DaveinOlyWA
Well-known member
As a 5 time lessee, I have lately begun to wonder if continuous leasing was costing me more money than I wanted to admit so decided to dig out the spreadsheets to see what I have paid over the years.
TLDR; $37,584.33 covering 144,036 miles costing 26 cents per mile. IOW; I just recently paid out slightly more than what my first LEAF would have cost me if I purchased it. Its bad enough that the first LEAF accounts for 45% of that total.
The Dive The above does not include current lease on the Plus (current cost 28.3 cents per mile) or the insurance payout on the S30 which is simply too rare a thing to consider as "normal". It also doesn't include car insurance itself as that varies too much from location to location.
What is in the calculations is payments and fuel costs, both home and public. There were maintenance costs but lost track of the cost and it was pretty small anyway. I purchased a 3 pack of cabin filters and touch paint tube along with a bottle of windshield wiper fluid (still got some left BTW) and 4 sets of wipers (Strangely enough, the 2011 was only LEAF I had more than two years that didn't get a new set??)
So now wondering what others think is an acceptable cost to operate? I can't decide if 26 cents per mile is too much, too little or just right?
TLDR; $37,584.33 covering 144,036 miles costing 26 cents per mile. IOW; I just recently paid out slightly more than what my first LEAF would have cost me if I purchased it. Its bad enough that the first LEAF accounts for 45% of that total.
The Dive The above does not include current lease on the Plus (current cost 28.3 cents per mile) or the insurance payout on the S30 which is simply too rare a thing to consider as "normal". It also doesn't include car insurance itself as that varies too much from location to location.
What is in the calculations is payments and fuel costs, both home and public. There were maintenance costs but lost track of the cost and it was pretty small anyway. I purchased a 3 pack of cabin filters and touch paint tube along with a bottle of windshield wiper fluid (still got some left BTW) and 4 sets of wipers (Strangely enough, the 2011 was only LEAF I had more than two years that didn't get a new set??)
So now wondering what others think is an acceptable cost to operate? I can't decide if 26 cents per mile is too much, too little or just right?