Three years of W202 ownership in numbers

[Nasco12]

I am something of a compulsive record keeper:

Mileage then: 131148
Mileage now: 153360
Mileage covered: 22212
Gallons of petrol: 784.40
Average MPG: 28.30
Best MPG (tank-to-tank): 36.65 (I love Germany)
Worst MPG: 21.01
Purchase price: 1900.00
Total cost (including purchase): 14669.26
Budgeted cost: 9411.00
Cost per mile (pence): 0.66
Cost per day (£): 13.50

Breakdown of costs:
Capital (including repairs): 6251.70
Maintenance: 1311.16
Running (insurance, tax etc): 2197.50
Petrol: 4396.53
Tools: 512.37

Big repairs (over £250): Head gasket, various suspension components, exhaust, rust.

Cost in Year 1: 6980.48
Cost in Year 2: 4988.76
Cost in Year 3: 2700.02

The difference in the budgeted cost and the actual cost are mainly down to the cost of repairs. Some of that I can put down to inexperience but a lot was unavoidable. Moneypit? Perhaps, but it hasn't been in the last year.

 

[parvez78]

Are those numbers correct??

 

[Nasco12]

Yes. I've been noting it all down in a spreadsheet since I bought the car. Why? Is there anything suspicious about them?

 

[davethemus]

seems really expensive IMO.

you could have had a brand new E class on a lease deal for 3 year with that type of money.

 

[WOODYTHEWISE]

A better man than I, I think most of us would be shocked if we broke down the cost of ownership. The cost of a new car over three years would be horrendous.

 

[Nasco12]

seems really expensive IMO.

you could have had a brand new E class on a lease deal for 3 year with that type of money.

Presumably there would have been other costs such as petrol, insurance, servicing etc.

 

[davethemus]

Presumably there would have been other costs such as petrol, insurance, servicing etc.

i didn't include the price of insurance and petrol.

i was talking about the £7500 of capital, repairs and maintenance.

just over £200 a month.

 

[Will]

£7.5k in capital and repairs/servicing seems an awful lot in only 22k miles of use?

It's a late 90s W202 C200 - what actually cost that much?

Two services surely + some repairs is all I would have expected in 3 years and 22k.

I've spent about £100 on my 1999 E320 in the last year, admittedly not done 0000's of miles - but, still...

 

[Nasco12]

£7.5k in capital and repairs/servicing seems an awful lot in only 22k miles of use?

It's a late 90s W202 C200 - what actually cost that much?

In approximate order of cost: Head gasket, various suspension components, rust repair, exhaust, front disks and pads, alloy refurb, front springs, ATF change, fuel breather. There may be others I've forgotten about.

 

[Will]

Hate to say it, but the car sounds like it was a bit of a lemon to need that much work/money spent considering the relatively little use the car has had.

At £1900 you would probably have been better off buying another car each year

Even high mileage, older cars that I have used heavily have never needed anything near that much spending on them. Sometimes you get unlucky with a costly component or part failing but not usuly to the tune of seven and a half grand in three years/22k miles on an everyday C200 W202, which are normally cheap/simple to maintain on a budget.

Hopefully you'll have a few trouble free years of motoring from now on

 

[parvez78]

Agree with the others seems expensive..
I've had my w202 around 4 years and realistically spent around 1.2k per annum for insurance, tax and servicing including repairs (mainly consumables) no major repairs