Offroad-Express

Just a heads up guys Ruc is going up 5.9% on 1 july.

Source: mum works at post office

Good on ya ...just went & brought another 10K

Someone did a table ages ago to show how many kms you had to travel to make it worthwhile owning a diesel. Someone want to redo it?

Awesome cheers for the reminder. I vaguely remember reading in a trucking mag a month or two ago about this. Thanks for the reminder I will be going and getting a heap this week.

glad i have that magic switch

monaro427 wrote:glad i have that magic switch

for the spotlights ae

keithal wrote:

monaro427 wrote:glad i have that magic switch

for the spotlights ae

yip what else would it be for

lilpigzuk wrote:Someone did a table ages ago to show how many kms you had to travel to make it worthwhile owning a diesel. Someone want to redo it?

Not just diesel

From the Ministry of Transport Website

The average 5.9 percent increase in RUC is the same proportion as the increase in fuel excise duty on petrol.

Found here http://www.transport.govt.nz/legislatio ... eases.aspx

Petrol excise duty going up on july 1 too.

New RUC rates can be found here http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulati ... 78303.html

Diesel cars under 3500kg are going from $48 / 1000km to $53 / 1000km. Which is a 10% increase, 5.9% is the average over all Diesel's. Heavy vehicles were hit hard last year, this time its the lights.

lilpigzuk wrote:Someone did a table ages ago to show how many kms you had to travel to make it worthwhile owning a diesel.

Would make for interesting read if some knew of one or had one?

A bloke I do a lot of work for brought a new prado about 5 years ago. He used the factory fuel consumption figures and service cost from toyota. He worked out the cost to run per km and at his annual distance of 25000 km's the petrol was cheaper to run per year. Back them it worked out about 40000 km's a year before the diesel got cheaper. It would probably be a lot more now.

Glad im on a farm and have expemtion b on utes

It gets worse....
For those of us on farm reg, the exemption also expires on 1 July!
We can apply for a modified exemption (10 km radius) with a $115 fee per application.
Think I'll just go and buy some RUC's

lilpigzuk wrote:Someone did a table ages ago to show how many kms you had to travel to make it worthwhile owning a diesel. Someone want to redo it?

good on ya....

sat down and worked some figures thru on cost of running my ute, 2.8 dt rodeo, i get 700ks to a tank and about $90 to fill it. i do approx 17000 a year.
so taking road user 4.8c/k rego $600 (farking commerical rates), $50 oil filter every 5 k, it cost me $3771 to run, or 23c per k, my V8 fairmont over same distance would cost $4849 or $0.29 cents per k, wifey celica would be $3292 or 19c per k, for the ute to get down to 19c per k i would have to do 320000ks or spend $62000 in fuel and running costs.
this does not allow for injectors or "major" service items, so probably low. to figure out what you "could" save first you have to know what you are comparing to.

Pedro

The other thing to remember is to compare similar vehicles.
Ie you have a 90 series Prado 3.0ltr diesel, then you need to compare with either a 90 series 2.7 petrol or v6.
When you start getting to 80,100 & 200 series cruisers, GQ & GU patrols etc, it starts to get interesting.
I do recall someone doing the figures on a midsize suv and it was along the 30 000kms mark before the petrol got more expensive.
This is the sort of thing that ultimately affects wage earners hard, as from my point of view all I will do is put my rates up a bit to cover it.

RUC? Whats that? Most people just disconnect there odometers now don't they??...

Cheers for the heads up. Bought me a little extra this time, 6000 km still $295.80 so wallets hurts a bit now

Cheers for the hint.

Checked the screen to see where I was up too. I was 300kms over - opps.

Grabbed 2k worth just to get me through the week until the new ones arrive. Paid for 10k so I can forget it for a few months. That hurts the ratrod fund (not to mention the glow plugs too) and my pocket too.

It is a wallet hurting thing alright. I just rego'd and 10000 km ruc on one of the vans. $1000. OUCH!

cheers. Grabbed as as many as I could stomach in one go.

I save around $1000 in fuel every 10000km by owning a diesel Pajero over a V6 petrol. RUC's definatly included, can't remember about rego though. This doesn't take into account service costs which is around twice as much for me to service the diesel (which is around $60 for oil and filter per service).

Numbers were taken from Fuelly for the petrol and from my truck for the diesel.

Works out for me as long as I keep the truck for a while as the purchase price of the diesel was much higher and I have to keep doing my own services otherwise it would be forking out $250 a service. That would kill it.

Just stocked up for 3 months. Bye bye $8460 ....ouch!!

You running a 24t sticker Kaney?

1 hiace 60,000 km
Other hiace 20,000km
Nissan 6 wheeler 20,000km @17t
Isuzu 4 wheeler 10,000km

Big ouch. Still at least you're making shitloads

rokhound wrote:Big ouch. Still at least you're making shitloads

Haha I wish! There isn't much money in transport, heaps money in yes but just as much back out....

Not worth stocking up too much on the Heavys. MoT has this covered, current RUC's expire 1 month in

RUC licences for heavy vehicles will expire one month after the date of the increase. RUC licences for light vehicles (3.5 tonnes and under) will not expire.

Will heavy vehicle operators lose money when their licences expire?

No. Heavy vehicle operators will receive an automatic refund in the form of a credit on any unused portion of the RUC licence when they purchase their new licence.

F##king a$$holes. That's a bloody low blow.

doddzee wrote:Not worth stocking up too much on the Heavys. MoT has this covered, current RUC's expire 1 month in

RUC licences for heavy vehicles will expire one month after the date of the increase. RUC licences for light vehicles (3.5 tonnes and under) will not expire.

Will heavy vehicle operators lose money when their licences expire?

No. Heavy vehicle operators will receive an automatic refund in the form of a credit on any unused portion of the RUC licence when they purchase their new licence.

Taz wrote:F##king a$$holes. That's a bloody low blow.

doddzee wrote:Not worth stocking up too much on the Heavys. MoT has this covered, current RUC's expire 1 month in

RUC licences for heavy vehicles will expire one month after the date of the increase. RUC licences for light vehicles (3.5 tonnes and under) will not expire.

Will heavy vehicle operators lose money when their licences expire?

No. Heavy vehicle operators will receive an automatic refund in the form of a credit on any unused portion of the RUC licence when they purchase their new licence.

yep, exactly.

I think i have timed it about right, to run out on the 25th-28th for the trucks. the vans as you said dont expire

Taz wrote:F##king a$$holes. That's a bloody low blow.

doddzee wrote:Not worth stocking up too much on the Heavys. MoT has this covered, current RUC's expire 1 month in

RUC licences for heavy vehicles will expire one month after the date of the increase. RUC licences for light vehicles (3.5 tonnes and under) will not expire.

Will heavy vehicle operators lose money when their licences expire?

No. Heavy vehicle operators will receive an automatic refund in the form of a credit on any unused portion of the RUC licence when they purchase their new licence.

Bloody wankers! Gouge your flash mates ya pricks, not us blue collar battlers.

This is what happens when some prick from LTSA catches one of us in a vehicle smiling, the peasants are enjoying life he thinks' i'll wipe the smile of their faces.