oadamo

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do you use your car for work how many miles do you drive and how much fuel do you put in. i drive 55 miles a day to and from work and its costing me about 15 a day does this sound about right.
adam

Followme

500 ish a week for work try not to drive at weekends just clean it.

Mifo

iTrader: (10)

well it was supposed to be a weekend toy but that didnt happen.
I give in to temptation and drive it about 3 days a week. done 12k miles in 10 months just driving for the fun of it.

Mikkel

5 miles a day for work, so it is kind of a daily... and a weekend fun car. I put around £30 a fortnight in, except for those weekends where I do a run up North fishing. Costs me a bt more then.

davmcc75

im currently looking at getting a cheap diesal to run, i currently commute 500 miles a week and its costing about £100 for that. So they are not cheap, I would probably recommend getting a second car for yourself to.

The scooby will then be kept as a practical family car which still offers alot of fun when wanted. I did look at selling the scooby but for what I would get for it, I no longer see this as an option.

Jam Performance

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daily 20mile commute to and from work and gets thrashed at weekends thats what type R's were made for average weekly fuel cost for me is £60 - £80

Blueblaster

Don't remember but given the numbers involved it sounds like something I would have said.

For me it just makes no sense to do big miles in an old Scoob. Things are going to go wrong and the fuel cost is just bananas. I never enjoyed my old STI so can't understand why people love them so much. Maybe that's why I would choose a newer car that is 'better' in every other way rather than pour money into a old Scoob. Horses for courses, but it just doesn't compute.

Alan MaC

It's my own Scoob.


I do around 25,000 miles a year in it.

At the Weekend I put the Hounds in it & drive all over the place.

Great fun, great Motors,


Pity about GBH & the other Masterbaters trying to stop us by way of petrol tax, road tax etc.


Regards



Alan MaC

Blueblaster

Wierd. This post seems to be time travelling. My last post has just been plonked right in the middle of the thread. Conspiracy....mmmm?

Edited to say that so has this one. B*gger

mozzaITA

I use mine only at weekends £20 lasts 2 weeks i guess - i have a manky old TDI to commute to the train station daily. Theres no way i could afford to use the scooby daily

RB5 Boyo

Mines gets very little weekly use....i have a £500 Toyota Carina E for my daily driver, its a 1.6 16v petrol so its livel enough, i get 50 odd miles to a full tank, and its very reliable and never needs anything ....I then get the RB5 out at the weekend and leave the Toyota until Monday Would recommend a cheap runaround to anyone, for £500 sure its nothing

Ved

Well I use mine for work too so I can do anything from zero miles a week to several hundred. I'll do about 18k a year in my STI.

On work time I drive like a pansy doing an indicated 70 on the motorway. When I'm on my own time I drive it properly.

Aaron1978

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mine is purely for fun, i'm lucky enough to have a van provided by work. generaly i use about £30 a week on a weekend as its in the garage nearly all week. if i have to pop to the shops just use the girlfriends 57 reg polo which isn't a bad little car and as someone said above it seems to run on air

Blueblaster

You could always sell the Scoob and buy an economical car of equal value. If you really do cover 500 miles per week then you'll save thousands of Pounds a year in running costs. Why do all those miles in a cheap pile of crap when you don't have to ?

scooblube

Weekend blasts only, maybe 500 miles a year. Garaged all winter. This winter it's getting prepped for TOTB

escott

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The Scoob (Wagon) is used for family weekends away and days out, and of course the occasional drive for no reason at all except to enjoy it.

For knocking around town purposes it's the girlfriends Seicento (Sporting - ha!) which seems to run on air.

davmcc75

I have not long bought my scooby a 96 wrx JDM, and paid £3000 for it, drove it 60 miles and the engine blew. since then I have spent probably about £2500 fixing it. As im in the army I then got posted shortly after fixing it and now have to commute the 500 miles round trip on the weekend. I looked at selling the scooby so i thought after all i spent on it, if I could get £3500 id sell and do as you say get a good economical car, but i never got one phone call. I do not want to loose that sort of money and plus when I am driving the scooby, it feels special, probably the best feeling I have ever had driving a car.

So i would be willing to keep the scooby knowing I have a good one now, and buy a cheap corsa diesal or equivalent to do the sunday night and fri afternoon motorway run.

that way I save thousands on fuel costs and still get the joys of owning and driving the scooby.

If im right i think I was speaking to you blueblaster when I got it after i had broken down and you told me to cut my losses then. does my memory serve me right

Gilesdwrc

Q; how do you use your car?

A; mostly by driving it.

Everyday transport, work ect, ect.

Fill it up once a fortnight.

D.O.M

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Mainly social and leisure...about 70miles per week

Norman Dog

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About 230 miles per week but I pick up a couple of lads on the way to work and get £30 per week petrol money off them, which helps with the fuel costs

ScoobyDoo555

I only do about 130miles per week - sometimes go for a blast at the weekend too. The weekly commute is mostly urban driving - I live in the countryside, and commute to the nearest city (about 12 miles away)

I run an Audi S4. Big 2.7L V6, costs me about £30 a week-ish, tops. Surprisingly, it's not that much more costly to run than my Scoobs were...

Dan |

IainMilford

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50 odd miles to a full tank

I thought scoobs used a lot of fuel but come on .....

I have a 20 mile each way commute to work, mainly motorway driving, do about 200 miles a week for work, bit of running around at weekends and evenings, roughly one tank a week. I ran an MG ZR brfore and that cost me £45 a week to fill up, when fuel was cheaper and I could only just get 300 miles out of a tank, so for all the car I was getting the scoob easily justified itself to me

lordretsudo

Use mine for work occasionally (good weather days), do about 4000 miles a year, get about 20mpg from a tank. I use a 1999 Punto Sporting for work the rest of the time, 40mpg and Scoob stays clean in the garage!

The Trooper 1815

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40 miles a day, 5 days a week and spend about £25 in the Sirion. £35 VED per year too.
The Scooby on the weekends, as was the intention, £30/40.

Bicco

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I`m also lucky enough to have a works van for comuting, and we tend to use the misses 2.2 Astra for shoping etc, so mine is purely a weekend toy, just about to clock 3000 miles in the 7 months i`ve owned it. Generally gets through £30/£40 every time it comes out.

munna

starts in the morning, goes to work, sits until 5, starts goes to my restaurant, sits, starts, goes home, sits..every day 6 days a week..on the 7th day of the week, it sits all day..for the driver is too tired to take her for a good seeing too...!

so all in all, 23 hours a day, she sits sulking..1 hours worth of driving is what she gets, so £20 worth of SUL every week...hence she is up for sale...just a complete waste of time for me to have such a car..i work that many hours, that i do not have time to drive her like my Impreza's of past....

stevie_b

I don't use the car to get to work so it sits in the garage and usually only comes out for an early Sunday morning drive if the weather is nice. This weekend it had the equivalent of a year's normal usage and got through 6 tanks of fuel! I was a bit taken aback when two of the tanks got me less than 100 miles (I worked that out as being less than 8mpg per tank!) but it was the most fun I've had in the car ever, so probably worth it!

Pakolainen

car is used every day, to work, shopping, even moving house.
this week i stuck 50€ in at 1.44€ a litre, managed to get 350 km before the light came on. usuall get around 400 km, or at least did last time and that was when it was 1.54€ a litre.
bought it to drive so might as well.

beef-on-the-bone

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mine has done about 1k since november..................... and it's in one piece and working fully

El Cat

do 30 a day 5 days a week, is my daily commuter! use about £25-£30 for that
depends on where im playing footy ona saturday, if its a 50 mile each way i take the 1.4 fiesta off the missus and save the fuel for a sunday, will be gettinga company astra 1.6 sxi soo nso the scooby will get little use but will be used well when it does get used, was thinking of getting rid of it when i get the astra and getting a robin hood 2 seater(same as caterham and lotus 7 witha 2 litre pinto engine)