Since Changan UNI-V opened the pre-sale in January, it has gained high heat in the market, and the order volume of one day has exceeded 16,000 units, and recently, Changan UNI-V has also been officially listed, with a guidance price of 10.89-13.19 million yuan. For consumers, spending more than 100,000 yuan to buy a sports car, in addition to caring about personalized appearance and excellent performance, it is also important to save money in the later stage. So what is the cost of car maintenance for Changan UNI-V?
Changan UNI-V currently has a total of four models, the entry-level version of the "excellent type" guidance price of 108,900 yuan, and the biggest difference with the high-end model is only in the electric sunroof, does not support the "flying screen", etc., but the active and passive safety configurations on the car are relatively complete, panoramic image, full speed adaptive cruise is also equipped, the use rate of daily use is relatively high, so we use this car as an analysis model to investigate the cost of Changan UNI-V in insurance, maintenance and fuel.
Insurance costs
Changan UNI-V "2022 1.5T Excellent Type" price is not expensive, correspondingly, its insurance price will not be too high, according to what we learned, the car and boat tax is 360 yuan, commercial insurance on the choice of 3 million three liabilities, car damage insurance and traffic insurance after the three basic insurance types, the first year of insurance costs are about 5200 yuan. If the follow-up does not come out of the insurance, the premium will have a discount that decreases year by year, according to the standard premium of 20% in the second year, 30% off in the third year, it can be concluded that Changan UNI-V three years down, the total insurance cost required is almost 13,000 yuan, the average annual is about 4300 yuan.
Maintenance costs
According to the maintenance manual, Changan UNI-V travels 5,000 kilometers or 3 months (whichever comes first) for the first insurance, and the subsequent maintenance is carried out every 10,000 kilometers or 6 months. In terms of specific maintenance items and costs, basic accessories such as oil machine filters must be replaced at each maintenance time, counting the working hours cost of about 600 yuan; air filters, air filters, air conditioning filters are from 15,000 kilometers, every 10,000 kilometers, about 200 yuan; in addition, when driving to 25,000 kilometers, it is necessary to replace spark plugs, coolants and other accessories, and then replace every 30,000 kilometers, about 700 yuan; transmission oil is replaced at 60,000 kilometers. About $500.
If you drive 60,000 kilometers for three years for a large maintenance cycle, in addition to the first insurance free, then the total cost of changan UNI-V three years of routine maintenance is almost 5500 yuan, the average annual maintenance cost is 1830 yuan. For such an A-class car, the price of Changan UNI-V's single maintenance of about 600 yuan is relatively expensive, but fortunately, its maintenance cycle is long, and it is maintained every 10,000 kilometers or half a year, which reduces the overall maintenance cost.
Oil costs
Changan UNI-V is equipped with a power combination of 1.5T+7DCT, which is also installed on other models of Changan, but considering the model level, adjustment and other factors, the actual fuel consumption performance may vary. And Changan UNI-V is currently just listed, the specific fuel consumption data is still waiting for further feedback from consumers, we are here with its comprehensive fuel consumption in the WLTC working conditions of 6.2L/100km to calculate, in addition, UNI-V only need to add No. 92 gasoline, the current price is about 8.6 yuan / L. According to the family car can travel 20,000 kilometers a year, then the annual fuel cost of Changan UNI-V is almost 10664 yuan, which is about 889 yuan per month on average, and the price is not expensive.
summary
Adding up the above costs, we conclude that Changan UNI-V spends about 16,800 yuan per year on maintenance, insurance and fuel, an average of 1400 yuan per month, compared to the benchmark models of the same level that we previously calculated, honda Civic's annual car maintenance cost is about 10,000 7, and Changan UNI-V can be cheaper by nearly 300 yuan. Specifically, the price of Changan UNI-V in the early 100,000s determines that its insurance cost will not be too high, and the longer maintenance cycle will also reduce the overall maintenance cost, although the actual fuel consumption performance has yet to be tested, but from the current performance of less than 900 yuan per month, the actual fuel cost will not be too high.