just added up everything i've bought for my car spent 4k and it looks like a bag off shit. still another 1k to go and then it'll be worth about 3k if i was to sell it. oh well i wasnt doing it to make money, but it makes you wonder why we do it. oh, i've only got 104 bhp it is a quick 104, with it weighing nothing. i want 2ltr (n/a200 bhp) oh wait theres another 2k+ oh well

 

i once spent over £28000 restoring/building a rwd cossied celica and my bmw touring has relieved me of £9000+ so far

 

I paid £7400 for my 3 door and this year ive spent nearly 10k on it


Awsome toy tho

 

wot does your other half make of it. mine goes nuts every time i'm on the net buying.

i've done most the work myself. and having a top paint sprayer as a mate i'm getting a paint job done cheep too if a garage was to do it all and pay propper money for a paint job i'd be skint rite now, lol

 

Its not her money i spending its mine so il do what i want with it

 

i dont tell her. its fuck all to do with her. she does her things i do mine

 

ever since we had our lil girl it became our money. she dont see much of it. think thats y she hates my fiesta

i dont know wot you lot do for a living but i earn roughly 30k a year and i'm struggerling to do a mk xr2 up

 

we have a littl girl and a boy and i dont make that much more than you and i still manage to do my car.
you need to re prioritise

 

your tellin me. just spent a small fourtune on a engagment ring (yes we're doing it backwards) kids then marrage, lil basturds. anyway, does your missis work tho? mine only works part time, and i've got her up the duff again so she be off for ages again

 

yes, mine is a registered child minder looking after other kids during the day in our house. what saves us a fortune is that she looks after our 2 as well during the day saving us the rip off child minding feesim a joiner.

 

Know what your saying. Think most of us on this forum has done it at some point.

 

how old are you by the way?

 

i think my pug is near on 7k too

but it will break for near on that so not worried

plus it's my hobby, i dont drink much now and dont smoke.

i have a 6mth old baba, he gets everything he needs

the mrs is good too she dont ask for much

i mentioned the other day that i would love a rwd focus rs YB powered, her response


get one then


i guess i'm just lucky..lol

 

yes you are its a nice 205 too well worth 7k must of done it yourself. your going to bedford in feb arent you?

 

yeah, it will get a thrashing at bedford

 

mint! i'm a track day virgin, really worried i'm gonna fuck it up some how. and i've heard about this noise reg bollocks, my cars loud but its all induction. from my carbs, i'm hoping i'll be ok.

 

What happened to the cheap track toy?

 

Whoops planned or unplanned??? Thats going to dent your modifying budget!

 

Same thing that happened to my cheap track toy....

Bought it for £2k......last week made up an Excel spreadsheet to work out what I'd spent over the past 18months......I really wished I hadnt.....














































£7300!!!

 

unplanned! oooooops, i jus live every day thinking "it'll all work out" lol

 

im 38, the missus is 34 and my kids are 2 and 5.

 

FPMSL Lee. TRouble is a can see how it can happen. If i take my 306 for a track day so is going to stay 100% standard as i will end up down same route but i want to spend my money on none car stuff atm.

 

track it

 

whoops at least you will understand poverty just like cossie owners do

 

i was the samw bought my series one 4 months ago for 4 grand and i counted up today that ive spent four grand on itcan break it tho and get a decent amount back if i wanted to.still got another 3k to go then i will be happy

 

don't ever added up what you have spent on your car...

 

ITs better than a crack habit!

 

very true

 

LOL this week shes been on an Economy drive, just touching throttle to get max mpg Pathetic really but i need to eek every mile out of each tank atm as the bloody house is sucking all my money. So the 306 is the opposite of track car atm at least


More likly to be come a Van with all the trips to the tip

 

bought my 3dr in 99 for £12k.....

8 years modding......

2 boxfiles of reciepts totalling £66500 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

broke her for £22k so far

not my best finacial experience but dont regret a single penny...

 

I paid £14K for my car 4 years ago it has had over 30K spent on it since then, over 20K in the last year now breaking the car and look to get around £20,000 back for it

 

its crazy how much you lot have spent on your cars. i got a mate at the min thats tryin to make a profit from doing up cars, really cant see it workin. and wen he dont earn that much and he's got 3 big projects on the go. bet he dont finish 1 of them.

 

i bought mine in feb for 4.5k, and have probably spent £3-3.5k on it since

and i'm on 22k a year

good job i like eating beans on toast

 

why are you breaking it neil??


i bought my saff for £7300 in 97,spent about 35k on it then sold it last year.and i do regret spending so much on it.