Your fleet running reports

[Beany]

Im Sooooooooo Jealous of your not owning a house and driving an E46 Convertible.....Maybe one day*






* If i manage to fuck it all up

You wish you could win at life so much

[Sundayjumper]

SHOCK NEWS - the Compact failed its MOT this morning.

Well, that's doesn't seem like much of a shock. I should elaborate.

SHOCK NEWS - the Compact failed its MOT this morning, on only one thing, rust on the osr jacking point.

I was expecting far worse than that so this sounds like a win to me !

My first proper event is on the 18th, a bit of welding and I'll be good to go

[integrale_evo]

It's always surprised me how bad they'll let subframe bushes get. I guess because of the way it's held there's no way it can drop out, so as long as there's no metal on metal contact they'll pass even if they feel very loose.

I had to stick a quick patch on my osr jack point after clipping a high curb and ripping the bung out exposing a bit of grot under the underseal.

[integrale_evo]

Been another miserable day, zero progress, during a slight break where the rain turned to drizzle for a while I managed to get the underside jet washed.

No more dirt, just lots and lots of tar spots.

[Gavin]

Having finally batter the shear bolt off and hammered the barrel down I have managed to use a screwdriver to start the car.

Quite impressed it turned over and started immediately after sitting for 6 weeks, just need to get he new barrel ordered and twenty minutes to fit and I can have my Saab back off the Mrs!

[scotta]

Car update - Golf has a fucked water pump. Currently puckered up awaiting the bill after assurance that it was a "Bastard of a job"

Pishfuckery - Parts on back order so not getting it back till next week.

[McSwede]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

[JonMad]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

I've only just about that many miles in a year!

[ste]

Update

'71 Vauxhall Viva HC De-Luxe

Sold 2 weeks ago. Guy came to collect it on Monday.

It's still on my drive.

[integrale_evo]

Today I dug out the bush remover 5,000,000 and stripped the trailing arms.

Bush


Trimmed the mushroomed ends back to allow the receiver to sit on the arm and to make it easier to push through. I found the wire wheel of death very effective although I'm sure a sharp knife would work.


17mm socket at the top, 30mm 6 pointer at the bottom, couple of washers and a length of stud with a nut welded on one end. I don't have a 30mm deep socket so just used this one to get it started as it sat better on the end of the arm. A 19mm socket would be a better fit over the bush stub at the other end but mine was just too wide to fit through the hole in the arm.


Wind the nut and hope things start to move. I found a little heat on the outside of the arm really helped, just 30 seconds or so with a torch was enough. The bush has now shifted


So swapped to my deep 32mm, and pulled it the rest of the way


Tada



I've used hammerite smooth for the subframe and arms, but spotted some gloss black 'tough paint' in Euro car parts, so have given that a go on the diff casing


At 6.99 it was just over half the price of hammerite, seems to cover better, flow better and feels like there's more in the tin, and is supposed to dry quicker. Will be interesting to see how well it holds up over the winter compared to the traditional favourite.

[IanF]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

Is that a typical mileage for you? If so, I hate to say it, but wouldn’t a diesel have made more sense?

[scotta]

Update

'71 Vauxhall Viva HC De-Luxe

Sold 2 weeks ago. Guy came to collect it on Monday.

It's still on my drive.

Have you locked the guy in the boot after he gave you the money?

[ste]

Still hasn't paid me all the money. Mainly because I can't start the fucking thing.

It has always, ALWAYS started first time. Except on Monday when he was stood on my drive expecting to collect it. I'd collected him from the train station so had to drive him home in the end. He still wants it and as he said "It's so simple, there really can't be anything complicated wrong with it". However, it's now Friday and I still can't get it to start.

[ste]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

Is that a typical mileage for you? If so, I hate to say it, but wouldn’t a diesel have made more sense?

A diesel never makes more sense. Unless you have a tractor, or are a lorry driver.

[Sundayjumper]

Still hasn't paid me all the money. Mainly because I can't start the fucking thing.

It has always, ALWAYS started first time. Except on Monday when he was stood on my drive expecting to collect it. I'd collected him from the train station so had to drive him home in the end. He still wants it and as he said "It's so simple, there really can't be anything complicated wrong with it". However, it's now Friday and I still can't get it to start.

After seeing your previous post I was going to do a smart-arse reply along the lines of "did he notice that the engine's fcuked?", then didn't bother.

Looks like I was right....

[integrale_evo]

That will do for today. Hopefully the paint will be dry enough to start putting it back together tomorrow.

As always there's lots of other bits I would love to have done, like the disk backplates, driveshaft boots, caliper rebuild etc, but where do you stop? It was only supposed to be a set of bushes

[Sundayjumper]

My set of cheapie beam & arm bushes arrived today. I'd ordered them in advance of the MOT expecting a massive fail.

Massive fail

[McSwede]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

Is that a typical mileage for you? If so, I hate to say it, but wouldn’t a diesel have made more sense?

Mileage is a little more than expected so far but I've had a lot of meetings all over the country. Funnily enough no, a diesel wasn't the most prudent choice. This is costing me the same or maybe slightly less to run than my C220d. The reason for this is that I pay for my own fuel and claim it back at the government recommended rate. For the Merc I was getting 13p per mile for business miles whereas in the M140i i can claim 22p per mile. The rate on the BMW thus far has meant that it has also covered all my private mileage where as in the Merc there would always be a shortfall. This shortfall is pretty much the same as the extra BIK that the M140i costs me making it cost neutral.

The other factor was that our parent company has a woefully dull car list where I could have the choice of a diesel Passat SE or A3. That list will undoubtedly be forced upon us at some point in the future, but currently I can order whatever I want within the company budget so long as it isn't a coupe or convertible so I got something interesting. I really did assume previously that this kind of thing would be hideously expensive in BIK and fuel costs but when I did a little research i found it to be quite different.

The key factor in this was the engine size/fuel rate combo meaning the M140i running on SUL only at the average rate above I only need to maintain 28mpg to break even. If I'd gone for a Golf R or Audi S3 as a 2l I'd have only been able to claim back 15p per mile meaning I'd need to average 41mpg to break even and I didn't think that was achievable. Another plus point was that the straight 6 sounds chuffing great, has considerably more power, 25%-30% more torque and was RWD.

OV9 - The thrill of calculating running costs

[IanF]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

Is that a typical mileage for you? If so, I hate to say it, but wouldn’t a diesel have made more sense?

Mileage is a little more than expected so far but I've had a lot of meetings all over the country. Funnily enough no, a diesel wasn't the most prudent choice. This is costing me the same or maybe slightly less to run than my C220d. The reason for this is that I pay for my own fuel and claim it back at the government recommended rate. For the Merc I was getting 13p per mile for business miles whereas in the M140i i can claim 22p per mile. The rate on the BMW thus far has meant that it has also covered all my private mileage where as in the Merc there would always be a shortfall. This shortfall is pretty much the same as the extra BIK that the M140i costs me making it cost neutral.

The other factor was that our parent company has a woefully dull car list where I could have the choice of a diesel Passat SE or A3. That list will undoubtedly be forced upon us at some point in the future, but currently I can order whatever I want within the company budget so long as it isn't a coupe or convertible so I got something interesting. I really did assume previously that this kind of thing would be hideously expensive in BIK and fuel costs but when I did a little research i found it to be quite different.

The key factor in this was the engine size/fuel rate combo meaning the M140i running on SUL only at the average rate above I only need to maintain 28mpg to break even. If I'd gone for a Golf R or Audi S3 as a 2l I'd have only been able to claim back 15p per mile meaning I'd need to average 41mpg to break even and I didn't think that was achievable. Another plus point was that the straight 6 sounds chuffing great, has considerably more power, 25%-30% more torque and was RWD.

OV9 - The thrill of calculating running costs

Furry muff!

[mik]

In the month of October the M140i running costs have been as follows....

It's guzzled 534.33l of super unleaded (117.536 gal)
At a cost of £716.76 (ave £1.34 per/l)
Covering 3436 miles averaging 29.23mpg

It's been a riot and I'm loving it. Thankfully i do a reasonable amount of motorway miles which helps the MPG otherwise it'd be dreadful

Is that a typical mileage for you? If so, I hate to say it, but wouldn’t a diesel have made more sense?

Mileage is a little more than expected so far but I've had a lot of meetings all over the country. Funnily enough no, a diesel wasn't the most prudent choice. This is costing me the same or maybe slightly less to run than my C220d. The reason for this is that I pay for my own fuel and claim it back at the government recommended rate. For the Merc I was getting 13p per mile for business miles whereas in the M140i i can claim 22p per mile. The rate on the BMW thus far has meant that it has also covered all my private mileage where as in the Merc there would always be a shortfall. This shortfall is pretty much the same as the extra BIK that the M140i costs me making it cost neutral.

The other factor was that our parent company has a woefully dull car list where I could have the choice of a diesel Passat SE or A3. That list will undoubtedly be forced upon us at some point in the future, but currently I can order whatever I want within the company budget so long as it isn't a coupe or convertible so I got something interesting. I really did assume previously that this kind of thing would be hideously expensive in BIK and fuel costs but when I did a little research i found it to be quite different.

The key factor in this was the engine size/fuel rate combo meaning the M140i running on SUL only at the average rate above I only need to maintain 28mpg to break even. If I'd gone for a Golf R or Audi S3 as a 2l I'd have only been able to claim back 15p per mile meaning I'd need to average 41mpg to break even and I didn't think that was achievable. Another plus point was that the straight 6 sounds chuffing great, has considerably more power, 25%-30% more torque and was RWD.

OV9 - The thrill of calculating running costs

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