gangitano85
A2OC Donor
Cheap motoring 33p per mile running costs and 33p per mile depreciation. These are historic costs.
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Was diesel really £0.57 per liter back in early 2005?
Cheap motoring 33p per mile running costs and 33p per mile depreciation. These are historic costs.
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Dispensing with a wife and the car is the sensible and cheapest choice.For all you people with spreadsheets I'd suggest you get it password protected pretty quickly. If my Mrs was to find out the real costs there would be a difficult conversation to be had...
2005 was an anomaly. The years are 6 Apr-5 Apr as in the beginning I was working for myself and wanted to align with the tax year.Was diesel really £0.57 per liter back in early 2005?
Oh bitter experience has taught me that paying top dollar for a car - any model - with everything done is far cheaper than buying a cheap one and bringing it up to standard. I’d just not had the money available to do this before when buying other cars in the past - so when I decided to buy an A2 I thought I’d test out the theory by buying the best I could find in terms of condition and spec with all known weak points addressed for £4000 or so once the cambelt and oil chain etc. were attended to.I am keeping a spreadsheet of mine. I am aware that as a petrol, its value (as we speak) is less than its Diesel equivalent. However, I only paid £1000 for a 66000mile car. To get an MOT, cambelt and service etc doubled that straight away. By the time I've sorted the Yaw sensors, and the front suspension clonks (WOM will be doing these) then I will be over triple in total I expect. Then the OSS packed up mid-service (!) so that will need a bit more. I would add I have also replaced all four tyres, powdercoated the alloys and have new Audi centrecaps! So in my naiivity, I still think if I were to buy a 1.4 Petrol with MOT and that mileage (with working OSS as mine was on purchase!) then I am just about breaking even. But then its a car thats sorted (as a 22 year old can be!) not a car purchased for more waiting to have a Yaw sensor go for example. Thats my logic anyway. The spreadsheet is a bit scary when I see how quickly things have added up, but then I also think its still cheap motoring. Next, I will be doing that cost per mile one at the end of the year! Great idea!
The A2 curse . Anyway, the most important thing is that you enjoy the car . And the red colour is just fabulous.The result was that I still vastly over-spent on the car anyway upgrading it further!
Remember the tortoise & the hare.I started keeping spreadsheets for my cars back in 2020. But for my current two, I hadn’t, until today.
The Range Rover L322 I bought blind on eBay, has cost me less in parts in 2 months, than the A2 has in about 2 weeks. And in fairness to the Range Rover, that was just servicing. No breakdowns! The A2 includes a new gearbox.
So I’m going to close that spreadsheet and forget it exists…..