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Promted me to add up all my bills over the last 5 years of ownership and it came to 2k per year.
This is one of the seemingly more 'reliable' cars normally only visiting the local indy dealers for service and MOT. Yes it has suffered the usual failures as well, eg clutch, starter, big fuse etc. Costs have also included a new set of 18" spiders, AVO shocks and Afterburner light conversion.
Now add Insurance, say £500 (for me anyway) and a £40 tank of fuel every 200 miles and you're now looking at around £3500.00 per year based upon 5000 miles/year.
>> Edited by mike_e on Saturday 19th November 15:47
This is one of the seemingly more 'reliable' cars normally only visiting the local indy dealers for service and MOT. Yes it has suffered the usual failures as well, eg clutch, starter, big fuse etc. Costs have also included a new set of 18" spiders, AVO shocks and Afterburner light conversion.
Now add Insurance, say £500 (for me anyway) and a £40 tank of fuel every 200 miles and you're now looking at around £3500.00 per year based upon 5000 miles/year.
>> Edited by mike_e on Saturday 19th November 15:47
3k a year excluding insurance...
it may not cost you this much, but if you dont put it aside you may get burnt one year... any left over should be either rolled over to the next year or spent on upgrades IMHO.
I think ours costs around this figure for about £12k pa. Its been cheaper a few years, but this year and last year have been quite expensive.
it may not cost you this much, but if you dont put it aside you may get burnt one year... any left over should be either rolled over to the next year or spent on upgrades IMHO.
I think ours costs around this figure for about £12k pa. Its been cheaper a few years, but this year and last year have been quite expensive.
I'm running a 1996 4.2 and I have bills that add up to 17.5K (this does include a 5K TVR engine rebuild though)and now one of my PCB boards has just given up the ghost LOL!
It's rather comical really, the cars aren't that much to buy, they are cheap to insure (£560 at 25) but the minute you put it in for a service all hell breaks loose because they find a million and one things that have warn or broken LOL!!
I rarely drive mine because I work so close to home, it just makes my drive look pretty but I can wager that it will still cost me 1500 - 2000 this year alone
If you are handy with a spanner and you know your way about you can do a fair whack of work yoursself, after all it was slapped together by a human and not a machine
BUY ONE.... GO ON BUY ONE tis the best money you will ever spend
It's rather comical really, the cars aren't that much to buy, they are cheap to insure (£560 at 25) but the minute you put it in for a service all hell breaks loose because they find a million and one things that have warn or broken LOL!!
I rarely drive mine because I work so close to home, it just makes my drive look pretty but I can wager that it will still cost me 1500 - 2000 this year alone
If you are handy with a spanner and you know your way about you can do a fair whack of work yoursself, after all it was slapped together by a human and not a machine
BUY ONE.... GO ON BUY ONE tis the best money you will ever spend
Cheers chaps 
That's actually not so bad, £250pcm to run the creature. They are as you say, not that much at all to buy.....considering that they look the absolute bollox, so there's limited depreciation loss ( compared to buying a more expensive but more reliable car ).
I sense a bit of an early (32) mid life crises coming on so I need a new toy (a new Mrs would be a bit complicated/more expensive to obtain/maintain). As the snowy frosty season is coming up I think I'll probably delay until spring.
Anyway thanks for the help guys, and all being well I'll be able to come along to the forum as an owner next year
That's actually not so bad, £250pcm to run the creature. They are as you say, not that much at all to buy.....considering that they look the absolute bollox, so there's limited depreciation loss ( compared to buying a more expensive but more reliable car ).
I sense a bit of an early (32) mid life crises coming on so I need a new toy (a new Mrs would be a bit complicated/more expensive to obtain/maintain). As the snowy frosty season is coming up I think I'll probably delay until spring.
Anyway thanks for the help guys, and all being well I'll be able to come along to the forum as an owner next year
Mines a delayed early 20's crisis. I'm 31 now but wanted one as soon as it started appearing in car mags in the mid 90's. It's only now that its affordable and I can budget for the unknown costs shall we say that I took the plunge. Go for it is all I can say. I was up at 4:30am this morning and actually was keen to get out of bed because I knew I was driving down to London!
arcbeer said:
Think mine cost about 2K over a year and a half (not including insurance, tax etc.). Buy now, you'll get a better deal than in the spring.
Yes but I'll need to sell on Mr 2, and he'll sell best in spring, in the meantime Iv'e only got 1 garage.
Any ideas on the depreciation curve for these things?
After 7 years, mines at about 30% of its retail value when new. I reckon it will lose 10-15% of it's current value each year for the next 3 years. After that, I reckon Cerbera's will hold their value as they hit early collectors status and prices may even appreciate slightly.
No doubt there will be those that disagree but as a bit of a classic car nut, I can appreciate the qualities the Cerbera has in that field and it's only a 10 year old model!
>> Edited by purpleheadedcerb on Tuesday 22 November 15:54
No doubt there will be those that disagree but as a bit of a classic car nut, I can appreciate the qualities the Cerbera has in that field and it's only a 10 year old model!
>> Edited by purpleheadedcerb on Tuesday 22 November 15:54
purpleheadedcerb said:
After 7 years, mines at about 30% of its retail value when new. I reckon it will lose 10-15% of it's current value each year for the next 3 years. After that, I reckon Cerbera's will hold their value as they hit early collectors status and prices may even appreciate slightly.
No doubt there will be those that disagree but as a bit of a classic car nut, I can appreciate the qualities the Cerbera has in that field and it's only a 10 year old medel!
doesn't sound too bad at all. My Mrs old man has just gone a bought himself a new skoda for £15k.....that means that over 3 years his skoda will cost more to run than my Cerbie....he's a right old know it all and I like winding himm up so that'll come in handy when we roll up in it 
As I said earlier, given the looks of the car they seem remarkably reasonable. And IMO, though I may be wrong here they seem such an improvement on the old Chimaera (please don't flame me for sayinng that) which just a few years back were about the same money second hand.
Oh any tips btw when I start looking, you know things to watch out for.
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