Running Costs

[markys]

Thinking about a Cerby again, can people give me expected running costs and who are the best and upto date profiles that I can look at.

Thanks in advance.

[james]

It all depends on how many miles you are going to be doing. Fuel is expensive (expect 17mpg).

Servicing is expensive (assume that you'll pay a grand for a proper service every 6,000 miles and you won't be far wrong). When I sold mine, I totalled up all of the service bills that I had. It came to about £25k, which is about 50p per mile. That included things paid for by the warrenty company, and upgrades though, so it should be less than that.

Insurance is completely down to your record and where you live.

[Neilus]

I've only had mine about 10 months, but you can look at my profile to see what I've spent my money on.

Neil.

[markys]

Neilus how does the chimp and cerby compare, in both reliability and running costs.

[davidd]

My 4.2 is in for a service, when I get the bill I'll be posting some costs for the last 10 months (services only not fuel).

D.

[neilus]

markys said: Neilus how does the chimp and cerby compare, in both reliability and running costs.

The Chimaera was totally reliable, didn't use any oil, and went from service to service with no problems.

The Cerbera needs a bit more attention, I need to religiously check the oil and coolant levels. It doesn't seem to like sudden changes from warm weather to cold/damp weather. It certainly doesn't seem to like being left sitting around, especially over winter.

So far, I've only had it serviced once and it needed new brake pads, but it wasn't as expensive as I'd expected. It's definitely more expensive to run than the Chimaera (18mpg compared to 23/24mpg for starters). A new set of front tyres cost almost as much as all four on the Chimaera. So far I guess it's costing about 40% more, but I've got the 24k service coming soon - so, that'll all change.

Do I regret changing? No way.
Would I have another one? Yes, unless I could get a T440R

Neil.

[d_drinks]

Have a look at phockit's car there are 95 updates to the running costs etc has to be one of the most comprehensive views of Cerbera ownership there is:


www.pistonheads.com/members/showCar.asp?carId=1417

[anonymous-user]

Mines got quite a few updates on it as well.

[james]

bandit said: Mines got quite a few updates on it as well.

How on earth do you get 23mpg Bandit? I only ever managed that sort of fuel economy on the odd occasion I took it on the motorway.

[markys]

Bandit and phockit are your costs main dealer ? Hope to use Peninsular if I get one, but they are now main dealers and costs have not changed at the moment.

[anonymous-user]

Yep, allmost all done at main dealers.
I switched to an independant last year and the costs went right down. Don't expect to be paying anywhere near as much anymore.

Good luck!

[anonymous-user]

How on earth do you get 23mpg Bandit? I only ever managed that sort of fuel economy on the odd occasion I took it on the motorway.

Dunno, I'm a laid back driver .....most of the time !