A car a month for 2020. Idiocy but you love it.
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Hi said:
I can potentially help out with welding, or let you use my welder and workshop, based in Bristol.
PM me if any use
I also know of a very good MOT garage in Cheltenham, he's pretty flexible and MOT retests are free within 10 working days.
Plently of helpful MOT places in Bristol too but probably a bit far if a retest is needed!
This chap is an absolute hero - we now have complete sills again and hopefully a retest later today!PM me if any use
I also know of a very good MOT garage in Cheltenham, he's pretty flexible and MOT retests are free within 10 working days.
Plently of helpful MOT places in Bristol too but probably a bit far if a retest is needed!
Edited by Hi on Monday 3rd February 21:38
Excellent!!!Jonny-Jimbo said:
Where are you based? I'm a qualified welder, but have other employment, so keep my eye in for the fun of it and to earn a small amount, so my labour rate is very low. I'm just near Warwick / Leamington Spa / Coventry.
Not to hijack the thread but I'm based in Leamington and will likely need some welding soon - would be good to have a friendly contact 
Fear not, data fans - I’ll make the full list of what it’s had available as soon as I can. I’d be really interested to know if it’s what people expect - some of the four figure annual totals are eye watering but it’s under 10p per mile for repairs/maintenance and tyres which doesn’t actually sound that bad?
Watched the vid this morning, well put together!
It is a fairly steep price to pay, I would have hoped that was on the higher end of price. Pricey tyres as well!
My experience on one car was over 10k in receipts for 70k miles - and that excludes a number of lost receipts - and the car was not worth the £60 I got for it as scrap. (Thats 14p / mile in found receipts) - I hoped that was high.
My previous car was averaging £300 a month in the garage, whilst only doing 10k miles a year for the last 2 years of its life, but that was a proper lemon at the end. (Thats £2.77 / mile VERY roughly) - and then was told it would take a LOT of welding for its next MOT. It never made it to the next MOT.
It is a fairly steep price to pay, I would have hoped that was on the higher end of price. Pricey tyres as well!
My experience on one car was over 10k in receipts for 70k miles - and that excludes a number of lost receipts - and the car was not worth the £60 I got for it as scrap. (Thats 14p / mile in found receipts) - I hoped that was high.
My previous car was averaging £300 a month in the garage, whilst only doing 10k miles a year for the last 2 years of its life, but that was a proper lemon at the end. (Thats £2.77 / mile VERY roughly) - and then was told it would take a LOT of welding for its next MOT. It never made it to the next MOT.
k it, just put anything on”
£23k sounds like a lot to me, even given the mileage. Some of the repeated items were surprising bordering on suspicious I thought.
I've got an 03 Corolla that gets used occasionally for tip runs and lugging a sea kayak around, that would make an interesting comparison. It's a one previous owner car that I've had for about a year, and I think the previous keeper must have been quite fastidious because there are receipts and invoices for everything.
If I get some time over the weekend I'll tot it all up. It's 'only' done 100k, but it'll still make for an interesting comparison.
Listening to some of the costs paid for easy, easy jobs makes me very glad I'm able to do my own spannering! The Jan '17 £899 bill for example, for MOT, front discs/pads, a caliper and
a shock sounds crazy to me for a 14 year old Rover.
I've got an 03 Corolla that gets used occasionally for tip runs and lugging a sea kayak around, that would make an interesting comparison. It's a one previous owner car that I've had for about a year, and I think the previous keeper must have been quite fastidious because there are receipts and invoices for everything.
If I get some time over the weekend I'll tot it all up. It's 'only' done 100k, but it'll still make for an interesting comparison.
Listening to some of the costs paid for easy, easy jobs makes me very glad I'm able to do my own spannering! The Jan '17 £899 bill for example, for MOT, front discs/pads, a caliper and
a shock sounds crazy to me for a 14 year old Rover.
Edited by mrtwisty on Wednesday 19th February 20:03
mrtwisty said:
The Jan '17 £899 bill for example, for MOT, front discs/pads, a caliper and
a shock sounds crazy to me for a 14 year old Rover.
I agree. I'd like to see the itemized invoice for this. Something in there is going to be surprisingly expensive or maybe a garage making a tasty markup on partsa shock sounds crazy to me for a 14 year old Rover.
Edited by mrtwisty on Wednesday 19th February 20:03
Michaelbailey said:
I agree. I'd like to see the itemized invoice for this. Something in there is going to be surprisingly expensive or maybe a garage making a tasty markup on parts
I’ll need to dig it out and have a look - possible it included a service too. Parts can be more expensive than you think though depending on where they’re sourced from - reconditioned calipers are usually pretty pricey even before the garage marks it up!Gassing Station | Readers' Cars | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff