i hate to think:yikes:

 

Oooo god uhm

£5500 for the car

then i probs spent 1500 + on it

so whats that £7000+

up forsale a year later for £3800! criminal.

 

I bought the tf for 3800 and think i've spent another 1500 om it since

 

Bought the car new in '96 for £15999 ...

 

£3600 for the Trophy, spent £1800 on it shortly after on numerous repairs.....Now I am into modding arena :lol: did mentally spend £2300 on it the other day on rimmer bros website if that counts I am sure over the next couple of years there will be about another £5K minimum spent :bigeyes:

 

Cost of our F to get it how it is now.

F all just let Fi drive it If you want her to modify Su li for you she will do it for nought..:lol:

£850 to buy, clutch, TTexhaust, loads of bling a tail light in all about £450 so £"1300

 

Haha this may make people a little ill

Car + Full head recondition, MLS kit, Mk2 Wedgewood leather interior, Mk2 door solenoids, Wooden Steering wheel, Titanium gear shift, DVD/ Television behind airbag blank, Colour coded headlights, Front splitter, MGTF bootlid, Wedgewood rear spoiler, MGTF taillights, Electronic boot release, Jaguar ashtray, Carbon fiber Mirrors, Chrome door handles with black surrounds, FIRST EVER interior oval chrome door handle surrounds, New Roof, Hardtop, Chrome Custom Inlet/Plenum, PRT Kit, Auxiliary Electronic water pump with cool down ECU, MK2 Centre Console, MGTF Gearbox, 52mm throttle body, K+N Induction Kit, MK2 T bar rear speaker conversion, Freelander stalks, Uprated MGTF2004 onwards heater Intake, Carbon fiber tax disc bracket, Janspeed Stainless steel Exhaust + Sports Cat.

Whole thing has yet to total £2000

 

Haha this may make people a little ill

Car + Full head recondition, MLS kit, Mk2 Wedgewood leather interior, Mk2 door solenoids, Wooden Steering wheel, Titanium gear shift, DVD/ Television behind airbag blank, Colour coded headlights, Front splitter, MGTF bootlid, Wedgewood rear spoiler, MGTF taillights, Electronic boot release, Jaguar ashtray, Carbon fiber Mirrors, Chrome door handles with black surrounds, FIRST EVER interior oval chrome door handle surrounds, New Roof, Hardtop, Chrome Custom Inlet/Plenum, PRT Kit, Auxiliary Electronic water pump with cool down ECU, MK2 Centre Console, MGTF Gearbox, 52mm throttle body, K+N Induction Kit, MK2 T bar rear speaker conversion, Freelander stalks, Uprated MGTF2004 onwards heater Intake, Carbon fiber tax disc bracket

Whole thing has yet to total £2000

Flippen heck, that's good going :broon:

 

Doe that include petrol, oil, OAT, anti-freeze wash etc?

WnD Sandpaper to correct mistakes £1
Mini aerial £1.50
Sticky pads for spoiler £2
Anti EU window sticker £3
Window tint (now removed) £5
Tax disc holder £5
Anti extremist Islam bumper sticker £5
Paint for spoiler £8
Starter button £8
Air freshener £8
New drill bits £10
Anti freeze ~£10 (2nd bottle now)
Splitter £23
Spoiler £25
Satnav from previous car $50
Rear light clusters £50 I think
Mid service interval oil & filter change £50
Speed fine €150
** £280
New wheel after wrecking mine over a pothole on the first day £280
Insurance £500
Petrol £god knows

So the anwer is somewhere between £14,425 and G.

 

Doe that include petrol, oil, OAT, anti-freeze wash etc?

WnD Sandpaper to correct mistakes £1
Mini aerial £1.50
Sticky pads for spoiler £2
Anti EU window sticker £3
Window tint (now removed) £5
Tax disc holder £5
Anti extremist Islam bumper sticker £5
Paint for spoiler £8
Starter button £8
Air freshener £8
New drill bits £10
Anti freeze ~£10 (2nd bottle now)
Splitter £23
Spoiler £25
Satnav from previous car $50
Rear light clusters £50 I think
Mid service interval oil & filter change £50
Speed fine €150
** £280
New wheel after wrecking mine over a pothole on the first day £280
Insurance £500
Petrol £god knows

So the anwer is somewhere between £14,425 and G.

I wondered what the bumper sticker said.
Graham's number eh? wooooo big

 

Purrdy cost £4000 two years ago. I reckon I've spent just over a grand in the time I've had her.......can't be assed checking the invoices and receipts box 'though...:lol:

Details in my 'garage' if you're interested.

 

I don't even know! :lol: The car was £2,900 and I can't even remember some of the mods, but I'll say between £3,001-£5000!

 

The MGF was bought for £3700 and then needed a HG along with new head bolts, water pump, SS underfloor coolant pipes and new radiator - thankfully I did that work myself so just parts cost - possibly £300:dunno:
Then I bought a hardtop £350, had it painted black (done by a friend so just paint cost £20), new rear discs and pads £50 and a good second hand Milltek exhaust with new cat attached for £100.

The TF - purchase price £10,650 but no mods done apart from my £3.99 external temp sensor and seat belt guides at something like £20

 

Bought for £3200 in Jan 09 and spent around £2000 on mods and additions in an attempt to make Misty as bullet proof as possible

 

great poll!!!!!!!!!!!! but has anyone just bought the TF had trouble free running ?

 

Apart from my broken wheel my problems were/are very minor and do not effect the ability of the car to drive properly. That said, expect a few niggles.

MGFMad, that is an incredible price. Did you haggle a lot? How many miles were on the clock?

I called around the local garages who were very eager to sell, thought £1500 was a good enough discount to get, peanuts when compared to your £5k off though!

They had an ex-demo orange LE at the garage I bought mine from but it would have worked out more expensive for me than a new black one.

 

sorry , just about to buy one and don't like all this expense stuff !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Don't worry mate. When you look at the expenditure in detail a lot of it is upgrades.:broon:....having said that,.....once you get the bug, it's all too easy to give in to the 'darkside'.....:lol:


Edit : In two years and 20,000 + miles, I've had an alternator fail.

Never missed a beat otherwise..:broon:..and she's now over 7 years old and 80,000 on the clock.

 

Bought our F for £1500, then spent £25 crashing it at Oulton Park. :lol:
This led to the repair bill; £350 for parts (bumper, headlight, indicator, fog light, chrome grilles, number plates), £350 for spraying, metalwork & fitting, £290 for HGF repair, £270 for 4 new tyres.
Since then I've had to replace the battery (£60) too.

That totals £2845 since we bought it in August.... :yikes:

 

I bought mine for $14,500AU (£8,400) about two years ago with 82,000km (51,000) on the clock and while I have spent probably another $3,000AU to $4,000AU on it it has been for performance upgrades for on track competition days. I have had very few problems really only a broken gear linkage cable which was my fault during a supersprint track day. I also still have a lot of mods to do.

as you can see F/TF are a bit pricier out here

http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/results.aspx?YearFromShort=1639&Ns=pCar_PriceSort_Decimal|1||pCar_RankSort_Int32|1||pCar_Make_String|0||pCar_Model_String|0&N=1216%201247%201282%201252%201246%204294961367%204294960919%201639&tabID=304727&keywords=&Nne=15

 

Paid AUS$20000 eight years ago for an 80000Km 4year old VVC with hard top, now worth $8000 with a 167000km. Had to weld new rear suspension turrets in $4500, head gasket $1800 Two new clutches $1600. Spent on improvements, ie big brakes,16" alloys, suspension mods, Cams and flowed cylinder head, exhaust over the years $9500 so I have a 175hp car with high mileage, which gives a lot of fun. As the car is worth next to nothing I will keep it until it drops. One thing I do not have is any corrosion or rust so the shell will out live the mechanical bits.

 

Tiny £2.5 K
Bas Sportster hood £500
Long Life Exhaust £299
Seats £200
SW Walnut £100
Glass Wind Stop £49
Alloy RAD & preventative HG £450
General maint before i found the forum £1400.
Alloys £100
Stereo and Speakers £100
Rear spoiler and front splitter £150
TF airbox £30
Throttle body £70
Pollybushes £70
Stainless steel CAT and Downpipe £150

Oh my god I could be here for ages think i'd better stop there before I cry:lol: about 6.5 K so far and I'm sure theres more.

 

I've bought back my TF twice and repaired it.... so i havent included the repair costs or the buying back...... as i'll be shot..... by the now fiancee.

 

No mods yet, but I will be having a "Scorpian Twin Dual" from the MGF Centre later this year £320 ish

LE Was £15.000 - £5750 trade in for my XPower Grey 160, which in the first year of ownership I did the following:

BAS Sportster hood £550 (fitted at the 2008 MGFest)
BAS Sportster Windstop £100 (fitted at the 2008 MGFest)
Resprayed front bumper & bonnet £450 (hall bros droitwich recomended)
Refurbed all wheels £260
Replaced bonnet & Boot badges £25

total £1375, enjoyed spending every penny :friday:
Loved it


The LE500, Love this just as much

 

Bought a new MGF in February '98 ... and it crashed in July '98
Bought another MGF in July '98 (delivery Oct '98)

Most expensive modification must be the PTP 165 conversion, the complete set of powerflex bushes (one in purple and one in black (for our "MOT") ), Miltek exhaust (damn expensive in the earrly days), several brake upgrades (from std. to std. w. GreenStuff, to 280mm (drilled and solid) w. Mintex, to 302mm w. OEM). Modifications with seamless quads wasn't cheap either. About 6 sets of wheels doesn't really help to reduce the bill.

I didn't mind adding prices and creating a full list... it's now clear to me that the car costs well over £17000.

Funny thing is ... I am in the process of buying another MGF for only £500

 

Cost to buy £3500
Spent since £4000!!

 

Am i lucky or unlucky?

My MG F was inherited so cost nothing, picked it up on Sunday, and it overheated yesterday, i'm hoping it was just low on coolant as the heaters went cold before the oil temp went sky high.

have booked it in to have it looked over and fingers crossed nothing will be wrong with it as I have just driven around for an hour and over that getting boiling hot because i had the heater on full blast the oil temp stayed around 100c which i'm hoping is normal.

i think when i get some money i'll be sprucing her up a bit though

 

I've estimated between £7-9k but I wouldn't be surprised if it is more than that. Even more worrying is that fact that I will easily spend that again before it's finished :err:

 

Thanks for this thread I'm feeling pretty bad now!

Got the car 3 1/2 years ago £3695 and have spent in the region of £4k on it since
but that includes the C service, Trophy splitter, Trophy spoiler, alcantara interior from a TF, quad stereo / dvd clear indicators, MS roll hoops, MS wiper linkage, MS bell crank, silver mk2 console, silver steering wheel, tf160 alloys, T1-rs all round, momo gear knob, AP brakes and disks, stainless mesh, tinted rear lights, coolant alarm, glass screened hood, 52mm throttle body, K&N CIS induction kit, Milltek exhaust, a bit of paintwork, new cat and flexi pipe, scoops, new badges and probably loads of other bits I've forgotten

Mind you I have recouped about £1500 by selling on the old parts etc