cars..

[ablaze]

how expensive are they to run!
were looking to get a small car wen craig passes, (think corsa pueguot golf) his insurance will be around £1400 cos of his age mainly but what bout mot.. road tax petrol etc

 

[FEDup1981]

MOT about £50 a year. Tax Around £130-50 a year, - petrol - £30 week i put it, just to run about in,
And repairs, theres always something needs doing - but u cant predict the cost on that one!

 

[Amanda]

If he gets a smaller car, the road tax will be less. Mine is a bigger one, so it costs is £110 every 6 months, so think of that as £20 a month.

As Fedup says, MOT is around £50, although if you shop around you may find one for £35, and that's once a year. Then you've got the cost of any repairs needed to get it through.

We also use about £30 a week on petrol and do about 5000 miles a year, so you should be able to work out about how much you'll use from that.

I've always had older cars and bought them outright, but then ended up spending shedloads on repairs for them. So this time, we went to a dealer and bought a car that was only 3 years old on finance. Yes, I pay £115 a month over 4 years for it. But I have not had to spend a penny on it since I bought it - apart from a new wiper blade when I tried to use them to de-ice the car!!! And the piece of mind I have with young kids in the car knowing the car is a good one is priceless. I'm sure you'll remember my disaster coming back from Chester Zoo 2 years ago? 6 hours at the side of a motorway with a 9 month old and no milk wasn't fun!!!

Saying that though, my friend bought that car off me for £400 and she loves it and has only had to buy a new radiator in all that time!

 

[Linzi]

we have a 2001 fiesta. we had it serviced & MOTd about 4 weeks ago and it cost us £800 (net). 2 new tyres, new brake cylinders, new license plates, oil refil, 4 hours labour. They arent cheap things sometimes.

Having said that my old car barely cost me anything in service & MOT... just depends on age, how you treat it, how many miles etc.

Our road tax is £140 per year, OHs insurance is £660 (just dropped at lot coz he turned 25), we used about £35 worth of petrol a fortnight, he drives about 13 miles each day through the week and we potter around at the weekends.

Alo might be worth keeping in mind that new corsas have an offer where you cn get free insurance for a year if youre over 19. If you can afford it might be worth looking into.

Theyre expensive but we couldnt do without ours now.

xxx

 

[mynnx]

there bloody expensive.. i have a small car.. infact its a ford ka...

This month alone it has cost us £150. not to mntion an extra £80 last month for tax... ths month ive had mot.. which it failed on a rear coil spring so had that changed.. and my insurance renewel!

They are expensive and if your on a tight budget i seriously wouldnt bother.. there has been times were i thinnk its best if i didnt drive! xx

 

[mynnx]

oh and i forgot to mention the preparation stuff i had to buy for the mot.. it needed new tyres and strutt (someting to do with suspension) on one side! that altogether was couple of hundred! xx