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[MarvinsMom]

one of the muppets at work has gotten himself some BMW thing on a lease deal that is- 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wait for it-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£1500  A  MONTH!!!!!!

 

 

ha ha ha ha!!

 

some folks have WAY to much money

[Bear]

What the hell BMW costs £1500 a month? Even a 645i Droptop used to be under £500 a month, hell, a Bentley FootballerGT is under £1K/month. Is it an i8?

[panhard65]

Updated car spreadsheet.

 

When it's sorted, the Hearse will be #160.

 

And I will have a running total over £180,000 spent JUST on buying cars. Not adjusted for inflation or income when cars have sold, I'll get around to that one day but most have been write off if you consider maintenance spends (i.e. £1500 spent on Volvo that sold for £1500 having cost £7K).

How is the hearse fundraising going anyway ? I might have to wash it this week as it does get filthy sitting down the yard.

[MarvinsMom]

dunno, its a grey one, and some sort of large saloon car

[Six-cylinder]

Depends on how define company cars works - I've counted my new lease cars in the total and costs.

 

I'm also not good at selling them in the sense of always losing money. But having to get rid of them is a constant (was, anyway) - can you imagine still having all of those cars? It'd be wonderful. I'd still have all of my CXs and XMs, and RWD Vauxhalls...

 

Prices I can usually do from memory, though I couldn't add them all up in my head. Terrifyingly I can, once I remember the car, generally remember what I spent on it too.

Company cars were ones allocated to me for my personal use sometimes for a few days other times for a few months. These were the cars I had to pay company car tax for, if I ever get round to adding up the cost of buying I am not sure how you could include them?

 

When I worked in the motor trade and drove hundreds of cars and bought countless cars in PX, from auctions, other garages, from traders and the public for the garages I worked for, but I have counted none of those. Even the one night stands such as borrowing the MD brand new Volvo 760GLE for a night and taking my brother out is not counted (nothing was ever said about him not being to leave the car phone alone).

 

Maybe I am afraid of making a loss but I don’t like parting with cars and the phase “do I want a few hundred pounds or do I want my xxxxâ€Â, means I justify not selling much. We still have 35.9% of all the cars we have bought for ourselfs. Trouble is that means neglect and far too many project cars. I have friends who think I need help, I say I just need more indoor parking!

[HMC]

That Omega MV6 is effing fantastic.

Seconded! Looks like brilliant thing to cruise about in, how fast is it?!

[HMC]

Visa Twin pot home now from Rye, 158.3 miles including round the M25 yesterday.Not sure that 35 bhp is enough for me![/quote

Is that watchbell street? The late Hon. Alan Clark ( former mp and closet shiteist) Bought his first house on that street and littered it with various old cars.

[Bear]

How is the hearse fundraising going anyway ? I might have to wash it this week as it does get filthy sitting down the yard.

 

Halfway there still - it's stalled because the thing I want to give people in exchange for donations I can't tell them about until I've got the machine to make them, and that's dragging out - but I'm aiming to sort the balance out myself during this week, I want to be able to run about in it for Halloween. Insurance is proving confusing, oddly enough!

 

Also as it's been raised - *commercial message* HEARSE FUND! Friends have been dead generous, but anything is appreciated, there's no sob story or "my life is shit" sort of angle, it's purely a case of my friends said "this would be hilarious, we'll chuck you the odd tenner for you driving a hearse" and convinced me to make the GoFundMe page linked in my signature!

 

(There will, eventually, be little things in return for donations, and I massively appreciate the ones I've had already!)

 

Link in signature

 

*commercial ends*

 

Plan for the Hearse is to chalkboard the bonnet and fit a bat mascot with illuminating eyes, then all messages about life, death and the impermanence of being - plus some choice quotes from literature - will be stencilled in hologram/pearl slightly lighter paint over the black - or done with vinyl letters. Still unsure. There will also be sculpture tombstones/statues/things along the bottom of each rear window with a message to mark who donated. I have some other ideas on the back burner, but I'm aiming for tasteful art rather than OTT - apart from trying to make those immense rear windows more interesting.

[EssDeeWon]

Started a new (contract) job this week which entails schlepping up to the west-end every day, working for a media company. 09.30 start and free breakfast provided plus music playing in the office all day, this morning Denis Waterman 'I could be so good for you' played 

 

Managed to spy a 1989 treble of tat in the neighbouring streets (Pov spec 205, Saab 900 Turbo and an F Reg Espace!!!) I endevour to try and find more in my lunch hours...

[Six-cylinder]

 

Visa Twin pot home now from Rye, 158.3 miles including round the M25 yesterday.Not sure that 35 bhp is enough for me![/quote

Is that watchbell street? The late Hon. Alan Clark ( former mp and closet shiteist) Bought his first house on that street and littered it with various old cars.

 

You are right I did buy the visa from Watchbell street where one of the photos was taken!

 

[MarvinsMom]

Seconded! Looks like brilliant thing to cruise about in, how fast is it?!

 

my friend drove us back from that london in his old fella's gold coloured company one late on a night/early in the morning and it didn't see the legal side of 140mph all the way back up north along the M1.

 

comfortable to sit in too.

 

i hate to think just how few miles to the gallon it was doing at the time.

[Inspector Morose]

Is this actually going up for sale? Does sir fancy a yellow 2000 vw Beetle with leather??

Hmm. Tell me moar.

[MarvinsMom]

dunno, that is what i was told, the kiddies were all excited about it,

 

some one in the office had a look on ;tinternet and said that's what the lease was.

[EssDeeWon]

£1500 a month?

 

He'll get sick of paying that for a car he doesn't own in a few months!

[MarvinsMom]

you and i both would get fed up spunkin' all tht out every month.

 

but we iz abi-normal.

 

this car must be some fancy bloody thing, with a new number on the number plate, which will go done well at the golf club*/masonic lodge*/etc

 

(*other secret clubs are available)

[andrew e]

So a brand new Omega is ok but a brand new BMW is shite? Whatever makes you happy...

[MarvinsMom]

we were 25-26 i guess when the omega was new, and it wasn't mine and it was free* as a company car.

 

never ever liked bmwhocares, and certainly would not ever spend £1500 a month on a car that i didn't own.

 

there is apparently a "reasonable usage mileage limit" on said lease.

 

go over it any he will be paying bmw 80p per mile over, as i said, its not for me.

 

and bmws are complete and utter shit.

[Cheggers]

dunno, that is what i was told, the kiddies were all excited about it,

 

some one in the office had a look on ;tinternet and said that's what the lease was.

Jaysus, for that money I'd expect Katy Perry to drive me around in it...

[andrew e]

Have you even driven a BMW? Current BMW's aren't my taste either, but to say they are utter shit is just drivel. I own a Zafira, I know shit.

[Cheggers]

I'm sure it's a cracking car, but £1500 a month is extortionate. I'm lucky enough to be a reasonably high earner but wouldn't dream of shelling that out every month on a car lease.

[Bear]

In one month, that would pay for THREE of my car acquisitions in the last month. Admittedly one of those was stupidly cheap and two are yet to happen, but the spirit is there.

[MarvinsMom]

yes, over the years i've been unfortunate to drive an e21, e30, e36,and e46 300 ones, and an e28 (that was a fancy m something one), an e34, e39 (i think) 500 one.

 

not driven a convertable one or one of the really big saloons or suv ones either.

 

but in all cases i came away thinking that i do not believe/understand/get the hype.

 

i though they were bland, uncomfortable to sit in, unpleasant to look at and just not very nice to drive.

[cort16]

 

1500 a month is a lot unless you can afford it in which case it isn't .

[Jim Bell]

A mortgage at 1500 a month is unthinkable in terms of my life. Spending that to borrow a car is hillarious. Best of luck to him, and I bet he lives with his mam.

[cort16]

That guy on wheeler dealers effectively paid them 4 grand in labour to fix his s2000. He probably could have had it fixed at a Lamborghini franchise dealer and Would have been cheaper.

[fred]

Fickle finger of fate has just fingered me right up the Bum hole - applauding my battered old Foresters 400 mile round trip to pick my old folks up from Pendine Sands just a day ago or so

 

Had a phone call from said Old dear - ''Sorry Son, I think I have done something silly'' - ''Whats up Ma? You Ok?''

''Yes Son, but I have left my wallet with my debit card and credit cards in my coat'' - ''And whats the hassle Ma?''

''The coat is in the caravan at Pendiine Sands '' - ''Ah........................FUCK''

 

3.00pm tank the car back up - Monday 3PM is really a fuckstick time for a long range mission - in a battered Fozzer - 6 fucking hours later - ''Ma got your wallet, on my way back''

''Come quickly Fred (stepdad) has tripped over and cut his head and twisted his ankle ''

''Mother Im in bloody West Wales - Scooby Forester turbo may be swift of foot, but call a bloody ambulance ''

1.30AM get back to Wednesbury - call the old dear ''where are you now?'' - ''Sandwell AnE '' Fucksticks times 10 - get there - find said old dears

Fucking 4,00AM I get to bed - Fred is strapped up so he is fucked, mother needs a zimmer frame to move about - Looks like Im unofficial carer for both of em for a fair while - Hey Ho Least my old gal did 800 miles in 48 hours without a beat bless her.

 

You cant say no to your Ma !!! No matter !

[stuboy]

great the mondeo i shouldve scrapped now needs 2 front wheel bearings...

 

so been using gfs tino and borrowed r75 diesesl tonight

[Junkman]

The knob van is gone.

[Jim Bell]

I hope it was a planned gone and not taken by rag and bone men.

[Bear]

 

go over it any he will be paying bmw 80p per mile over, as i said, its not for me.

 

and bmws are complete and utter shit.

 

HFM!? FFS, they're usually 4-6ppm, occasionally 14ppm, but 80ppm? Has he contract hired a classic Z8 or M1?! Is he actually running the business from a nice padded cell?