Thread: The truthful, honest cost of owning your vehicle.

Interesting, how have you come up with that figure ?


That includes,
Servicing,
parts,
any breakdown costs and repairs.


Have you included things you bought because you wanted them , like offroad tyres, roofracks,bullbars etc or not.


Seems expensive if its just the day to day maintainance /repair cost not including the main 3.


Cheers Ean

seems in the ballpark to me,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

seems in the ballpark to me,,

The Lemon clause doesn't count


Cheers Ean

no,, but Mrs Pedro does

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

no,, but Mrs Pedro does

A price cannot be put on the happiness of the Mrs... Happy Wife Happy Life.


I am just interested in the way the cost was calculated, if you do the work yourself, do you put a figure on the hours worked, and at what price.


Many years ago the government commissioned some bean counters to do a study on the true cost of our prawn fishery and maintaining vessels , the study basically fell down because the single or dual boat owner did things far cheaper than the company fleets purely based on what the single boat owners did themselves , compared to paying multiple tradesman to repair a vessel.


The only time a person other than me has put a spanner on my D3 was either before I bought it or to do a wheel alignment , yet it gets serviced before the recommended Kms and I have changed things like gearbox oil when its not even a recommended item with the kms it has on it. I have purchased a spare alternator , waterpump , belts , water inlet housing I carry with me whenever I travel , they are still in the box but are they included in the cost.


To me that sounds expensive unless you start to include items that the car doesn't need but you buy them for your own reasons, ie bullbars, a set of offroad tyres , and include things like that mentioned above.


Want to compare apples with apples is all im saying




Cheers Ean

Your calculator is busted.

157 000km / $30 456 = 5km/$ or 20c/km

you leave my calculator alone.....its perfect

It's my brain thats busted......you are correct.

I suppose that there will be a formula for this somewhere . I would think that you have to start right at the beginning . Cost of the vehicle , plus on road , stamp duty , rego plates , insurance ect. Then is there Finance ? That will incur interest . So now you can start , The longer you have It the more It will depreciate , add to that the original cost on any loan is going up . Look at It over the fist year . The value has gone down , plus running costs for the year . Fuel plus anything else you've spent . Now you can start to do the sums . The second year will change , as will every other year until It only has scrap value . Luxury vehicles are even worse !!.. Jim