How much will you spend on your car in 2008?

[waynne]

New year - I'm sure you've all done your budget forecasts and analysis for the coming year

How much will you spend on your car this year? (exlcuding petrol and maintainance costs!)

[Hansi]

Haven't really thought about it because I don't have a car at the moment but just about to buy one, so excluding that it probably will be somewhere around 200.000 isk. wich is about 1.600 pound

[pgarner]

prob around £700
rewite
intake ( panel or induction kit )
diverter valve
exhaust if it goes

[Prince]

Not totally sure how much I'm gonna spend, but I do plan to put a sports exhaust and sports cat on my car. Can't really do too much yet else my insurance will be through the roof. I may put some security equipment on it as well. But my budget this year is about £1500.

[HDi fun]

Biggest spend will always be fuel and other running costs.

I'm going to need new discs and pads all round by early summer and I'm considering a mild upgrade in materials. Having previously used EBC materials and found them a bit weak kneed (but the green stuff pads do give amazing bite from cold!).

Currently using ATE discs and pads but propose Rossini discs front and rear with matching pads. So around £500 for the lot includhave theng cost of fitting.

Front drive diesel cars are nose heavy and put a lot of load on brakes. Dissipating the excess heat has got to be a good thing.

I also plan to have the engine coolant replaced with new stuff and add Purple Ice to help heat transfer from water to oil and vice versa in the oil/water heat exchanger.

tyres are due soon as well. Currently I have a bit of a mix n match set with Conti Sports at the back. Firestone TZ (crap) left front and Viking Protech II right front.

I'm going to push things here and fit Viking Protech II's all round. They are a new pattern and the one that's fitted is truly grippy and sticky, wears evenly and at £52 for fit valve balance and VAT for a 215/55/16W is a bargain. They even look pretty with the assymetric tread pattern.

[HZero]

I just count that I will spend to that Probe over 4000€ in the next year:
-The full body kit 600-700€
-Subwoofer and amplifiers 600€
-New tyres and rims over 1000€
-New twin exhaust Greddy 800€
-some horsepower (maybe new KLZE-engine, which provides 194bhp) 1500€

[Pixel]

Part of my 2008 resolution is to start modding my car so I might be spending a fair bit this year. I'm not rich so my budget will be roughly 2k.

[HDi fun]

Part of my resolution is to reduce my main road speeds. I've got into the habit of going extremely quickly on all derestricted roads. Not that I speed without thought or planning but sadly there's no defence against 104mph in a 70 limit regardless of whether you're driving safely or not. Maybe the fuel price increases will help me achieve my goal. Clearly a six month ban and two grand fine would work too but I'd rather not get clobbered.

Failing that I flog the Peugeot and buy a bog basic 1.4 Astra. Or Smart Car?

Any ideas?

[waynne]

What about an Astra diesel? Do smart do a diesel?

[Prince]

Originally Posted by HDi fun

Failing that I flog the Peugeot and buy a bog basic 1.4 Astra. Or Smart Car?

Don't buy a smart car...I don't wanna turn this into a 'worst car' debate, but if it was I'd vote smart car (and the g-wiz)!