Whats your most money "invested" in a vehicle after purchase?

[rusty ol ranger]

Buy a Yamaha.

Eh. I dont know. Ill pry buy another polaris.

 

[Dirtman]

Polaris is goes vroom...

 

[ZMan]

I've owned my Ranger for almost 18 years, painted it once in high school, did a moderate restoration on it 10-13 years ago. A lot of modifications over the years. Haven't added it all up but I have kept all the receipts lol, if I had to guess I've put $5-6k into it on top of the purchase price. I also hit a dog with it back on Memorial Day and received an insurance check for more than I originally paid for the truck in 2002.

 

[b1pig]

I never want to know what I invest in any vehicle. You almost never see a return on that money, other than your own satisfaction.

However. I wanted a 4wd Grand Cherokee back in 1999/2000 time frame. I could not find one that I could afford. So. I bought a 2wd, 4.0 1998 ZJ. I then converted it to 4wd using take-off parts from others on the cheap. I think I had $1100 total in the conversion parts. Thats everything, fully operational and stock appearing.

But in not too much time, it was up to 5.5" lift, long arms, 33's, lockers front and rear and killing Moab.

 

[JohnnyO]

1999 Dodge Neon. Bought it used and cheap after I opened another franchise of my now-former company in the next county. This was when gas was like $4 a gallon and I was spending $150 a week in gas for the Sport Trac going back and forth. Within 6 months I had spent about $2000 on repairs including a new transmission. I paid $1300 for the car.

 

[Ranger850]

1999 Dodge Neon. Bought it used and cheap. I paid $1300 for the car.

FIFY

 

[scotts90ranger]

I'm a cheapskate, so I procrastinate until I can work on my terms mostly...

The '90 Ranger has the most money in it, but I haven't kept track and haven't had any other mechanics (excluding friends helping me) work on it other than tires and windshields in 20 years... considering the transition the thing has made that isn't too bad.

The most work and money something needed that I got is my '00 Explorer, I got it for $800 with known stripped spider gears in the LS, that fix was free, fixed the next day, drove it around the block (I'm in the country, 7 mile block) and suddenly lost reverse, $900 in parts later (after a year of sitting, and that's friend discount on parts) it's back on the road but I lost the title I had for it ($40 the day I bought it) so had to pay like $80 for a express lost title (out of state of course) then another $200 or so getting plates in Oregon. Then there's drivetrain mods, threw in a 4406 transfer case and Expedition drive shafts at the tune of another couple hundred... then after a year of driving the trans went again and the one thing we didn't replace the first time went out, $200 more for a good used planetary assembly... Of course there's other nickel and dime stuff that I'm not mentioning...

The '97 F350 hasn't been too bad, it does need like $3000 in parts to get to where it needs to be though... injectors, tuner, turbo, high pressure oil pump and the rest of the parts to get an intercooler in it all adds up...

The '97 Ranger is cake in comparison, all included I think I have $1000 in it, and getting 23mpg from 16mpg in the Explorer it'll pay for itself in about 7 months just in fuel I'm pretty sure...

 

[jayrhacker]

I bought a $200 1991 ranger rollover. After over $8,000.00 I still can't drive it on the road. And I don't think I've put on more than 100 miles on it in 10 years. But its a lot of fun when I race it.

Not gonna lie, had me in the first half.