BigMikeATL

What do you spend a year to keep your 964 in top shape?

Maintenance (wear items and consumables): $

Additional items due to age or While I'm In There: $

Mods (discretionary spending): $



I told prospective buyers for my car (before deciding to keep it) that they should plan to spend a minimum of $1000 a year.

Bertrand

Somehere about 2700 Eu. That includes the maintenance and age / while you're there.
Not included are petrol, insurance and road tax.

I keep a very accurate tracking of the spending. I suppose you can get a much lower figure by doing a lot yourself (or not being very accurate...).

HalV

Good thread Mike!

I've been lucky and able to keep Maintenance to a minimum. Oil Changes, oil pressure sending unit, valve adjustments, Tires, belts, etc. I've done most this work myself, but the cost of parts adds up.

This year I broke the budget and spent about $3.5k on Mods: bolt in roll bar, new suspension (considering the shape of the OEM dampers that should be classified as maintenance, but I went all out and upgraded to adjustables). I'll try to go through my records and post better numbers.

Earlydays

I have had my 964 for 15 years and have spent an average of $1300 a year on maintenance and repairs. This includes everything except tires and batteries.

garrett1021

I've only had mine for about 6 months but I've averaged.... $20. Not including gas. I've yet to buy anything big... but those leaks are there... waiting for me...

ziu

832€ average over12 years incl. tires and cab roof this year. All done in workshops.

Mr Bacchus

When I bought my car in November last year I thought it would be interesting to slowly work my way through the pile of documentation that came with the car, what I found is condensed and listed below...

Total spend inc VAT: £48,847 (excluding tax, insurance, fuel etc)

Total parts spend exc VAT: £25,261

Total labour spend exc VAT: £18,475

Average spend / year: £2035

Most expensive year: £7,617 (2009, almost entirely engine rebuild)

Cheapest year: £503 (1991, exc 1989 and 1990 at zero spend)

Front tyres replaced: 9

Rear tyres replaced: 8

Front brake pads replaced: 10

Rear brake pads replaced: 8

Front discs replaced: 4

Rear discs replaced: 2

Steve

time666

Had the car 3 years, spent just shy of £10k on maintenance and mods.
Notible items of cost for me are: re-spray, bilstein suspension hd shocks and eibach springs, clutch and flywheel plus mpl slave. Rebuilt leaky steering rack, new alarm system, rs engine mounts, g pipe, cat by-pass and various electrical bits n bobs.

This year I'm planning to spend less, only maintenance....Need to stop looking at bbs lm replicas and those coloured speedo dials.

time666

Thats great history to have, interesting stuff Steve.

sschultze09

Steve, that's a pretty cool tally. Can you tell us what you have on the clock so far?

sschultze09

Over the past two years of ownership I have spent well over 5K on neglected maintenance. Oil leaks, plug wires, tune-up related ect... I did all the work myself so I know I saved a bundle not taking it to a shop thanks to Rennlist and PP. Not to mention the cosmetic and making things right cash spent. All in all would I do it again...you bet.

Mr Bacchus

The car has 147,000 miles Steve.

The notes I posted above are very condensed, I have a record of every part that has been replaced during the lifetime. Compiling the data took a while but now it's done I can quickly check at what point in time a part was changed or a service made.

By the way, the car is not modified so the spend over the years was all maintenance and repair costs. I plan to continue the record keeping and I have probably spent £1000 in the first 6 months of ownership, I am planning on a doing all necessary works except the annual service (or anything that I do not have the tools or skills for) myself.

And finally and most importantly, after dabbling with various sports cars, I'm really enjoying this one and it will be a keeper.

Steve