Pete M wrote:

Chris Whelan wrote:
Pete M wrote:

[...]
The oil gets changed a couple of times a year. The Bentley goes for a
full service about once a year, and minor service maybe every 6 months..


Be interesting to know what the running cost per mile is :-)

Worked out a while ago that the Bentley is a lot cheaper than a new
diesel repmobile to run provided the mileage is kept low. £250 a year
fully comp insurance, "B" service is around £150, "A" service around
£450. Does between 12-18 mpg and hasn't depreciated at all in 2 years.
Bought for £21k with 12,400 miles on the clock, now on 17,400 miles and
still likely to fetch £21k as it's still perfect and still very low mileage.

Even the best diesel repmobile will lose around 35% of its value in the
first couple of years.

Supposedly a cast-iron investment in rep-mobile terms.... my Passat was
offered to me by the lease company for £6.9k.

That's around 34% retained value, in 3 years. Trade price is a good
grand and a half under what they offered it to me for, too.

Needless to say, I declined their 'generous' offer.
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SteveH wrote:
Pete M wrote:

Chris Whelan wrote:
Pete M wrote:

[...]
The oil gets changed a couple of times a year. The Bentley goes for a
full service about once a year, and minor service maybe every 6 months..

Be interesting to know what the running cost per mile is :-)
Worked out a while ago that the Bentley is a lot cheaper than a new
diesel repmobile to run provided the mileage is kept low. £250 a year
fully comp insurance, "B" service is around £150, "A" service around
£450. Does between 12-18 mpg and hasn't depreciated at all in 2 years.
Bought for £21k with 12,400 miles on the clock, now on 17,400 miles and
still likely to fetch £21k as it's still perfect and still very low mileage.

Even the best diesel repmobile will lose around 35% of its value in the
first couple of years.

Supposedly a cast-iron investment in rep-mobile terms.... my Passat was
offered to me by the lease company for £6.9k.

That's around 34% retained value, in 3 years. Trade price is a good
grand and a half under what they offered it to me for, too.

Zackly. Yours wasn't a bad colour either. 100k miles or so, first of a
new shape and a 'prestige brand'. Yet £5500 is what they'll be all over
the place for soon enough. £18k new?

Needless to say, I declined their 'generous' offer.

Bloke with the Bentley and Jensen knocks about town in disposable motors
that tend to cost £300-400 quid. Runs them for a year or and flogs the
remains for £300-400 quid when something more interesting comes along.
His girlfriend uses his Clio diesel or his MX5 for her daily wheels.
Having driven the Clio I have to agree with his description of it "Cost
me a couple of grand a year ago with 120k miles up it (It's a 54 plate
sporty looking but dCi job), has averaged 57 mpg ever since, but what a
disaster to drive".

Happily, the Jensen has gone up in value by approximately the amount
he's spent on it in the last 4 years and after the incident in the MOT
station in July will be back from the bodyshop next Friday with a load
of new bodywork and paintwork done at the expense of the muppet with the
dodgy Megane and his insurance company...


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Pete M - OMF#9

BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Renault 30 TX Auto

"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:55:54 +0100, Adrian wrote:

Pete M gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

At which point, the costs will be HOW much...? Going to be a LOT of
miles before that's down to "merely astronomical"...

It does nearly 12 mpg now. That's bloody good for an Interceptor.

MMmm.. And how long will it do 12mpg for, before something else demands
substantial cash injections...?

It's happily managed to run for a whole hour before breaking down. I've
managed a 15 mile run in it with no issues...

Then again, there isn't much left which is likely to cause any issues.
It's had a new starter, alternator, discs, pads, shocks, gearbox, carb,
battery, coil, plugs, leads, dizzy cap, rotor arm...

So just the rest of the running gear, bodywork, electrics...


"When it;s back from the bodyshop"

"Duncan Wood" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

So just the rest of the running gear, bodywork, electrics...

"When it;s back from the bodyshop"

A little light panelwork and paint doesn't stop structural crustiness,
y'know...

Adrian wrote:
"Duncan Wood" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

So just the rest of the running gear, bodywork, electrics...

"When it;s back from the bodyshop"

A little light panelwork and paint doesn't stop structural crustiness,
y'know...

It's structurally sound, which is a bonus...

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Pete M - OMF#9

BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Renault 30 TX Auto

"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"