What's the largest repair bill you've ever paid ?

[twin sparky]

I'm still in a state of shock.. After paying £5,700 to the garage last night. Given it was for a total rebuild of a LR TD4 engine, new clutch and a minor electrical issue with the door! The invoice was on 4 pieces of A4

Make me feel better and tell me your largest repair bill...

[LukeR94]

£640 on a £750 pound car.....


What do i win

[HemiCommander]

Nearly £600 for some really rusted in shock absorbers and top mounts to be replaced including various sheared/rounded bolts sorting. Sorry, that probably didn't help . £5700 is fairly , presumably that's on a Freelander too? I didn't realise they were worth enough to justify that sort of expense, wouldn't a new/2nd hand engine have been cheaper?

[StuntmanMike]

2000 on a 4 year old 200sx, wasn't happy.

[LukeR94]

StuntmanMike said:

2000 on a 4 year old 200sx, wasn't happy.

What needed doing?

[Panda P]

I have to say that unless it's your pride and joy or the value of the car is a fair percentage higher than the £5700 that you've just paid, why on earth did you do it?!

For me... £600 for a water pump replacement.

[OllieC]

£300 to fix various injection gubbins on my Capri 2.8i

[Davey S2]

Just shy of £8K for an engine rebuild on my old Cayman S.

[twin sparky]

Panda P said:

I have to say that unless it's your pride and joy or the value of the car is a fair percentage higher than the £5700 that you've just paid, why on earth did you do it?!

For me... £600 for a water pump replacement.

It's not my pride and joy but it is worth £10k / £11k ,so yes it was worth fixing. Otherwise with a trashed engine it was virtually worthless.

[davel*]

My highest was £600 on a £550 car :S

To be fair it did then work flawlessly for the next 30k miles

[Dr Interceptor]

I gave a local garage £1350 for some welding work on the Stag a few months ago...

I've had £1000 service bills in the past though from Mercedes

[-crookedtail-]

Davey S2 said:

Just shy of £8K for an engine rebuild on my old Cayman S.

I think I would collapse onto the floor in a heap if someone gave me an 8 grand bill!!

[pthelazyjourno]

About £2k on the Elise.

Far too many £500 bills for my liking though, adds up when there are lots of them!!

[Petrus1983]

Davey S2 said:

Just shy of £8K for an engine rebuild on my old Cayman S.

Everytime I think I'm close to pressing the button on a 'fun car' I see something like this and it scares the bejeezers out of me!

[twin sparky]

HemiCommander said:

presumably that's on a Freelander too? I didn't realise they were worth enough to justify that sort of expense, wouldn't a new/2nd hand engine have been cheaper?

Yeah it was a Freelander 2 TD4, LR wanted nearly £8000 just for a new engine, not including labour to remove and refit... Second hand engines are going for around £2000 - £3000, again no labour costs.

[djt100]

I used to have a 1988 911. I gave it to the garage as i'd just bought it and needed a service with the instruction to just do what needed to be done. I think i got off lightly with a £1700 bill.

[scarble]

I now feel less bad about my impending £500 on front end suspension rebuild and rear brakes/pads/bearings.
Was once quoted £350ish just to replace the rear beam mounting bushes on a Calibra.
About £10 for parts and the rest labour

[Big Rod]

Just paid £700 odd to get my other half's people carrier through its MOT.

Had I known beforehand it was going to be as bad I'd have just bought her another car.

[Panda P]

twin sparky said:

It's not my pride and joy but it is worth £10k / £11k ,so yes it was worth fixing. Otherwise with a trashed engine it was virtually worthless.

Rock and a hard place I guess

[twin sparky]

I was hoping for people to make me feel better ... currently only Davey S2 has done that!