View Full Version : How much have you spent on yours?
Hey everyone, I thought it would be interesting for all of us to compare our motors and compare what we have spent on them over the months/years our blood,sweat and tears have been pooring into them. Is your wallet suffering? Was it all worth it? Did you have any plans for your car, did they go out of the window along with your budget?
I brought my XE about 6months ago for ?700 since then i have changed the bumpers, custom cut them, added bonnet vents, a new windscreen, fitted bonnet lifters, fabriced the door cards, treated large areas of rust on praticaly every pannel, flushed the boot, changed the tyres, alternator and soon a new clutch will be fitted (fingers crosse). It is also getting a full respray by myself soon as the cutch is fitted. (All work has been carried out by myself and good mate craig. Over all including materials iv spent an extra ?600. I was hoping to make it more presentable to sell on for a bit of profit. I now think that there is no room for profit so i just want to finish it off and sell it on.
I would ad an image of my car but i dont have any webspace and cant be bothered to set up a free area to attach the img tag to it....I will once the car has been painted but unitll then i wont
flashbang
03-02-07, 07:08 PM
there was a nova on ebay about 3 years ago it had recetes for ova 70k spent on it
pic doesnt work fella
ive only bought mine (?1300) and added a single wiper (?58)
tom reid
03-02-07, 07:12 PM
loads of money spent, loads to be spent, still looks like ****
I've probably spent 2-4 times what my car cost, on it.
Stanley
03-02-07, 07:18 PM
there was a nova on ebay about 3 years ago it had recetes for ova 70k spent on it
Must have had ?69,700 in the boot haha
I prob spent about ?1000 absolute tops on my SR (was originally 1.2i)
Includes -
Buying car - ?430
Complete K plate SR - ?100
SR Engine + Box - Came with SR
Speedlines - ?200
Bilstein shocks + springs - ?60
Smooth boot - ?40
GSi Front - Came with SR
GSi Skirts - ?20
Astra GSi Vented Bonnet - Came with SR
2.016v Brake setup - ?30
Powerflow exhaust - ?0
Full GSi Dash - ?5:thumb: haha
Digi-Dash - ?20
Stut Brace - ?10
Front ARB - ?0
Momo steering wheel - Came with SR
Leccy window kit - ?20
False floor - ?0
SR Interior - Came with SR
You got some right bargains /\ lol
Stanley
03-02-07, 07:24 PM
The joys of workin at a salvage yard haha
i think the Bilsteins were the best bargain! Awesome kit
?800 on buying mine and ?40 of autoglym in the boot
not had chance to spend on it yet..
Anyone got pictures? When you think about it are you happy with how much you have spent and what else you could have got. Buying the cars one thing and insuring it is another i spose.
krobinson
03-02-07, 07:39 PM
It scares me to think about it on my old NDZ 1331 nova, but i had it for 5 years! The turbo one is costing an absolute bomb too, but it will be worth it.
Stanley
03-02-07, 07:41 PM
To me, it was worth every penny.
Cost me ?1000 to insure (wheels, suspension and boot declared) 19y/o, 7points, 1years NCB. registered as a 1400 of course:roll:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/stan_the_man87/10092006250.jpg
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http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/Martain_novalicious/20012007129.jpg
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http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/Martain_novalicious/20012007125.jpg
i could of bought something else but why would i want to ????
any reason to pic whore lol
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g161/draper01/nova/P1010014.jpg
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ChampagneSuperNova
03-02-07, 07:47 PM
(All work has been carried out by myself and good mate craig.
Awwwww, love you too man! ;)
lol, yeah guys you dirty pic whores ! Lets get some figures down as well so we can see what you can get for the money, Personaly i have carried all work out myself and my home boy Mr. Glister saving loads of money. But yeah get pics up. I love the Gray one, dont like the clear lights thou. Respect to all the speedlines! i would love a set but my budget isnt stretching to it yet.
STAN THE MAN ! You insure that for ?1000 and your 19 with 7 points + 1 years NCB thats is F-all ! reg as a 1.4 i cant believe how cheap that is. Living in London is a bump for insurance. But at the end of the day, London is the best place in the world !
I'm keeping a spreadsheet of what I spend on my new project lol Spent a grand on it already (including the car) but it still looks shabby, probably going to spend another grand before it's finished :)
Stanley
03-02-07, 08:05 PM
reg as a 1.4 i cant believe how cheap that is.
Emm wee secret - i was being sarcastic hehe.
I live in the middle of nowhere which helps:thumb:
London - best place in the world???? How many A and B roads are there in London??
Move to the country, its grrrreat!
Im not really all for driving round A and B roads like a loonitic, i care too much for my car and iv seen some scary things from my friends driving in epping forest before. I enjoy the control and precision driving, not the fast as possible before you **** yourself style. Theres
Im not really all for driving round A and B roads like a loonitic, i care too much for my car and iv seen some scary things from my friends driving in epping forest before. I enjoy the control and precision driving, not the fast as possible before you **** yourself style. Theres a reason i have an XE and am still alive, its called respect. Drive carefully people, your car, your life and others are at risk !
joff-turbo-nova
03-02-07, 08:12 PM
Can really add up my costs - I've owned my nova since June 1989 so probably enough to buy a medium sized house!!!
Been seriously modding since about 1996 !
I dare not add up the reciepts on the current rebuild :eek:
Joff
Stanley
03-02-07, 08:15 PM
Im not really all for driving round A and B roads like a loonitic, i care too much for my car and iv seen some scary things from my friends driving in epping forest before. I enjoy the control and precision driving, not the fast as possible before you **** yourself style. Theres a reason i have an XE and am still alive, its called respect. Drive carefully people, your car, your life and others are at risk !
Youre quite correct - although not all of us blast down B roads with no consideration. Lots of roads up here are sheerly (speeling ??) awesome roads due to new tramac, and long sweeping curves through the hieghts of the hills and down to the depths of the valleys.
But sometimes we get it wrong - http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/stan_the_man87/15112006331.jpg
My starlet SR - oops!
It takes a lot of skill driving though un kept roads, lots of factors to concider. Although it can be fun, we all still drive novas they are no high qullity performance cars, even with suspension, brake and tyre upgrades its still the same chasis which was originally designed for a cheap hatchback for the vast working class market. The ralley novas have vast upgrades and roll cages are a basic requirment for saftey. Accidents do happen, putting ourselfs in risk is one things, doing it to others is another. We must take this into concideration.
Ye We all get it rong ona straight road stan :D
Cheers the grey ones mint(if i do say so my self) Big plans for mine.
Smooth bay
xe tb'd or let with hidden loom
soft stars
smooth body work..
i can see the finished "project"(are they are ever finished?) setin me back 6-8k.
Yeah mint ! that what was aiming for mine, but with std lights. I need to get some GTE skirts and a laguna splitter along with my grey spray job and i think il call it a day.....heres a pic of mine a long few months back, its progressed from here a little. You can see the patchy bits around the door and rear wing on this side. It was a right dog, thinking about it ?700 may of been a bump. im going to try and contact the previous owner and get the photo he has of it before i got my hands on it.
http://www.picturepuppy.com/images/e4fiesta/nova1.jpg
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Rick Draper
03-02-07, 09:26 PM
Well on mine up to now its probably more than 25 and hopefully less than 40. ****ing POS does not even run as well.
are you talking 25-40 k ? let me see a pic + stats
Look in the features for his nova in the turbo section
Edit. To save your legs
http://www.novaload.net/forum/viewfeaturecar.php?ref=139
Rick Draper
03-02-07, 09:46 PM
Well here is the current engine build and ruff costing:
Pistons ?550,
Cams ?400,
Head work ?500,
Turbo ?1500,
Waste gate ?300,
Engine work (machining etc) ?300,
Head studs ?100,
Cometic gasket ?75,
Farndon Rods ?500,
Manifold including mods ?400,
Exhaust system from turbo back ?500,
Autronic ecu ?1500,
Innovate wideband ?200,
Custom inlet manifold ?600,
+ all the other bits of **** i have not listed there like oil pump, modded pickup pipe, girdle, engine build.
I think it've spent about ?120 on top of purchase.
3 Spokes ?60
Tyre ?35
Odds and sods from scrap yard.
Purchase was ?300 for a 1L with 12K on the clock
Do I win something for the most skin flint nova?
It just doesn't need anything doing at the min and upgrades seem pointless as it doen't go anywhere at the min.
EDIT: I've just realised that i've spent far more on one camera body (cheapy one) that a whole car!
Wow that?s quite a piece of engineering I would like to be in the position where I have the space/time/money/knowledge to build something so unique but at the end of the day.....I would have just got a TVR. It would be nice to have a project as intense as that one day but only if I didn?t depend on it as my only car. It would just sit in the garage. What drives you to spend so many resources on it? I got my XE to kind of say...look at this crappy old nova leave your new 7k car at the lights you silly chavy ******* with your lexus lights. A project like you?re to me would be about engineering possibilities overcoming problems and creating something innovative. As a design student I would like to be put in that position but at what its cost in resources again im not sure it could be justified. Once mine is looking respectable Im planning on going to a few shows it would be nice to compare views with someone with such ambition.
You should win somthing for wasting money on a 1lt car !
ChampagneSuperNova
03-02-07, 10:52 PM
Reece man, your vocab and grammar is wasted on an internet forum. Some of these guys dont care for words like innovative. lol. chat breeze like a slag and be a gangsta...
It's official ive lowered the class and sophistication of your thread. waste
ChampagneSuperNova
03-02-07, 11:19 PM
I've spent around 2k on my Nova and now it looks like this...
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Man stop pic whoring your fiesta, theres a place for people like you its called fiestaturbo.... now shoeeeeee !
ChampagneSuperNova
03-02-07, 11:33 PM
lol, but im here to rep myself as i done so much work on your nova that i feel like part of the crew. It's my nova, mineeeeee. :wtf:
I've already pic whored out FT theres no band width left.
JSeymour
04-02-07, 12:36 AM
I was hoping to make it more presentable to sell on for a bit of profit. I now think that there is no room for profit so i just want to finish it off and sell it on.
i never think about how much ive spent on the nova or how much il get for it.
imo you cant get your money back when you start modding a car but it doesnt bother me as its my hobby and hobbies cost ???'s
Yeah i dout most people do, its just that i saw the oppurtunity and it was part of the reason i got the car. Although i had a keen intrest in them ever since i started driving i wanted a performance one. I think part of it is because my dad owned 3 when i was younger and I always wanted one. I think there great little cars, iv had a golf and a 106 and the XE nova i have is my favioured car because of the fun from driving it.
My nova had over ?27000 spent on it when it was owned by Garry Hope. That's one of the reasons it still looks mint 10 years later....
tooo much lol and im still not happy..
bought like this for 75 english pounds..
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/novaco/Image033.jpg
few months and pennies later..
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/novaco/SP_A0052.jpg
still needs a **** load doing..
lol ive prob spent about 15k on nova's up to now , and cant see it stopping anytime soon lol
Hatch, feck knows. Too much on silly tat and what not, but hey I was young and stupid. Thankfully its long gone now! Wouldn't do it again lol
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/razorjack/Cars/novsmall.jpg
Saloon #1, probably about ?150 buying a few mods - audio, GSi dash, interior paint, PIAA lights (all my cars have them), indicators and SR grille
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/razorjack/Cars/saloon.jpg
Saloon #2, errrrmmm so far probably about ?200, most of which was on the Cesaros. Still need an engine and respray lol
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/razorjack/Cars/Project%20Ghey/07012007005.jpg
The Celica, erm about a grand I guess (?650ish on the wheels, imported from the US) but worth every single penny
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/razorjack/CCUK/2006_07160174-1.jpg
Whoops, I whored a load of pics lol
That doesn't include any fuel and insurance costs etc.... I refuse to think what I've spent there
Nova_one
04-02-07, 11:19 PM
i spend to much car cost 200quid ows me ?1,500 but only done 35k miles and is a minta
on my white one ive spent a total of ?30 lol so far
Up to about ?16k on mine at the last count but its nearly finished now :roll:
Rick Draper
05-02-07, 12:06 PM
Up to about ?16k on mine at the last count but its nearly finished now :roll:
HAHA sure it is Lee!
HAHA sure it is Lee!
Got to keep telling myself and the missus that so I might start believing it lol
cheshiresport
05-02-07, 02:29 PM
Must have spent around 5k on my nova sport on top of the purchase cost of the car, and its nearly finished now
novanutted
05-02-07, 02:36 PM
6k and continuing....building a turbo built for everyday use and leaving the legendary skyline in my mirror,looking for a total vauxhall feature as it is going to be mint...
craig green
05-02-07, 02:38 PM
Ive probably wasted in excess of ?13k over the years excl petrol, magic tree's & McDonalds value meals.
Its actually put me in a bad finacial position & I managed to resist selling it, things are OK now though & she will be on the road again soon.
My advice to anyone thinking of spunking all there cash/loan on there Nova. DONT BOTHER!
Too ****ing much and im paying for it now!!!
Its actually put me in a bad finacial position
My advice to anyone thinking of spunking all there cash/loan on there Nova. DONT BOTHER!
lol yeah im a very bad financial position because of that , and getting your own flat when you hae spent all you money on novas doesnt help
BUT id do it all again , just not on loads of different cars id just make one mint and then keep it locked uo etc etc
i dont regret it as i have had some wikid times and have meet some really good firends out of it :thumb:
Same as riggy, dont regret it but wish id saved instead of blowing loans on it!!
Im struggling like **** financially cos of it, bad credit and the likes but hey ho!! it was worth it. most likely my integra will be the next waste !! ill never learn"
ANDYRACER
05-02-07, 05:45 PM
Emmm the valver stands me at ?1600 now :eek:
Ive spent loads on cars over the years but luckly due to not been able to get credit i dont have any loans and every car ive bought ive saved for. :D
Novadex
05-02-07, 05:58 PM
i wouldnt like to work out how much ive spent on mine, id be sick all ove rmy laptop.. :O
Im struggling like **** financially cos of it, bad credit and the likes but hey ho!!
Unfortunatly same here!! ive got receipts totalling ?8k sat here with my service history etc
4 different exhausts, 2 sets of wheels, 3 engines, 4 different sets of tyres, 3 sets of front brakes etc etc all adds up over 3 years tbh
krobinson
05-02-07, 08:30 PM
I'm with Craig, never get yourself into debt because of a Nova.
I've been pretty lucky, and that i only took one loan out in 7 years of nova ownership. The loan was to pay off insurance, solicitors fees for something that went wrong and to sort some bits on the car.
Apart from that i've always stuck to my guns, and just saved up and ordered bits as and when i could afford.
Keith
im not getting a loan to build a nova, hopefully lol i did have a loan a while ago to clear my debts and set me up for a mortgage and had some left over which i used towards buying my recent 1
i got in dept once when i was about 19, was about ?1600 on a clutch and re spraylol realy regretted it! would deffo not get into dept for a nova now!
My Nova owes me about ?1200 that includes buying it,t&t and insurance and a host of mods :D
Not in debt for it though! My Primera, about ?15-20K just on mods I lost track lol...... :S
well most of my earnings and student loan has ended up reaching my car somehow, bar a sofa and a few holidays (new york and Prague) im going on tools i've needed and stuff here as well, probably ?5000, about ?3000 of which was audio which im not using anymore.
Bodywork (and rust removal): ?1050 :eek: - and it's not been resparyed
Wheels: ?160 (1st set ?100, OZ's ?60 for 5)
Tyres: ?400
Suspension: x2 - ?200, plus R/J stuff - ?400
Brakes: ?120
Interior: ?200
Exhausts: ?200
Engine maintains: ?150
Engine parts: (both engines) ?700ish so far
Services, MOTs, general maintains, etc no fuel: ?500
Audio: ?3000ish
Odds and Sods: ?100
All off the top of the head figures over 3 years, plus ?850 for the car
*gulp* not going to add that up
Ash
1st set ?100
Those wheels were cool :cool:
you had your eye's tested recently?? lol i was looking at some old photos of it the other day and it didb't look too bad... at a distance.
Ash
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