Cost Comparison - Buying a new BMW VS. Keep and maintain your current
Maintenance costs revealed a glimpse - BMW - Audi - Mercedes.
In the first of a regular series, compares the three German premium brands BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz.
Works with nearly 5000 British garages help approximately 4,000 conductors repair and maintain their vehicles each month, with a total of 46,000 completed jobs.
It compares the brands, types of repair and workshops, and provides here the first of a series of data ideas.
Audis are more expensive to maintain - 15 more than the BMW Mercedes-Benz Audi average.
Alex Rose, director of marketing WCFMC said We compared the quotes received for the repair types comparable across the three and Audi came out the most expensive BMW sat a little over Mercedes, but still below 19 Audi below.
While it is not great news for the brand from Ingolstadt, this high-level view is a simplification We wanted under the skin of this trend and understand what causes the difference is it, for example, a particular type of repair or model that the damage we intersected our data more than 10,000 lines to discover the answer.
While the absolute numbers differ, the trend remains whether it is an A3, A4 or A6, repair quote on a Audi average remained the highest - with the greatest difference apparent when comparing Class C A4 repair estimate.
Again, WCFMC looked at what was behind this trend and thereby decided to compare the figures by type of repair.
Regarding the routine service work, or wear parts such as brakes and exhaust, estimates the three brands are comparable Indeed, Audi courses are slightly cheaper for brakes and exhausts news reassuring for the Audi drivers as it is the most commonly performed work however the differences open when work becomes more complex.
The greatest variation occurs when comparing the changes in transmission work cambelt also showed the same trend, as well as engine parts requests - a broad category of repairs generally require more work involved.
So, is this gloomy news for owners and prospective owners of each Audi there.
This heavy work involving transmissions and repairs of complex motor doesn t come around as often as routine maintenance and servicing.
Then WCFMC examined how changing garage visits cars older.
Repairs Audi comes when cars are somewhat younger, working age peaks Mercedes when a car is in double-digits.
Here reviewing of all jobs posted by brand, normalized to 100 and divide by year.
In other words, we are not looking at the overall reliability or cost, but how old garage visits took place Although it may be a cliché, there really seems that Mercedes cars go on longer , the most likely repair cars 11- year It seems that all the taxi drivers in the world are on something.
Conversely, most repairs Audi occur when cars are old, with BMW somewhere between five Interestingly 10 years, we see them falter to 12 years for all not only these three brands.
These cars begin to cover fewer annual miles, functioning as second cars or local skins and their owners are happy to live with the quirks and issues that tend to put it right in a newer car.
After reviewing more than 10,000 rows of data, WCFMC concludes Audis cost more to maintain than their premium German stablemates, driven by dearer major work, which tends to occur when the car is a little more recent, perhaps because that the work in question is more complex.
Mercedes, meanwhile, tend to last a bit longer before the mandatory pit stops really kick.
The above data was taken from 80 independent, 10 and 10 franchised fast fit.
Methodology note were deleted in this case non-maintenance jobs, such as repairs of the accident, and re-spray modifications, analysis and concentrated solely on the mechanical and electrical work.
A minimum threshold and maximum quote has been fixed, to rule out the obvious outliers.
Performs analyzes using its own set of data does not claim that it is an accurate representation of the vehicle fleet in the UK.
Later this month WCFMC compare the major volume models, the Volkswagen Golf, Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra and break type garage franchised, independent and quick adjustment.
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