Big Bills

[V8Wagon]

Ads like this alarm me! Look at the amount of work the guy has done since he bought it two years ago!

Man imagine you'd bought this car two years ago and had needed to spend nearly £6000 in repairs!!

I'd be broke, broken and probably divorced!

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3591435.htm

[Jw Vw]

Bloody hell. £6K in two years! I know these S4's are supposedly money pits but that is an epic amount of cash.

[frosted]

6k is not big bills over 2 years , I spent half that on a passat for maintance alone . That blue is the fastest of them all LOL

[randlemarcus]

It's like eating an elephant - one bite at a time will do it. I suspect he was a little shocked at the total, or at least failed to declare it properly to his finance director

And pro-active maintenance does add up, when you replace things before breaking. Luckily people do this, otherwise everything would be a barge, and die horrid deaths.

[Burrito]

It's the old adage of being a "cheap" car but still having "supercar running costs".

Personally, I budget £2k a year plus a £2k emergency fund for the M3. I know it's not the same car but the running costs will be similar, possibly more for the S4, so a couple of unexpected costs and you're easily at £5k for two years.

[frosted]

Well at least the Audi ain't gonna have no rust ey ?

[TOENHEEL]

Great advert, sounds like a great buy for someone. Lot of car for the money. GLWTS to the seller!

[V8Wagon]

TOENHEEL said:

Great advert, sounds like a great buy for someone. Lot of car for the money. GLWTS to the seller!

I agree, lovely car, great well worded ad. I wonder though if the running costs continue at that alarming level?

[Ozzie Osmond]

Prudent to budget 5% of the NEW cost of the car each year for maintenance. So yes, £2.5k for an M3. Hopefully things will work out the right side of that.

Jaguar XJR/XKR First service can easily cost more than the car!

[TOENHEEL]

V8Wagon said:

I agree, lovely car, great well worded ad. I wonder though if the running costs continue at that alarming level?

Difficult to tell I suppose, he seems to of carried out a lot of work so you would like to think there's a good few miles of usage before any other problems. I think with any high mileage car you have to accept that your wallet will take a hit at some point. Biggest plus with that particular car is that it's advertised by what seems like a very honest bloke so anyone looking for that particualr car is given a far better chance than buying a clean to the eye money pit elsewhere that hasn't been given the same attention mechanically. It would almost feel embarrassing handing over that little cash for a car like that!