E30 Zone

http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/calculator ... rCost.html

Going on theis years reciepts it will cost me:
£3211 per year
£267 per month
25p per mile
or £10.29 per day.

I remeber working mine out at approx £220 a month, which is roughly what you'd pay to buy a brand new corsa before paying ins/tax and petrol.

I know what i'd rather have!

1226 py
102 pm
20p pmile
23.6 per day of use (it's a 3rd car)

actually I got that wrong - I use it a lot more in the summer
11.8 per day of use (if 2 days a week)
7.86 per day of use (if 3 days a week)

I just sold my '88 325iSE, and after a year's pleasurable use of it, got back practically all the money I put into it (except the petrol/insurance/tax)

I think my prices were bumped up by a BMW garage service, and the amount I've spent on parts!

Just this year I've bought 4 tyres at £50 each and a new battery.

I don't plan to ever sell it either, so I put that I'd get back what I sold it for (which I could right noew if I broke it for parts!)

£40 a week on petrol, and so far spent £300 on replacing knackered parts.

Not an e30, but gives you some comparison. Audi 100 s4:

A year: £ 2140
A month: £178
A mile: £ 0.21
Per day of use: £6.86

Doing 10k miles a year at 25mpg.

(I think i have consciously lied about that MPG figure, its about 20 )

its best not to think about it!!!! i chuck £80 a month in her in fuel. plus an inspection every year + oil change + crypton tune.

the car doesnt cost alot the run, but all the chrome cleaner is the real expense

march109 wrote:http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/calculator ... rCost.html

Going on theis years reciepts it will cost me:
£3211 per year
£267 per month
25p per mile
or £10.29 per day.

My fuel bill for the year is nearly that after working it out

depends how often you use it, i use mine everyday so £40 a week is ok. i get just over 200 miles on a full tanker wen petrol costs 85ish p a litre

cliffybabe wrote:the car doesnt cost alot the run, but all the chrome cleaner is the real expense

I thought the real expense was getting those three girls to apply the chrome cleaner

where's that picture of a girl washing the BMW with that crop-top when you need it?

oh well - here's how the French do it
WARNING - this link is unsuitable for anyone under 18 or having an easily offended nature.
http://www.tuningfever.com/Photos/u_1596/8871_med.jpg

My 206
A year £6484.29
A month £540.36
A mile £0.36
A day £17.81

I want an e30 so bad!!!!!!!

Too bloody much according to the worlds most depressing site there!

Spill alex

cliffybabe wrote:the car doesnt cost alot the run, but all the chrome cleaner is the real expense

how many miles do you get to per gallon of chrome cleaner?
i prefer not to work out how much my car costs to run as it wont be cheap

spence_star wrote:depends how often you use it, i use mine everyday so £40 a week is ok. i get just over 200 miles on a full tanker wen petrol costs 85ish p a litre

Thats not a lot at all mate!

At the moment on my disco my lpg is up sh#t creek and thus im on normal petrol. £15 sees about 55 miles....and thats without towing.

Geoff wrote:

spence_star wrote:depends how often you use it, i use mine everyday so £40 a week is ok. i get just over 200 miles on a full tanker wen petrol costs 85ish p a litre

Thats not a lot at all mate!

What should a normal 325 get out of a full tanker costing £40??

Mind you i have had the head skimmed on mine.

This is for my E39 530i Sport bought last week:

A year: £ 4352
A month: £ 362.67
A mile: £ 0.44
Per day of use: £ 11.96

Does not seem too bad

Does anybody have a link to the samaritans ? I need it after the world most depressing website there, no wonder i'm skint !

I didn't think mine was too bad, but its gonna cost me in the end, mine was based on me doing 16000 miles a year, tho last year I did 22k in my vecrta. Hoping to get another car so the sport isn't a daily driver then I can get all the work done on her I want withought worrying how I'll get to work.

However as I'm looking for new suspension, service, exhaust, itg filter, zone chip, bbtb ect next year with my new reciepts and mileage (less than 3000) and only weekend usage you can expect my costs too shoot up per mile and per day! Plan to spen around £1500-£2000 on her between this summer and next and take her off the road all winter (unless it snows!).

e30's can be expensive to run if you need a lot of maintenance which they all do at some stage they don't cost a fortune once they are right mine has only needed oil and filter twice in the last 8000 miles and now new wishbone bushes but the cost of getting a sub £1000 car really right is frightening in many cases.

spence_star...
325 touring, used everyday for work, £40 = 220 miles ish!

FUEL ECONOMY ON A 325 SHOULD BE 25-30MPG WITH MIXED USE tourings are worse cos heavier and different diff early cars seem to be better on fuel in my experience.

pnd wrote:FUEL ECONOMY ON A 325 SHOULD BE 25-30MPG WITH MIXED USE tourings are worse cos heavier and different diff early cars seem to be better on fuel in my experience.

I can get 27mph ffrom my 325i auto tourer

A year: £1,542
A month: £128.51
A mile: 0.51p

i get about 55miles to a tenna
not sure what mpg that works out at??

or 2mpg if going to tesco pumps

dazleeds wrote:i get about 55miles to a tenna
not sure what mpg that works out at??

or 2mpg if going to tesco pumps

i get the same which works out to be about 21/22 mpg

so mines no worse than others then

Ha ha, wouldn't want to work out the costs of either of my cars!!!!! That would just be silly!!!!! Calculator probably doesn't count that high!!

All i know is i spent over £600 on petrol in Feb!!!!!!

miniblob wrote:All i know is i spent over £600 on petrol in Feb!!!!!!

that is disgusting!!

i'd be interested to see your figures, especially the division of mine and tee's wages for keeping your cars on the road!!!

miniblob wrote:Ha ha, wouldn't want to work out the costs of either of my cars!!!!! That would just be silly!!!!! Calculator probably doesn't count that high!!

All i know is i spent over £600 on petrol in Feb!!!!!!

surely most of that was in the 8series