Ok here's what I have so far.
Here's an ugly copy and paste of the table just so you can look at it easily:
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Item "L = Luxury
U = Used car
S = STS" Cost Hours Frequency
2 wiper blades U $47 0.15 1
Cabin air U $26 0.15 1
Engine air U $23.10 0.15 3
Fuel filter U $16 1 5
Trans filter U $43 0.15 5
8 plugs U $41 1.25 10
4 TPMS U $258 0.2 8
6 qts Dex VI U $35 1.25 10
6 qts Dex VI U $35 1
Coolant change U $30 2 10
Oil change U $70 0.5 1
fog light aim U $0 0.1 0
Belts U $73 0.5 10
Battery U $147 0.15 5
Air compressor L $0 1 10
Sunroof drains U $0 0.15 2
Door drain S $0 0.05 2
TB clean U $0 0.15 2
Lube brake pins and flush U $0 1 2
RF ride sensor L $132 0.15 10
anti-roll bar bushings U $160 2.5 10
Ashtray L $0 0.15 0
Adjust pass rear door latch S $0 0.15 0
Tighten intake bolts S $0 0.15 1
Tighten sunroof bolts U $0 0.75 0
Secure brake booster vacuum hose S $0 0.2 0
Clean MAF U $0 0.15 2
P/S fluid change U $0 0.25 2
TOTAL U $1,004.08 13.5
TOTAL L $132.14 1.3
TOTAL S $0.00 0.55
Grand TOTAL $1,136.22 15.35
Here are the results:
Total item cost for those that I classified as used car expenses: $1,004.08
Total item cost for those that I classified as luxury car expenses: $132.14
Total item cost for those that I classified as STS specific: $0
Total time spent actually doing the job for used car items: 13.5 hours
Total time spent actually doing the job for luxury car items: 1.3 hours
Total time spent actually doing the job for STS specific items: 0.55 hours
As you can see I struggled to lump anything into the luxury car category other than the ride height sensor and, fine, the air compressor, and the ashtray fix that I did for free. You can scroll above and see what I did. I mostly stand by my ratings. For example, in 2017, or frankly in 2005, I don't think a sunroof is exclusive to luxury cars.
For STS items I put: door drain, pass rear door latch, intake bolts, brake booster hose.
Interesting that my $500 turned into $1000 by the time I went through all my threads and this thread for little things I did. The short answer is, I didn't account for: the battery, the mounting and balancing cost for installing the TPMS sensors, oil change, the anti-roll bar bushing cost and belts. That delta right there adds up to, conveniently, $530. But again, not only are these expenses I'd tag on most used cars past very new, but I'd tag them as expenses you'd have to do on your OWN car, past a certain age. So this stuff really kind of washes out.
One expense that I have NOT had to do so far is a big brake job (not uncommon for a used car) or tires (also not uncommon).
I added a Frequency column which is how many years between these maintenance or repair items.
Here's a summary:
- One time items: Fog light aim, ashtray fix, door latch adjustment, sunroof bolts, brake hose clamp. $0, 1.35 hours.
- Annual items: Wiper blades, cabin air, oil change, intake bolt tightening. $143, 0.95 hours.
- 2 year items: Sunroof drains, door drains, TB clean, brake pin lube and flush, clean MAF, change power steering fluid. $0, 1.75 hours.
- 3 year items: Engine air filter. $23.10, 0.15 hours.
- 5 year items: Fuel filter, trans filter, battery. $206, 1.3 hours.
- 8 year items: TPMS sensors. $258, 0.2 hours.
- 10 year items: plugs, trans fluid and filter, coolant, belts, air compressor, ride height sensor, anti-roll bar bushings. $471, 8.65 hours.
So I haven't done this yet but I could extrapolate a 10 year ownership projection based on these estimates. I do not have much for repair data as this is mostly maintenance/TLC type stuff. Maybe I will do that, and graph it.