats 128km/day, 4 days / week, 4 weeks roughly .... 614 euros

So i'm ALMOST breaking even, although the car will cost more to get rid of let alone sell when I'm done with it

Ardennes1944

some old fiat more likely

DoesNotCompute

Great thread, the missus is at me about buying a car, maybe these figures will dissuade her!

yupyup7up

Insurance - 750
Tax - 500
Fuel - 1600

total = 2850 + any work to be carried out, nct, service etc...
I only really drive to work and dublin/lahinch on occassion tho!

Mr Benevolent

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Tax = €48
Insurance = €125
Diesel = € <700
Depreciation = +750-1000
Service = €100

Total = € flip all!

What are you driving?

Mine:

Insurance: €1450
Petrol: €20 per week
Depreciation: €0 (got it for less than it's worth)
Service: €80
Tax: 170ish
Bits & Bobs (emergency stuff, big toolkit): €200
Total: €2940

keithclancy

Confab wrote: »

What are you driving?

I'd say a 1.9TDI VAG

challengemaster

EPM wrote: »

I just worked out my fuel bill alone and it's about €25 north of your total cost!

You also forgot about depreciation.

I wouldn't count that as a yearly running cost tbh. Technically speaking, you're not actually losing/using any money. I just ignore it tbh, the more you think about it the worse it gets. Tis why when it comes to getting the car I eventually want (370z gt special version) I won't give a fcuk about anything bar the smile on my face

Tax: 333
Insurance: 800-1200
Petrol: I'd say in the region of 3k
NCT: 50
Service: 150
Other: ~600

~€5400

yay :cool:

Daegerty

Tax = 450
Insurance = ~660
Tolls = ~10 a year

Petrol = could be 30e one month and 150 the next

maintainence = few 100e per year, including 1 oil change and whtever else goes wrong with it

NO depreciation as my car is worth a negative amount of money

challengemaster

keithclancy wrote: »

I'd say a 1.9TDI VAG

Try a classic porsche

DoesNotCompute

yupyup7up wrote: »

Insurance - 750
Tax - 500
Fuel - 1600

total = 2850 + any work to be carried out, nct, service etc...
I only really drive to work and dublin/lahinch on occassion tho!

+€100 bribe for NCT staff :pac:

Mr Benevolent

challengemaster wrote: »

Try a classic porsche

Wait, a classic diesel Porsche?

keithclancy

Raskolnikov wrote: »

-Insurance €450 per year
-Tax €75 per year
-Tolls €100 per year
-Petrol €35 per week * 52 = €1820
-Service €250 per year
-Depreciation €400 per year

= €3,100 a year, or thereabouts. All I can say is thank God I drive a diesel and pay tax abroad.

Yeah .. I'd save around 700 / year using my German Address as my Primary Residence.

But then it would completely wipe out the tax rebate I get on my mortgage.

keithclancy

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Correct!

Must get a bit cold

michelledoh

I just bought a car a month ago and so far I've had to pay:
€1000 = insurance
€200= tax
€50= NCT

plus the cost of a new tire and maybe a battery! And that is before i drive it out the gate!

petrol €30 x 4= €120 (at least its fuel efficient)

Zubeneschamali

S-Max running costs about €8500, depreciation €6500, total €15K per year.

Mini running €2500, depreciation €2000, total €4500 per year.

Total for 2 car household: €19.5K

If you're not including depreciation, you're doing it wrong. Finance, too, if you're paying it.

Marty McFly

Tax: 614
Insurance: 850
Petrol: About 3000
Service: 250
Annual cost of loan: 4,200
Typres: 300, two new front tyres.
Toll: Rougly 600 for the year

Total: 9814

:eek::eek: why did i bother working that out, I dont even want to factor in depreciation costs now:(

C4Kid

Here's a spreadsheet I made up a while ago. Just fill in the blue cells.

It's scary.

Thats pretty cool, Just this morning I was working out the total costs of having a petrol vs a diesel version of my car over a year to see if I should have gone diesel. That Excel document is very handy, way quicker too:)

Tax €333
Insurance €1116
Servicing €150
Fuel €2464
Depreciation €250

Total running costs = €4063 OR €338 per month

Daegerty

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

S-Max running costs about €8500, depreciation €6500, total €15K per year..

How does that thing end up costing you so much?

dell1211

Jeep:
-Free as it belongs to the company

Weekend Car:
-Tax 1,566
-Petrol 10k miles @25mpg 3,000
-Insurance 850
-Servicing 1,500
-Depreciation 8,000

Ardennes1944

dell1211 wrote: »

Jeep:
-Free as it belongs to the company

Weekend Car:
-Tax 1,566
-Petrol 10k miles @25mpg 3,000
-Insurance 850
-Servicing 1,500
-Depreciation 8,000

that car sounds interesting what is it?

ShadowHearth

dell1211 wrote: »

Jeep:
-Free as it belongs to the company

Weekend Car:
-Tax 1,566
-Petrol 10k miles @25mpg 3,000
-Insurance 850
-Servicing 1,500
-Depreciation 8,000

Some weekend car... I barely do 10k miles on my work/home runaround...

Wile E. Coyote

Tax - €450
Insurance - €450
Petrol - €5,200
Service - €150
4 Tyres * 2 a year - €800

Total - €7,050

Owen

Tax: 172
Insurance: 300 ish
Petrol: About 1500
Service: 100-150

2122 for the year approx.

Zubeneschamali

Daegerty wrote: »

How does that thing end up costing you so much?

Buy anything that size new and then drive 30000 km a year, those are the kind of numbers you'll get.

Big Nasty

Repayments should be included to no? I don't have any anyhow!

Insurance €600
Tax €1566
Petrol €3600
Tolls €50
Service €300
Misc €300
Tyres €300
Deprec €300
Repayments €0

€7016 / €135 per week.

Lucky I don't do big mileage!

vectra

Insurance €420
Tax € Free
Diesel €3,000 Less rebate = €2112
Tolls €Free
Service €120
Tyres €220
Deprec €0,000 Actually worth €7,000 more now than paid for it
Repayments €4k

Leaves me being up €138 P.A

How did that happen :P

Vicxas

Tax - 650
insurance - 1500
petrol - 3840
service - 500
eflow - 960

Grand total - €7450.... kill me.

mickdw

vectra wrote: »

Insurance €420
Tax € Free
Diesel €3,000 Less rebate = €2112
Tolls €Free
Service €120
Tyres €220
Deprec €0,000 Actually worth €7,000 more now than paid for it
Repayments €4k

Leaves me being up €138 P.A

How did that happen :P

Yet when I called cars bought under that scheme 'free cars', you called me crazy

cianclarke

My Octavia RS actually pays me €5,000 a year.



I don't actually own an Octavia RS. I don't even want to think about how much the E46 sets me back every year..

Mr. Manager

Tax - €600
Insurance - €850
Diesel - €2,080
Service - €400
Toll - €600

Total cost = €4,530

€12 Per day

macroman

Insurance: €1098
Tax: €614
Tolls: €1500 (€30 a week)
Petrol: €4300 (€80 a week)
Maintenance: €450

Total: €7962 per year and that doesn't include buying the car!

CrackisWhack

I must say, I'm very suprised by some peoples very low weekly fuel bills!

Wetbench4

Tax - €550
Insurance - €300
OH insuramce - €280
Petrol - €2080
Service - €250
Air freshners - €50
Tires - €125

Total - €3635 or about €70 a week

Not too bad i suppose, looking at some of the other posts but i only drive about 8k miles a year, thank god

Nonoperational

Tax €614
Insurance €900
Service (essential) €200
Non essential / preventative work €500
Tires €270
Fues €3000
Cleaning €500

€5984. That's a bare minimum. I reckon I didn't suffer much depreciation this year as I got the car at a good price, maybe about €1k max. Next year that will be about €2-3k.

Big Nasty

vectra wrote: »

Insurance €420
Tax € Free
Diesel €3,000 Less rebate = €2112
Tolls €Free
Service €120
Tyres €220
Deprec €0,000 Actually worth €7,000 more now than paid for it
Repayments €4k

Leaves me being up €138 P.A

How did that happen :P

Remind me what you're driving vectra?

vectra

vectra wrote: »

Insurance €420
Tax € Free
Diesel €3,000 Less rebate = €2112
Tolls €Free
Service €120
Tyres €220
Deprec €0,000 Actually worth €7,000 more now than paid for it
Repayments €4k

Leaves me being up €138 P.A

How did that happen :P

mickdw wrote: »

Yet when I called cars bought under that scheme 'free cars', you called me crazy

Note how much my repayments are.
That doesnt make it free.
Also
If i keep it longer than 2 years it costs then

But to backup what i said
free = someone giving you a car for 2 years.

*EDIT*
I forgot to add the cost of speeding tickets :mad:

vectra

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Remind me what you're driving vectra?

An ould diesel with a big boot and the letters vRS on it

C.D.

As below from my car cost comparison sheet. I drive this and expect it will be worthless in 5 years, hence the high rate of depreciation. Worked out cheaper than buying any of the diesels I was interested in, what with the crazy prices these days.

[IMG]http://dog-gaming.com/images/Car cost.jpg[/IMG]

Big Nasty

The more I read this thread the less guilty / stoopid I feel about driving a luxobarge. My running costs work out at €135 a week and there's plenty on here with basic cars costing much, much more to run when you include depreciation.

V8 all the way - I is happy!