What’s on the Running Costs poster
A 8-row table: Cost · Typical · Note.
Typical annual costs for a mid-range car.
- Depreciation — 10–20% of value — The largest, and invisible
- Fuel or electricity — £800–2,000 — Depends on mileage
- Insurance — £400–1,500 — Varies hugely
- Servicing — £200–500 —
- Tax — £0–600 — By emissions
- MOT / inspection — £50 —
- Tyres — £300 every 2–3 years —
- Repairs — Rises with age —
A three-year-old car has taken its steepest depreciation already. That is why used cars are cheaper to own, not just to buy.
Questions about the Running Costs poster
- What’s on the Running Costs (The car) poster?
- A 8-row table: Cost · Typical · Note. Typical annual costs for a mid-range car. Depreciation — 10–20% of value — The largest, and invisible; Fuel or electricity — £800–2,000 — Depends on mileage; Insurance — £400–1,500 — Varies hugely; Servicing — £200–500 —; Tax — £0–600 — By emissions; MOT / inspection — £50 —; Tyres — £300 every 2–3 years —; Repairs — Rises with age —. A three-year-old car has taken its steepest depreciation already. That is why used cars are cheaper to own, not just to buy.
- Who is the Running Costs (The car) poster for?
- Running Costs (The car) belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning the car can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Running Costs (The car) poster?
- Depreciation is usually the largest cost, and the one nobody budgets for. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Running Costs (The car) belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Running Costs (The car)?
- After an Accident, Breaking Down and Buying a Used Car sit alongside Running Costs (The car) in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.After an AccidentBreaking DownBuying a Used Car
- Is the Running Costs (The car) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Running Costs (The car) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Running Costs (The car) poster print at?
- Running Costs (The car) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Running Costs (The car) loses nothing.Printing guide
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