To think friend is charging too much?

[sadaboutlife]

For of us sharing a car.
3 hour journey there
3 hour back
She says it will cost £120 petrol
So charging £30 each
Do you think that's correct ?

We had this exact same tedious thread a few weeks ago ...

It's 45p a mile, folks.

She's may well be charging you the standard 45p mile the tax man allows for car travel, so she gets some wear and tear payment too.

What do the rest of you charge? Have you told her she needs to rethink that yet? If you all charge trhe petrol costs then you all absorb the wear and tear on your own cars. She can't have it both ways!

Lol I drive a Hyundai i800 (an 8 seater van) and a full tank costs £85 and does 400 miles. £120 in a C1 is a bit of a joke.

£15 each way not bad it would cost you a lot more than that if you got the tain or coach and would take longer too.

If it's too much then tell her what you would pay or make other arrangements.

If the 3 of you not driving feel the same you could take one of your cars, make it cheapers and then the Citreon cheeky fuck can drive herself to the place?

I'd only ever charge my friends the actual petrol cost and even then probably not all of it as they'll have already have to travel to my house for the journey. But then I don't take the piss with my friends as I don't see them as cash machines.

Eh, my train journey to Edinburgh recently was £168 so I'd be biting her hand off for a £30 return drive!

Isn't she saving you a fortune if you went on public's transport?!
400 miles x 45p/mile = £180!

@NewName73

We had this exact same tedious thread a few weeks ago

This is the same thread....
07/11/2019 20:36 sadaboutlife

Ha ha X0X0

So it is.
Presumably the journey has been done by now...
What a muppet I am....

Why on earth did @Mummmy2017 think this was worth getting an update on...

Because I was checking how many miles my car had done, and wondered what happened.
No one forced you to comment.

Why are you calculating everything in hours spent?Totally irrelevant except that slow drivers probably waste fuel! What distance is being covered?Then calculate if you are just being charged a share of the miles per gallon(or litre!)or share of the total running cost per mile.
Also take into account whether you generously under calculated at your turn or not.

If she starts with a full tank, and ends with a full tank, then split whatever fuel she's put in in the middle.

Just go to the garage at the start of the journey and get her to fill her car up. Then at the end of the journey go to a garage and fill her car up. Split the cost of the second fill.

she's doing OP a big favour in driving so it's right that she for example rounds up her estimated spend to the nearest say fiver or tenner, just to be 100% certain of not ending up out of pocket, though this looks to be a little bit more than that. perhaps she's looking to claw back hassle & expense incurred on prevoius shorter trips that she didn't ask for cash for?

say £25 per head would be about fair IMO, each passenger paying a third of the approximate fuel bill (rounding up to the nearest fiver) and the driver paying nothing since she's doing the other three a huge unpaid favour. £30 is steep but not insanely steep.

I would give 30 for her driving n wear n tear. That's fair enough.

apologies for my dimwitted replies, i attempted to reply without reading the whole thread. oh well. it'd IMO be very useful if all further posts from OP could appear on the front page or at least somehow be linked from it.

I did mention this when the thread was first active

www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/giving-your-friends-a-lift-fines/

“ Drivers face £2,500 fines and may even invalidate their insurance policy – simply by taking money in exchange for giving lifts to friends.
Giving lifts is, of course, perfectly legal in most cases – but any driver adjudged to be turning a profit via lift-sharing faces a fixed penalty notice and prosecution if caught.”

My car - 2.0 VW Passat - takes about £60-£70 full tank of petrol depending on where I get it from, and that gives me 360 miles approx, but I only drive to and from work and potter about on weekends, not much motorway driving

6hrs in my i30 would be £120 of petrol with 4 adults in it and boot weight.

If not, she is including wear and tear on her car and insurance. Rightly so!

Arent citreon C1's tiny little things?
Will it even get there with 4 of you and luggage in?
It will be like the opening scene of Three men and a baby.

My estate cost £70 ish to fill and would do 600 miles on that. Which is more than 6hrs driving. Your friend is ripping you off imo

Stick 3 extra people into a C1 and see what the extra weight does to the range.