What the car actually costs you per mile — fuel, tax, insurance, repairs and depreciation.
Fuel is the cost people watch and the smallest one. Depreciation, insurance, servicing and the two repairs a year are the cost, and almost nobody adds them up.
What is in it
- Every cost logged and totalled per mile and per month
- Fuel economy tracked from real fill-ups
- Servicing, MOT and tax dates in the same file
- Depreciation estimated rather than ignored
- Filled example plus a blank copy
Who it is for
Anyone deciding whether to keep, change or drop a car.
How it works
Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer on Windows or Mac, and Google Sheets — upload the file and open it with Sheets, every formula works. LibreOffice too. No macros, no add-ons, no account to create and nothing to install.
The download is instant. Every workbook ships twice: one with a worked example already filled in so you can see what each column expects, and the same file completely blank for your own numbers. A plain-English Start Here guide comes with it as a PDF.
Sold through my Etsy shop, ThePlainLedger, so the download, the payment and the buyer protection are all handled by Etsy. I never ask for access to anything — no password, no manager invite, no app permissions. You download a file; that is the whole transaction.