Whats the most expensive single repair you have had?

[TheCarpetCleaner]

Knowing that people own some quite expensive cars on here...

Just had my car and bike fail at the same time for different expensive reasons - hopefully should make me feel better

And I am genuinely curious, I have only ever run cheapish cars in my life, so I want to know what is really considered an expensive repair!

[sherman]

Just spent £1700 on 2 new ignition coils, a new O2 sensor and a new catalytic converter but I'm sure there are more eye watering bills out there.

[Dick_Phallus]

Once had to spend pushing on for £3k on my XJ8. The garage that carried out the work were also completely out of their depth (although I didn't realise it at the time) and the repair went tits up within 4 months.

[varsas]

£1500 on the engine in my old Stag. I shouldn't have done it but I couldn't bare to see the car scrapped/broken so I had the work done and sold it.

[richcorsavxr]

only £600 (will rise though) on a new alloy, new brake caliper and tyre.....still have the front lower spliter to replace and paint

[sy534534]

Spent £3.5k on a new engine and a few other bits supplied and fitted at the main dealer for a 306 gti6 , it was only worth £5k at the time but i loved that car!

[redstu]

Does an exhaust count? I spent about £230 on a ss one for my sprint back in 1994. I've not spent more than that fixing anything since!

[DanGPR]

sy534534 said:

Spent £3.5k on a new engine and a few other bits supplied and fitted at the main dealer for a 306 gti6 , it was only worth £5k at the time but i loved that car!

True pistonhead!

[redtwin]

About £450 on a new airbag on a BMW 330. Should have been double that, but service manager misquoted the job and kept to the quoted price.

[white90]

Collected a car from a repair shop with a mate recently
£5700 for a snapped cam chain and resultant damage on a 996.

[Merlot]

TheCarpetCleaner said:

Knowing that people own some quite expensive cars on here...

Just had my car and bike fail at the same time for different expensive reasons - hopefully should make me feel better

And I am genuinely curious, I have only ever run cheapish cars in my life, so I want to know what is really considered an expensive repair!

Nothing that will be in the big boys league, but I paid £1900 to have a refurbed engine fitted to my Volvo 850 T5 back in 2003, when I was a 19 year old University student. That was a bit painful, I tell thee.

[AndrewW-G]

A still painful 5 figure amount for rebuilding the motor of my 964 to Ruf RCT Evo spec following a post track day issue that saw the car very artfully sitting in a pool of its own oil!

Plenty of huge bills with work, but normally factored into the purchase and sale costs

[JRM Rossi]

I have just had a £1300 pound gearbox in my working dodge ram im still crying! well the next owner will get the use out of it i suppose

[nonuts]

Have a look at the blog for my S3!

The highlight was the £7k for new short engine, new valves and turbo.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

white90 said:

Collected a car from a repair shop with a mate recently
£5700 for a snapped cam chain and resultant damage on a 996.

[sdmurray]

All piddling amounts so far! Try £10,081 for the sills replacement, wing repairs and lower half respray of a Silver Cloud . . . it was written off a few months later

If that is not counted as it was a major overhaul, how about £6,803 for various suspension problems and other glitches on the Aston Martin PLUS £1,200 for a new set of wheels for the same (all at the same time!)

I also used to own a Bentley Turbo R and have LOTS of big bills from that one!

[belleair302]

The small problem of a piston lunching the engine on my BMW M5. The final bill for an engine rebuild was close to £6900.

[davidjpowell]

Mercedes paid for a new 7g gearbox on my old merc. Am told the part was retail at £3.5k + labour.

My mother reversed into a (clients) 911 Turbo. £20k.

Her insurance went up quite a bit.

[MarsellusWallace]

Ive just had a bill of £8k for a hydraulic service,some new suspension bushes,aircon rad,pas pipe and a few other minor bits for my Bentley Arnage Red Label

[sdmurray]

MarsellusWallace said:

Ive just had a bill of £8k for a hydraulic service,some new suspension bushes,aircon rad,pas pipe and a few other minor bits for my Bentley Arnage Red Label

Ouch - they're no better than the Turbo R's to maintain then. I was saving for one of these.