{"id":23538,"date":"2019-11-02T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23538"},"modified":"2019-11-02T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:47:34","slug":"not-the-magic-money-tree-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23538","title":{"rendered":"Not The Magic Money Tree Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re at it again. Someone has asked for advice on car leasing, and one of the replies (answering the wrong question, anyway) has stated that someone on a franchise pays \u00a31,000 a month, whereas if you buy your own car and go independent, you save<\/strong> \u00a31,000 a month.<\/p>\n

How many more bloody times? NO. YOU. DON\u2019T!<\/strong><\/p>\n

However you obtain your car, you have an ongoing cost associated with it. Unless you\u2019re driving a 15 year old banger that never goes wrong, needs no maintenance or servicing, never has anything wear out or get a nail in it, and doesn\u2019t need insurance, you are probably paying at least \u00a3250 a month for it all told. If it\u2019s less than about 8 years old, this overhead cost could easily be \u00a3400-\u00a3500.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just about how much you are paying for it per month if it\u2019s on hire purchase. Or how much you initially paid. You have to factor in depreciation and having to replace it periodically, any maintenance, insuring it (lots of complaints about insurance hikes lately), getting dual controls fitted\/removed, repairs, and so on. It isn\u2019t costing you \u201cnothing\u201d. It\u2019s costing a lot more than nothing.<\/p>\n

Even if there is someone out there who has a banger, and does all their own servicing and repairs, they still have to get hold of parts and consumables. The equipment they use to do the work has got to be paid for somehow. And so does the time it would take them to do it \u2013 how on earth can you be a full time ADI if you are also a part time mechanic?<\/p>\n

There is absolutely no such thing as an instructor car that \u201ccosts nothing\u201d. But there are a hell of a lot of ADIs who don\u2019t understand this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve explained it before in the article Should I Become A Driving Instructor?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re at it again. Someone has asked for advice on car leasing, and one of the replies (answering the wrong question, anyway) has stated that someone on a franchise pays \u00a31,000 a month, whereas if you buy your own car and go independent, you save \u00a31,000 a month. How many more bloody times? NO. YOU. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}