Summary: Looking to see what the average cost of service + repair is for people on here. Please ignore non-service/repair costs like tax/mot/insurance
I was wondering, what do you guys see as the usual cost of maintenance and repair of owning a car. Obviously theres big expenditures like a flywheel that you might only do once, and theres regular ones like service items, but then theres the odd repairs like an ABS failure or brake caliper seizure.
I'm trying to work out if i just have a warped idea of how much it should cost to keep my car on the road. I feel like i pay through the nose each year for my vectra, apart from a good few large jobs ive had to have done, i often find myself shelling out £100 every few months to fix a problem, or being landed with a MOT failure and few hundred quid repair bill to just get it too pass.
Obviously i expect a lot of peoples costs come down to how particular you are and whether you can do jobs yourself (i try, but not having a drive or garage to work on and living on main road, makes doing work difficult, so i probably spend quite a lot on labour).
Going on my immediate family, my bills are extreme, the old man hasn't spent a penny on repairs in the last 3 years, and has had no big repair bills that i know off, but then again he tends to run his cars into the ground. You guys on this forum however probably try and keep a pretty good standard of repair (especially those that modify their cars), but probably offset the costs involved in doing a lot of labour yourselves.
Anyway, i've added a poll just for the sake of ease, be interesting to see what others yearly maintenance spend on their cars is, maybe mine isn't as abnormal as i think.
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