End of tax year fuel records

[SteveH]

Well, for 2006/2007...

I spent £3901.61 on 4310.72Litres of fuel to travel 16,450 miles, so according to my maths the beast churned out 17.35mpg (thats 0.35mpg more economical than last year, must be the Swissol wax )

Just goes to show, don't believe the DIS, according to that, my average is normally over 20

[RSVI]

I can't compare but that sounds quite good.

But then i read the last sentence, DIS says average of 20+ mpg but fuel bills say 17 mpg.

My DIS is reading 16.7 ! ! don't think I'll work out my fuel bills when they come in.


When you think about it, £4000 in a year on petrol is crazy .......

You could have got loads of beer instead, what a waist

[Daveperc]

You could have got loads of beer instead, what a waist

Not sure which pun wast intended - was it "what a waste?" or should it have read "gut loads of beer??"

Either way 3 pints every night would be nowhere near as much fun as 15K miles in the RS!!

Dave

[RSVI]

lol! ! !

You can't win with GRAMMAR and SPELLING on this site


I did prefere my saxo site where no one picked up on my spelling and grammar (that was a joke before you ask)


Haven't you got any work to do!! ?

[bogie]

pah - only £4K ...my fuel card bill is around £12K a year...thanks to the RS6 !!

[RSVI]

pah - only £4K ...my fuel card bill is around £12K a year...thanks to the RS6 !!

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OMG that's 3 tanks a week and at least 700 miles.

Are you sure or you in another world?

[bogie]

thats right - 3 tanks a week...or fill up every other day if I go into the office (150 mile round trip)...sometimes more if I go anywhere long distance at weekends !
..its done over £4K in servicing/consumables in the last 11 months

..Im afraid Im having to trade it in soon - if I keep it for longer it will be worth nothing with the mileage im doing...also have only used the back seats 2x in the last year....will have to come back to one when I start a family

[SteveH]

I know what your saying about mileage and cost... thankfully my annual mileage has now halved since i secured a project closer to home, previous year was nearly £8K in fuel, cushioned somewhat by my employer paying for all fuel, so I pay 40% benefit to Gordon Brown on my cost of fuel used (cost to me therefore £1560 for this year) and then claim back my business mileage (havent worked it out yet but should be around 10,000 miles at 40p/m so £4000@40%= £1600 so overall it should ballance out at free fuel for the year).

Worth every penny!

[bogie]

Yeah - I do the same Steve....usually by the time my tax return is done, they end up owing me a few quid and Ive had free fuel

[SteveH]

Aye, has contributed nicely to the "SteveH Car fund (registered charity!)" over the years instead of having the company car. First year it will have ballanced out, I was initially worried that I would owe for the first time.

[bogie]

same here....having a car allowance + fuel card works out better for me than having company car and paying tax on the fuel benefit that way....car allowance buys car (well contributes anyway), free fuel...then just pay running costs

[SteveH]

Prior to the RS6 I ran two brand new TT's (consecutively), at that time my car grade would have provided me with a really exciting Ford Mundane Ghia; Incorporating all running costs and depreciation after selling both I cleared a small profit in comparison to the income tax that I would have paid , I could'nt believe it when I did the factual maths, as before I originally opted out, my forecast maths predicted that it would cost me a couple of grand a year overall in comparison to the Co Car. Business mileage claim helped this a lot, as my forecast was with less mileage, yet the depreciation on the TT when I sold them wasn't affected very much at all with 30'odd thousand miles a year I was putting them through.

After that, when I was looking to change TT again to something else and also getting a theoretical Co. car upgrade I looked around the market and was gobsmacked when for my money I could buy a used RS6 practically outright, no lease, no lengthy finance deals Happy days!...

Its bizarre that with my business mileage dropping off, in the short term I'm actually worse off; but I won't bother trying to do the quantum physics equation of how this ballances out with the benefit of less depreciation on the RS6. Am perfectly happy with my lot, my dilemma is what to do next year, as I plan to change the car in Spring '08. A long time to think about that though... Could get a diesel fiesta and spend all the £'s on beer as RSVI suggests

[bogie]

Sounds familiar - the Sagaris is actually the GF daily drive and technically her car....my Elise was originally a lease car with full maintenance, my car allowance bought it over a 4 year period and the maint package saved me £14K over 4 years (!)...the bought the RS6 on part finance, again with the car allowance.

I moan about the costs, but its been awesome over the last 12 months and technically 'only' costs me consumables/servicing and depreciation i.e. no fuel or purchase costs

sadly the time has come to say goodbye - ive only used the backseats twice in the last year and putting 25-30K miles on it is not doing the resale anygood

[confusionhunter]

Could get a diesel fiesta and spend all the £'s on beer as RSVI suggests

LOL..... Ive already done that..... I bought a Polo Tdi a couple months ago which normally return about 60MPG... I took it to MRC for a remap and its pretty mental I have to say(for a 3cylinder 1.4!) even with my Heavy right foot and illegal sppeds it never returns less than 44mpg and if you drive like polos were intended to be driven it gets 57mpg!

Doug was so impressed he went out and bought his own....lol...(no joke!)
Look out for the new range of tuning products for 1.4 3 cylinder TDIs from MRC!!!!
lol.....

[SteveH]

Superb, I'm looking at a BMW Dakar bike that delivers 70mpg for the odd commute; wonder if doug can work any magic on that!?