Ouch - car service and MOT

[BentMikey]

£310 - that hurts! OTOH just imagine how much worse it would be owning two cars. This one's for the missus, I use the bike for work.

 

[addictfreak]

£310 - that hurts! OTOH just imagine how much worse it would be owning two cars. This one's for the missus, I use the bike for work.

We have 4!

Mine (not used much at all)

Wifes

Son

and Daughter

Thank god i dont pay for them all

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

yep cars suck. ours is only a little nissan micra and is due its first mot in july. just cost £400 for tyres (only 2 types fit the alloys contis and pirelli) servicing £100, auxillary belt £62 and probably another £100 for some shopping trolley dents in the front wing. at 45k on the clock the brakes are looking like they will need doing in the summer. was going to buy another new micra but the scrappage allowance has pushed prices up to daftness levels.

 

[4F]

£310 - that hurts! OTOH just imagine how much worse it would be owning two cars. This one's for the missus, I use the bike for work.

Our car had a bill of £ 1100 in November perfect timing just before Christmas.

New fuel pump, glow plugs, windscreen washer pump, diagnostic scan, some sort of bearings (cannot remember which but know it was bloody expensive) plus labour

I hate cars

 

[Jezston]

It's this kind of thing that puts me off ever learning to drive (age offered driving lessons: 17; current age: 31)

It's funny when colleagues joke at me for riding a bike in and they pay THOUSANDS every year just keeping a car running.

 

[GrasB]

£310 - that hurts! OTOH just imagine how much worse it would be owning two cars. This one's for the missus, I use the bike for work.

Oh a nice cheap car then... £300 is an axle set of tyres for either of my cars .

 

[fossyant]

Jetzon, you might just be able to afford insurance now you are over 30..... quotes friends have had for their kids in their late teens/twenties have been in their thousands........

 

[hackbike 666]

Any pics?

 

[addictfreak]

Mines is in the foreground (if this works doh)

Ignore the date never was good with technology

 

[hackbike 666]

Cars are a licence to print money...plus this is in the wrong section.

Hang on he said commuting so I must be wrong.

 

[PK99]

£310 - that hurts! OTOH just imagine how much worse it would be owning two cars. This one's for the missus, I use the bike for work.

ive just been quoted £240 to renew the drive train on my MtB after real derailleur collapsed the other day

 

[hackbike 666]

I spent something like that recently but at least the gears are sorted out once and for all.

 

[BentMikey]

The last time I bought a set of tyres for the recumbent that was £70!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (think I'm allowed a Keith Oates for that)

Nah Hackers, it's because I'm both chuffed and gutted at the same time. Gutted because we're still paying for a car, and chuffed because I don't need a second car for myself because of having the bikes.

 

[Jezston]

Jetzon, you might just be able to afford insurance now you are over 30..... quotes friends have had for their kids in their late teens/twenties have been in their thousands........

I still don't think I'd be able to afford it!

 

[fossyant]

I still don't think I'd be able to afford it!

Well, flippin insurance is going up - my quotes have jumped up from less than £300 to over £400 this year.... - That's a half decent set of bike wheels.....