All the people I work with and my neighbors are on their second or third
cars. Total cost for two brand new cars is in the range of 40-65k plus
interest cost for some...... they always tease me about my car is under
repair most of the times ....but I tell them in 12 years since I owned
the car, I have not put 50-60k plus interest cost into repairs ......I
feel I am ahead of this game.
On the other hand, there are business tools to answer this question
under a lot of best guess estimates .... My gut reaction from the worst
to the best case is about above average cost but slowly decreasing over
time to a reasonable amount. For example, last year on the 300 TD total
cost was $250, year before $800.00 and this year so far $1,261.00 an
average of $770.00 dollars driving 30k a year. .0257 cost per mile.
If I figure in a engine overhaul, $1,000.00 per cylinder plus others
additional the estimate is $6,000.00 next year ...which comes out to be
average of $2077.00 per year or .069 per mileage
Take the cost of a purchase of another MB ..... and you can do the
math and estimate repair cost
Bill
1981 300 TD
p.s. major work is done in Canada like $1,261.00 bill at a MB dealer
Price quote in New England was $2,200.00 to $2,500
Take a vacation, have the car repaired and return home is about
the same in the USA .... beware, dollar is falling .... I started this
when $1.00 USA dollar
is equal to $1.55 Canadian, now it's $1.00 USA dollar is $1.145 Canadian
plus the %15 tax
Shop rate MB dealers in Canada is about $85.00 USA dollars per hour
Rick Knoble wrote:
With all due respect, a cheap BMW is much more expensive. ;)
I can second that!
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
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