How Much Do You Spend on Your LR?

[vogue]

As an owner of a middle age Land Rover, a '95 D1, i was wondering on average how much do you spend or budget for in repairs and maintenance on your Landy each year?
Sometimes can sound like a lot, but the cheapest car to own is often the one you own outright.
Remember this is for repairs etc, not modifications, although the lines often blur as we upgrade as things wear our.

[JDNSW]

Bit hard to answer, as I have two of them. And I assume that you do not include in this figure fuel, registration and insurance? How about oil, grease and filters? Do you include tyres? How about spares bought just because they were a good buy and you will probably need them some day?

The easy figures I can find are total expenditure for 2011 - for the County was just under $4,500, and for the 2a was just under $1,100. These include registration, insurance and fuel as well as maintenance.

To get an average figure you would have to go over several years, however. The County obviously does a lot more kilometres than the 2a, and also it is comprehensively insured, where the 2a has only third party property.

John

[vogue]

That's right, don't include fuel, rego, insurance etc, just the cost of repairs and maintenance averaged over a few years.

[slug_burner]

I have one to two services done per year on each of the two LRs. The service is seldom less than $500 and probably closer to $1k and that covers standard consumables and the odd replacement item due to ware beyond the things changed at each service.

[trobbo]

my 94 D1 es was very cheap to own and would have cost less than 1k a year in servicing.
The D3 tdv6 hse is at the other end of the spectrum costing $12,500 in just 2 years at service time and that was with no breakdowns.

[PAT303]

Except for serviceing I spend bugger all on mine. Pat

[wardy1]

tOUCH Trobbo! I think you've just taken away my hankering for a D3!
Is that Stealer servicing?
My D2a is just going through costing me a lot...complete Td5 engine rebuild, will be about 5k I reckon. Just before I got it the transmission was replaced at about $4k I imagine.
Now I know the diffs and driveline are all effectively new so should be ok for a few years at least...... here's hoping anyway.

[uninformed]

more than the average bear

[Reads90]

Mmm a lot more than the wife thinks



And to be honest I don't count and keep score and never have and never will. Economy is not the reason I drive a Land Rover.

[Grumbles]

I could total all the receipts but I won't because I really don't want to know.

But what I do know is that all that expenditure fades into nothingness the instant my back side hits the drivers seat.

[JayBoRover]

So if I bought a "donor" parts car for $400 to rob a few bits to rebuild my failed S2a gearbox (gearbox main shaft), and then used a few other bits because they were there (steering wheel, drag link, wheels, sun visor, etc) and then sold some other bits (hypothetically - people don't buy these things) to cover the cost of buying a few other new bits (brake shoes, handbrake lever rubber boot, 4WD lever rubber boot) and then ended up being in the "black", would that then list under the "<$500"?:p

My alternative comment was going to be "You mean people spend money on their Land Rovers???:eek:"

I have spent a few dollars here and there but really the very high price I paid for DeeDee is the only significant cost I've had.

Cheers
John B

[LWB123]

Hello from Brisbane.

My glib and unhelpful response is contingent on who you ask.

Mrs LWB would respond "too friggn' much" and I would whisper "not enough"....

I guess I have spent about one and a half gorillas over the last couple of months on stock piled parts for my S3. Probably about the same again over the next year or a little more with tyres and re-upholstering coming on. However that is upgrading a 36 year old truck, and very little of this is likely to be recurring within the foreseeable future.

The glass half full side of me is hoping to keep the R&M budget down to around an average of $500 per year with a high dose of DIY thrown in. Rego and insurance over and above that of course.

Cheers,

Neil

[ramblingboy42]

Not sure where your survey is leading too, but its very difficult to ascertain serviceablilty costs without knowing the type of driving you subject your vehicle to. recently I've had a transmission cooling line blow which eventually cost about $1200 and then a full rebuild of the cooling system....full rebuild wasnt entirely necessary but everything is fresh again including all bearings in front of the engine, another $1200, then a front driveshaft rebuild. Some will have similar expenditure, others wont. Grumbles going from William Ck almost in straight line to Birdsville in august, will have to spend another couple of grand making sure he's going to be good for that one. I think if you use your Land Rover like me its operating costs are inevitably going to be around $4-5000 per year. I think there are some vehicles would do same much cheaper but OMG!

[Hoges]

I really think you need to average it over say 5 yrs ...sometimes major capital items come up needing repair and can be justified if you intend to keep the vehicle for an extended time...because depreciation is the largest expense.

On that basis I guess about $500-800 pa ...but that includes some nifty hand tools which I amortise against the cost of someone else doing the work... and I can use to maintain SWMBO's Astra...

knew when I bought it I'd need to have a 'sinking fund' to maintain it...now that most of the expected refurb has been done it's been very reliable.

I think that's the key: if you replace parts on a distance/time basis like they do in aircraft then it's unlikely you'll be caught short... expecting seals/water hoses/ ball joints/plugs etc to last indefinitely is asking for trouble...
good question though!;)

[trobbo]

tOUCH Trobbo! I think you've just taken away my hankering for a D3!
Is that Stealer servicing?
My D2a is just going through costing me a lot...complete Td5 engine rebuild, will be about 5k I reckon. Just before I got it the transmission was replaced at about $4k I imagine.
Now I know the diffs and driveline are all effectively new so should be ok for a few years at least...... here's hoping anyway.

Bit of a tart when it comes to servicing - i take it to different places depending on the job. Had the suspension compressor replaced at AMV, general service and transmission service with aftermarket pan fitted at ritters, timing belts done at MLR. All these things add up and then when it costs $1700 in parts to effectively replace control arm bushes with there being no certainty that you wont be doing them again in another 30,000 km you have to question your sanity if you keep it. It was certainly the nicest car I have ever owned, but also the most costly to service.

[dungarover]

As little as possible because I'm a cheap bastard :D:D

Unless it really needs to be done then I don't bother. I have spent a bit on my current rig due to the previous owners incompetence but for the most part I try to get out as cheap as possible. I do wreck a few LR's on the side so it ends up being cheaper that the norm with the sale of the parts.

So the theory is that if I spend too much money that means the beer fridge stays too empty :p

Trav

[Disco_owner]

I included insurance and rego then i saw your post , I own 2 x vehicles , 1 Hardly ever gets driven (D1) and the other is my daily driver (RRC) . I spent about $200-300 on consumables ( oil , filters,spark plug s leads.. ) in last 12 months. that's about it.

[Mick_Marsh]

As much as it takes. (Subject to cash availability restrictions.)

[Utemad]

For unexpected costs on my Disco1 I don't think I would have spent more than $500 in a year. That includes things that are service items but still unexpected like my blown engine oil cooler line one year.

I do all my own work which keeps costs way down.

I think if I had to spend $500+ on something for it now I would take the plates off it and strip it.

[Statusquo]

To be fair its been an expensive year..three amigios fix, rear diff, new coils and shocks..but after a set of tyres I should be al good for the expensive stuff for a while..and as the man said..it all just semantics once I start it up!

[DiscoMick]

I do oils, filters, coolant and minor fiddling myself.
Normally 'George' the D1 is relatively cheap to own, but that caught up with me in the last year when he has needed:

Propshaft, spline, UV joint and transfer case
Exhaust
Alternator
Diesel lift pump
Rust repairs to the front floor

I haven't included the windscreen as it was covered by insurance.

Hopefully the next year will be cheaper. :angel:

[rovercare]

About 40k on the 120 now it sits doing bugger all, life gets in the way :D then probably another 20k on the p38 when I'm not working 7 days so I can build it :confused:

I plan on keeping these 2 for a long time and they should stay cheap forever more though:angel: