What amount have you lost/spent modding and selling a car?

[alexb]

As the title says.

What cars have you owned, spent on modifying and the like and sold it for what amount?

Dont need to be specific, just sort of what you paid for the car, how much you spent modding it, an idea on spec, and what you sold it for.

I know cars dont make money from mods, i just wondered what sort of money people have lost due to their mods & depreciation and stuff!

 

[darkcircuitUK]

Too depressing to think about

 

[alexb]

Too depressing to think about

Nah, that's pants!

My first car I left bog standard and my current car I'm keeping standard, but the car I had in the middle lost me a fortune if you include repairs:

Pug 306 XSi £10666
Alloys & tyres £1000
Pugsport induction £280
Cambelt/Water pump £600
3 sets of front tyres £450

Sold 3 years on for £4500!

Total loss of nearly £8500! How crap!

 

[jamie86]

Not sure yet but I expect to lose at least 2grand on what is bascially a 800pound car!

 

[hmallett]

I'm not thinking about it...
H

 

[Emm]

at the last count i spent £2,600 on my Sei Abarth(not including my ICE),car was bought for £3,900 standard in 2002

And at last count spent bout £10,000 on the Pug not including purchase price and ICE

and dont intend selling either in the near future!

 

[alexb]

And at last count spent bout £10,000 on the Pug not including purchase price and ICE

Blimey! What've done to it? MI16/T16 conversion or something?!

 

[JonnyBoy]

God knows how much I've thrown at the Punto, but as it is now it's worth maybe 800 quid, or if standard it'd be more like 450.

Hmmm... lemme think...

1x 1994 Fiat Punto 55SX (bought in May 2002) £1650

Alloys £100
Paint to spray alloys: £30
Avon ZV3 tyres: £190
Verdestein tyres on original steel wheels: £120
Locking bolts: £20
Longer bolts for alloys: £10
(so I've lost £470 just on wheel related stuff )
K&N £55
EBC brakepads (now worn out and useless!) £50
De-cat: £35
Centre console: £30
Light tinting: £15
Side repeaters: £10
New discs, pads and brakepipes for MoT: £35
Brake drums: £25
Brake shoes: £10
Handbrake cables: £20
Service parts (plugs, oil, filter): about £20 x 7 or 8 services
2 cambelts@£5 each
2 fanbelts@£4 each
2 cambelt tensioners@£10 each
Thermostat £15
Water pump £15
Head gasket set and skim £50
Lambda sensor £30
Cat-back exhaust system: £75
Gearbox: £85
Gearbox oil: £10
Clutch kit: £65
Paint, underseal and welding gas/wire to patch the floor up: ~£20
Replacement throttle body £30 (will soon be off to Tricker, another £120ish!)

Also spent well over £500 on the sound system, but that would all come back out if I was to sell the car.
There's probably a lot more stuff that's slipped my mind but I'm happier not thinking about that!
(just remembered: recent alternator, battery, uprated headlght bulbs... feck bugger and arse...)

Assuming the car sold for 800 with all the mods on it, then, I've lost nearly £2200 over 3 years. Thank f*** I don't intend to sell it!

 

[Emm]

Blimey! What've done to it? MI16/T16 conversion or something?!

lol! i keep a file with all the reciepts in but aint really had a gander at it since last year the list is endless! main mods are

Twin 45 carbs
lots and lots of headwork
suspension
exhaust system
full engine rebuild
up rated gearbox and drive shift
and bodywork

Tiz running 180bhp
(my track day tart)

 

[alexb]

lol! i keep a file with all the reciepts in but aint really had a gander at it since last year the list is endless! main mods are

Twin 45 carbs
lots and lots of headwork
suspension
exhaust system
full engine rebuild
up rated gearbox and drive shift
and bodywork

Tiz running 180bhp
(my track day tart)

Schweet!!

I had a spin in a 220bhp MI16 205 a couple of weeks ago! Now that was fun!

 

[Emm]

:yum: bet that was hot! :devil:

 

[activematt]

Well this car is the first ive modified excluding ice cos ive moved that from car to car, so i shall eagerly await the day i find out how much money ive lost on it

 

[steve1219]

Modding the car, never keep a record, its a hobby and an interest, costs like any other hobby.
Loss on the price of the car? fact of life can't stop it so never think of it

Steve

 

[B18 RDM]

My Fiat Cinquecento SX

Buckets - £449
Suspension - £227
Alloys - £250
Boot install - £80
Induction Kit - £95
Red dot Brakes - £135
Strutbrace, smoked side repeaters, headlight eyebrows - £30 - £35
Dual Exhaust(just buying it not fitting) - £60

so off the top of my head this is some of what i have done - £1775 - £1780

OUCH

didnt think it was that much!

 

[HP]

I stopped counting at £2500 on the turbo cinqy... not including buying or insuring.

 

[surfin_fella]

I'd be up at about £4k so far, i think

 

[joecinq]

Fluffy Dice- £1

 

[surfin_fella]

I once got this on a text message:

New MAP sensor - £70
Pirelli 155/65R13 - £35 each
New Handbrake cable - £16
Great sex life.....Priceless

There are some things money can buy, but for everything else there's Cinquecento:cool

 

[CinquePunto]

Well... I paid £600 for my cinq...

£50 Strut Brace
£35 K&N
£60 New exhaust
£100 Exterior lighting
£50 Rev Counter
£20 Light Eyebrows
£10 Side Repeaters
edit: forgot, 2 new CV Boots and driveshaft £150
and roughly £300 on ICE

Scrap value ~ £1

But I did do 12k miles in it, and it gave me enjoyment, so I think its worth it...

but yeah, £1100 ish

 

[CinquePunto]

I can remember someones Sig being

"sorry sir, your rotary pericocumbulator has given up the ghost, that'll be 20 quid, would you like fries with that?"

Sums up owning a cinq, a new thing goes wrong, and you have no clue what it is...