Today I returned my 2002 Chevy Venture Van back to the dealer. The vehicle was leased from GMAC Canada from January 2002 to January 2006, Wolfe Chev were very nice and let me return the van six months prior to the end of the lease.
Since January 2002 I have paid $350 for the lease and approx $120 per month for insurance. The van has cost me about $60 per month in fuel and overall about $500 in maintenance etc.. Since my separation in December 2003 I have never needed the full capacity of the van. At the most I need 3 seats, maybe 4. However, I have decided to try life without a car until January 2006. If succesful I will continue to be without a car indefinitely; it has been done by others, it can be done by me.
In the 42 months I have leased the vehicle I have paid $14,700 in lease payments, $5040 for insurance, $2520 in fuel and approx $500 in maintenance. By returning the vehicle now I will save a total of $3180 over the next six months.
I will be carless for the first time since 1982.
About Me
- ian gregson
- I dropped in on this planet, September 2nd, 1962 and my life has not been the same since. Growing up in the industrial NW of England was fun, to a point. But when Maggie Thatcher spoiled the party, my parents decided to head off to the west coast of Canada to escape. So I have been living here in Vancouver since 1981, I've been educated, married and passed on my genetic markers to my offspring. In my life I have been a movie and tv extra, professional writer, poll researcher, pub doorman, chicken coop cleaner, professional pea picker, olympic athlete, track and field official and soccer coach. I now live in an East Vancouver co-op. I ran in the 2001 & 2005 BC elections and recently ran in the 2008 Vancouver Civic elections. You can call me a Green Party supporting, guitar playing, bike riding urban enviromentalist, who has a dislike for anything that decreases the quality of our environment.
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