Okay...these sharks suck up dollars like i never knew they could...

I buy a nice 88 928S4 in October, well maintained, and I still have had to invest heavily (I'm calling it an investment so I don't have to call it an expense).

I'm sure there are plenty of friends here that have spent or done more, but here goes (I'm trying to make myself feel better):

New tires;
High speed wheel balance
New black Lloyd mats with gold lettering (to contrast with the champagne interior), including cargo mat;
Professional detail and polish;
Champagne steering wheel and shifter (black w/ gold stitching);
Quick shifter ****(928 Motorsports);
Zimmermann drilled rotors;
Mintex pads;
Cleaned and painted calipers (Red);
Brushed aluminum lug nuts
Colored Crest wheel caps (Rennlister);
new drivers door seal installed (old one was torn)
Oil change;
New power steering resevoir and hoses, and fluid flush;
Brake fluid flush;
Coolant flush;
New timing belt, water pump, seals, rollers...the whole kitandkaboodle...;
New belly pan (finally go it installed TimDelarm);

To Do List:
tint side and rear windows;
have bent rear right rear wheel repaired (found during high speed balance);
replace carpet (install black carpet, remove champagne..haven't decided)

and finally....DRIVE THE DAMN THING

 

Sounds to me you are just doing what most of us are. Making it perfect.

Good work.

 

Rule #1: Save all your receipts to a folder, but NEVER add them up.

 

That list is a very inexpensive list, other than the rotors and leather which aren't necessary

 

Good idea to consider it an investment! There's no loss until you sell and then you just play dumb with the wife - "gosh honey, I had no idea that's all it'd be worth! And here I thought I was padding our retirement."

 

Good money, well spent! Mac

 

I'm no mechanic...so the timing belt/water pump thing was a lot (labor), the leather and rotors seemed cheap by comparison.....on the other hand I will absolutely not add up the receipts. Arghhhhhh.....

Heres to racking up some miles....

 

Bob...........be grateful you can drive her now..........those of us in the Great White Norh are still dealing w/ Ice and snow.

Drive her like she's stolen

 

I understand your desire for everything on that list, but frankly, I suspect you could have driven that thing for a year and not done any of it, and looked styling in the process.

 

What's the fun in that?

I love driving my cars, but the secondmost favorite thing to do is mess around with them in the garage.

 

Hey
(AKA 'Emoticon-Meister')

Sounds like Sharkey's 'almost tweaked' and ready for ya again!





Great work, Bob - now go enjoy the ride. . .

 

Thats not a list. That's like yearly maintenance. If you want to see a list, I could email my list to you although my service provider would charge me a lot extra for all the bandwidth the file would take up.

Drive it and have fun.

 

Not necessarily true, power steering and timing belt cover both were leaking, rear rotors and pads were goners....but you are right that a good portion of the list wasn't required and some of it is just normal maintenance, other stuff was bling....I'm not crying as much about the expense as I thought I would.

I have had quite a few different (sport/classic cars) and I like to get everything "just right", within reason! It's what I like to do.

 

Well, you started with a great car and now it's even better. I'm gonna move your comments from complainin' to braggin', and assume you will now be enjoying the hell out of one fine S4.

 

You mean "inexpensive" right?

Paul