1000 miles and counting

[ukbob]

Just ticked over the 1000 mile marker last night, since purchasing the S in July


I might post this info on my PH profile page sometime, but for now thought Id post here.

I cant believe Ive spent 14'300 since purchasing the car (not including fuel) which so £5 per mile but at least the car is sorted

July 2004
£8800 Purchased mid July
£2500 Insurance (Sunning Hill)
£150 Carl ripped out Immobiliser/alarm
£130 New rear bulb housings, new coil, + labour (electrics gremlins)
£50 Wash stuff, rags and polish etc
£5 fragrant fan air freshener

August 2004 (Austec Racing)
£350 Full Service
£200 Austec Labour
£70 Leads
£35 Caps
£95 New nearside mirror
£50 K&N air filter
£490 Sports Exhaust
£350 Mark Adams Tornado Chip
£120 Mark Adams Labour
£120 Rolling Road time
£310 VAT
£430 Origin B2 GPS Scamera detector

September 2004
£47.00 Insurance premium hike after immobiliser was removed, seems reasonable

£14’302

I need a new rear screen, my injectors need clean as they are in bad shape, plus some rolling road time after the injectors are sorted. I had no idea I'd end up spending this much, but its been worth every penny.

[HarryW]

Obviously not from the 'lets forget the running costs otherwise I'd cry' school of Tiv ownership then .


Harry

[ukbob]

HarryW said:

Obviously not from the 'lets forget the running costs otherwise I'd cry' school of Tiv ownership then . Harry

The car brings a very big smile, keeps me sane, but Ive got my share of financial issues, and do cry myself to sleep most nights

[z_chromozone]

UK-Bob, did you not have an original budget of £7,000! I don't suppose you were involved in the costing of the new Scottish parliment building?????

Z

[gefopsman]

ukbob said:

I cant believe Ive spent 14'300 since purchasing the car (not including fuel)

I have just passed the 4K mark in about 10 months and was considering the costs. I got through the MOT today unscathed. and was almost disappointed that the front suspension did not fail, I just needed the excuse to get some AVO's and new springs.

I have gone a great deal to the car, mainly improvements as reliability has been faultless. but haven't spent anywhere near that much.

Mind you, if you add labour costs even at a small hourly rate, the costs would be scary. I am soooo glad I can do most of the work and have a workshop to do it in.
I need to decide now if a new interior is more important than a better front end suspension set up.

Thanks ukbob, I can use your post to justiify both.
I am sure she will not mind.

Maybe I will just keep quiet!!!

I have a list of all work done and receipts for purchases. Should I work out the costs or is ignorance really bliss.

[ukbob]

gefopsman said:

ukbob said: I cant believe Ive spent 14'300 since purchasing the car (not including fuel)

correction - 14'3000 included the car, so 55000 "since" buying the car!!

If I'd had 14k on top of the car Id have bought a cerbera! (Sorry about that, im really a poor snivel of down-trodden lower working class peasant boy, didnt mean to sound flash git with 14k's worth of upgrades for my S in 2 months

I just cant believe how much Ive spent, my origional budget was 3k, and that crept up every week until I was looking at 5k cars (edited to say: and then 7k cars) and then the S series caught my eye, and im not sure what happened next, but I like the car

Oi, Chromozone, you cheeky g*t

>> Edited by ukbob on Tuesday 7th September 20:18

[Podie]

it was CLEARLY the air freshner that just broke the camel's back..

[HarryW]

Podie said:

it was CLEARLY the air freshner that just broke the camel's back..

.........and I'm sure if you remove the costs of polish and other non essential items it should bring it down by at least £4.99, or £499 in Pies case .

Harry

[keithyboy]

HarryW said:

. . . or £499 in Pies case .

Can't see why - have you seen the state of Colin's car recently

[ukbob]

Podie said:

it was CLEARLY the air freshner that just broke the camel's back..

Emotionally, it was indeed the fan freshener which left me high and dry, despite twiddling with it, the little plastic fan-thingy wont go round.

Must investigate the possibility of a Mark Adams remapped power fan, to find 'more air' and raise the performance of the vents to make it go round.

[HarryW]

keithyboy said:

HarryW said: . . . or £499 in Pies case . Can't see why - have you seen the state of Colin's car recently

did he hit a cloud of flying ants or something then .

H

[Podie]

HarryW said:

keithyboy said: HarryW said: . . . or £499 in Pies case . Can't see why - have you seen the state of Colin's car recently did he hit a cloud of flying ants or something then . H

oh please, oh please...