philipjohnson82 Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 So, having seen a lot of you have extensively clean / modded cars, do you stick to just the one car, or do you have a daily driver that leaves your e46 as a weekend toy? Mine is a W-plate Laguna 2.0 as i clock up 600 miles a week commuting to work, which would be just too expensive in the 330. Paid £950 for it in June 2009 and so far i've had 28,000 trouble free miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan316i Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 Use the 316i daily But with my future plans and £57 per fill up a diesely weasly runabout is on the cards! Mate of mine has offered me a 1.5 Straight Diesel s***roen Sexo for sod all Over 500miles to a tank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterH Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 Mine is just a weekend/social car. I have a 50cc Gilera runner moped to get to work haha It's like changing from the tortoise to the hare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyZ Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I ll bump this instead of a new one Are they a false economy ? (daily drivers that is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlpearce Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Entirely depends on your circumstances. Add up how many miles you do a year, then times that by your fuel cost. Add into that tax, insurance and MOT and get your total. The pick a daily, figure out the same as the above, if the difference covers the cost to buy and run the daily and leaves you with some money in your pocket, then you have your answer. Or just buy a 328, M3 Evo and VX220 and try running them all until they bankrupt you, like me MICK 330 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyZ Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Haha, the daily would be a £200 Fiesta so everything would be cheap, I am just not sure if its worth it :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M3NXN Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I saved money on insurance alone by getting a daily. Insuring my M3 as my daily vs taking out a multi-car policy on my Audi and my M3, I pay less for the multi-car than I did on just the M3 alone. No limited mileage or any restrictions. I'm saving masses of money on fuel by running the Audi as a daily and if I like I can SORN one car and tax the other, if I chose to run the M3 in the summer and Audi in the winter for example. I can't drive both cars at the same time so I'm only ever fuelling one car at a time, so for me yes it is cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holdawayt Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I drive my 330ci daily. At 22 on an apprentice wage it's a bit of a squeeze sometimes but it's no worse than my old mk2 golf Gti. I do have a pug 406 hdi that would save a ton of money to use daily but i couldn't insure both. It's currently sat on my drive gathering Saharan dust! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlpearce Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I saved money on insurance alone by getting a daily. Insuring my M3 as my daily vs taking out a multi-car policy on my Audi and my M3, I pay less for the multi-car than I did on just the M3 alone. No limited mileage or any restrictions. I'm saving masses of money on fuel by running the Audi as a daily and if I like I can SORN one car and tax the other, if I chose to run the M3 in the summer and Audi in the winter for example. I can't drive both cars at the same time so I'm only ever fuelling one car at a time, so for me yes it is cheaper. Who's that with pal? I could do with something similar so i can stick a track car on it for getting to and from tracks. Plus i thought it was the law that if a car is down as insured, it has to have tax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRyan Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Drive my 330 daily at the moment and doing around 600-700 miles a week I get my petrol expensed which is ok but I still hate throwing the miles on. I normally have use of a work Skoda but not for the next few weeks, so unfortunately it's getting a beating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuBeeDoo Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I'm not into full-on modding, and I don't have time at weekends to blat about for the hell of it, so I can't justify having a car as a *toy. *Unless you count my collection of 50-odd slot cars. Many, many years ago I had an Avenger Tiger II that I did the rounds of shows with - but even that doubled-up as a daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Mine is a daily as well. Do 7500 miles on the commute and don't really do any pleasure mileage so isn't worth having something cheap as well. To be fair, my car is worth peanuts now so ain't even a consideration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz 330 Cs Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Mine is used normally every other day, I use the Girlfriends Yaris a few days a week if she's not using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mit Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 My 330 is my daily driver because the parking spaces in my work car park aren't conducive to keeping the side of my e93 dent-free (if anyone knows a decent pointless dent dude in North London please met me know)! It's a total rust bucket, nut really nice to drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz 330 Cs Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 My 330 is my daily driver because the parking spaces in my work car park aren't conducive to keeping the side of my e93 dent-free (if anyone knows a decent pointless dent dude in North London please met me know)! It's a total rust bucket, nut really nice to drive! Pointless ? Or paintless ..... Aidan316i 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M3NXN Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I saved money on insurance alone by getting a daily. Insuring my M3 as my daily vs taking out a multi-car policy on my Audi and my M3, I pay less for the multi-car than I did on just the M3 alone. No limited mileage or any restrictions. I'm saving masses of money on fuel by running the Audi as a daily and if I like I can SORN one car and tax the other, if I chose to run the M3 in the summer and Audi in the winter for example. I can't drive both cars at the same time so I'm only ever fuelling one car at a time, so for me yes it is cheaper. Who's that with pal? I could do with something similar so i can stick a track car on it for getting to and from tracks. Plus i thought it was the law that if a car is down as insured, it has to have tax? It's with Admiral and ironically that's who I was with when I was paying even more just for the M3, crazy. The law is that it has to be insured at all times and then either SORN or taxed to the best of my knowledge. http://www.money.co.uk/article/1006498-new-compulsory-car-insurance-laws-how-to-stay-legal.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_D Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 My daily driver is the M5, the 330d is sat on the drive mpg, you're doing it wrong LOL rickeh, Aidan316i, Blair and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo_bhaiyat Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 I do 120 miles a day but my 320cd gives me a good return. I'm also on apprentice wages so can't afford 2 cars. Had to sell my e30 325i convertible when I started the apprenticeship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mit Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 My 330 is my daily driver because the parking spaces in my work car park aren't conducive to keeping the side of my e93 dent-free (if anyone knows a decent pointless dent dude in North London please met me know)! It's a total rust bucket, nut really nice to drive! Pointless ? Or paintless ..... Autocorrect. But if you're going spelling Gestapo on me then stop adding spaces between your words and punctuation marks while you're at it, unless you're typing French Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz 330 Cs Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 It was a joke, calm yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das_flo Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 I'd only consider a daily driver if I had something really special as a second car, either a classic or something big power and completely impractical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan316i Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 My E34 is my daily atm, I only do 14miles a day to work & back so its not worth buying a diesel, but with plans to change jobs I may well have to buy another The B10 isnt a sensible daily doing 15mpg around town/short runs and Super Unleaded over here is crazy dear & heard to get! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mit Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 My E34 is my daily atm, I only do 14miles a day to work & back so its not worth buying a diesel, but with plans to change jobs I may well have to buy another The B10 isnt a sensible daily doing 15mpg around town/short runs and Super Unleaded over here is crazy dear & heard to get! What about the 427 other BMWs you own? Aidan316i and Rich_D 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimraynn Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 My 323Ci is my daily. Don't have the space for a second car, nor the money... although I'd love to build a proper project car. Get something that needs a bit of work, something a bit unassuming and stick a silly engine in it. Something like that I can dream... StuBeeDoo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian. Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 330 is the daily. Got a Supra TT for when I want fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
