kingofturds

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vauxhall astra 1.7d £795
vauxhall cavalier1.6 £695
renault laguna1.8 £1100
renault laguna 3.0 £2900
renault laguna 3.0 £1850
rover 214 £800
vauxhall vectra 2.0 £3500
vauxhall vectra2.5 £3500
vauxhall vectra2.5gsi £4550
vauxhall vectra2.5sri £2600
renault laguna 2.0 £2200
renault 19 2.0 £850
vauxhall vectra 2.5sri £2850
subaru impreza wrx £ 5100
subaru impreza sti £5400

thats £37690 in 5 years

VWscooby

Worked out that I had spent nearly 3 grand on engine mods for my £250 XR3i

Stopped counting then because I got scared!! Don't really want to work out how much I have spent on cars in total

rossyboy

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does your total include money in from selling though. Would make the expenditure total a bit friendlier

talizman

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1990 AX GT £3000
1998 Saxo VTR £9000
1997 Saxo VTS £9500
2001 Saxo VTS £12500
MY96 Scooby WRX £14000
1994 Clio Williams £9500
MY00 Scooby Turbo £15000
2003 Clio 172 Cup £13000
MY03 STi PPP £25000
2002 Civic Type R £12000
MY99 RB5 WR Sport £14000
2004 Clio 182 Cup packs £13000
MY99 Scooby Turbo £9000
1994 Vauxhall Cavalier!! nil
MY01 Scooby WRX wagon (currently) £9500
Audi A6 (currently) £1500

£169,500 over ten years!!!!!

Thanks for making me work that out.....

Edited to add :
Just worked out what I sold/traded each car for and the total defecit is £23,500 lost over 10 years which I guess isn't that bad...... Is it?

kingofturds

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still work out a fair bit i wrote off the £3500 vectra after 6 weeks and was only tpf&t

Petem95

1991 205 1.9 GTi - £1500 - sold for £1400
1992 205 1.6 GTi - £1500 - sold for £1100
1991 205 1.9 GTi Turbo Technics - £2000 - sold for £2750

Total = £5000, but that was over only 2 years. Tended to drive parents car a lot, and since 2004 have had a company car.

So total loss = .. well £250 profit actually!

Edit: added sale values

Deep Singh

This is not a calculation that would be good for my blood pressure

Dream Weaver

I tend to keep my cars for years and if I do sell them I get not much less than I paid for them, such as the MR2 I bought for £5700, kept for 2 years then sold it in 2003 for £5000.

Since 1991 i've only paid out approx £20k on cars and £6k of that is on my current track 205 which is worth about £4.5k. Money made back from cars if I sold the 205 now would be approx £13k, so i've only lost £7k since 91

Though uni took up many years of that time since passing my test, so I didnt own my first proper car til 97.

kingofturds

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when i was 18 i was told by a tramp i was sharing a bus shelter with (long story)to stay away from anything with a pair of **** or, an engine and i would be a rich man and not end not end up like him. seems he was talking sense after all

corradoboy

1988 Austin Maestro (cheap insurance ) 2000, sold for 1000 = 1000 loss
1990 Ford Sierra 4000, sold for 1400 = 1600 loss
1994 VW Corrado 9600, still got = 0 loss (until sold/scrapped)
2004 Scooby WRX PPP 16200, still got but for sale at 13,200 = poss 3000 loss

5600 lost in 15 years, not counting the Corrado, which is only worth about 1500 now (so potentially 13,700)

pslewis

Hmmmmmm, interesting topic ... my first car was £320 and 8 years old ... many decades ago!!

Cars haven't really got any more expensive over all my driving years, but the cars have improved beyond all comparison .....

I reckon my bill is around £150,000+ ......... and maybe £100,000 in sales??

I have even owned cars that have INCREASED in value!!

Pete

pslewis

Did he also share his bottle with you - while explaining how it makes your **** hurt in the morning?????

Pete

kingofturds

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this coming from the king of ****. you sure it was not you pete we will have the last laugh when your new mx5 depricates 90% in the first 3 years

talizman

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Wish you were my bank manager with those maths corradoboy!

turboman786

Thats a helluva lot of gold wheels and MX5s....

Richard_P

I wasn't looking forward to working this out but it's actually ok!

astra mk 3 bought for £3400 sold for £2200
mondeo bought for £2500 sold for £900
civic vti bought for £5500 sold for £3600
bmw 325 bought for £3350 sold for £2700
integra type r bought for £6500 (current car - potential value ~6k)

Thats in 6 years since passing my test so £21250 spent, and £9400 recovered with a further potential 6k if i sold my teg.

£1000 a year average loss in depreciation isn't bad actually.

LG John

New VTS bought for £10,700 and sold for £7500
3yo MY99 Impreza Turbo bought for £11,200 sold for £7,300
6yo Peugeot 406 V6 bought for £1,900 then blown up, made about £250 back so far
5yo Peugeot 406 V6 bought for £2,250 then blow up, looking at getting £300 for in next week
2003 S2000 bought for £19,000 and still running

Total loss on cars in 5 years = £10,500 aprox. (that doesn't include S200 which has lost about £1k already).

£2k a year! Is that good/bad or indifferent?! Seems pretty grim

corradoboy

I'm not very well

VWscooby

Add up how much modifications and insurance has cost you over the years too if you haven't quite had a heart attack yet!!!

corradoboy

Just on the Scoob in 2 years, insurance 1300, STi alloys 100 (bought 3 sets and sold 2 on at profit ), STi wing 100 (for respraying mine, mate needed WRX bootlid for carbon spoiler ), brakes 240 (EBC Reds that were **** and current Ferodo's, plus braided lines), detango free (did it myself) + 30 for LED indicators, snorkelectomy (free), JR Racing filter 45, front strut brace 80, rear arb + links 130, MRO upper and Subaru lower grilles 160, Kaylan flaps 60.

2165 (not bad), plus fuel

falkster

1986 XR2 £2000
1990 Nova SR £4500
1990 Nova GTE £4700
1986 RS Turbo £4400
1991 Swift GTi £4995
1979 RS2000 £500 (daft bint thought the price up, I sold it a year later for £3600)
1990 RS Turbo Swap for swift
1989 Cosworth £8600
1990 325 Sport £12500
1992 Ren 19v £6200
1992 Clio 16v £7000
1978 RS2000 £2200
1991 Golf G60 £9500 (wrote it off, insurance failed to payout)
1989 Cav SRi £pennies (had to start from scratch after Golf)
1996 Ren 19 £7500
2000 Hyundai F2 £12000
1990 E30 M3 £7500 (wouldnt like to add up what Ive spent it her.....atleast £4000 in the last 8 weeks.


I have not changed my car for the last 4 years and will carry on driving my F2 daily and my M3 at weekends until I get bored.....as this title has pointed out for some, I am tired of losing so much money. Funny thing is my M3 is the car Ive spent most on ever but will prolly be the one I lose least on.

Stryder

My unexciting list spans for almost 10yrs car ownership:

1985 Ford Fiesta Finesse £300.00
1987 Cavalier 1.8 SRi £800.00
1993 Rover 220 Coupe Turbo £7500 (& then £8000 on modifications)
1986 VW Polo 1.0c £100.00 (Got married and then it broke down after 3 yrs)
2002 Vectra 2.6 GSi £17000.00 (bought it new and it's my current car)
1996 Corsa 1.5d merit £800.00 (was the missus car until some pr1ck nicked it)

Sub97

Vauxhall Astra 1.3 - bought for £1000 (sold (£1000)
Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 - 2600 (1400)
Ford Mondeo 1.8 - 6000 (3800)
Vauxhall Vectra 1.8 - 7000 (2600)
Ford Mondeo 2.0 - 8000 (2400)
Subaru Impreza Turbo - 10500 (7900)
Golf GTTDi - 7800 (7000)
Hyundai Coupe - 6000 (6250)
BMW 323 - 6500 (7000)
Renault Laguna - 10500 (6000)

Over ten years, spent 65100 and recouped 45350. Average spend of 1975 a year, not too bad I suppose. I thought it would be higher

Richard_P

Ok here is my revised list with insurance and mods.

astra mk 3 bought for £3400 sold for £2200 paid £700 insurance (1.5 yr)
mondeo bought for £2500 sold for £900 paid £1250 insurance (1 yr)
civic vti bought for £5500 sold for £3600 paid £3000 insurance (2yr)
bmw 325 bought for £3350 sold for £2700 paid £800 insurance (1yr)
integra type r bought for £6500 (current car - potential value ~6k) paid £850 insurance

So now approx £6000 lost allowing for value of current car and £6600 insurance. Onbly modification I have ever done was a set of alloys for my mondeo, bought for £100 sold for £100 when I sold the car.

£12600 spent on insurance and depreciation in 6 years doesn't look so good! I can't see me spending 4 figure sums on insurance again though it's just madness.