Pointless thread!

[sethlj]

Friday lunch and I would like to compare the size of mine to the size of yours

On another thread I made a comment about being hit my a large bill for service/clutch/brakes etc. This stung me for £3,700. A response came that I would have to go some to beat some of the bills that some of you guys have been hit with.

What are they then. Let's exclude upgrades and mods - as that is just showing off - lets talk maintenance - popped engines/gearbox rebuilds - you know the kind of thing.

S.

[j_s_g]

Biggest bill has been a couple of hundred quid for the CV bushes doing. Guess I lose...

See my post from a couple of days ago (or my profile) for the "mine's bigger than yours" grand total, though.

Think the most I know of is from accident damage - £20k figures for chassis work, etc.

[_DJ_]

sethlj said:

Friday lunch and I would like to compare the size of mine to the size of yours On another thread I made a comment about being hit my a large bill for service/clutch/brakes etc. This stung me for £3,700. A response came that I would have to go some to beat some of the bills that some of you guys have been hit with. What are they then. Let's exclude upgrades and mods - as that is just showing off - lets talk maintenance - popped engines/gearbox rebuilds - you know the kind of thing. S.

How about DarrenI's engine rebuild - 5.5k if I remember correctly?

[beemer]

Just checked my profile as I hit one year of ownership, and have racked up £5,700 in servicing and repairs!!

With insurance and fuel, that's over £8,000 - for less than 4,000 miles...

glad I'm not an accountant

cheers
Sean

[GCerbera]

I know of one with engine related work at about 5.5k, but the work Stas is having done due
to the vandals in about 20k if I recall?


Me? A mere whipper snapper bill of 3k.

[trooper1212]

Makes my £3,300 bill seem positively bargainous.

[holohan]

I spent over 12K in one year and 2000miles.

9k on engine rebuild (done twice, second time on warranty)
1K on on cats
600+ on service, engine failed 100 miles later.
Over 1.5K on bits and pieces HT leads (2 sets), Dim/Dip control, heater control panel, exhaust repair, alternater repair etc etc.

1200 of the 2000 miles were running the car in!

I recently sold the car, would I buy another TVR, yeah probably, great cars when running!

[tvrslag]

£ 4,600 on an engine rebuild.

£10,000 on physciatrist fees due to deep depression caused by a non working cerb.

100K to buy the other half of my house when my misses divorces me for spending to much time with the car.

[k77-widow maker]

Howabout mine, I reckon about 45k, in that I got collared by the Mrs one evening, when intended to do some work on the car, instead was summoned , and we had our first child last sunday as a result.

I read somewhere that the ave cost of a child these days is about 45k!!!

I'm now locked in the garage with the Griff....it seems to get expensive if I emerge out these days!!

[greenisbest]

Congrats!! But 45k, you are having a laugh thats the first couple of years. More like 245k!

However they are the only thing in the world to give you a bigger smile than a TVR.