Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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If were talking cars in general id say
Corsa - cost £9500 sold £1800
MR2 cost £14k sold £7.5k
Impreza - cost 7k sold 4k
Thats only the major ones, could add a couple k's on for impulse buys & run arounds!!
Insurance - about £6k in 6 years 
So about £23k all in inc buying/selling & insurance...id dare touch on petrol or maintenance/running costs  
Not that bad considering in that time my dad bought a car kept it all the time I had those cars & lost £18k on the one car
I no longer laugh at my mates who never bothered to learn to drive...they must be loaded
[Edited on 05-12-2006 by Colin]
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Icy
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Registered: 31st Jan 01
Location: Edinburgh Drives: Mk3 Golf Gti
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bout 6-7 includin the car
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Teknologikal
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Registered: 11th May 06
Location: Cardiff
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Mine has cost me £1900 and I've driven her once
Should be back in my hands on the 16th though, with a few minor things I'll be leaving 'til summer......suspension, ICE mainly. But you know what it's like with cars.....
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nik
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Registered: 19th Jun 00
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Just over £3000 on the alloys, about 600 on suspension and 1500 on bodywork, 500 on head unit.
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vaux-tech
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Registered: 28th May 06
Location: Preston, Lancs. Drives: Astra SRI turbo.
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bought the gsi in september, up to now spent ...
£250 on the 16" softstars.
£150 on full respray of bumpers, arches, skirts and tailgate rid of all rust.
£130 on 4 new gsi arches
£50 on depo headlights
£60 on new 40mm jamex springs
£20 for v6 vectra callipers.
£30 on pvd induction cone.
and i aint finished yet, thats just the start. thinkin of either goin mental and puttin a dbilas manifold + turbo on next year, or just stackin it full of ice (performance prefferred being a mechanic), so overall i spent £690.
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nova_gteuk
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Registered: 15th May 02
Location: South Wales Drives: The Bandwagon
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quote:
Originally posted by nik
Just over £3000 on the alloys,
Fuck me,have you got 24 carrot gold alloys or something?
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Dan A
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Registered: 16th Dec 05
Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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I'v spent well over 8k on mine
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Fear
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Registered: 20th Nov 02
Location: Down off the hill
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if we are including buying the car and insuring the car then my old corsa was easily 30k+
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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I think i worked it out to be about £1300 on my last spec sheet.
Since then...
Money on Brakes, £260 on painting, Interior bits £50, Speakers £50, Wiring for Speakers/Windows £30, Spoiler £30, Lights £130 etc etc etc
Launching towards £2k then
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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mav
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Registered: 19th Jun 01
Location: Scotland
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My 1st corsa 1.6 sport, £3700 buying car and about 3k on mods including 3 sets of wheels..Not including stuff like MOT/TAX/INS
My valver £2300 buying car and about 1.5k in 8 months INcluding MOT but not tax/ins.
T4, £4k buying car and about 2k on mods so far.........
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chumbly_warner
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Registered: 22nd Aug 03
Location: Leicestershire
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Buying and modifying the car, i have spent about £25,000
Insurance, servicing, etc about £3,500.
All in 3 years, oh well i do love it 
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a_j_mair
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Registered: 23rd Jan 04
Location: Scotland
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i spent over 10k easily on my corsa, that doesnt include buying or running costs
I also did 90% of all the work so could have been an easy 20k if id payed a garage/bodyshop for it all 
that all includes it being sprayed at 5 bodyshops, 2 engines and only 2 sets of whhels all in 4 years
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M6RKK
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Glasgow
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quote:
Originally posted by chumbly_warner
Buying and modifying the car, i have spent about £25,000
Insurance, servicing, etc about £3,500.
All in 3 years, oh well i do love it
must be some job you have
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nik
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Registered: 19th Jun 00
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quote:
Originally posted by nova_gteuk
quote:
Originally posted by nik
Just over £3000 on the alloys,
Fuck me,have you got 24 carrot gold alloys or something?
19x10 Racing Harts with 285/30/19 rubber  Actually if I add up the cars/mods I've owned then it's well over 100k in 7 years
[Edited on 05-12-2006 by nik]
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SteveW
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Registered: 15th Jul 02
Location: Up in the clouds
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errr
car was £4300
interior £700
Wheels £300
Fixing engine bits £ ???
paint job 1 £1100 ish
paint job 2 £600 ish
probably loads more too.. just cant think right now.
so its around £3000 after buying the car.
have a few more pennies to spend yet
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Rob_Lee
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Registered: 9th Dec 05
Location: Folkestone Drives: Nova 1.6 16v
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prob about 3k so far on the nova.
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chumbly_warner
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Registered: 22nd Aug 03
Location: Leicestershire
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quote:
Originally posted by M6RKK
must be some job you have
Java web applications developer for Documentum.
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johnhara1
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Registered: 19th Oct 06
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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£3000 for car an insurance
£400 on respray (instead of £1200) m8s spray shop
£70 new fuel tank
£30 Clear Rear Clusters
£50 Viper Induction Kit
Few £s on sensors and little odds and ends from the scrappy.
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Cost me - £12250
Previous owner spent approx 5k on it
Tracker - £250
Air Filter - £47
STi lights - £270
Brakes - £350
Samco Air box hose - £63
Breather Filter - £20
Gauge pod - £60
Gauges - £220
Carbon fibre radiater cover - £38
Stereo - £250
Repairs after bump - £700
Total I've spent -
Including cost of car = £14518
A lot more if you include servicing and new tyres.
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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I dread to think
Corsa B SXi brand new was £9.6k
Spent 5k on it
£14.5k
Nova bought for £300 quid
Spent around 3k on it over 3 years
£3300
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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Car - £4000
Wheels - £580
Brakes - £255
Suspension - 1st Set £350 2nd Set £100
De-Cat -£70
Manifold - £175
Mantzel - £520
Head - £375
Cams - £150
Total - £6575
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Iain M
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Registered: 18th Aug 05
Location: Wigan - Drives 272bhp corsa ZLET
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i bought mine for £2800
spent
£170 - new lights
£35 - grill
£10 - irmcher badge
£5 - side repeaters
£250 - new wheels (part ex my old wheels against them kept tyres)
£140 - stainless centre section
£200 - toad Alarm
£500ish on ICE
£10 - standard rear lights
£15 - rear mud flaps
£775 for engine conversion including little bits needed and Full powerflow sytem with 3 boxes and fitting of coilovers
£250 - spax coilovers
£200 for engine mounts and a set of shafts
£60 - 2litre calipers with turbo discs
£300 for engine and loom and manifold
£200 on other pits before engine fitted e.g new clutch, waterpump, sparkplugs etc.
Total = £5920 - money well spent in my opinion
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FasT09
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Registered: 4th Feb 05
Location: North Yorkshire
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iv spent around 3.5 to 4k i cant stop lol
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Iain M
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Registered: 18th Aug 05
Location: Wigan - Drives 272bhp corsa ZLET
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its like an addictive drug the more money you get the more you spend
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FasT09
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Registered: 4th Feb 05
Location: North Yorkshire
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ye i even say to myself rite last thing. and wen i done it i always find something to do and say thatl b last thing n so on lol. but i really do need to stop as i want new car
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