Being a little bored over the weekend I had a look at the cost of mechanically owning my P38 over the last eleven years.
So far it's up to about £9100 and in all fairness that includes,
Top hat short engine including new oil pump
Replacement Bristols Auto Gearbox and associated cooler and pipe work
Virtually a complete brake overhaul including washer upgrade to the modulator (parts ordered ready for next week lol)
ACT Carbon fibre inlet trumpets
Tornado chip ECU
Light mist respray
Both front wheel bearings
Fuse box
120 Amp Alternator
Starter motor
Mild steel exhaust
Nanocom
Engine Radiator
General Grabber AT tyres
Viscous coupling (transfer box)
1000CA Battery
Poly bushes (blue)

Then there's the smaller things like,
Water pump and viscous fan
MAF
Mud Pod and engine gauges
Off side Headlight
Fuel Pump
Wheels powder coating
Etc

So it's looking like with the purchase price of £5500, I'm into the car for about £15000.
Which looking at the parts installed gives me a relatively "new" P38.
Happy days !!

Runs off quickly to find the biggest piece of wood I can find !!!

Bargain!
When I bought my VSE, it came with receipts for almost everything it had ever had spent on it
Around £25,000 (excluding purchase price(s) of course. :)

I've not really tracked the costs properly but I'll do my best from memory!

Purchase: £3,200
Timing cover gasket replacement: £100
Full service (all fluids): £300
Radiator: £100
BECM Unlock: £100
Front air springs: £100
Drivers door latch: £70
Radio/amp replacement: £300
Exhaust (inc. cats): £330
Smashed tail light: £20
Offroad wheels/tyres: £350
2x road tyres: £250

So, £5,220 so far without counting fuel.

I've done about 18K miles since I've owned it, at an average of around 17mpg. At today's average UK petrol price of £120.5 that's £5,800!

So, around £11K in around 3 years so far. Eep!

LPG kit is booked in for later this month, around £1,600.

On the (ever expanding) list of things still to do:
Replace a couple of leaking coolant hoses (have parts, lack time)
Find/fix the leak letting rain water in through the passenger side heater ducts
Find/fix the water leak in to the spare wheel well
Repair various bits of interior trim with snapped screw tabs (they all rattle over bumps, very annoying!)
Replace sagging headlining
Clean rear sunroof drain tubes
Replace HEVAC blend motor
Replace various worn out rubber suspension bushes
Replace shock absorbers (vehicle is very harsh over bumps, certainly not a "magic carpet ride")

I must make sure my girlfriend doesn't stumble across this post...

Hadn't looked at the fuel cost but I've kept a record from 04/2014.
Ave mpg 14.9 at a cost of £4198.80 over 15,824 miles.
I'm not going to add the costs of MOT, Tax and Insurance lol !

I think this sort of thread should banned 😁

All I know is I bought mine 15 years ago for £15K, it's now probably worth £1.5K gives a lot less than 15mpg and it cost me my sanity......

I bought mine in November 2010 for £900 and immediately spent £100 on a pair of rear air springs and about £150 to skim the heads and replace both head gaskets. Since then the main cost has been £2600 for the top hatted motor and everything else as it's needed it but I've not kept any records. I suspect I've probably spent somewhere in the region of £2500-3000 in bits and pieces over the years. So at a maximum something in the region of £6750 in seven and a half years.

Fuel is a different matter though. Since buying it, I've covered 148,000 miles (now at 353,000) so with a fill of LPG every 180 miles on average at a cost of about £35 a fill, that's £28,777 on fuel (and a massive 822 times standing in the cold with my hand on the button!) not to mention the £40 ish of petrol a year too. Bloody good job I'm not running it on petrol!!

I’ve spent about $1300 on “sorry I’ve been spending so much time on the Range Rovers” dinners for my wife since I bought my first P38.......