My Annual Running Costs

[Matt]

thought i'd share just for info as i'm going through the car file on this wet afternoon..

Car bought in Sept 2003...
I've done about 12k miles in that time, split approx 30/70 track & road...
Costs: 2 sets of tyres, 1 clutch, 1 set of front discs, 2 sets of pagids, routine servicing and fluid changes - total of £6000 in maintenance - working out at approx 50p per mile

Spent another £1500 on cosmetics. £800 a year on insurance. About £4000 on track days. God knows how much on optimax...

I reckon thats fairly awesome for a 15 year old track car - especially considering my Audi S4 had lost £14k in 9 months when I traded it in last week..[]

This all allows me to justify the car with the war office if ever required - "darling it only costs me £75 a week to run" []

 

[clubsport]

Matt, surely once you allow for the "appreciation" of your car you have covered running costs and depreciation on the S4 (sounds like a later B7 version[] Ouch!!!)

 

[Matt]

Paul - yep it was current model V8 tiptronic jobby - absolutely awesome to drive whether cruising or cracking on..took it to bedford in the dry and it was scaring elises - round the corners... great on motorways and in the wet just faultless. V8 noise epic as well.

the downsides were an average of 19mpg (motorway driving), 200 miles between filling up, and rollercoaster depreciation..

i will defo miss it...but getting 500+ miles from a tank of diesel from the little audi a3 i'm in at the moment makes the S4 seem a bit excessive..

 

[SimonExtreme]

Looking at just the cost is totally wrong! You need to balance the books with the appreciation offsetting costs. I suspect that would mean that the next owner is actually paying you to drive the car[]

 

[Melv]

Yeh but Matt -if you bought it in '03 it must be worth almost double what you paid for it.......so, as Si says, just put that into the equation.....[][][]

Even with my engine rebuild, minimal costs are still in the black!!

And put the price on reliability. Apart from the no. 5 bearing going, I have only lost part of two track days in seven years of track daying due to mechanical probs -rocker follower breaking and brake pipe leak...not bad!!