My car has been in and out of repairs over the last several weeks. This time is was the parking sensors - I had one replaced two weeks ago and another today. Expensive, but not as horrible as I was quoted elsewhere. I'm just hoping that they stay fixed, at least until after the MOT. (Apparently, the sensors themselves aren't cause for an MOT fail. However, the fact that they cause a light to show up on the dashboard is cause for a failure. Which is... unfortunate.)
Anyway, in preparation for this post I looked back to previous posts about cars, and found one talking about some metrics from near the end of the previous car. So, I'll update those: at the time of writing this I have now been driving for almost 32 years, and have owned cars for 27 of those years. In that time, I've owned five cars, at a total cost of approximately £32,000. That works out as an average of one car per 5.4 years, an average of £6,400 per car, and an average of £1,185 per year. That's all pretty good going, although it of course omits the cost of fuel and maintenance.
I'm now coming up to having completed four years with this car, and somewhere in the region of 50,000 miles. I'm hopeful of getting another two years, and another 20,000 miles from it - but that's subject to the various things that have been fixed staying fixed.
For the immediate term, though, it's been an expensive time!
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