[naz]

in the last 26 months...

parts, labor, and misc stuff like shipping $7,767 (this is mostly routine maintenance and consumables like tires)

fuel $5,872

insurance $2,600

parking $6,500

total $22,739

:blink:

[darkpuppet]

wow, impressive...

in the past 20 months...

maintenance: $120

fuel: $1260

parking: $1500

insurance: $3,000

payments: $13,620

Total: $19,500 (Cnd)

[ZX3_2NV]

Do you guys want to upset me, my insurance and gas alone for the last two years is more that 20 G's easy

[naz]

ZX3_2NV,Apr 14 2008, 04:41 PM Wrote:Do you guys want to upset me, my insurance and gas alone for the last two years is more that 20 G's easy
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whoa.. i guess your are 100% boost 100% of the time?! or is it insurance that is high

DP have you had the stang that long? (i figured your maintenance is so low because its a new car?) what were your #s like with the focus

just for kicks i compared my car and my MC.. it cost me $.34 /mile for the car and $.33/mile for the MC.. interesting.. not as much savings there as i thought. it turns out the fuel and insurance savings were offset by higher routine maintenance costs, and costs associated with winter storage

[naz]

double post.. sorry

[Focus man. Focus.]

This is why I don't keep gas receipts, or parking receipts, and I don't think about my insurance rates. These things make me cry. :wacko:

[Flofocus]

so we've confirmed cars are money pits...

Hope none of that was surprising! :P

[naz]

Focus man, Focus.,Apr 14 2008, 05:54 PM Wrote:This is why I don't keep gas receipts, or parking receipts, and I don't think about my insurance rates.  These things make me cry.  :wacko:
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i don't like seeing the #s either... but i figure this is better than wondering where my $$$ went

i'm going to dig deeper to see if i could use a car sharing service like zipcar to replace my car and potentially save some $$

[DD1]

26 months of car payments 28000 g's
gas 6000 g's
2 tires (rear) $722
sugar in gas tank $3800
broke valve stem with tpm $100
oil changes 5 @ 100 a pop so $500
insurance 5000 g's

thats is just off the top of my head

[Flofocus]

DD1,Apr 14 2008, 02:22 PM Wrote:                  sugar in gas tank $3800
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Let me guess, crazy ex?

I had a crazy ex dump fawkin sawdust in my gas tank. Fawkin whoore. :blink:

[naz]

1k/mo car payment.. balla!

[ZX5focused]

naz,Apr 14 2008, 02:49 PM Wrote:1k/mo car payment.. balla!
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at least he aint a poser and leasing :lol:

[naz]

ZX5focused,Apr 14 2008, 06:51 PM Wrote:

naz,Apr 14 2008, 02:49 PM Wrote:1k/mo car payment.. balla!
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at least he aint a poser and leasing :lol:
[right][snapback]261977[/snapback][/right]

no seriously.. i wasn't being sarcastic.

btw.. doesn't sugar in the tank just call for the tank to be dropped and emptied out? is that a super expensive job in a SRT8 or did other stuff happen like clogged injectors etc

[ZX3_2NV]

naz,Apr 14 2008, 09:30 AM Wrote:

ZX3_2NV,Apr 14 2008, 04:41 PM Wrote:Do you guys want to upset me, my insurance and gas alone for the last two years is more that 20 G's easy
[right][snapback]261953[/snapback][/right]

whoa.. i guess your are 100% boost 100% of the time?! or is it insurance that is high

[right][snapback]261959[/snapback][/right]

Its both 2 years ago my insurance was $7500 this year its just under $6000 will be going down to about $5000 and well gas was about $40 every 3 - 4 days on a good weeks there have been deays ive filled up 3 times so yaa it adds up.

[darkpuppet]

naz,Apr 14 2008, 01:30 PM Wrote:

ZX3_2NV,Apr 14 2008, 04:41 PM Wrote:Do you guys want to upset me, my insurance and gas alone for the last two years is more that 20 G's easy
[right][snapback]261953[/snapback][/right]

whoa.. i guess your are 100% boost 100% of the time?! or is it insurance that is high

DP have you had the stang that long? (i figured your maintenance is so low because its a new car?) what were your #s like with the focus

just for kicks i compared my car and my MC.. it cost me $.34 /mile for the car and $.33/mile for the MC.. interesting.. not as much savings there as i thought. it turns out the fuel and insurance savings were offset by higher routine maintenance costs, and costs associated with winter storage
[right][snapback]261959[/snapback][/right]

I've had the stang for 20 months -- so yes, it's brand new, and all regular maintenance, minus wheel alignments are covered for 4 years.

So other than parking and gas, my costs shouldn't really go up over the next 2.5 years.

[naz]

Flofocus,Apr 14 2008, 06:03 PM Wrote:so we've confirmed cars are money pits...

Hope none of that was surprising!  :P
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actually, i am semi surprised. i used to think cars 'money pitted' for the following reason

1 ) the vehicle just inherently need lots of care and feeding (ie RX7)
2 ) the vehicle is just not reliable (ie '00 focus)
3 ) the user loves to mod and tossed piles of $$ at the thing (ie to make it more JDM y0)
4 ) the vehicle is used for motorsports

i guess just the act of having a car is in and of itself is money pit, and the factors 1 ) to 4 ) just make it a deeper pit

:ph34r:

[Spinal]

ZX3_2NV,Apr 14 2008, 02:02 PM Wrote:have been deays ive filled up 3 times so yaa it adds up.

if my focus sucked enough fuel to fill up 3 times in one day i'd have an other car.

[darkpuppet]

Spinal,Apr 14 2008, 05:17 PM Wrote:

ZX3_2NV,Apr 14 2008, 02:02 PM Wrote:have been deays ive filled up 3 times so yaa it adds up.

if my focus sucked enough fuel to fill up 3 times in one day i'd have an other car.
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He does have another car -- a jeep :P.

to be fair, I've filled up 4-5 times in a day.. but then again, that's 20 hours of driving....

[mo_focus]

well not all cars are money pits. It all depends on what you use your car for!

Here is my story.
Purchase 03 ZTW 5700$
certification 2500$
Gas $2000
Insurance 6 months 120$= 720$
Repiars+oil changes 1500$

Total money spent including the purchase of the car=12420$
Trade the car for 6000$
$ got from work for using my car 11000$

Pure profit 4580$ this money has been spent on the Escape (wife's car):( for gas

The moral of the story is buy used vehicles if you are going to be using it for work and millage. Also have a dad that works in the dealership :)

[NefCanuck]

Going through the bills for the now dearly departed Focus I was surprised, my modding bills weren't that bad at all, in fact less than $2500, before you count what the '08 mods were going to cost me (Those were gonna probably double that $2.5K number)

NefCanuck