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Send it to phassociation@hotmail.co.uk and I will have a play with it.

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IDFIMH

Had forgotten about this, but noticed it while searching for something else

But presumably Roy doesn't intend replying, so I'll try to think back to my homework days and work this out

So if tyre cost is 0.04p per mile, then if you assume a set of tyres last 20,000 miles, then 0.04p x 20,000 is 800p. Which is £8

£8 for a set of tyres? Where do I get them? I'll have a billion

I think Roy said he got 40,000 miles or even 50,000 out of a set of tyres. A tall order, obviously, but let's assume he's correct. But if you assume the tyres would be reasonably expensive (£125 per corner, or £500 for a set, say) in order to do that kind of mileage, then that's £500 over 50,000 miles, and bang on 1p per mile. OK, those are ball park figures, but that's a world of difference from 0.04p per mile. In fact, 1p per mile for tyres is precisely 25 time more expensive than Roy's claim of 0.04p per mile.

As they say, everyday's a school day

Can't really recall it precisely, but think I was just being charitable and assumed that when you said 0.04p you actually meant £0.04, which is 4p.

So I just said you'd said 4p per mile and didn't bother pointing out your obvious error, because I'm like that

Because it certainly couldn't be 0.04p per mile, correct me if I'm wrong

Sorry, not been here for a few weeks. I'm working from memory on some of these figures, but it goes to show that as the supermarket used to say, every little helps.

If you get 50,000 miles for a set of tyres that cost £500 for a set of 4 you get £0.01 one penny a mile for tyre wear.

Not sure if this will open for folks to see, but this is the spreadsheet Roy asked to be put up.

Roythebus taxi costings spreadsheet

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IDFIMH

Great, having downloaded it, it seems to work for me.