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char wrote:not much yet,

car: £2500
lowering springs: £60ish with discount
petrol: loads

and you have a sweet looking ride already!

-Ben-

I'd like an R32 engine in it, but it'd be too big

i reckon i could get a R32 engine in the front with a 5 speed vr box fitted with minor inner wing mods

car: £4400 (6n2 polo gti)
head unit: £800
crystal side repeaters: £7
sachs clutch: £130 (inc fitting)

plus the servicing and recently replaced CV joint which cost £200

although when i bought it it already had:

long life stainless cat back exhaust (£350)
B&M short shifter (£150)
tints (£150ish)
BBS RXII's with black powder coat centres (around £150-£200 to get done i think)
Kamei Grill (dunno how much!)
smoothed bonnet where badge would cut in due to debadge (again dont know how much)
clifford alarm (£400)
full leather (put in after the car was bought new so probably about £700ish)

so i didnt spend much- but shes had a lot spent on her before me as it is.

walshc wrote:

ModifiedMadness wrote:I'd like an R32 engine in it, but it'd be too big

Stick it in the back? tell your mates they have to walk

thats exactly the solution i came up with!! if i wanted to put a bigger engine in my beaut

ceedubya wrote:

I'd like an R32 engine in it, but it'd be too big

i reckon i could get a R32 engine in the front with a 5 speed vr box fitted with minor inner wing mods

Thats just greedy, you already have a porsche eating monster

i've decided....im not gunna let little git bags ruin my fun... as soon as everythings sorted with my car - im going all out

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

laura_fairy_22 wrote:i've decided....im not gunna let little git bags ruin my fun... as soon as everythings sorted with my car - im going all out

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

she means business everyone
on the contrary my 1 litre is nippy enough for me, keeps me out of trouble.....sorta
-Ben-

polopowah wrote:

laura_fairy_22 wrote:i've decided....im not gunna let little git bags ruin my fun... as soon as everythings sorted with my car - im going all out

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

she means business everyone
on the contrary my 1 litre is nippy enough for me, keeps me out of trouble.....sorta
-Ben-

dang right

Cx was a freebee went through mot with just a new nunmber plate

Coupe s was 100 quid with a full years tax and mot nowt spent on it yet

Type 3 was thousand pounds (i drive a hard bargin plus the mate i bought it from was desperate for me to have and spent over a year persuading me to buy it ) have spent about 4 k on it in the last 6 years but prob only about 1k of that is mods (928 porche seats ,lowering ,paint job,wheels and my bling steering wheel) the rest has been essental maintenance the joys of owning a rarer air cooled vw. Still i plan to be buried in him

oh, god, tons.......

CAR - 650
immediate REPAIRS required - 250 (would have been half that if i hadnt been a n00b letting mum take care of it)
insurance - oh god.
INSURANCE, seriously - 740 first year, 580 second, 247.50 third (swapped halfway to more expensive astra, quoted 495 for polo), plus a couple of temp-weeks at about 30 quid a pop
TAX - 220 (110 twice), and a further six months, 25 (partway refund, 61 minus 36)
...fuel... - ah, screw that for a laugh. thousands.
REPAIRS, ongoing over the years - probably well over a grand total, more than 400 quid a year. money pit for third party long-term consumable parts - shocks, exhaust, clutch, pedal box, manifolds, cambelt etc.
Short-term CONSUMABLES - tyres, brake pads/discs/shoes/cylinders, oil, filters & fluids, battery, ignition leads, dizzy rotors & caps, spark plugs. £££...

mini-BLINGS (will hopefully earn some of this back on resale) - 25 for clocks, fiver for gaiter and shiny handles, two quid for new badge, two fifty a year on bonnet poppies, fuel used to collect (plus, payment? can't remember) "new" seats, tenner to replace shelf ruined by speaker stealthing attempt, fifty quid on foglights, another fifty on the head unit (BARGAIN tho) and fifty again on good front speakers (estimates), plus at least another fifteen for wiring and attachments, fuel again for picking up Mk4 wheels... and a fiver on a beanie baby bought specially to go in the car, fifteen on air fresheners. At least fifty on rust treatment and painting-up supplies (not all used on the car / bodywork).

Unusual stuff...
Sixty ? on new gearbox, plus collection fuel
God only knows how f***ing much on doing the engine out. The piston rings were an arm and a leg just for starters, then there's the bearings, cambelt, water pump, gaskets, and all the tools i had to gradually buy and cleaning products spazzed... this is why overhauls & recons still cost a lot.
Thermostat & blue sender... £20?
Petrol tank... call it £100 inc fitting
Bought an entire master cylinder reservoir just to get the cap - anyone want the body? (£10)
Hot air hoses from halfords (£5). Bobbins.
Insane amounts of gun gum and wrap from Gunson to fix shagged exhaust. Avoid. It's pikey. (£20)
Improvised hub bolt tool from homebase (extra-long table leg) and breaker bar - £20 all in
Torque wrench... £15!
New aerial (£10)... and adaptor kit for old stereo (£2)
T-cut stuff, £5
Carpet cleaner after spilling a gallon of oil... (£10)
Mirror glass, £10
Locking fuel cap, £10
New keys, £5
Poloace 1.0 chip £25

---- and a hundred and one other things, to be sure.

One day when i am a braver man i will go through this and add it all up. Then discover why i am still not rich!!

£18 on some uprated bulbs

On top of buying, insuring, taxing and MOTing it.

so £3868 in total.

All other mods done by prevous owner

i got my car for £850 and spent £300 on it so far that was just fixing the problems now im gonna spend loads doing it up

Car - £330
Insure - £280 i think
2 Services - £60 i think
MOT - £32, passed aswell
Completely new shockers & 2nd hand lowering springs - £175ish
Alloys & full set of new tyres - £150
Stereo & amp are ones i had lying around from previous installs in the roadster - Free
Front Grille Upgrade - Free
2 New front wingsd and a front lower panel - £75 (still not fitted tho)