View Full Version : Think about this and make yourself really depressed
How much have you guys spent on yours then? Ill start off.
1992 Vauxhall Nova 1200 spi - £400
Budget Coilovers - £250
Gsi interior - £150
Brand new gsi front bumper - £120
C16xe - £550
Compomotive mo's with new good year tyres £384.
Door skins, rear arch repair panels, sills, wings and front panel - £400
Paint/Materiels £200
Sound system £500
Sigma alarm (getting fitted now) £200
Elec windows (getting fitted now) £40
Omp 300mm steering wheel £50
Quaife quick rack (yet to be fitted) £90
V6 brakes £100
Total cost £3495! lol Your'll be amazed when you add it all up!
Base model 1.2 mk2 - £100
Making it road legal £100
X14XE - £160 ish
256mm brakes - £40
GSI spoiler - £10
COmplete GSI interior - £60
Side Skirts - £5
3 Spokes - £60
Window Surrounds - £15
Braided brake hoses - £10
GSI wheel - £15
Gemini alarm - £100 all in
Panels (wings/bonnet) £40
Electric windows - £10
Spax Coilovers £40
ICE - £30 (just speakers FTW)
Other random items - about £50
Total of: £845, basicaly fook all.
Edit: Might as well say £900 as ive left out a few things i think. But saying that, i have made a lot of money back from things that ive bought/sold for the car.
blue_peg_16v
14-03-09, 03:18 PM
alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nova_saloon
14-03-09, 03:19 PM
erm bout 2500-3000 :) to much still got more to do tho
Lost count at £11.500 ish nothing to what some have spent
krobinson
14-03-09, 03:25 PM
Never added it up but it doesnt bear thinking about.
Never added it up but it doesnt bear thinking about.
£10k+ ?
My old SR stood me at £8k+ most of those parts were then put onto my white shell, which has had an easy couple of £3k spent on it without including all the ebay purchase's at around £1.5k.
£20k ish, stopped counting at £15k.
My old xe from start to finish probably about 6k, that was 2 engine swaps 3 sets of suspension etc. If i could of gone back and spent right first time probably only about £3k tops.
My current turbo project, far too much! its an empty shell that still needs bits doing including full respray. so far
Shell - £250
coilovers - £410
Bucket seats - £250
New panels - £100
vented bonnet - £40
written off calibra turbo including pickup £870
rollcage £350
fitting kit with shafts, strengthening kit etc £430?
intercooler £90
new injectors £30
5 studded rear hubs/calipers £60
rear disc conversion plates £20
cav turbo wheels no tyres £60
Materials and labour for welding £150?
£3110 lol and probaly a load of bits i havent throught of.
Still need to rebuild engine, full respray, limited slip diff, harnesses new brakes all round
lol i wouldnt like to think on novas all together , white one prob stands me at about 5k but i think i could do it for under 3k at a push if i had to do it again
let_nova
14-03-09, 04:31 PM
1.4 luxe+ shell £800
tinted windows £120
laguna splitter £20
clear rears £40
headlight protectors £40
GSI badged grill £30
front and fully seem welded £150
chris astley motorsport strengthening kit £65
front crossmember additional strengthening £70
polybushed £130
2.0 16v turbo 82,784 mls
ARP bolts in bottom end
red anccilary hoses
REGAL spark plug cover
FMIC with boost pipes.
superchips phase 1 software
boost set at 0.9 bar
REGAL acctuator
new headgasket
new sumpgasket
new rocker gasket
new timing belt £1300
full spax RSX £250
corsa strengthed bottom arms £40
new copper pipes on rear £40
16inch irmcher softstars £350
195/45/16 toyo proxes £160
MOMO wheel £40
6 dial clocks £30
GTE seats £60
leather door cards £50
sony head unit £300
800w 6x9s £80
door units £40
magnat 500w AMP £100
1000w pioneer sub £100
total:£4405
craig green
14-03-09, 04:32 PM
Well over £20k. It sent me bankrupt FFS.
Pistol Pete
14-03-09, 04:35 PM
Never counted. If i did i probably wouldnt have bothered building it.
Never added it up but it doesnt bear thinking about.
I can second that :)
craig green
14-03-09, 04:39 PM
thirded...
greg1.4
14-03-09, 04:43 PM
£10k + on my rally car..
about £2k on my road car..
Its not as much as others but ive still got a lot to do
about 1k and its still not painted lol
wilson_sri
14-03-09, 04:55 PM
Not sure. 7-8k maybe? Worth every penny!
peester
14-03-09, 05:33 PM
about £5K here including buying the car and last weeks £1.6K spend..
i do have a proper running total/list of everypart, tho not on this pc.. - i wanted to build the car for less than £5K lol
ive only just built mine and dont want to know what it cost..
Worst thread evarrrrr! lol
I dont think anyone really wants to know what they've spent on a 20year old vauxhall......lol
Should change the title to "think about this and make yourself really depressed" lol
Jim Mcrae
14-03-09, 05:42 PM
Not going to add it up! over all my novas it will be thosands.
Should change the title to "think about this and make yourself really depressed" lol
Do it Adam. :thumb: lol
£150 on buying it
£0 on springs
£0 on jetta gti splitter
£0 on 17s
£15 on tracking
sweet £175
Do it Adam. :thumb: lol
;)
ermmm added up only about £1350ish lol but theres still an unreal amount to go, and it still has the 1.0 engine in it :( id say the way i want it to look i would say another 1k-1.5k on top of that 1350
£150 on buying it
£0 on springs
£0 on jetta gti splitter
£0 on 17s
£15 on tracking
sweet £175
FAIL
yes i failed to make my self depressed...
I think he means math fail, £150 + £15 = £165 lol
its been a long long week :(
Probs spent something along the lines of...
One billion, gagillion, fafillion, shabolubalu, million, illion, yillion... yen.
Jim Mcrae
14-03-09, 05:57 PM
£150 on buying it
£0 on springs
£0 on jetta gti splitter
£0 on 17s
£15 on tracking
sweet £175
Good maths skills :thumb:
EDIT tooo slow!
its been a long long week :(
Know the feeling 84hrs last week plus 2 1/2hrs travelling a day!
This is going to hurt.
Car (shell) £75
Engine £1850
Gear box £425
Swirl pot £50
Wheels £200
New front tyres £140
cage £unknown as it came from a rally car say £300
shell prep £400
Exhaust £150
Drive shafts £150
Steering wheel £40 i think
Quick rack £100
header tank £70
Braided hose's £40
Internal f/lines £120
Internal b/lines £50
Coilovers
Top mounts £400
Strut brace £40
F/g bonnet £100
F/g boot £100
P/c windows £170
Seats £150
Harness's £60
I think thats all if somebody wants to add it up feel free.
This is going to hurt.
Car (shell) £75
Engine £1850
Gear box £425
Swirl pot £50
Wheels £200
New front tyres £140
cage £unknown as it came from a rally car say £300
shell prep £400
Exhaust £150
Drive shafts £150
Steering wheel £40 i think
Quick rack £100
header tank £70
Braided hose's £40
Internal f/lines £120
Internal b/lines £50
Coilovers
Top mounts £400
Strut brace £40
F/g bonnet £100
F/g boot £100
P/c windows £170
Seats £150
Harness's £60
I think thats all if somebody wants to add it up feel free.
£5030
Thats what i make it bud:eek:
im now depressed and sure that ive forgoten some thing...
I posted a thread like this a while ago.
I've kept accurate financial records since mid-2006, and I think in that time I've spent ITRO £15k on the Celica which covers everything - fuel, insurance, maintenance, mods, tax; however that does NOT include the first 18 months of ownership where I probably spent another ~£8k on it.
Worth every penny though :D
my XE nova about 4000 euro's.
and i still want TB's, avo's, new seats, new harnasses, rollcage...
no idea and dont want t know and still have lots to do.
On Nova's and parts - ITRO £9k IIRC and I've only done 170miles lol :) :| :( :cry:
EDIT: Thinking on it £3.5k+ of that was on audio, which was trade price too lol
EDIT 2:
Grey one:
Shell/cage - £830
Engine - £20
Machine work - £170
B+ head - £250
Cam - £70
Carbs - £200
Rebuilding carbs - £200 (should of bought new)
Various new GM parts - £500
Fuel system - £170
Brake system - £300+
Steering wheel - £80
Light fittings - £40
Brace - £30
Wheels - £60
Tyres - £200
Suspension - £150
RJ lower arms - £145
Exhaust - £120
Harness - £400
F/G Dash - £150
Bumper - £20
Seats - £50
Setup - £200
New bottom end - £275
Repairs, so far - £150...
£4780
Got at least another £2k to spend/waste on coilovers/seats/dash/diff/ setup, etc
craig green
14-03-09, 06:36 PM
McDonalds meals & Magic Tree's don't count though...
McDonalds meals & Magic Tree's don't count though...
in that case ive only spent about £700, including petrol and taxlol
well, I bought an a reg one for £500 in about 1993... spent about 100 on wheels & interior (brown sr).
got offered a rolled gte for £250
sold the interior & bumpers for £350
used all of the other bits on the a reg.
sold the rolled gte shell on for £40.
ran the a reg for 10 years.
bought a d reg 1.2 for £75 & stripped it for bits, made £150 profit
sold my original a reg engine for £70
bought my g reg in 2000 for £700
been using the bits from my a reg to mod it slowly...
my ebay & png trading over the last couple of years had been breaking even, so......
apart from service items, tyres & brakes, my nova habit has since 1993 to date, 16 years cost me £1010........
I refuse to post the total incase my wife sees the amount and files for divorce!
hmmm
12k+ on nova
18k+ on escos
11k on m3
lol dont really need 3 cars lol
If you can really add it all up youve not spend enough..
I have no clue, trying to list all the changes and things ive done for my insureance was hard enough.
the car £100
front panel £100
Front wings £50
SRI clocks £30
New doors £100
Engine parts around £50
Exhaust £20
£450
And its still a old rusty bucket lol but not for long :D
Probs spend around 1k before its road worthy
If you can really add it all up youve not spend enough..
Or you have been sensible and kept the recipts, in which case you add it up from these!:thumb: lol
Ok then dont look at them/the folder is too big..lol
Mine got its own draw in my filling cabnet..lol
hmmm
12k+ on nova
18k+ on escos
11k on m3
lol dont really need 3 cars lol
You really do have too much money Dan!
dj_wudgey
14-03-09, 07:50 PM
i know ive spent quite alot im not going to figure it out though not like it p*ss me off i just cant be botherd lol
I've bought whole cars as parts for my collection but as parts have been sold from them its impossible to keep track of it all.
Anyway, I'm just happy when I think of how much they'll all be worth when I'm finished with them.
I haven't got a clue how much I've spent. Most of the stuff was heavily discounted though :p lol
I stopped counting on the old blue car at 5k, didn't count on the xe'd 85, and won't count on the 5 door! (can count on one hand almost anyway!)
MARTIN KELSON
14-03-09, 08:35 PM
Never added it up & dont have receipts for the half the things i have bought 'cash'.
Unfortunatly i'am with Keith & somewhere probably over the years around 20K!!!
Doesnt really bear thinking about does it.
Martin
dhdev (Oli)
15-03-09, 12:40 AM
Only what's on the car, not including the stuff I've bought and replaced/upgraded and this is all from estimates but....
Car £600
Coilovers £250
Rosejoints £200
Brakes £700
Wheels and tyres £450
FG Panels £350
Engine £5000
Gearbox and diff £1200
Clutch £200
Cage £350
Seats and harnesses £400
Steering wheel/boss £225
Spacers £100
Battery etc £100
Gauges £200
Exhaust £250
Polycarbs £180
Sundries £600
Estimated £11,355
If you added some kind of labour charge onto that, the cost would be thousands more :cry:
I dont like this thread any more.
Sport-
Rolling shell- £300.
Panels £1000.
Carbs+ inlet £200.
replica sticker set. £150.
Carpets £50.
donor used for spares approx £400.
fr and rr bumpers £approx 50.
Wheel trims £30.
Some engine spares £approx 100.
Rocker cover £100.
Bonnet £35.
£2415!!:eek: :eek: :eek: (prob worth half that or less lol)
There's still loads more stuff i've forgotten about, or written off. Also LOADS more stuff i need to buy, And it's still a rusty pile of junk in my garage, oh dear, what am i doing.:roll:
Astra ls thats getting mot'd today
Car £450
Cleaning all the cr4p out 3 days
Mot £42.50
i will let you know if it pass's later on today.
Happy motoring lol.
Astra ls thats getting mot'd today
Car £450
Cleaning all the cr4p out 3 days
Mot £42.50
i will let you know if it pass's later on today.
Happy motoring lol.
Budget motoring ftw fella!
my whit ecurently owes me
car - 100
coilovers - 100
drivers wing - 9
lol
spanishfly
15-03-09, 09:43 AM
Not even gonna think about it now, when I had my mk3 GSiT I broke it soon after realising how much I spent! The fire has up'd the spending a fair bit due to me replacing nearly everything with more fun parts:)
cant be arsed listing all the bits lol
probabley in the region of £1700, mehh i love it though :D
General Baxter
15-03-09, 10:28 AM
probabley in the region of £1700, mehh i love it though :D
£1k of that is sticker tho lol
white2lSR
15-03-09, 11:23 AM
1.3 SR £385
Billy b9's+XE springs £275
Engine, box, loom,tank
shafts,radiator, Exhaust
(delivered) £600
Wheels (finished) £350
Brakes £50
TOTAL £1660!
I thought it was more, it was built on a budget though!
blue_peg_16v
15-03-09, 11:24 AM
If you can really add it all up youve not spend enough..
I have no clue, trying to list all the changes and things ive done for my insureance was hard enough.
true mines on its 6th engine now since ive owned it so got about 2k in engines alone lol
Lets give it a go then lol
24k shell £250
Early sr seats £55
Bilstein shocks £120
Courtenay front springs £75
Rear springs £30
2.0 conversion/donor car about £700
Cesaros £150
Tyres £160
MPI tank £30
Strut brace £40
Head unit/speakers £100
16v brakes £40
Rear spoiler £10
Snowplough £20
Now that Ive crashed it..
New front panel £45
Bonnet £30
Wings £30
Bonnet hinges £10
New gasket set £30
Theres probably more
About £1925 I make it.
Wish I hadnt added it up now lol lol lol
dj_wudgey
15-03-09, 12:12 PM
it wouldent make me feel bad beacause at least i havent wasted my cash on beer or something worthless!!
kieran jackson
15-03-09, 12:28 PM
1200 carb jreg £250
air filter £65
springs £0
strut brace £20
4 branch £100+
exhaust system £150
2.0ltr brakes £20
astra gte alloys £0
sri dials £20
cobra bucket seats £70
astra gte steering wheel £0
tracking £35
hand brake cable & shoes £65
sr tailgate £25
total to date of £820+
Lets give it a go then lol
Theres probably more
About £1925 I make it.
Wish I hadnt added it up now lol lol lol
Whats bugger all.
Ok then dont look at them/the folder is too big..lol
Mine got its own draw in my filling cabnet..lol
Yea me to mate! i always keep everything to do with cars! even if i buy some thing second hand i write the part/date and £ on a peice of A4 paper!lol
1.3 SR £385
Billy b9's+XE springs £275
Engine, box, loom,tank
shafts,radiator, Exhaust
(delivered) £600
Wheels (finished) £350
Brakes £50
TOTAL £1660!
I thought it was more, it was built on a budget though!
Thats a fooking bargain tbh :cool:
white2lSR
15-03-09, 03:55 PM
Thats a fooking bargain tbh :cool:
Yup, I think its time i added throttle boddies to the list.
krobinson
15-03-09, 04:09 PM
Never added it up & dont have receipts for the half the things i have bought 'cash'.
Unfortunatly i'am with Keith & somewhere probably over the years around 20K!!!
Doesnt really bear thinking about does it.
Martin
The main thing it's all been done with wages, over many years. so if I wasnt spending on a Nova i'd only have spent it elsewhere.
Can anyone honestly say if they didnt spend 20k on their nova that their bank balance would show 20k+? I doubt it :thumb:
Thinking like this eases the pain lol
staggy_gsi
15-03-09, 04:56 PM
think mine stood me at about £3k ish. but i still have the speedlines, engelmann mirrors and a few other parts from it waiting for the next nova to appear...
I used to budget my weekly wages on different things, €100 on loans and house keeping, €70 for food and petrol and the rest went on Cars or Parts. I suppose its no wonder I've wound up with as many as I have.
Joe Richardson
15-03-09, 05:16 PM
1.3 SR £385
Billy b9's+XE springs £275
Engine, box, loom,tank
shafts,radiator, Exhaust
(delivered) £600
Wheels (finished) £350
Brakes £50
TOTAL £1660!
I thought it was more, it was built on a budget though!
I paid that amount for my SR on it's own,and i haven't bought anything for it yet:eek:
Martingsi
15-03-09, 06:12 PM
Nova LUXE £300
Leather interior £200
Spax Coilies £20
Cav Slabs £50
Wheel Powdercoating £120
Toyo's £120
gsi bumper £60
V6 Brakes £50
Rear strut brace £30
K&N Filter £3.99
gsi dash + clocks, gsi sideskirts, steering wheel, cd player, 6x9's, sub, front strut brace, magnex exhaust, splitfire ht leads, all freee!
£953.99
not bad!
my new gsi £900
with 6 months tax couple months mot
speedlines with 5th speedline as spare
fk coilovers
full system and 4 branch manifold
rust and holes where rust used to be lol
Welding work and bit of panel alignment on front end £170
Sold strut brace £30
spare speedline £40
So owes me £1000 which i dont think is bad
ok will give it a shot
car 330 with MOt and tax
SR wheels, about £60 delivered
tyres £120 budgets
lowering 40mm £150ish
mk2 dash and all bits 50 delivered
mk2 dash no. 2 £10
digi dash 40 fitted
front grill £40
new indicator £10??
parcel shelf uncut £20
boot/seat carpet £8
rear arch carpets £8
door cappings £10?
brakes, new discs and pads £40 delivered
say 100 for paint, primer, filler etc.
new clutch £50
for future:
wings 20 quid a set
front panel £50
say 100 for cambelt, water pump and other consumables
£1216
i think its worth it to be hounest. shoudl have a nice runner at the end of it. and the amount of things i have learnt are immense so IMO its priceless
Jeff16v
18-03-09, 08:05 AM
i refuse to add it up, although i've spent 25K on nursery fees in the last 4 years so the nova's not all bad:thumb:
tom_beverley
18-03-09, 08:43 AM
I'm quite sad and keep a spread sheet (typical QS behaviour lol) and upto now I'm almost at £7,000. Got lots more to do aswell and I'm forecasting it will finish ITRO.....
£10,000.
I just keep thinking "what could I bought for that" :(
andybishop
18-03-09, 11:13 AM
I have a Box file full of receipts for the nova spanning over about 11 years and if added up would be quite a lot. I added it up about about 5 years ago and i'd spent over 20k.. and that was before the last rebuild.
But then in the receipts would be several sets of suspension, a couple of engines, a few gearboxes, differents brakes and stuff like that that would of been sold on.
But then I was living at home with the folks, doing lots of overtime and on call.. oh those were the days!!
Astra ls thats getting mot'd today
Car £450
Cleaning all the cr4p out 3 days
Mot £42.50
i will let you know if it pass's later on today.
Happy motoring lol.
Free retest £00000
Bottom arm £29
Bolts(strech bolts) £8
loggyboy
18-03-09, 05:57 PM
Mines not too bad as ive often swapped parts and bought my donor car cheap giving me my engine for free.
Probly comes in about 1.5 to 2k
(not inc consumables like tyres and servicing parts as they need buying what ever the car!)
novaluxeplus
19-03-09, 09:40 AM
1.4 luxe + = 180
60mm springs = 30
digi dash = 50
gsi skirts = 25
red top cals and disks = 30
rear disk conv stuff(2nd hand) = 45
set of tigra alloys = 30
set of tires = 140
5th tigra alloy = 0
x16xe = 150
mot work = 15 :) :) :) :)
sri seats = 5 :) :) :) :)
paint and gaskets and cam belt and water pump for x16 = 95
so 795 thats not too bad really i dont think
andrew1988
19-03-09, 10:09 AM
I was working this out the other day and worked out my saloon, track car and road corsa owe me 1400
Total Cost of all cars=£1,405.00
Vauxhall CorsaTotal=£970.00Car£150.00Gsi bumper£90.00Tyres£160.00Headlights (Depo)£20.00HIDs£40.00Engine (c16xe)£180.00Dials£20.00Skirts (Steinmetz)£40.00Paint£90.00Radiator & Fan£30.00Spoiler (Irmscher)£90.00Wheels (Cavalier Gsi)£20.00Brakes (256s)£40.00
Vauxhall Nova Hatch (Blue)Total=£165.00Car0Engine (x16xe)£50.00Mounts & Driveshafts£40.00Brakes (288s)£40.00Bottom arms & Tiebars£10.00G-max front shocks£25.00
Vauxhall Nova Saloon (Red)Total=£270.00Car£75.00Wheels£30.00Seats£1 55.00Grill£10.00
Excel Spreadsheet FTW!!!
EDIT:That actually came out pretty badly just copy and pasting lol
novaluxeplus
19-03-09, 12:36 PM
oh and just aquired some astra gte stalks and steering whell for free
working in a scrap yard is a wonderfull thing sometimes lol
my cav is as follows...
car as bought £450
metal for panels, £40
welding wire, £120
paint, primer, sealer etc, £400
omega box, £90
saab engine, £free donor car
total=£1100. ill make some cash back when i sell some saab bits.
thats at mates rates too, if id paid full pops...
car as bought £450
metal for panels, £80
welding wire, £200
paint, primer, sealer etc, £600
omega box, £150
saab engine, £500
spray job and welding labour,£2000
total= £3980
and its still not finished....
Welsh Dan
19-03-09, 02:08 PM
1.2 Diamond £free
Goodyear F1 GSD2's all round £210
Goodyear Excellences to replace them when they wore out and were NLS £120
TD brakes £100
new shocks all round £100
new brake lines all round £120
having most of the shell plated, circa £800
GSI seats £80
HID kit £70
Heated windscreen £170
Sony headunit £80
Vibe sub £240
Pioneer speakers £60
GTE bumpers and grille £50
Paint for the above £30
new wheel bearings all round £120
new engine £10
bits to fit the above £100
polybushed tiebars and tca's, new balljoints £60
remote central locking £30
22 spline shafts £10 :)
new center and rear silencers £60
70A reconditioned alternator £50
and the stuff I bought but didnt fit:
1.3 exhaust £40
1.3 inlet £30
F13CR £40
rear window surrounds £20
rear wraparound spoiler £10
Total circa £3k seeing as there'll be plenty I forgot. feck.
NOVA-KID-93
23-03-09, 07:18 PM
mine cost:
1.2i spin (the car itself) £200
parts and welding £600
sri interior £150
other random bits £100
total so far £1050
and ive still got to spend £500-£800 on a full re-spray
plus other bits and pieces to finish it off
it is very frightening when you add up the costs
brainsnova
23-03-09, 07:35 PM
1.2i standard with leather seats £500
all my modded bits i had from my old 1.3sr £1500 +
sold for £700 lol
EUROTURBO
24-03-09, 02:56 PM
got all reciepts of all ive done but best not get them out.. if the misses realises i got a box full amounting to over 9 grand she will start asking questions.... What is this???, why has it not been spent on the house????
yadda yadda yadda.....
as far as she knows PNG and Ebay have come up trumps alot lol!!!
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