The cost of driving.

[YNCS]

I do my own oil changes, wiper blades, etc. However, I recently had the "check engine" light on my '01 Mitsubishi Eclipse come on. I checked what I could (oil pressure, fluid levels, belts, plug fouling) but couldn't find anything. I took it to a mechanic who hooked the car up to his diagnostic computer. The problem was with the oxygen sensor. I didn't know the car had an oxygen sensor and I certainly couldn't check it's functioning myself.

Nowadays, you need a mechanic to do anything other than the basics on a car. 20 years ago you could buy a kit to rebuild a carburetor. What cars built in the past 15 years have carburetors? None that I know of.

 

[Neomega]

I pay for oil changes, 12.00 or get all oily and make a mess, naw, I cna change it myself, but I'd rather someone else do it.

I bought my Nissan 300zx for $3000.

I refuse to buy insurance, it is my pet local political issue.
I pay about $20-30 a month for gas.

I have had to pay $1900 in repairs over the past four years. (I just had to pay $600 this month, to replace a MAS)

That averages to about $100 a month to own an operating vehicle, (and not a bad one either).

tabs $30 (Do you love Tim Eyeman like I do Mojo? )

That's about it.

 

[Stapel]

For work I drive a 1987 Volvo 740 estate turbo intercooler. I bought it for 2800 euro 2 years ago with 150.000km. I drive 30.000 a year in it
tax: 45 euro per month
insurance: 45 euro per month
Parking, as I live in Te Hague centre: 5 euro per month
Petrol: 1.15 euro per liter 1 liter for 8 km's
Repairs: A LOT! But it is a reliable car.

I drive 60km a day home-work-home and get 125 euro per months for that. Furthermore I get 28ct's per business km.

For the 1967 FIAT, which is used for classical rallies, I pay no tax, only 100 euro insurance a year.
I rent a parking box for 60 euro per month, as I don't want it to rsut away.