I have filled up 7 times in the 3 months since I last logged, totaling 3,462.6 miles, and I am on empty yet again with 418 miles.
If you figure that I drove 3,800 miles in 3 months, rounding up a little for forgetting to reset the trip meter after each fill-up, I am averaging 1,266.67 miles per month, and 15,200 miles a year.
I start doing clinicals in 3 months and, while they tell us that our sites can be up to an hour away, my first location will be 7.2 miles from here, but if I do that 3 times a week, that will add 43.2 miles weekly, and since I will need to log more hours each week, and I will probably have more sites further away than closer, the average will probably climb up from 1,439.47 monthly.
I didn't realize how much I am driving!
I paid $4,200 for my car on 09-20-2022, $24.18 for a gas cap, $126 for spark plugs, treatment, and other maintenance items, $587.64 for tires, $14.13 for a valve cover gasket, $25.74 for ignition coil connectors, and I don't know how much for a replacement gasket and hose destroyed by the oil leak.
I found a place shipping the gasket for $47, but I don't even know which hose it was.
That place charged $18 to ship.
Maybe I bought it locally for a comparable price (before shipping) and the hose cost around $18.
I don't have any idea!
I will say $80 for both, so $4,200 for the car, $587.64 for tires, and $270.05 for repairs and maintenance.
I reported that Walmart "charge[s] $1.08 more than a jug of oil and filter would cost."
I paid them to do it when I first bought the car and then did it myself to flush out the 2002 Civic. It currently costs $24.88, so two oil changes cost me $48.68.
My log indicates that I spent $572.98 to drive 5,788.5 miles.
One does not simply estimate fuel costs for 90 days by using the average of the previous 270 days, but I haven't accomplished anything today, I am not catching up on fuel logs!
Just to have a number, let's say that I spent $299.83 on gas in the last 3 months, understanding there is a low confidence threshold.
Therefore, aside from insurance, which would be shared with other cars and my rentals, I have spent $5,979 to drive my car.
My odometer says 116,002 miles and Big Two reported 104,247, so I have driven 11,755 miles in 355 days
Just in case I decide to refer to this when I catch up, I drove 756.4, 499, 325.5, 251.6, 396.6, 448.6, 410.3, and 374.6 miles per fill-ups.
Obviously, the first one was one full tank and a partial.
The 251.6 miles must have been right before driving back to Show Low, but when I lived up there, my fill-ups were usually around 500 miles, while now they are usually around 400.
I used to see clients 45-60 minutes away, drive here, and run errands in-town, but I guess on average it was mostly highway driving.
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