How much has your rover/mg cost you to buy and modify?

tjames · Post by **tjames** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:29 pm

(Excluding maintenance, fuel, insurance, blah blah blah)

Oh yeah, Second hand cars only!)

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:32 pm

Current 220 GTi - cost me Â£295, no mods as yet

Previous - 420GSi turbo, cost me Â£400 iirc and probs spent Â£150 on mods (brakes)

Previous to that - 620Ti - think I got it for Â£650, no mods carried out

Before that, my old coupe turbo - you dont go high enough in your poll

stefaclese · Post by **stefaclese** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:33 pm

I bought my Coupe for Â£1400 in 2006 and have probably spent around Â£400 on alloys, air filter, Ti setup, braided hoses and a set of polys.

tjames · Post by **tjames** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:33 pm

Ozz wrote:Current 220 GTi - cost me Â£295, no mods as yet

Previous - 420GSi turbo, cost me Â£400 iirc and probs spent Â£150 on mods (brakes)

Previous to that - 620Ti - think I got it for Â£650, no mods carried out

Before that, my old coupe turbo - you dont go high enough in your poll

I'm trying to add a final option of over 20k as i suspect there's a few of em

stefaclese · Post by **stefaclese** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:35 pm

Oh forgot to mention the rear lower brace that I've been meaning to fit for the past 3 months

walshy.walsh · Post by **walshy.walsh** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:36 pm

stefaclese wrote:Oh forgot to mention the rear lower brace that I've been meaning to fit for the past 3 months

you too!

stefaclese · Post by **stefaclese** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:39 pm

walshy.walsh wrote:
stefaclese wrote:Oh forgot to mention the rear lower brace that I've been meaning to fit for the past 3 months
you too!

And Empsburna! Seems everyone couldn't wait to get them, then once they arrived they went on the to do list lol. I was going to fit mine when I did my rear trailing arm bushes, then didn't have the time and said I'd fit it when I fitted my Ti setup and again ran out of time

Anthonyti · Post by **Anthonyti** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:41 pm

tbh if you spend more than 5 k modding a rover , you should be driving a cossie LOL

walshy.walsh · Post by **walshy.walsh** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:43 pm

Anthonyti wrote:tbh if you spend more than 5 k modding a rover , you should be driving a cossie LOL

why?????? fords are clitoris cars! every c**nts got one!

C2K · Post by **C2K** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:46 pm

It's misleading really, as by the time i've factored in buying my car i'm already in the third category.

tourer turbo · Post by **tourer turbo** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:47 pm

in 2000 i bought a 3year old ti for 5k,then spent 6.5k on mods

all pre kids/mortgage,was worth it though as at the time rovers were considered un moddable,how does a smoothed 280bhp ti on 19,s grab ya

David-Ti · Post by **David-Ti** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:00 pm

My 600 cost Â£850. I've decided to sell off loads of bits to put into the 600. It turned out to be a really nice car. Its got a couple of niggles but nothing that an afternoon well spent wont fix.

Post by **SubCat001** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:16 pm

I've had my car 6 years and has quite a few mods fitted and removed. In total over the 6 years, including the purchase price of Â£3200, it falls into the 4th catagory. Though in the first year of ownership I was fleaced for mods by motobodge and the like.

420gazza · Post by **420gazza** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:03 pm

so far i'm not far off Â£4k all in and i still need to spend more, the cars a bottomless money pit and i love it

gib786 · Post by **gib786** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:08 pm

550 for a white 216 gsi. have been planning to mod it with colour coded bumpers, sei interior, alloys, exhaust etc but currently thinking about selling it as im really not a fan of white cars. need something that can be polished properly, like a tarty blue coupe which is what im looking to buy soon

Ross9 · Post by **Ross9** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:34 pm

I went for the highest one, though it's probably not much over the 10k.

Car was 2.4k

I should be driving a Cossie?... I think not lol.

Don't mind them and tbh would have a nice Escort, minimum 400 bhp, but your never getting one of them for 10k lol.

Ross

jp kelly · Post by **jp kelly** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:48 pm

paid 5 for my mk2 zs with full 180 kit and alloys, spent about 600 on it so far

AddsT · Post by **AddsT** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:03 pm

Well into the third group with only the purchase price and the AP's for my turbo coupe, and i haven't had it a year yet.

Raistlin · Post by **Raistlin** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:28 pm

VeeKay cost me Â£5.5k and mods have added another Â£800 approx.

I never got the courage to add up what I spent on the Ti

Kelvyn · Post by **Kelvyn** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:57 pm

I've had the car for 7 years now, and because of my constant indecisions and buying then selling, using, changing etc, im probably in the bottom category... but a large chunk of that would have been a lot of ICE. - Currently the car just has focal polyglass v2's in the front, and jvc headunit, but at one time or another has had screens, ps2 etc etc..

tjames · Post by **tjames** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:58 pm

Raistlin wrote:I never got the courage to add up what I spent on the Ti

I know what you mean, mine has somewhat snowballed since i started this project. The missus is going ape

Mikchi · Post by **Mikchi** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:09 pm

If you could take "repairs" into consideration of "modifying" then around ~Â£5,500 total, Â£3,000 for the ZR, Â£700 in mods and the rest in repairs

Anthonyti · Post by **Anthonyti** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:13 pm

Don't mind them and tbh would have a nice Escort, minimum 400 bhp, but your never getting one of them for 10k lol.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1996-FORD-ESCORT- ... dZViewItem

ok not all of them are 10k but you can get one for that money

tjames · Post by **tjames** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:45 pm

Dashboards and steering wheels are gopping. Otherwise i'd have bought one years ago

vi turbo · Post by **vi turbo** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:11 am

opted for between 5k and 10k

had car since december 2002 bought it smashed up for 1500quid and sold the vvc engine and box and loom for 1k

then after that it didnt owe me much till i had a cluth slipping problem and decided if im doing the clutch i might aswell do a full rebuild and after a few parts and changing my mind with a few bits its probly closer to 10k

john

Null_Byte · Post by **Null_Byte** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:29 am

Anthonyti wrote:
Don't mind them and tbh would have a nice Escort, minimum 400 bhp, but your never getting one of them for 10k lol.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1996-FORD-ESCORT- ... dZViewItem

ok not all of them are 10k but you can get one for that money

So a 280bhp escort or a 400bhp rover... hmm

Mine has cost me, well probably a silly amount actually.

Point is that everything has been replaced, it is essentially a new car, and powerful - and if you can find a similar spec 07 car I guarentee it will be more than what i spent on the rover...

tjames · Post by **tjames** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:31 am

Null_Byte wrote:Point is that everything has been replaced, it is essentially a new car, and powerful - and if you can find a similar spec 07 car I guarentee it will be more than what i spent on the rover...

I tried explaining this very same theory to the missus a week ago. She still think i should cut my losses and sell all the parts

WOMEN!

Ry_B · Post by **Ry_B** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:12 pm

4k to purchase, spent Â£130 on springs, 300 on the exhaust system, Â£50 on the induction kit and some more money elsewhere but i forgot lol

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