dreamer_girl

I put money aside for it each month but since I've owned it (October 2006) I haven't spent much on it;

£300 road tax
£1500 insurance (£88/month)
£25 seat covers (for muddy days) and about £15 for some rubber floor mats
$390 (about £200 ish) for sump guard & rear diff guard
+ the monthly loan repayments

But I put £260 aside each month for it; don't seem to be spending that so far!

It'll be due new tyres in the next 3-4 months, and I might buy a back box for it.

totalllama

Lets see, to buy, insure, fuel, service and road tax the monthly figure is ~820pm. Annually that is of course £9942! (20k/py mileage, 25 yo driver with 3ncb)

Wish I hadnt done that now - imagine the house I could have!

michaelro

Isn't £1500 per annum more like £125/month

AlexJReid

Not had it a year so don't know. Car not used for commuting so fuel costs only about £20-30 a week.

Since it arrived in April:

£800 insurance
£200 tax and registration etc
£300 alarm
£150 service and inspection

Next month:
£250-ish new front discs and pads and fluid
£500-ish new clutch as juddery and biting point very high

rossyboy

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Essentials only:

Insurance £550
Tax £100 (only use for 6 months)
Service £100-200 (one per year)
MOT £100
Petrol £750 (3k miles)

Total £1600 - £1700

Thats actually made me quite happy

Graz

Currently racking up around 25k a year is my poor old classic, so:

Tax £190
Insurance £1300 (dodgy post code )
Tyres £400
Servicing £1000
MoT £40
Petrol ~£4300

Total £7230

jay paul

yep if ourlass found out she'd hit the roof and me probably

Echo

I reckon with depreciation, insurance and fuel, about £12k a year.

That's based on 43,000 miles a year though!

chrisola

my local subaru specialist charges £100+ vat for a minor service.

Since i've had my classic (18months) =

£543 major cambelt service, including fitting a cat back exhaust
£300 exahaust mod
£130 minor service
£150 2 rear tyres (front at just about due now)
£800 insurance

Pretty good considering the power, plus the tyres had been on sice about 35k (previous owner fitted them, i bought the car with about 55k on ) its now on 70k miles.. most of which are me going round the Evo triangle!

brakes are still great, clutch feels good...

main cost is petrol imo... spend time and buy a good low mile one, best £ per smile for reasonable cash!

1 year ownership of my previous saxo VTS (64k miles on clock, i did about 6k) cost me:

£170 servicing
£150 brakes
£150 tyres
£100 new cat (it failed)
£50 new headlight (it failed)
£700 insurance
£100 new radiator (it failed)
£100 front suspension (it failed)

and

£800 for new engine & clutch (inc labour) as it randomly blew up.

T5NYW

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absolutely no idea if i did I probably wouldn't own one let alone four

Tony