Real world cost of owning a class c - ouch!
I just sold my class c after 7 years of ownership. Since I have all records and an accurate depreciation cost (buy-sell) I thought I would calculate the real world cost of use. The costs outline...
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SkiMore wrote:
Thank you for posting the numbers. Interesting and eye opening. Would you mind sharing your fuel cost? You say fuel was the biggest cost by a large margin. At 9mpg and fuel at $3.50 a gallon it works out to be about the same as the depreciation you quoted.
At 65 nights per year it sounds like you got more use than a lot of people from your RV. I have neighbor that uses their RV about 7 nights a year. I'd hate to see their cost per night number.
I didn't average any where near 9 mpg. My travel log included annual mileage and fuel costs for many stops, but not all.
To calculate my total fuel cost I took the mileage for each year and multiplied by the average cost of fuel we paid for the year, the average fuel cost was just eye-balled but it will be very close.
We burned about $32K in fuel over the 68,500 miles. Whenever I spot checked mileage it was usuallyaround 7mpg. If you reverse engineer the mpg from my numbers using $3.35/gal the result is 7.1mpg.
