beko1987 Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 So after taking this on it's last drive before it's certain doom, I thought I would reflect on the ownership costs. The car cost £150 from Ruffgeezer in Sept 2017£60 on front tie rods, track rod ends and drop links£45 on tracking and wheel balancing£30 on 2 sets of rear exhaust rubbers£8 on a radio control adapter for the steering wheel that just did the volume...£50ish on a service before the summer£15 on rear pads £358 total ownership and running cost! CPM is £0.023p However, I made just over £400 breaking the blue laguna for spares and weighing in the rest So I suppose it's cost me -£42 to run the car for just over 15,000 miles! Cost per mile is -£0.0028p... Cost to change - Bramz 406 is £275Giving Gareth £20 and a pack of baccy to pick me up and take me to collect it, so £33 ASM will give me £204 for taking the Laguna there Total spend - £104! We could be picky and take the £42 surplus from before out and make the cost £62, but we wont as thats long gone! I've got the handbook pack, haynes manual radio and indicator stalk in the shed too, will see if I can get a few pennies from the laguna people on facebook for that, otherwise I'll bring it to the next meetup and dump it all in a box/bub's car when he's not looking I haven't taken tax, insurance or fuel into account, as I'd have to spend that regardless of what car I ran, and don't think it's worth caring about! So not all lagunas are shit! Just most of them... And here, barring any major fuckup/someone actually wanting to buy it, ends the tale of my laguna ownership over 2 cars! I'll start a new thread for the new car, as it is a Peugeot, and therefore different. I've ended all my other car threads when the car is gone, this one just morphed into 2 cars with the breaking of the blue gooner. oldcars, The Moog and barefoot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 It's funny - about 13 years ago I drove a LHD 1978 728 to my local breakers, LC Hughes in Bicester. It was on Dutch plates and I'd done a fair few epic trips in it. I got 100 quid for it iirc. I saw it a month later, stacked on top of another scrapper with bits ripped off it - I felt violated. That's my car. No it ain't.LC Hughes is still going, they only offered me £170 for the gooner! They do have a 2002 406 LX Estate in though, which might be handy if I need any bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Why aren't you throwing it around the ring at Cannock tomorrow? oldcars and beko1987 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 Because it all happened too suddenly to plan! Plus I'm not at cannock due to a birthday party I'm invited to. Apparently it's my sons... There'd best be cake oldcars and The Moog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 If anyone wants to take it up there for tomorrow, be my guest! I'll have £204,the rest is yours! oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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