Evora NA running costs?

[Ryvita]

I want to get into an Evora eventually, and I'm comfortable doing some saving up for deposit, but too impatient to wait until I can afford it outright.

As such I'm mentally subtracting the running costs from the amount I can afford to allocate to a monthly "Evora fund" and converting that to a hypothetical finance payment, to shorten the wait. At the moment the two lines cross at about spring 2022.

I'm presuming prices stay about flat, and a good 2010 Evora NA will still be about £28K (See the 20K Evora thread. Prices aren't really moving at all, upwards maybe if anything.)

Am I correct on running cost allowances though?

Insurance - £500 (I'm ok on NCB, car history and age)
Tax - £325 (assuming a 2010 N/A car)
Service & MOT - £800-1000 (main dealer price?)
Consumables - £500-600 (pair of rear tyres or brake pads?)

So summing that, I'm looking at an annual upkeep figure (without fuel) of about £2000-2500?

I'm also aware / allowing the possibility of some big bills (clutch & gear selector cables notably). How much would people think reasonable to have in a kitty against such emergencies, £2000? I've run some relatively expensive things before (My current 944 isn't exactly covering itself in glory in terms of reliability / economy), so I hope I'm being realistic about what I can afford.

[Ryvita]

Yeah, I should have said. This will be a second car, with likely low mileage of about 5-6000 miles per year, maybe 1 or 2 trackdays.

Agree that getting one with good state of service and consumables is key to keeping initial costs down. I have learnt that lesson after an E46 M3 presented me a three grand bill, six months after purchase... It needed everything (tyres, brakes, major service)

Hopefully, in 2022 a budget of 28K will be about right for such a vehicle. God only knows given Brexit, we might all be chewing rats and fighting over the last tin of spam by then, or alternatively riding unicorns around the sun-lit uplands. Who knows!

Edited by Ryvita on Tuesday 21st January 15:37

[Ryvita]

p4cks said:

When I get home I'll put a more comprehensive list of spending in this reply for you and others who were in the same position as me, but your servicing costs are miles higher than I'd ever pay!

Clutches are £3K though, and my research tells me that there's little/nothing else you can do to get around that.

Thank you for taking the time. I did do a dig back through the archives and there's little discussion / hard fact regarding running costs in the last couple of years.

I think my strategy will be to get myself in a position where I'm ready to go with a purchase, and then talk to the usual suspects (Will Blackham gets a good report, my local MD is Bell & Colvill) and wait for the right car. Could be 6 months, but as you say, finding one with clutch done, and maybe the MY12 gear cables done, will pay for itself in the long run.

[Ryvita]

Had a read through your thread, you've done an impressive amount of work yourself on that. You seem to have a knack for finding cheap (but effective) fixes! Garages must hate you.

My proudest (?) Lotus moment was fixing a crumbled plastic contact support on my Exige's indicator with a bent paperclip.

[Ryvita]

p4cks said:

These cars are very, very reliable and incredibly cheap to run.

...things few uninitiates would expect of a Lotus.

[Ryvita]

Thanks. Collecting all of this and filing it away.

[Ryvita]

That's ludicrous!

Are they a particularly cheap size or something? Excess stock sell off?

At this point, how can I NOT buy an Evora... think of how much I'll save!