How much have you spent on your car? (mods & maintenance etc)

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During a weak moment last week I went looking around Pistonheads to investigate running costs of TVRs. I saw a few that had spent £10k+ on mods and repairs (over 2-3yrs) which seemed like a hell of a lot of money to me.

This morning I thought I'd work out how much my mods were worth and to my surprise it came to almost £11k without labour charges :eek: (inc £2k worth of ICE) oops!!

Come on then, be brave and work out how much you've spent (yes, that means you Drexel and the other serial modders ;))
 
About £1000 in parts and tools all-in. I've done all the work myself so that keeps the costs down. Otherwise we'd be looking at at least a £10K bill.

With classics sometimes it's best not to start with a shed...
 
£12,000 on the car
£1,600 on insurance
~£500 on extended warrantee
£160 on Road tax

^ I've owned it since Tuesday :S

Soon:

£600 on a new set of tyres
£100? for a brake fluid change

Is it worth it? Damn right it is!
 
600 on tyres!
mental.

my bm hasnt really cost me much so far, but thats because im going easy on it atm.
£120 for M3 reps
£400 on tyres (to be delivered)
£40 fitting/balancing
£100 on bulbs (hyperwhites for fogs/main + dipped beam and angel eyes)
£100 or so on a service (to be done soon)

however the wifes punto is about to cost me £300-£400 on a new headgasket :/
 
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£400 on car

£150 on bits and bobs

Coming soon(ish):
£200 wheels
£400 cage
£150 seats
£1000-1200 engine, 'box and axle

Maybe...

*n
 
Thing is tho, you can spend 2k on ice but it will go from car to car.

The mondeo has been true bangernomics for me.Paid 1500 for the car, i have done near 25k in it now, and i reckon its still worth 1500, and tbh i have abused this car and its still standing up strong to it.

Ice:

Pioneer 77mp £200 (now upgraded to a jvc dvd thingy!)
Velocity components £130
Velocity sub £60 (popped :()
PG sub £30
Blaupunkt amp £90

Car maintenance:

Servicing £100
Tyres £220
Altenator £100 fitted
Bearings £100 fitted
Drop links £20

Mods

Trip comp £10
Fuel sender £25
K&n induction kit £35
Meguiars polish £30!
 
Suspension Bush (£nil, warranty)
Tyre £154 (1)!
Replacement door sill strip, £8.

Otherwise, nothing in 6k miles. :)
oh, way too much on Kosovan Car washes.... :o
 
Had the car a year now:
Alloys + tyres £250
Spoiler £35
Brake bits (Front discs + pads, rear pads) £100
Aircon regas £50
MoT £45 (sailed through last week :))
 
Evo II GSR, owned for just under a year -

hks induction 50
alarm 260
stereo 90
gauge pods 30
superflex bushes 15
lighter cover 10
4 new tyres 160
Front Discs and pads 120
ac, pw alt belts 30
Cam belt service 430
front bumper, passenger side respray 20 (free labour)
MOT 35


= £1250, needs a new clutch now too so that's an extra £500! Not too bad for the car really... and it'll be worth £1000 more than I paid for it so only £750 for the year :)
 
£3823, all labour costs = me :) And thats all just on performance modifications, I have no idea how much I've spent on service items like brakes, oil etc :(. How on earth I've managed to afford all of that on my student budget I'll have no idea!
 
12,500 for car
130 servicing
800 insurance
15 - car mats
30 car cleaning products
10 - air freshners
160ish road tax
fuel £400

I have had it since september.
 
2001 Ford Mondeo. I've done 11k miles since I bought it in May last year

x6 Goodyear Eagle F1 Tyres ~£450 inc fitting
Set of Greenstuff front brake pads ~ £40
Powerflex rear subframe bushes £68
Set of rear discs and pads twice :eek: (I wont be letting my dad fit them again :D:()) ~ £170
Oil and filter £25
x4 Spark plugs £20

Less than I thought I had spent tbh :o
 
CBA to work the rest out but mods alone:

Scooby was around ~£15k all-in (not including the purchase of the car) :eek:

Luckily the rex was nicely modded anyway, but if I include the rebuild and the few mods that I have done since owning it I have probably spent about 2.5k on it.
 
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Morba said:
thats with £1679 petrol ;]
does that figure also inc insurance / tax ?
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Damn, never noticed that. My costs are without insurance/petrol/etc. They're just mods.

I do however feel much better after seeing what Drexel has spent!! :eek:
 
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