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Disaster · 07-21-2016, 08:15 AM

It depends on how much preventative maintenance you want to do and how much aesthetic fixes. I put about $4,000 into my car shortly after I bought it. Most of that was preventative maintenance and improving old stuff to get it up to snuff. Only three things were actually failures, the top mechanism, starter (starting to grind) the AOS (and even the AOS wasn't a clear need.)

Tires: $700 13 and 9 years old, front and back.
Maintenance: $1500 Oil, filters, belt, AOS, bulbs, oil analysis
Broken: $500, Top, Starter (grinding)
Aesthetics: $400 Climate screen, shifter boot, visor mirrors, paintless dent, touchup paint
Improvements: $900. Short shifter, Double Din GPS radio, rear speakers, tethered gas cap

P.S. This is the cost of doing ALL the work myself and buying used parts off Ebay. You will pay considerably more if you go to an independent mechanic and even more than that if you go to a dealership. For example someone posted a similar top/clamshell failure as mine and it cost them $3000 at the dealership to fix and repair the clamshell.

07-21-2016, 08:15 AM	#10
Disaster Registered User Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Detroit Posts: 211	It depends on how much preventative maintenance you want to do and how much aesthetic fixes. I put about $4,000 into my car shortly after I bought it. Most of that was preventative maintenance and improving old stuff to get it up to snuff. Only three things were actually failures, the top mechanism, starter (starting to grind) the AOS (and even the AOS wasn't a clear need.) Tires: $700 13 and 9 years old, front and back. Maintenance: $1500 Oil, filters, belt, AOS, bulbs, oil analysis Broken: $500, Top, Starter (grinding) Aesthetics: $400 Climate screen, shifter boot, visor mirrors, paintless dent, touchup paint Improvements: $900. Short shifter, Double Din GPS radio, rear speakers, tethered gas cap P.S. This is the cost of doing ALL the work myself and buying used parts off Ebay. You will pay considerably more if you go to an independent mechanic and even more than that if you go to a dealership. For example someone posted a similar top/clamshell failure as mine and it cost them $3000 at the dealership to fix and repair the clamshell. Last edited by Disaster; 07-21-2016 at 08:39 AM.