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ThRaXaIR
04-05-2010, 20:37
latest repairs to water pump and gearbox are gunna push the total expenditure on the willy2 including the car over.........£6000 in 2 years and 1 month. Not including Tax or insurance. its enough to make the eyes water! dam expensive hobby!!!
it is at milestones like this that you wonder if its really worth it for a few days a year of pure joy! :?
Clio-Girl
04-05-2010, 20:44
really dont try to think too much about it...
if i did that id be in a mental institute sitting in a chair rocking backwards and forwards lol
Thats ridiculous! how much work are you doing yourself?
ThRaXaIR
04-05-2010, 20:57
absolutely bugger all due to being mechanically inept! give me a factory to wire, consider it done. put me in front of an engine bay :?
and to prove that 260 pounds of that was getting my sump taken off welded and put back on....all due to a little accident i had when trying to do something..
MatrixGuy
04-05-2010, 21:33
really dont try to think too much about it...
if i did that id be in a mental institute sitting in a chair rocking backwards and forwards lol
lmao, that made me chuckle :)
Mine total spending costs is about £3.5k in 3 years.
really dont try to think too much about it...
if i did that id be in a mental institute sitting in a chair rocking backwards and forwards lol
lmao, that made me chuckle :)
Mine total spending costs is about £3.5k in 3 years.
I've easily over doubled that in the last two months lol.
It's just the luck of the draw with these cars. I probably spent less than half of that on repairs in the past 130k miles.
ThRaXaIR
04-05-2010, 22:07
my costs arent really due to things breaking my cars been really reliable. its all my own fault...roll cages, manifolds and brakes are all expensive toys!
glyn211269
04-05-2010, 22:42
OMG, you've all made me feel so much better!!! I thought it was just me having all the bad luck...
Smokey McPot
05-05-2010, 08:12
I'm pushing £2k in a year. So far its all been 'preventative' as I like to call it...
turbo has cost me well over 10k, inc buying it, over last 3 years :D
absolutely bugger all due to being mechanically inept! give me a factory to wire, consider it done. put me in front of an engine bay :?
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^^ thats the problem ^^
my cars cost me more or less fokk all to keep on the road
due to me doing 99% of the work myself .
also keeping spares of almost every mechanical /electrical part does help big time !!!
i had 3 brake downs last winter ,including a clutch cable and a fokked
alternator . my car was always on the road the next day 8)
you will have to step/man up one way or another , 10 years a go i would not know how to check oil level . look at me now ,i can even change it these days :D :D
Justin..
05-05-2010, 12:22
Lost count how much I've spent, thousands more to go too :lol:
talkingfish
05-05-2010, 12:51
thousands... probably over £8k including the car over the past 3 years... don't really want to think about it... never sat down and totalled everything up either - probably best that way...
Total, probably about the £13,000 mark over the last 2 years, not including the car itself.
Bit more to go, then its fast as fook, AND mint :)
I have spent well over 10k on the rallycar...... :?
talkingfish
05-05-2010, 14:35
general impression that these cars are a labour of love then... otherwise we'll all be locked up!! :roll:
16v_paddy
05-05-2010, 18:42
Now I've thought about it & had a proper look, I don't think I've done too bad. Including buying the car, I've spent about £6.5 k, which includes servicing, wear & tear replacements, upgrades, repairs from when I break it, new engine & box.
I could probably round that figure down quite a bit if I didn't break a shitload of brand new mechanical stuff that I got for free, when I had a little sideways off road excursion :oops: also from bit's I've removed from my 2 valvers & sold on for profit :D
The way I like to look at it is, I've got myself an almost brand new top of the range car, that I like a hell of a lot more than most of the newer cars I could've bought, for around about £6 k which isn't bad going really :D
Over the years of car ownership ive spent enough to have bought myself a Bugatti veyron. :lol:
16v_paddy
05-05-2010, 18:53
Over the years of car ownership ive spent enough to have bought myself a Bugatti veyron. :lol:
I bet you haven't :P
ye your probably right Paddy but it f"""in seems like it, :lol:
inc buying mine ive spent about 6k, but recently made 1k back on stuff ive sold off it, so about 5k give or take!
glyn211269
05-05-2010, 22:47
Looks like most of us aren't exactly on the minimum wage then!! ;-)
The way I like to look at it is, I've got myself an almost brand new top of the range car, that I like a hell of a lot more than most of the newer cars I could've bought, for around about £6 k which isn't bad going really :D
i agree to that mentality 8)
The way I like to look at it is, I've got myself an almost brand new top of the range car, that I like a hell of a lot more than most of the newer cars I could've bought, for around about £6 k which isn't bad going really :D
i agree to that mentality 8)
Me too!
Thing is, there is only so far you can go, and once you have it to a standard you want you don't need to spend out on it any more, apart from servicing and the odd consumable.
mines pretty much done, got all the fun bits now, finishing touches etc that am adding like custom stickers and carbony bits mmmmmmmmmmm :D
mine probably owes me next to nothing, when my black car got writtan off i got paid out £1800, the white one cost me £700 then i jsut swapped bits and sold others, i have almost broken even on the unfinshed turbo build to (rods and pistons left to sell)
Too much money on a Clio worth £2k. But I suppose if you love it, you love it :)
Clio-Girl
07-05-2010, 09:59
between me and Gaz we must of spent an absolute fortune and only have 2 ITB clios and 2 standard valvers to show for it, i dont think about it if i can help it i may just have a little cry.
the feeling of loss is quickly gone as soon as i turn the keys though and i wouldnt have it any other way. am i mental?? **** YES :D
between me and Gaz we must of spent an absolute fortune and only have 2 ITB clios and 2 standard valvers to show for it, i dont think about it if i can help it i may just have a little cry.
the feeling of loss is quickly gone as soon as i turn the keys though and i wouldnt have it any other way. am i mental?? f**k YES :D
Haha yea you are mental! So am I, but it's what you enjoy and so therefore money and logic take a backseat :) But wait, you say, I dont have backseats! Well, in these cases money and logic simply get chucked out out of the window instead!
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