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How much do you spend a year?
Just curious, how much does it cost on average, to keep an older diesel on the road? I just bought a new (1983) one and have already committed to a pretty expensive brake job (deal with the missus, I don't mess with brakes). What do you guys spend (not counting own labor)?
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Do most repairs on your own and you wont be spending much....
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The "refurb" items on mine were new brake calipers/rotors/hoses, driver seat spring, and a steering box, plus a couple of bushings. The W123 really is a renewable resource. Great cars. Recurring upkeep for me is about $400 a year. That's 20K miles a year of hard daily driving with premiums like synthetic oil. Keep 'em up and they are inexpensive and pyramid-reliable cars. Get lazy on maintenance and they will ambush you.
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Well for "refurbishing" a tired SDL figure $5k-$7k for the first year. I'll get back to you next year. I am guessing (and hoping) that next year will be in the $3k-$5k range and after that $1,500 a year give or take. More some years.
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Too much
But I want it 100% all the time.
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Figure with any car, you will spend $1000-$1500 in the first year of ownership, i always seem to
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I find that it's either very little or a whole lot. The last two years I didn't spend more than a couple hundred dollars on my car but this year I've spent a couple thousand replacing the radiator, belts, timing chain, some front end components, new rotors and pads, ignition switch, primer pump, shift linkage bushings, fuel return lines, flex disc and center support bushing on the drive shaft. Talk about overwhelming...
Scott
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The SDL has been a little pricey this year and it looks like I will be going out at $2192 including the en-route parts from Fastlane. Last year was only $497. Through the total 18 years of this SDL (using PO's B & R) it totals $26.7K or $2,200 a year. Contrasting my 86 Isuzu T/D which I am the original owner and has 10K less on the clock I have spent $1675 in repairs or $93 a year cost of ownership. I did not factor tires, lights, oil (expendables) into the cost. We don't even want to talk about the Pontiac or Mazda
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I sure spent a lot less before I started reading this forum!!!! Now I am fixing things that I previously did not even know existed.
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How true! My vac pump was a perfect example of this, I had no idea that it could destroy the engine until I read about it here.
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Priceless
With all the fun i'm having....
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Well guess the first year I owned my SDL i spent about $800. I started reading this forum and listening to my indy guy. I've spent about $2800. this year and still counting. It sure runs and rides better though, thanks to repairs and preventative maintenance. Just need that heater to work properly and i'll be getting somewhere...at least warmer..
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In the first year....about 3k on mine....it needed a timing chain, water pump....transmission seals....valve adjustment.....and some other items....this year I had to get tires.....but otherwise only about $600 or so, on non critical things.
On the 83....we've only had it 3.5 months...but, it has only needed an alternator, and the belts. Tomorrow it gets tires too....the old ones are going flat after a couple days....so the time has come total spent as of now $400-500ish, with tires....$800ish....it had a ton done prior to purchase, so it shouldn't need much for quite a while.
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For the '80 300Sd I bought in '90, about $3000 in 15 years and ~150,000 miles for repairs. I don't call oil changes, batterys and tires as repairs.
Gee that's about $200 per year or 1/2 a new car payment for one month. Who says MB cost more to own? Of course I do all the repairs my self. The most expensive repair was replacing the transmission. BUT, that was my fault because I connected the tri lead to the vacuum valve wrong. P E H |
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My family has owned our 1983 since new and I've had it for about 6 years and while I don't keep service records (my tech has them on his computer if I ever need them) or monitor the expenses too closely, it feels like we average about $500-$600 a year. I don't do any of my own work on it anymore and those figures include oil changes and tire costs spread out over time. I've also had to pay for misc. repairs like suspension work, new batteries, new water pump, routine brake work, etc. Not too bad I think.
Alex
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