Your running costs for 1 yr of maserati ownership

[maserati3200gt]

What has been the running costs of your first year of ownership (or part of ) for your 3200 / 4200 ?

is it what you expected or better / worse ?

and how impressed with the actual "experience" of owning the 3200 / 4200 ?

Just curious to read what other owners have experienced so far ?

[exint2]

My 4200 has so far (5 months) only cost me (outside Tax / insurance etc...) Fuel however at about 16mpg thats a hell of a lot!

Oh and I had to get the Integrated Phone Sim card holder (£38!!!)

[mr_tony]

1 service 600.00
1 set rear rubber - 340.00
3 x 1 litre selina - 22.50
most of the autoglym shop - 50 quid
regular carwashing 100 quid at least (jetwash tokens...)


insurance - 1250

Depreciation - fiendish - 10k drop in year 1... (purchase to trade) .. standing by for year two

Petrol - around 17 to the gallon, 10000 miles @ 3.63 per gallon. = 2135 quid on petrol...

tracker - 100 quid a year

new dust caps 8p for 4 from ferrari no less (plastic ones!)



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next year = renew warranty.... could get rather more expensive!!

>> Edited by mr_tony on Friday 10th December 13:51

[Andrew Richmond]

Rough numbers I would think pa:

Insurance £1k
Tax £0.2k
Service £1k or £1.5k
Tyres £0.8k every two years
Warranty £1.5k
Cost of capital £1k
Depreciation £5k (trade to trade)
Total £10k ish pre margin assuming nothing goes wrong outwith warranty (hah hah hah)

Of course you will get some of these things included in the £5-6k dealer margin and it all depends on when you buy the car in the warranty, service, tyre life cycle.

In my experience the older cars are not much cheaper to run, all up, than newer cars (but not brand new!).

[chris_crossley]

mr_tony said:

1 service 600.00 1 set rear rubber - 340.00 3 x 1 litre selina - 22.50 most of the autoglym shop - 50 quid regular carwashing 100 quid at least ------------ next year = renew warranty.... could get rather more expensive!!

Snap Except i don't use a car wash and it's been about 7 Bottles of Selina.

[bad loser]

July 17 to Dec 10th.

1 and a half litres of Selenia (Both cans given to me by dealers) - £0.

8000 miles at approx 19 to the gallon = 421 gallons.

Average price of petrol = £3.63 = £1528.

Insurance = £750.

Tax came with the car.

Tyres checked the other day - ok for now.

[maserati3200gt]

mine so far :

Two new front tyres 2 * £181 inc vat and fitting each.

litre of oil £9.65

Fuel = approx £60 per week

so far so good !

[chris_n]

Ditto for me in the main, tyres, oil, autoglym etc.

Surprised so few people have seem to have had non-routine expense, maybe because you've had things done under warranty?

I've had an electrical gremlin fixed under warranty and paid out for a couple of items not covered by the warranty - a replacement front anti-roll bar drop link at £110 and a blocked vacuum pipe to the MAP senser £8.50. I paid for the parts but they were fitted for free as a good will gesture - I think because the main dealer concerned was a bit ashamed of how long it took them to find the cause of the electrical fault!

Overall not too bad I reckon.