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View Poll Results: How Much Have You Spent On Your E Series? | |||
Under $1000 | 70 | 19.72% | |
$1000-$2000 | 45 | 12.68% | |
$2000-$3000 | 34 | 9.58% | |
$3000-$4000 | 44 | 12.39% | |
$5000+ | 162 | 45.63% | |
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15-01-2006, 09:50 PM | #61 | ||
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25,000 + and the reason I couldnt buy a ba(not that I want to) Is because at the time I couldnt get finance for a car(credit card debt) so I have to do everything cash or not at all...which Id rather do anyhoo.Something about still paying 200 bux a week 5 years later on when your car is only worth half the price just doesnt appeal to me....rather get finance for a house.
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Da LTD,3.9 ltr. 21.2 sec quarter mile.109 rwk 300zx Twin Turbo,Stillen intercoolers,boost controller,19 inch speedies,boost guage,dvd,mps,hands free phone,diamond black,leather interior. 12.8 quarter mile.243 rwk |
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15-01-2006, 09:56 PM | #62 | |||
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In regards to hiding the $$ i just play stupid.. "don't know what you're talking babe - yeah the car looks lower but I havn't done anything to it. Maybe you've forgotten about a pair of shoes you bought" |
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15-01-2006, 09:58 PM | #63 | ||
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if you buy a BA and mod it to the extent of the EA-EL it will cost 30-70 instead of 10-50
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15-01-2006, 10:01 PM | #64 | ||
zx TT
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well said chich
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Da LTD,3.9 ltr. 21.2 sec quarter mile.109 rwk 300zx Twin Turbo,Stillen intercoolers,boost controller,19 inch speedies,boost guage,dvd,mps,hands free phone,diamond black,leather interior. 12.8 quarter mile.243 rwk |
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15-01-2006, 10:37 PM | #65 | ||
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After seeing this thread thought i would go through the car and add up what i have bought for it and spent on it and i have spend just over 10k getting it to where it is and i still have heaps that i want to do to it!!!!
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15-01-2006, 11:49 PM | #66 | ||
zx TT
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yeah,I hear ya m8....Ive still gotta bloody supercharge this thing(10 grand)I might run a stroker later on (maybe sooner than later)and now ive got that bloody idea of a coupe conversion....i reckon another 30 grand will do it....I'm a complete idiot.....seriously...
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Da LTD,3.9 ltr. 21.2 sec quarter mile.109 rwk 300zx Twin Turbo,Stillen intercoolers,boost controller,19 inch speedies,boost guage,dvd,mps,hands free phone,diamond black,leather interior. 12.8 quarter mile.243 rwk |
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16-01-2006, 02:02 AM | #67 | |||
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I paid $8,400 for my EBII Tickford Fairmont Ghia, and am up around the $21,000 now. The exhaust system set me back $2,500, and is about the only thing that will be left after the next 12 months off the road.
Basically, I have no idea what the next year will cost me (suspension, brakes, wheels, stereo, paint, body).
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16-01-2006, 03:11 AM | #68 | ||
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rmyers can i ask mainly where that 40-50k was spent on i know uve got straight gas, a s/c and bonspeeds but whats all the rest gone to???
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16-01-2006, 06:57 AM | #69 | |||
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16-01-2006, 09:31 AM | #70 | |||
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16-01-2006, 09:55 AM | #71 | ||
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after buying the car spent around $3000 just so I could drive it without dramas.
Have probably spent a few more thousands that I don't want to add up to be honest. Put just over 60,000klms on her in around 12months. If I decide to keep her (was thinking of selling) then will have a huge amount to spend - motor, trans, body & paint, interior, the list just goes on and on.......and thats without hoping for any mods!!!!!!!!!! Cheers Kerri |
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16-01-2006, 10:07 AM | #72 | ||
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Car - $9000
Stereo - $5,500 rougly Under Bonnet - $2500 Suspension & Wheels - $3000 Brakes - $1000 Other Various Mod & Repairs - $2000 $23,000 and climbing : and that doesnt include upgrades along the way eg. stereo uprades, suspensions changes, exhaust system changes ---- i feel sick now |
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16-01-2006, 10:20 AM | #73 | ||
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My calculations indicate I'm just over the $22k mark including the car itself. But some items, like my 16" wheels, I later resold which strictly speaking should reduce the total.
Unfortunately it's going to get a lot more expensive soon, damn forced induction. |
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16-01-2006, 10:30 AM | #74 | ||
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my ea i had before the ef was also quite expensive
car - $6000 engine - $6000 gearboxes - $2000 suspension - $1500 wheels - $1000 stereo - $5000 other mods and repairs $5000+ total about $26-27k :MrT_anim: luckily i was able to salvage and sell alot of it and made some money back when i crashed it |
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16-01-2006, 12:24 PM | #75 | ||
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I would bet a lot of you wouldnt have thought you were going to spend so much when you bought your ea gl's years ago.
Real question how many of us can afford to spend that and live comftorbally. How many are hoping to get a house in the near future etc. I used to be like that spent a heap on my car just managed to scrape in the phone bill and a bit of it was keeping up with the club members syndrome but lately i've grown out of it. |
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16-01-2006, 12:32 PM | #76 | ||
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thats the same wit me, id like to start saving on a house and get my own life start goin, at the same time i would like something i can be proud of, atm im just saving and whateva scrap i make or bargins i find i get
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16-01-2006, 01:24 PM | #77 | ||
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i want a house in the near future but at the same time i want to get the ef going harder and looking better, but i think now i hae moved out my car expenses will die a bit until i start buying the turbo parts
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16-01-2006, 02:25 PM | #78 | |||
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16-01-2006, 04:44 PM | #79 | |||
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16-01-2006, 08:00 PM | #80 | ||
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Karl, that's a good point but personally, I think modifying cars needn't be a path to eternal financial woe. I know where I want to get my cars and it would be an anticlimax that I would regret forever if I just gave up. And besides that, what is $20k compared to about $350k for an average house in an average area?
Green, cheers for the interest. As Jase said, attention is being focused on his car at the moment which is actually needed for daily driving. I'm slowly working on a few things, I installed my XH tensioner today for example, but the real progress will come after Jase is done. |
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16-01-2006, 08:12 PM | #81 | ||
zx TT
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350k average???man you eastern staters have it hard...get a 4x2 house here in perth on a 500 square metre block for around 250....maybe cheaper!
4 yrs ago i bought a 4x2 house on a 800 sq mtre block for 95 grand,sold it a yr later for 145.....went to london for a year with the profit.....now i live in a one bedroom doghouse....gee,now im depressed.....im going to the pub...
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Da LTD,3.9 ltr. 21.2 sec quarter mile.109 rwk 300zx Twin Turbo,Stillen intercoolers,boost controller,19 inch speedies,boost guage,dvd,mps,hands free phone,diamond black,leather interior. 12.8 quarter mile.243 rwk |
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16-01-2006, 08:24 PM | #82 | ||
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How did we get from cars to houses? :
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16-01-2006, 09:57 PM | #83 | ||
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Hmmm, Im moving to perth then... 500grands gets bugger all here... and even thats way out in the boonies
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16-01-2006, 10:20 PM | #84 | ||
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(off topic) It is a fact that Australian cities (particularly Melbourne, Sydney etc) have some of the highest housing prices in the world. It is also a fact that 90% of the Australian population is crammed into just 3% of the land. I suppose if we had more cities it wouldn't be as big an issue, but the time will soon come when the average person here will never own land in their lifetime, as is already the case in Italy and various other parts of the world.
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17-01-2006, 08:30 AM | #85 | |||
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$2000 on an exhaust? that somehow doesnt seem right... unless its stainless mandrell bent and has been chromed! and even still u could get it cheaper then 2000
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17-01-2006, 08:32 AM | #86 | ||
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i havnt spent a terrible lot,but i wanna spend alot more!
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17-01-2006, 09:57 AM | #87 | |||
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17-01-2006, 12:10 PM | #88 | ||
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erm i think i have spend about 9000 all up including car. (including my T5)
im not bothering with spending 30k on a EL which i'll only get 10k for after. I'll blow 25k into a XY and get something like 20k back
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17-01-2006, 04:10 PM | #89 | |||
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17-01-2006, 04:54 PM | #90 | ||
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10k on top of 14k for the lane when it had 90k on the clock.
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