RE: Bentley Continental GT | High Mile Club
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sandysinclair said:
I bought a 2007 GTC main dealer car utterly immaculate 28000 miles fsh, just serviced , new brakes , new tyres loved it ...then within the first week broke down , bill £2700 , next month another £1000, then 4 months later the front shocks went £2000 , in summary more expensive to run than the Murci I had per mile , which I put 22000 miles on running it as my daily driver . Bentley Conti is a fabulous car but f
k me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......
Are you saying you bought a s/h Bentley from a main dealer with no warranty??? k me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......sandysinclair said:
I bought a 2007 GTC main dealer car utterly immaculate 28000 miles fsh, just serviced , new brakes , new tyres loved it ...then within the first week broke down , bill £2700 , next month another £1000, then 4 months later the front shocks went £2000 , in summary more expensive to run than the Murci I had per mile , which I put 22000 miles on running it as my daily driver . Bentley Conti is a fabulous car but fk me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......
k me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......
someone charged you £2k for 2 front air shocks? assuming this was a while back? my father replaced his recently it was £500, 2 air shocks and labour................ but agreed, these things can go from being a great car to a bank card melter very quickly.My dad bought one of the lowest priced second hand speeds on the market about 3 years ago, he had always dreamt of a GTC amongst his other cars, first year was fault free (although looked after by a specialist in cheshire) second year few things happened that meant he hard to part with some of myself and my siblings inheritance, this last year and the going rate if he keeps it, will prove financial suicide, but he loves it and everything about it and when he arrives in it he is always smiling....
stuart100 said:
Nish Gnackers said:
sandysinclair said:
I bought a 2007 GTC main dealer car utterly immaculate 28000 miles fsh, just serviced , new brakes , new tyres loved it ...then within the first week broke down , bill £2700 , next month another £1000, then 4 months later the front shocks went £2000 , in summary more expensive to run than the Murci I had per mile , which I put 22000 miles on running it as my daily driver . Bentley Conti is a fabulous car but fk me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......
Are you saying you bought a s/h Bentley from a main dealer with no warranty??? k me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......Robertb said:
Glenn63 said:
Old Bentleys do seem to your lure you in but Iv never been brave enough. Iv recently been looking at ‘sensible’ daily’s, started with 3 series and some how worked my way to this, I like it! 
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401115...
That's the spirit!https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401115...
THAT'S the Spirit.
This would be a lovely thing to be able to use as a daily, but running costs way beyond me most certainly. I'm struggling to think of a car which costs more to run, Bugattis aside. A mate bought a well-used Maserati Quattroporte. Gorgeous thing, but by heck it cost him a bloody fortune to keep it on the road. It seemed that every 3 or 4 months, a substantial component costing comfortably into 4 figures needed to be replaced.
Lord_Howit_Hertz said:
sandysinclair said:
I bought a 2007 GTC main dealer car utterly immaculate 28000 miles fsh, just serviced , new brakes , new tyres loved it ...then within the first week broke down , bill £2700 , next month another £1000, then 4 months later the front shocks went £2000 , in summary more expensive to run than the Murci I had per mile , which I put 22000 miles on running it as my daily driver . Bentley Conti is a fabulous car but fk me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......
k me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ...... someone charged you £2k for 2 front air shocks? assuming this was a while back? my father replaced his recently it was £500, 2 air shocks and labour................ but agreed, these things can go from being a great car to a bank card melter very quickly.My dad bought one of the lowest priced second hand speeds on the market about 3 years ago, he had always dreamt of a GTC amongst his other cars, first year was fault free (although looked after by a specialist in cheshire) second year few things happened that meant he hard to part with some of myself and my siblings inheritance, this last year and the going rate if he keeps it, will prove financial suicide, but he loves it and everything about it and when he arrives in it he is always smiling....
redrabbit said:
Robertb said:
Glenn63 said:
Old Bentleys do seem to your lure you in but Iv never been brave enough. Iv recently been looking at ‘sensible’ daily’s, started with 3 series and some how worked my way to this, I like it!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401115...
That's the spirit!https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401115...
THAT'S the Spirit.
Slowlygettingit said:
My first ‘real’ car was a 205gti and without fail in the late 90s (3 yr old 40k miles) it cost me on average £200-300 per month.
Prorata of list / purchase price running a Bentley is chicken feed.
Consolation on buying an absolute lemonProrata of list / purchase price running a Bentley is chicken feed.
I had two, for the first 5 years of driving. Treated them like the mechanically unsympathetic youth I was and put on about 40k miles over the two. Used to go round corners and the oil gauge would go red, rag the bejesus out of them (one being a backyard mi16 conversion) and never missed a beat
.......apart from a rather terminal head gasket blow at the end of those five years, entirely my fault.
No comparison Vs the status w
kpanzas of more recent times, particularly if next doors oh so clichéd Matt black defender is to go buy....3months in with warranty work on a 22 plate. Price of vanity.
Nish Gnackers said:
sandysinclair said:
I bought a 2007 GTC main dealer car utterly immaculate 28000 miles fsh, just serviced , new brakes , new tyres loved it ...then within the first week broke down , bill £2700 , next month another £1000, then 4 months later the front shocks went £2000 , in summary more expensive to run than the Murci I had per mile , which I put 22000 miles on running it as my daily driver . Bentley Conti is a fabulous car but fk me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......
Are you saying you bought a s/h Bentley from a main dealer with no warranty??? k me it's expensive to run .....and that's not even discussing the whole 2 or 3 pages of other even more expensive engine out stuff that can go wrong with them . Stay well well away ......I saw a lad I used to go to school with locally in one of these a couple of years back, it had his nickname on the number plate and I though "I wonder if that's the *** I knew) and we were walking past, I had a look and yeah, it was him.
I saw the same car parked outside a house locally, its not moved in a long time and seems to have lowered itself and gone a bit green and twiggy.
I saw the same car parked outside a house locally, its not moved in a long time and seems to have lowered itself and gone a bit green and twiggy.
Glenn63 said:
Shirley the main expense is Bentley tax if using a dealer for everything? I wonder what costs are from a specialist as I’m assuming a lot of parts are not Bentley made and are available elsewhere?
A mechanic/mate who looks after my Nismo had to change the windscreen washer pump on a Rolls Bentley a few years back, it was obviously a British Leyland part but as he couldn't identify what BL bit of junk it was from he had to order it as a Bentley part and de-tuned the owners wallet to the tune of £150+Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff