any one??

 

Not including buying it, not a mental amount... 2-3k on it maybe??


Cheers,
Grant

 

about 6k not inc buying it! way too much

 

my old green bonus turbo..

bought the car for £600 and spent about £2000 on it..

and now its being broke for spares on ebay for 1k!! had 2 previous owners i was the 3rd, and now its got about 8 i think..

 

Most people are asleep.

About 2k

 

Would think im over 20K now not including buying the car

 

I know its just not on!

 

over 20k on the saph without purchase price..

hurts when i think how much i have actully spent

 

mine 20k spend still counting

 

Only about 1 to 1.5k on my saph but spent about 6 grand on my old 24v XR4x4 over the years!

 

including buying it just over 11k

 

i dont know. i wont add it all up as i will just offend myself at how much money i have wasted

 

that's a fooking lot of dosh for a stage 3 saff..







I've spent 3k on mine that's witout purchase though, so not to bad imo, all the big money Jim put inot the car...

 

Over 7k

but thats over 4.5 years and my mates have spent the same only they have on beer and at least i've got something to show for it :P

 

especially when all it ends up with are some gaylord tiger stripes

 

dont even want to think about what ive spent

 

on my last 3 actual modififed to lots cars?

over teh past 15 years about £74k
the estate owes me about £40k
the saph owed me about £15k
the 3 door owed me about £19k

tha'ts nor including the cars i've had inbetween, the twinkly i did lots of cheap mods to which should have cost me about £5k but i think i've sorted it with freebies from loads of places for about £500
and the mondeo already owes me about £5k on a car that i said i wouldn't touch

so overall i'd say about £100k spunked on motors in the past 15 years or so, and that's not including the initial purchase prices that'd add at least another £25k to that

 

my escos project stands me at around 9k, will be finished and done for 18-20k with all the right bits on it

Dan

 

Let me think...
Purchase = £270
Rear bearing = £11
Tax= £120 iirc

Err.. thats it so far.. Not even done an MOT yet.
I have repaired my backbox with GRP but I had some of that anyway.

The moggy cost me about 2-2.5k in total before I gave it up as a bad job.

 

Most cars I do seem to end up costing me about 20K ish, even my 3 door is up to that sort of region, and the nova has probably past it now.

Perfectly possible to have fun for a couple of K though

 

When i bought my cossie 4 years ago and had it for 3

Cost 4k and i must of spend at least the same again maintaining and upgrading

Current car i just bought a few months back. Audi s6 for £6500 and i spent £1500 on a service and fixing all faults no matter how small so £8k. Not envisiging any major problem or spending any more as shes spot on.

 

cost of series1 5.5k last year spent so far 5k and still going car not even on road at the minute!

 

Scary !

But over the last six years, not including the car £22k !!!!! and still spending !

 

I dunno how you chaps get away with it.

Doesnt your misses ever get just a little arsey about it?

 

about 4k so far on mine,although i already had the engine and box to put in it(bought it as a rolling shell).probably need to spend another 1-2k on it though to get it to a standard i'm happy with.

 

A very understanding wife, met her at a car show in 1981.

She always attends ever show with me, and has just let me spend 10k extending the garage and pinching half her utility room !!!!!

It must be love.

 

yep.

 

From memory i spent the best part of 7-8k on the saph in the time i had it, not so bad as i had it for 9 years !

So far on the escos after a year and a half, has to abe around 4-5k..

 

my old 24v Saph cost me...

...wait for it...

THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS

sold it for £1500

just think of the nice porsche i'd be driving now if i didnt waste money on cars... lol


the BMW owes me about 5-6k ontop of buying it, not bad considering that includes servicing+consumables and it's had a replacement engine. probably about 1k in "mods" on there

 

considering im just about to start my s2 cossie poewerd build,

im not expecting change out of 18 k


just having a quick sit down and pricing parts get up around 12 - 14 k

then theres dyno - mapping time , and all the other factors people forget when building a car ,


my series two was bought for 2300

spent around 2500 on it in a year and a half ( engines mainly )

sold it for 3k when it went ,

beef

 

inc buy my 205 and modding, i thinks it;s 5-5.5k inc tyres and everything

still cheap fun if you ask me

 

HOW?!

Very nice it was, but just how?

 

Was also was i was thinking

 

Who's had the most fun?

When you sell it, who will have the best memories.
A cars never a long term invest, me like most people here spend a lot on there car's. But i for sure don't miss out on nights out etc to spend money on my car. There was a point where i did but for sure don't now.

 

absolutly fuck all since buying the car and the wheels !
unless you include servicing costs . which would probably be less than a grand in 2 years.
i might dislike the germans but they know how to build cars .

 

About £25K over the past 9 years on my Escort Cossie. It soon adds up when rebuilding engines, big tooth boxes, big brakes, poly bushing, new TCA's etc. etc. are taken into account.

 

Bought the car for £10.5k in Jan, and done around £5k in rebuild/mods since then. It has to stop now for a while!!

 

by WASTING money and buying all the same things over and over again. also that includes labour as well as parts. probably only about 6k worth of parts on that car.

examples of money wasted

£1200 for respray, then £800 to respray again after accident (didnt need a respray anyway!)
£600 on brand new esccos wheels after getting the old ones refurbed anyway!
4 SETS of tyres @ 400 each! (kepts getting punctures!!!!!!)
about 1k to have the standard gearbox rebuilt when it didnt really need it
about 1k on getting standard ECU/loom working then another 2k getting emerald afterwards
1k on havign two different exahusts made up (didnt like the first one... lol)
1k on two different sets of suspension (didnt like the first one)
about 1k on three different sets of brakes!

as you can see, lots of money WASTED, and it all adds up rather quick!!!! especially when youre paying others to do all the work in dribs and drabs

could have broken the car for about 5k i recon, so still nowhere near what was spent on it

you see why i love the M3 so bloody much now eh? (altho the M3 is currently in the garage getting fixed AGAIN... rofl)

 

5k in 9 months