I’ve just bought the cheapest 911 in the UK!
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I can tell you that I owned my 996 for significantly less than £2k a year...however the previous owner had just rebuilt the engine, a/c, brakes and tires all round. For some reason he just couldn't sell it. I bought it so cheap it would be rude not to. Ran it for 2 years doing just the minimum (didn't get through the brake pads so obviously wasn't trying hard enough 
). Sold it for more than I paid for it. If I hadn't bought winter wheels and tires for the car and painted the wheels a better color, I'd have made money including maintenance costs and insurance.
Had the car not had all the work done before I purchased it, then it would have cost me...about £2k a year
Anyway, where's the OP - is it still running?
). Sold it for more than I paid for it. If I hadn't bought winter wheels and tires for the car and painted the wheels a better color, I'd have made money including maintenance costs and insurance.Had the car not had all the work done before I purchased it, then it would have cost me...about £2k a year
Anyway, where's the OP - is it still running?
abzmike said:
Why should a premium brand sports car costing 70k, or whatever, require a budget of thousands of pounds a year maintenance, paint, suspension and interior refreshment, to maintain the ‘experience’? Sounds like people are getting ripped off big time.
I presume because that poster’s view is that to fully enjoy the experience it should look and feel like new without anything partly worn letting the side down. After 10+ years and 140+ miles, any car will feel a bit loose. This costs a lot of money each year if you split the jobs up over time or a huge amount if it is all done at once.
The real point is that most of us will feel more inclined to do this for a 911 than we would for, say, a similar age Mondeo.
I presume your, equally valid, point is that most of this spending is discretionary and it could work acceptably well without it? Horses for courses!
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