For maintenance and repair related costs, you can just go through your service records. Add up the costs for a full cycle of services and divide by the mileage to get a cost per mile. For things like tires, divide the cost of replacing the tires by the number of miles you get out of them. Same with brake pads. Fuel cost per mile is easy to calculate.
Need buttistance with auto expenses 2296It depends on your car...during the first hundred thousand miles of my geo metro, the expenses of everything from 2500-mile oil changes and tire replacements to...
Other factors can be calculated similarly. But note that many of them have both ownership costs (that you pay even if you hardly drive the car) and operating costs (that count up as you drive the car). If you do not drive much, many maintenance services must be done based on a time limit rather than mileage, so they become more of ownership costs than operating costs at low mileage per year. Depreciation and insurance have a large fixed component per year, but may also be affected by the miles you drive. Of course, ownership costs can be eliminated if you reduce your driving so that you no longer need the car and can sell it.
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