I consider my car fairly modern but my colleagues think differently, I drive my Mercedes 1997 W210 E420 to work daily and clock about 30.000mls a year on it.
bought it for 1250€ 4 years ago and did not use it much until last year june I got rid of my company lease car.
So last year I spent 1800€ on a LPG install (it then had about 320.000kms on the clock)
300€ on coils (as they kept dying on me and it has 8)
25€ on plugs
3 oil changes, so about 100€
one wiring harness plug in the gearbox replaced for 40€
had it diagnosed a few times to find out which coil was broken for about 100€ in total
and 2 new part worn tyres, fitted for 70€
totally 610 euros and probably some things I now forget.
At the moment it needs 4 tyres and a gearbox oil change, but that'll have to wait untill payday.
fuel cost arent too bad as it does about 24MPG on LPG (12L/100km) which costs 0,50€ per liter and 0,30€ just accross the border in Belgium
I got fed up with the coils breaking all the time though but recently did some adjustments that seem to work well. Biggest problem was the LPG installer not following the installation manual, so next time I will do that myself as well.
The only issue for me is that it costs me a lot of time to do all the maintenance myself.
still think it was a good decision to get rid of the company car which cost me 300€ in taxes a month and I got a raise after I handed it back. Also I now claim my miles to work at 0,19€ per km which works out at 25€ per day. Financially I could not have made a better deal.
bought it for 1250€ 4 years ago and did not use it much until last year june I got rid of my company lease car.
So last year I spent 1800€ on a LPG install (it then had about 320.000kms on the clock)
300€ on coils (as they kept dying on me and it has 8)
25€ on plugs
3 oil changes, so about 100€
one wiring harness plug in the gearbox replaced for 40€
had it diagnosed a few times to find out which coil was broken for about 100€ in total
and 2 new part worn tyres, fitted for 70€
totally 610 euros and probably some things I now forget.
At the moment it needs 4 tyres and a gearbox oil change, but that'll have to wait untill payday.
fuel cost arent too bad as it does about 24MPG on LPG (12L/100km) which costs 0,50€ per liter and 0,30€ just accross the border in Belgium
I got fed up with the coils breaking all the time though but recently did some adjustments that seem to work well. Biggest problem was the LPG installer not following the installation manual, so next time I will do that myself as well.
The only issue for me is that it costs me a lot of time to do all the maintenance myself.
still think it was a good decision to get rid of the company car which cost me 300€ in taxes a month and I got a raise after I handed it back. Also I now claim my miles to work at 0,19€ per km which works out at 25€ per day. Financially I could not have made a better deal.