Thread: How Much Do You Spend on Your LR?

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

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!

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!

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

As little as possible because I'm a cheap bastard

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

Trav

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.

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

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.