Time for Fuelly to Step It Up?

[sparkn]

I really like tracking my vehicles on Fuelly, but there's one area I feel is seriously lacking and that is cost of ownership. There's a statistic that shows the fuel costs per mile but it would be so much more useful to me if I can also track all vehicle costs to get a true cost of ownership.

For example: my Jetta gets over 43 mpg, but it costs $200 to change the oil every 10,000 miles. That's worth 2¢ per mile all by itself!!! Add the $800 transmission service at 40,000 miles and there's another 2¢!!! All of a sudden when I add just two maintenance checks my cost per mile is actually 11¢ instead of 7¢. Compare that with a gas and go used beater and a person can easily find a true economy car isn't necessarily the one with the best fuel mileage.

It's all about recording data to have information that peeps can use to add to their own knowledge to make wiser decisions. I'm actually at the point now of creating my own data environment for this since I haven't found a good source for it already. I'd much rather have and use a data repository such as this to accomplish this goal.