ianboom Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Thought I'd add this so somebody else thinking of buying a Zed can see how much it can potentially cost. I'm really fussy and generally use genuine parts, so some jobs were a bit OTT! All work was carried out by myself (except the wife helped me bleed the clutch/brakes) on my drive with normal tools, a pair of low ramps and some axle stands. Bought car '54 plate in blade silver £5400 Took it for an MOT on the way home £42 Repaired the clicking rear axle ebay £6.70 for grease Trim clips for battery cover and undertray ebay £2.79 Genuine oil filter, sump plug washer, brake fluid 1 litre from a contact at a Renault dealer which now deals with Nissan too! £13.72 delivered Motul eco-energy oil 5 litres from Opie £25.15 delivered Genuine gearbox oil and drain plug washer £35.07 delivered Brembo front pads ebay £30 delivered Aux and a/c belt ebay £23.98 delivered Stanless M6 screws and washers for undertray fixings ebay £5.59 Rivnuts to repair undertray fixing ebay £1.99 Tyres front ZE914 2off from tyreleader £198.18 delivered Tyre fitting etc £35.00 Front wheel tracking £22.50 Total, approx £450 plus I've just taxed it for £280 so £730!! Take the MOT, tax and tyres off (inc fitting) and that's £150, I haven't fitted the pads yet so £120 to give the car a major service-not bad. The plugs need doing in 8 months and I may replace the diff oil and coolant. Ian. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsybriggs1 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Welcome to zed owner ship :-), what I do is if anything needs replacing I go for up grade parts or performance past Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4510 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Nice little write up, should be helpful for a few people thinking about converting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIXXERUK Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 good write up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Just wait till Zeditis kicks in, lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evest Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Quite right to focus on the bits that needed servicing, but what about the cost of all the Meguirs/Autoglym/Dodo Juice/etc...that adds up to a fair bit!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianboom Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 Washed the car once since i bought it, polished half of it with a bit of auto glym and then had a beer. I'm not much of a detailer! I work for Tesco as a maintenance engineer and have to park on the customer car park (which is why i didn't buy a mint car) and found if my car's dirty, nobody parks near it lol! In comparison, my wife's Clio 197 does 29mpg on super compared to the zed's 21mpg (both around town). Servicing parts are very similar, tax is £260, conti 5 tyres £126 a corner fitted. Ian. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdotc Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Nice write up, it'll definitely help someone out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R35LEE Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Bodykit and massive wheels next? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren350 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Owned my 2004 GT now for about a month and only spent about £100 or so. Mostly on cleaning products and some carbon vinyl. Oh and the £150 for 6 months tax lol Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arran Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 £760 this month wish my months were that cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grundy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 £760 this month wish my months were that cheap! Snap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianboom Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 £760 this month wish my months were that cheap! Snap Is that running costs or mods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grundy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 £760 this month wish my months were that cheap! Snap Is that running costs or mods? Mods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arran Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Running costs is petrol only tbh and the rest is mods and maintenance while something is out already. Check out my build thread dude all in there Im weeeeeeeell into the ££££s after a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arran Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Nothing really goes wrong that's why *touches wood* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ostego Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) 53 plate 350GT : £7,800 Service & coolant change : £350 Parts identified during service required : £450 Labour to fit parts £250 Tax : £280 Insurance : £710 Total after 2 months : £7.8k for the car, £2,040 to get it all in order ....... Projecting a further couple hundred when the MOT is due in April, and then another £1,000 for the year once the zeditis takes it's hold in my brain, already have plans for £350 of that budget. I used to complain when a service on my old hyundai cost me over £150...... now nothing phases me, anything less than 4 figures is a bargain I have realized! Edited February 20, 2014 by ostego 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 This is going to be scary.... Within the first few months... 04 plate 350Z - £5,900 Insurance - £700 4 kumho ku39 tyres - £550 Break pads all round + fitting - £200 Side light cover - £29 Exedy clutch and fly plus fitting - £950 Tax - £150 Fuel (estimate) - £1000 thats over three and a half grand!!! brb off to buy a corsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Wait until you get stuck on Zeditis.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevoD Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 thats cheap compared with an ol 'S' body Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 First few months for me was: New rear tyres New exhaust Goodbye £1600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianboom Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 The idea was to show how cheaply they can be maintained! Ostego, you not got any mechanically minded friends? I don't want to upset any zed indies, but servicing the zed is easier than my wife's Clio 197! My insurance is due in two weeks, £255, my old Clio 200 was £80 more. Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbitstew Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 The idea was to show how cheaply they can be maintained! Ostego, you not got any mechanically minded friends? I don't want to upset any zed indies, but servicing the zed is easier than my wife's Clio 197! My insurance is due in two weeks, £255, my old Clio 200 was £80 more. Ian. Whilst servicing is easy on the zed, I found the biggest costs were things like new set of tyres (nearly £700), brake pads (£250 - me fitting them myself), and insurance (£900+ for a 40+ year old with 20 years ncb). Servicing parts came to something like £60 which if i did myself saved me about £80 over what the dealer wanted in labour for the service, so servicing was probably the smallest outlay for me. Outside of those bits and £450 of fuel every month, the biggest cost by far for me was depreciation of £5k per year. Still, best thing I found to do was to work it all out on a month-by-month spreadsheet so you dont end up with any hidden costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KUGT4 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 nada for first year - new tyres/disk/pads all round on purchase... ...then BAM - £800 - tyres all round other then that quite pleased - just the tax/insurance/fuel, disks/pads still meaty and no mot advisories minimal maintanance, reliable jap muscle car - lovin it LOT better exp than previous car.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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