Car Tax Due!!
13 May 2011, 09:20 PM
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Car Tax Due!!
And it's gone UP!!
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Damned Tories!!
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It's now £115!!!
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Mind you, I could have bought a car where the request would be for £460!!
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Damned Tories!!
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It's now £115!!!
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Mind you, I could have bought a car where the request would be for £460!!
13 May 2011, 09:26 PM
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13 May 2011, 09:43 PM
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I'm just not paying mine this year. I'm going to use the money I've saved to replace the passengers side suspension arms for the second time in three years thanks to our wonderful potholed roads.
14 May 2011, 12:12 PM
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14 May 2011, 12:37 PM
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I would favour the Tax going on fuel .... the lobby against is too strong I'm afraid
I'm about to buy it online right now. I do look back nearly a year when I was looking to buy a new Impreza STi and one of the stumbling blocks was the fact that I would, 12 months on, be looking to pay £460 - and how would I feel about that?
Well, I would feel pretty sick I guess .... putting that fact against what the extra fuel would have cost me in that time too!
So, £115 it is then ..... better than it could have been!
I'm about to buy it online right now. I do look back nearly a year when I was looking to buy a new Impreza STi and one of the stumbling blocks was the fact that I would, 12 months on, be looking to pay £460 - and how would I feel about that?
Well, I would feel pretty sick I guess .... putting that fact against what the extra fuel would have cost me in that time too!
So, £115 it is then ..... better than it could have been!
14 May 2011, 04:53 PM
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Pete you are a couple of years away from your wooden overcoat, you were waving your wedge around one here the other day about the scale of your investments and you are today you are whinging about your £115 road tax. Would have thought a man of your means would have £115 lying about in your change jar.
You crack me up man....
You crack me up man....
14 May 2011, 06:21 PM
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Pete you are a couple of years away from your wooden overcoat, you were waving your wedge around one here the other day about the scale of your investments and you are today you are whinging about your £115 road tax. Would have thought a man of your means would have £115 lying about in your change jar.
You crack me up man....
You crack me up man....
I'll give you a tip - if you spend less money than you need to, you get wealthy
14 May 2011, 06:42 PM
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Why do you still come on here? I presume you like performance motors? In this day and age nothing is cheap. I wouldn't be happy paying that for a van.. sorry civic, you may as well drive something quick and take the outgoings on the chin.
Petrol is a joke at £1.40+ for super unleaded but if you do 12,000 miles a year which is around the average mileage for most people it isn't that much about £160 a month which is less than 5% of our joint income so it's not that bad in the grand scheme of it. Servicing costs is more expensive than I'D like and don't get m on food shopping.
Petrol is a joke at £1.40+ for super unleaded but if you do 12,000 miles a year which is around the average mileage for most people it isn't that much about £160 a month which is less than 5% of our joint income so it's not that bad in the grand scheme of it. Servicing costs is more expensive than I'D like and don't get m on food shopping.
14 May 2011, 07:26 PM
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14 May 2011, 07:32 PM
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Why do you still come on here? I presume you like performance motors? In this day and age nothing is cheap. I wouldn't be happy paying that for a van.. sorry civic, you may as well drive something quick and take the outgoings on the chin.
Petrol is a joke at £1.40+ for super unleaded but if you do 12,000 miles a year which is around the average mileage for most people it isn't that much about £160 a month which is less than 5% of our joint income so it's not that bad in the grand scheme of it. Servicing costs is more expensive than I'D like and don't get m on food shopping.
Petrol is a joke at £1.40+ for super unleaded but if you do 12,000 miles a year which is around the average mileage for most people it isn't that much about £160 a month which is less than 5% of our joint income so it's not that bad in the grand scheme of it. Servicing costs is more expensive than I'D like and don't get m on food shopping.
Add £460 Car Tax and £550 a year Insurance.
That's a basic annual cost of £4477.
Do the same maths for the Honda Diesel and you get an annual cost of £1750.
Now, this is not including the massive depreciation on the STi - I would imagine a loss of £10,000 in the first year?
Yes, I can afford the financial hit ..... and I would, if it was worth it - it isn't!! Simple as that. It has no quality about it whatsoever .... it's fast to the rear of the next queue - granted - but that's it! One trick pony as I said - but the financial hits come again and again and again.
14 May 2011, 07:35 PM
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