Thread: it never ends argh!

I know exactly what you mean. Unfortunately I never seem to learn.

When I was 17 I bought a VW Beetle for $3,000. Over 3 years I spent another $5,000 on it. I sold it when I went overseas, for ....... $3,000 .

I am still doing the same thing after 20 years.

I did love that car though, and every time I see a yellow SuperBug drive past it reminds me of the old Beetle.

Originally Posted by RRV80

i've had it for 2years and probably nearly owes me nearly $20k

Is this parts only ... or Parts + labour

Hi,

For comparo or just info:

Bought 74 RRC, 350, lpg LT95 about 10 years ago for $8500. Spent 2k getting new driveshafts and diffs reco'ed ignorantly to try to get rid of driveline lash.

Rust issues........ bought an 81 2 door for 2k in reasonable nick with C9 Ritters conversion, perfect tailgate, fuel tank etc. Did the body swap, recoed the C9 ($850), custom torque convertor (480), EL thermos (200), brakes (780), that's about it.

Sold a lot of the extras the 81 came with (3.5 with Landi gas set up, spare 3.5 in bits, BW 35 conversion, etc) for about 600.

I just get in it and drive it. 60,000 k's in this incarnation. Cheap fun motoring if you get it right.

cheers, DL

Despite a few problems earlier on, I've had a flawless run out of my Land Rovers recently. I'd elaborate, but this forum has taught me, inter alia, the value of reticence. Keep at it, once the problems are sorted you easily have one of the best vehicles.

Originally Posted by spudboy

I know exactly what you mean. Unfortunately I never seem to learn.

When I was 17 I bought a VW Beetle for $3,000. Over 3 years I spent another $5,000 on it. I sold it when I went overseas, for ....... $3,000 .

I am still doing the same thing after 20 years.

I had a car that cost me $450 per kilometre. So I chopped it up. Don't need any W123 parts per chance?

I tend to do exactly what spudboy is doing.
I get the car just running sweet and than sell it as its no longer a challenge.
I mean I get in every morning and everything works, thats not any fun.

I recently bought a 97 tdi and spend almost my purchase price on it again.
I just don't seem to be able to help myself.

Originally Posted by B92 8NW

I had a car that cost me $450 per kilometre. So I chopped it up. Don't need any W123 parts per chance?

Yours is a Diesel/Wagon? Yes? I am after some 280 petrol engine electical bits (amplifier, Distributor, and so on).

You should make a bit of money parting it out. Must have been pretty bad if you couldn't rescue it

That is what i have spent on parts, i am a mechanic so i do not pay for labour. The reason i don't mind so much is at the end of the day if i spend money on it, the parts are usually new. And i havn't had a problem with any 'new' parts i have put in.

-I have replaced a blown auto with a 2nd hand one which also **** itself which i had rebuilt with 4hp24 internals
-I have blown 3 rover rear diifs and one front, an arb now resides in the rear and a fully reco-d rover in the front and a 2nd hand front housing asit was damaged when the front blew.
-I have spent countless hours getting the abs and tc to work and it is flawless now - remarkably the cheapest repair i have done.
- i have done a couple of ball joints in the rear
-i have replaced the stuffed vc transfer with a 2nd hand lt230 - which **** itself, so a reco'd centre diff went in it, then the cdl wouldn't unlock and i needed the car mobile i put the transfer out of my fire damged disco (i bought it like that) into it which has noisy output bearings.
-i've put new a/c fans on, new receiver dryer, a couple of regas's - now needs a tx valve, which is not too expensive but it looks like a dash out job
- new heater core
- put in anew stereo which cost a bomb, which now looks like it has blown the outputs causing a very irritating noise whenever the unit is on wether the car is running or not.
- then there is the consumable like tyres, ive recently spent 500 on front and rear brake rotors and pads (slotted fronts and bendix 4wd pads)
-numerous oil pressure swithces and i found today i have a pronounced oil leak coming from the valley.

And numerous other things, i might not mind so much if it looked the part but it is covered in dents, the paint isn't flash the rearlhr quarter is the wrong blue, so i need a new roof and bonnet as they are beyond repair, im going to get some lra flares to fix up around the gaurds where they have seen better days, and i want new suspension, then by the time thats done the engine will be due for a rebuild, so another 3 years and 10k i'll have 30k classic RR that i can sell for 6k if that becasue by that stage you will probably be able to get a decent p38 for 7k and l322 for 27k - maybe not quite.

I wouldn't dare add up the costs of my RR since purchase, BUt it does everything I want it to, superbly
I still want a decent rollcage, a winch, some more suspension work, etc etc but hey, its only money

The other halfs LSE is about to get the Tdi transpant after sitting dismantled for 12 months. Soon we'll have 2 RRC's on the road

I reckon if I were to sell them, I'd get less than 20K for the both

JC