Whos had the biggest garage bill?

[Amateurish]

Got quoted £8k minimum for a big end replacement on a MR2 Roadster by a Toyota dealer. And no guarantee that it would fix the problem.

Had a replacement engine fitted for £1.5k (including parts) by a specialist in the end.

[philmots]

Bar routine stuff like cambelts/clutched my biggest has been £110 to sort abs problem on my OH's 206!

[carreauchompeur]

Due to spend about £1300 on the 'good' M3 I bought a couple of weeks ago, VANOS replacement and Insp. 2.

[DanDC5]

AMD87 said:

Peanuts I know someone that's spent in excess of 150-200k on one

Not the Redbrick Racing one is it?

[AMD87]

DanDC5 said:

Not the Redbrick Racing one is it?

Nope his own one.

[matc]

Relative to value, we had a customer with an old E300D Estate that we told her was worth £350 in p/x, she then proceeded to spend £7k in the workshop on it instead - it had the worst bodywork of any car we've had in a long time, however mechanically it's spot on.

She said the sentimental value was worth the expenditure to her!

[carreauchompeur]

In fairness it will probably now well outlive her!

[k-ink]

andy74b said:

Zonda bill was a major expensive but I did upgrade alot of parts. When the mirrors cost £12k the bills add up quickly!

Your mirrors cost the same as my next car budget. Err, wow!

[RobCrezz]

blueroom said:

RobCrezz said:

blueroom said:

Supercar repair bills are one thing, but I had to quote some poor sod £2.5K for a turbo on his old Land Cruiser today! God knows what his final bill will be. More than the car is worth I would imagine.

£2.5k? For a turbo?

I know! I couldn't believe it either. By far the most expensive one I've ever come across.

Thats nuts! would expect it to be not a particularly fancy one on a landcruiser either!

[MG511]

I expect the bill Chris Evans will get when Ferrari have finished with his GTO (they've already had it 18 months I think) will be very, very big.

[k-ink]

MG511 said:

I expect the bill Chris Evans will get when Ferrari have finished with his GTO (they've already had it 18 months I think) will be very, very big.

What are they doing? Mugging him off I suspect. They could have manufactured a new one from scratch in half that time.

[MrAdaam]

12k on mirrors. I salute you, sir. I gulped at £300 to get through my MOT in October!

[Hughesie]

My M6 has a bill for £27k attached to it - Replacement engine done under warranty by BMW =

[dtmpower]

Hughesie said:

My M6 has a bill for £27k attached to it - Replacement engine done under warranty by BMW =

Surely warranty bills aren't quite the same as a customer paying out of their own pocket.

[Hatchoo]

[quote=Amateurish]Got quoted £8k minimum for a big end replacement on a MR2 Roadster by a Toyota dealer. And no guarantee that it would fix the problem.


£8000-00 !!?!!

This has made me spill my tea. How on earth did they attempt to justify such a monumental sum.

£8000-00 ?!?!? MINIMUM ?!?!?

[carreauchompeur]

Utterly barking, I'd have hoped you would be approaching that for a brand new engine...

[k-ink]

I'd have guessed a new engine would be no more than 5k. It's only a common jap 4 pot FFS!

[carreauchompeur]

k-ink said:

I'd have guessed a new engine would be no more than 5k. It's only a common jap 4 pot FFS!

Well precisely. I was being generous to reflect the "Main dealer" setting. eBay for a grand...

[pjdow]

What will Chris Evans bill be like for a factory restoration of a 250GTO

[Ayahuasca]

Was quoted USD 15,000 (that's about £10,000) to replace the automatic transmission on my Toyota Landcruiser Prado.