As the title says, things have been a little slow lately, and since I've recorded all of my fuel purchases, as well as most maintenance items, I decided to compile the info. Some of the totals are a little scary to see. Obviously you can appreciate the level of boredom I had to achieve before bothering to do this, but anyway, this is what I've figured out.

My car: the Sunfire listed in my profile and shown below. Mileage as of Dec. 9, 2008 234,884km, or 145950 miles.

Total fuel purchased since new: 17,341.3 Liters, or 4581.1 U.S. Gallons, or 3814.5 Imperial Gallons
Total cost of fuel in Canadian funds: $14,949.34
Overall average fuel mileage: 7.38 L/100km, or 31.9 MPG (U.S.), or 38.2 MPG (Imperial)
Average cost per liter: 86.2 cents (about $3.26 per U.S. gallon)

Maintenance and repair: overall about $3600 to the best of my records and recollections.
Of that:
$870 for oil changes, air and fuel filters, spark plugs and wires (standard maintenance items)
$1500 in repairs (one was $1200 for burnt exhaust valve, and $200 prior to that was my incorrect diagnosis of an injector)
The remainder for other "wear" items, mainly tires (2 sets), wipers, and brakes.

Depreciation is a tricky one - but really unimportant to me, as I plan on being the car's only owner.

I doubt than anyone else has bothered to keep records like this, but I especially found the fact that I've spent more on fuel than the purchase price of the car when new to be interesting. I'm just glad that our current gas prices are helping to pull that average cost back down a little. Last summer was rather nasty - being at upwards of $1.45 per liter on a few occasions ($5.48/U.S. Gallon). Gotta love Canadian gas prices sometimes!

Anyone else as bored as myself?
John

Wow!..........


98 z24, few upgrades, nitrous on the way!

have you managed to go 149k on your stock tires too? if so thats downright amazing!

posCav wrote:have you managed to go 149k on your stock tires too? if so thats downright amazing!

hes had two replacement sets since then ..

reading > you

The car is quite easy on tires - but not THAT easy!

Because I used to have a Buick that took the same size, and my brother also had a Sunfire for 6 years, there was some interchanging going on between the cars over the years. The ones pictured on the car are my brother's originals, and I put about 90,000km (about 56,000 miles) on them while in my possession. I also used my original tires a fair bit (about another 90k), a summer on another set of A/S tires I had originally bought for my brother, and about 34k on the winter tires currently on the car. Even after that mileage, the tread on these still measured 11/32" before the start of the season (13/32" when new). I've probably got another summer left on the A/S ones I used this year, but then I'll be into another set of those too. I like to replace them when they get down to about 4/32", as I do a lot of highway commuting, and we tend to get a lot of rain around here at times. Usually the sun's done a number on them by that time anyway, and new tires are always much nicer to drive on.

John

are you sure you have kept all receipts, or noone else used the car and fueled it?

I have written down everything that has been done in a log book I keep in the car. Nobody else in my household drives manual transmission, and I've done every bit of routine maintenance myself since new.
My brother has driven it twice - but only when following me somewhere in another car I just purchased - so he never left my sight. I have calculated each tankful for mileage - so if I missed something it would have been obvious.
For Christmas I bought myself a new battery for the car. The original was getting a little tired sounding in the mornings, and I didn't want to wait for it to quit completely.
A few of the maintenance items were guessed at for value (lack of receipts, only records of the work), but I feel overall that I am within $100 for accuracy.
Hopefully it will be a while before I have the time to re-analyze everything again. At least now I have an easy spot to work forward from....
John

I got over 100k out of all 4 tires.

When it rained I rarely drove though. Got new High Performance All Seasons so it's good.