I've been working out how much I've spent so far on a 22 year old Sierra 5 door hatch and it's frightening - nearly £7000

To do a decent job on finishing it I need to spend at least another £4000

It's a hobby I guess


Mark

 

eaisly into 8k now , and be over 10 by the time its painted


then i just need another 5-7 to finish ,


well maybe another 10 lol ??

 

YES !!!

 

no no no dont add it up its depressing....kinda lol

 

Umm well i guess i had to buy the car, then money got slow... and i have brought some things... Maybe £4000 with the car and thats way over! It only sounds good cos ive had it like 4 months now. by that logic its costing me £1000 a month.

 

ive personally put in over 15k into my 3dr, and the total build cost was around 35k!

10 mins after it passed the mot, some cunt wrote it off

its now breaking if you need any parts!

 

way too much ,

 

lol , it fucking scares me to think how much ive got in it


espically when ur first add up diddnt factor in , storage, costs of moving , cost of having custom bits mafde ect ect ect ,




ohh shit i need a sit down .....

 

ive done around £30k on my 5 thats doing all the labour myself to.
ive only had it about 5yrs and its still not done or working at the mo lol

 

All the replies make me feel better about spunking all my hard earned cash away on an old Ford

 

i've spent close to £40k on the estate over it's time in bits and bobs

but i was young and had more money than sense

never again i said, then promtly spent an easy £10k on the mondeo

 

I done 20 on the sierra

 

Did you ever finish the estate ?

IIRC it was 24 valve twin turbo ?

Mark

 

I daren't add it up, it won't be as much as some on here, but it's still a hefty wedge of cash for me and ignorance is bliss.

 

It's scary how much it adds up to, I remember doing rough bills on my first Zetec turbo Fiesta XR2 and nudging the £10k mark

What do you mean persoanlly? Has someone else put money in?

Crying shame about the car

 

still needs mapping and it would have been sorted, but now it also needs paint, rust issues need sorting out, still needs mapping and the brakes are shot and the rest is looking a bit worse for wear too

i put up a list on, i think, interford many moons ago listing all the mods i'd done to it prior to it blowing up and, without the last bit of money (i'm still spending money on it and it's not turned a wheel in anger for about 7 years ) it was past the £30k mark

 

i got to be knocking on the door of £35/£40.000 & still climbing

yes thats thirty five to forty thousand pounds

and i have done all the work my self.

 

was this car at top boss tuning for about 6 years

 

i spent 3k on my fiesta last year only got 20miles before it blue up lol,

 

there is some scary figures there

 

25k+ over ten years.

But done everything right 1st time and didn't cut corners which. Could have easily been done.

Things like.....

Harvey Engine, Bernie gearbox, Tommy Field turbo, AP brakes etc all 1st time of asking.

Could have been a lot lot more if I hadn't have listen to advice of people in the know (Mike R, Hadland, Sheedy etc)

 

It was at topboss for about 4 years, it's been sat in my garden for the past 2 years because I've lost the keys for it

Probably cheaper to buy another car and swap the bits over now than to plough yet more money into it, and with performance cars that will hit 60 in under 6 seconds and will top 155 easily all day every day being virtually a few grand with zero reliability issues, that's the way forward now me thinks

 

Ive spent a bit on mine and no doubt will spend more. Its our hobby at the end of the day. People spend thousands of pounds on push bikes. People spend loads on a weekend going on the piss. People spend a fortune on fags a year.

 

without doubt could be in a very nice spec 996 turbo by now if i had not owned the cossie or skyline hence why i got the integra for cheap money and just needed a cage to go racing

 

what i find funny is all the clearly insane people who spend £30k plus modding their cossie then sell it less than 6 months later at a massive loss cos they got bored Either complete insanity or more money than sense!

 

If I saved the money I put into my 3dr (purchasing, painting, mods, etc) over the last couple years id be able to buy this

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2418926.htm

 

Yep, added up what I spent last year...

 

Beacuase i get bored and sell all my project cars, ive started recently to be quite shrewd when doing them, and have broke even with the last few, and i actually stand to make money on the sierra if it ever goes. In the past ive spent thousands thou

 

I agree with that, I always find it strange when people sell project cars when they've only just finished them. Mine owes me somewhere around the 30k mark, but I have absolutely no intentions of selling.

 

i find it even stranger when they break them after the same

 

Go on, how much?

 

im guessing rods put bout 80k in

 

I'm up to £3000 mostly on tools and equipment.....

I have'nt put anything back on it yet

and it's just cost me £310 for new nut's and bolts

 

i have added up on a few cars ive owned and its scary! the price has gone up with each car ive owned, god knows how much my FRS is gonna cost in the end lol.

 

11.5k on my old grp4 mk2 escort (plus 2k purchase price)
7.5k on my mrs old fiesta rs1800 (plus 7k puchase price)
5k on my old mk4 rs turbo cabby (plus 1.5k purchase price)
and 5k so far on my ST220 (plus 11.5k purchase price)

wish i'd never added that up, now i'm seriously depressed (

 

prob about 18k on my last saph,i broke that too cheap and made about £10500 back but it was almost like new,the saph im doing now is a keeper so im spending the money on the best parts now rather than buying something now then upgrading later,spent between £500 and £1500 every week for the past couple of months on it and need to spend another 3k to get it rolling (ap brakes,tyres,fuel system etc),after that some carbon goodies and a respray then a big bhp engine,so prob another 18k to go.better get some o.t in.like i said this 1 is a keeper so if i go to town on it now then ill not want to replace it or do anything more to it as it will have everything and be as mint as i can make it.its a long way off just now though!

 

My XR2 stood me in for £5000 before it got scrapped Miss that car.

 

It's a scary process adding it all up, but look at it the other way as well, if we had ploughed £10-15,000+ into a brand new (any make) car a few years back what would it be worth now?
So with a lot of the motors we are building there is an investment factor built in.
Well, thats how I'm justifying it

 

I stopped counting years back, and then it was well into 5 figures

 

my last ford was a ford sierra saphire...

it was a REPLICA cossie with a 24v Cosworth V6 from the granada

tallyed up the costs over 3 years when i sold her (traded her in @ 1500quid!) and the total...

THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS

biggest waste of fucking money EVER