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Choose the car
Costs do not float in a general budget. They belong to the vehicle that created them.
A car expense tracker for the real cost of owning it
Fuel is the bill you notice every week. Insurance, tax, tires, parking, and repairs are the rest of the year. RPMBase is a vehicle expense tracker that keeps those amounts on the car, so ownership cost is a total and not a feeling.
Free to start. Costs live on your phone. This website does not save an expense log.
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What counts as a car cost
Insurance and tax
The expensive months are often the ones without a pump receipt. Keep the renewal on the car that created it.
Parking and tolls
Small amounts add up. They belong on the vehicle, not in a miscellaneous pile in a bank app.
Tires and the rest of ownership
A tire is not fuel and not always a workshop service. Name the kind of cost so the year is readable.
Fuel and service stay in their logs
Pump receipts stay on the fuel tracker. Oil changes stay on the maintenance row. The year is the sum.
One car, one total
Two vehicles do not share a budget line. Compare your numbers, not a brochure average.
A calculator for a single afternoon
The cost per kilometer tool on this site does the division once. The app is where the amounts stay attached to the car.
From a bill to a yearly picture
Questions the expense log can answer
What did this car cost me this year?
Fuel plus service plus the bills that arrive once. One car, one total.
Is the second car actually cheaper to run?
Separate logs. Compare your numbers, not a brochure.
Where does the money go after fuel?
Insurance, tax, and tires are visible instead of being called miscellaneous.
The expensive months are the ones without a pump receipt
A cheap month of fuel can still be an expensive month of ownership if the insurance renewed or the tires were replaced. Bank apps show a merchant name. They do not show which car, or whether the charge was tax, a toll, or a repair.
A car ownership cost tracker has to include more than fuel, and it has to stay specific to one vehicle when you have two.
Log the amounts that are not a fill-up and not already a service row: insurance, registration and tax, parking, tolls, cleaning, and the rest. Service costs stay on the maintenance record. Fuel stays on the fuel log. The car's year is the sum.
You can try the arithmetic now with the cost per kilometer tool. The app is where those amounts stay attached to the car instead of a single afternoon of calculator use.
A cheap month of fuel can still be an expensive month of ownership if the insurance renewed or the tires were replaced. Bank apps show a merchant name. They do not show which car, or whether the charge was tax, a toll, or a repair.
This is not a household budget. Rent and groceries stay out. RPMBase is a car expense tracker for amounts that belong to a specific vehicle.
No catalog, no comparison of models you do not own. The question is what this car cost you, in the currency you paid.
Related
What car expenses to track
Which bills belong here, and which ones would be counted twice.
What car expenses to trackCost per kilometer
Add the main bills and divide by the distance you drove.
Cost per kilometerFuel tracker
Keep pump receipts in their own log.
Fuel trackerCar maintenance tracker
Service costs live with the job, not as a vague expense.
Car maintenance tracker
Questions
Does this replace a household budget?ShowHide
No. It is a car expense tracker. Rent, groceries, and other household costs stay in whatever budget you already use.
Should I put an oil change here or in maintenance?ShowHide
Put the service in maintenance, with the kilometers and the work that was done. The cost still counts toward ownership. It does not need to be typed twice.
Can I use my own currency?ShowHide
Yes. Enter the amount you paid. The cost per kilometer tool on this site lets you pick a currency for a one-off calculation.
See the year, not the last receipt
Ownership cost is a total. Get the app on your phone, or run the calculator on this site now.
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