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  1. 16th July 2015, 02:47 PM #41
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    Guys run your vehicles like a business


    CAPEX - what you spend cash on purchasing outright. Vehicle (cash buys), accessories.

    OPEX - what you spend keeping it running. Fuel, insurance, consumables(servicing, tyres, brakes etc)

    Depreciation: don't calculate on some guideline like 15% value loss every year. Calculate the Asset value.

    Asset value: At any specific moment in time if you sold the vehicle, what is it worth? (Including accessories bought under CAPEX) Does every cent of sale price estimate come back into your pocket? or what's left to go into your pocket after loans are paid out? It can be a negative number (sale price won't pay off the loan!)

    Now add CAPEX and OPEX, subtract Asset value and divide by KM or days.... That's what it's cost you.
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  2. 16th July 2015, 03:13 PM #42
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    That's very sensible Neil but I'd prefer not to run something I love like a business, because it might stop me loving it. When I do calculations I do them out of curiosity, or for safety's sake.
    It's a personal thing but I prefer not to rationalise too much. One of my Brothers is a rationalist (or thinks he is), so he has to drive a Land Cruiser.
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  3. 16th July 2015, 03:30 PM #43
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    Quote Originally Posted by cuppabillytea View Post
    That's very sensible Neil but I'd prefer not to run something I love like a business, because it might stop me loving it. When I do calculations I do them out of curiosity, or for safety's sake.
    It's a personal thing but I prefer not to rationalise too much. One of my Brothers is a rationalist (or thinks he is), so he has to drive a Land Cruiser.
    Hehehe way too sentimental there my man. There are days I do the math and if I could make enough to break even by selling my kids for parts....

    (Just KIDDING!).
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  4. 16th July 2015, 06:53 PM #44
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    What app do you have?

    Road Trip. I got the upgraded version that cost a couple of bucks, not the free one.
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  5. 16th July 2015, 08:50 PM #45
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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesH View Post
    Road Trip. I got the upgraded version that cost a couple of bucks, not the free one.
    I use that app, paid version too. It's useful. I track every litre/$ for our vehicles
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    Quote Originally Posted by tact View Post
    Hehehe way too sentimental there my man. There are days I do the math and if I could make enough to break even by selling my kids for parts....

    (Just KIDDING!).
    I'd sell my kids for parts but they wouldn't fit anything. Then there's the problem of who's going to keep the Defender running when i get to rickety.either
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  7. 16th July 2015, 10:31 PM #47
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    the real cost of owning a 110

    the wife

    but i keep the 110, so the jokes on her
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    Quote Originally Posted by cuppabillytea View Post
    I'd sell my kids for parts but they wouldn't fit anything. Then there's the problem of who's going to keep the Defender running when i get to rickety.either
    hahaha ...

    I just drove mine and worked all day with no issues ... NO COST !!! lolol
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