Car Expenses

Miss_Moneypenny_6

Hi all,

I have been doing well with sticking to my budgets:D . Until last wednesday, when the car had to go in to be serviced for MOT. It cost £320 for the service & 2 tyres cost £50. This was ok as i'd budgeted each month but yesterday we discovered oil leaking from it - took it down today (at 2pm) to garage (MOT at 6pm tonight:eek: ) to be told that a seal has gone between the engine & the gear box which will take a full day to fix & cost about £200 at least:eek: :eek: . What makes it worse is the car only cost £950 a year ago.

Sorry for rambling but I am so p***ed off, i can't be without the car (work/school & childerminder & I live in the country) and I know that it will fail the MOT tonight which means I can't drive the car because it won't be covered under the insurance if it doesn't have a valid MOT cert.

Sorry but I really needed to get that out of my system

Thanks to MSE for everything:T

stoobie

When does your old MOT run out - you can drive the car until your old one runs out.

Or are you like me and leave your renewal until the day before its due?

yung

sorry to hear about that, what concern me is the price of the service at £320 this sound like a rip off what car is it?

Dolly_Smith

it really does depend though. Last year I had my car serviced at a specialist dealers - it needed loads doing to it and cost £900.

today, I have taken it to a local bloke round the corner and it cost £113!

MOTs are also going up to £45 from 7 November - time to buy a bus ticket I think

[Deleted User]

Annoyingly, my gf has a rather large monthly payment on her car (250 quid) but doesn't seem to get that expensive cars have expensive parts and repairs. The tyres need replacing, the reverse sonar (whatever it is) indicator is broke and the engine spontaneously cut out last week whilst driving.

She doesn't seem to get the idea of putting a bit of money aside. Agh, wish she'd sell it and get something more affordable </rant>

Dolly_Smith

that is the problem isn't it - I love my car, I really do, but it ain't cheap. It's like any machine - the poncier it is, the more there is to go wrong!

SAP_Saver

I hate my car too...
It is supposed to be one of the better makes but the electrics are poor as they keep telling me the brakes need replacing which they don't. and my climate control has a mind of its own - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I want to trade it in and buy another one but I just do not want to spend the money this side of christmas but I know I will need the heating and for warmth and windscreen clearing pretty soon...! ggrrr

Ames

I'd expected (and budgeted) around £200 for my MOT, it cost £600 plus £60 for the window that some ****** smashed the week before. It's got to the point it'd be cheaper for me to get a taxi everywhere I go than run the car but I can't afford to get it sorted to sell it.

If I go br the OR will take it anyway though.

Really seems like it's a total lottery as to how much they'll cost!

Gemmzie

I've just had the same thing happen today

Had the car serviced, cost me £371 because of the work it needed doing. And it's still gonna need a bit more work before its MOT in December and the car fund is well and truely empty.

I feel your pain Miss Moneypenny

Miss_Moneypenny_6

Hello everyone - it failed (what a suprise)

Thanks for all the responses, car needed the catalitic convertor part of the exhaust replaced £160, £30 for some break part & a day & a half's labour, but thanks goodness it was a friend of a friend i would hate to have seen the cost if i'd taken it to a dealer. The mot was due on the 9th oct, but because there were no dates available they gave me an exemption certificate to cover me until the mot was completed which means ins prob won't cover me, will give them a ring in the morning, its a peugot 406 1998.

Thanks again everyone.

Willsnarf1983

Look on the brightside, if u hadn't budgeted you would be another £300-400worse of than you are now so its not a complete failure!

Will