I drive a Charger with 85k on it. I get 27-30 mpg. Most maintenance is tires and oil changes .. so far. 3 sets of tires= 2500, oil change my self= $30 x 16 ( every 5k) =480, Add in one more thing I did the spark plugs myself= $50,( dealer cost would have been $450) totals= $2500(tires) +$480(oil) +$ 50( sparkplugs+ intake gaskets) = $3030 dollars, I forgot to add 2 sets of brake pads, about $160
final costs, $3190 which is about 25 cents a mile in maintenance cost, + about 10 cents a mile in gas. so 35 cents a mile for a charger.
How do you spend 10K in maintenance costs at 200K? Stop letting your dealer pick your pocket.
Trust me, I have more fingers on one hand than the number of non-warranty times I’ve let a dealer or any other ‘mechanic’ touch my cars. Literally. And that is over a number of decades.
I was trying to be a bit generous, in thinking that most people actually do let mechanics work on their cars (kind of like sending one’s kid to public school, or one’s daughter to Jeffery Epstein, as far as I’m concerned).
So I was figuring tires are at least half of that cost (you’re showing 3 cents per mile on the charger), then your assorted scheduled maintenance items, and then one or two significant things break towards the end, like AC or some buried sensor. So I can see $10k.
But the BIG VARIABLE for Tesla kooks is what happens to them when their car is off warranty. Camry’s have DECADES of excellent reliability history. Tesla’s, well, I guess they have Musk’s word that they’ll hold up...