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My GTR just passed 100,000 miles last week, all driven by me.



While 100k is “just a number,” I thought some of you might be interested in how it’s holding up, how much it’s cost, what’s gone wrong, and what hasn’t.

I bought the car new in June 2009, a base spec in DMG from Middlehursts (non-dimming rearview mirror, non-bose hifi). The basic price was £52,345.60, including mats and reversing sensors.



I had the first few services done by Middlehursts and have used Litchfield's since the 4th one. I stuck with a 6000-mile service interval until it was three years old and then switched to 9000 miles.

The car is pretty unmodified, except I’ve run a generic stage 1, Cobb, access port map from the beginning, I had the later gearbox software installed when it became available, and I have had Andy’s Audio system fitted. It has the original exhaust.

The interior is holding up well, not creaking significantly, and the seat bolster is holding up well despite my lardy ass.

The exterior is mainly very good – I had a clear wrap applied to the entire front of the car the day after I picked it up – there are four areas where the paint is starting to bubble a little: the rearview mirror and around the door handle, both on the driver’s door; the passenger side mirror, and a little bit on the bottom lip of the boot.

Oil consumption has been pretty constant. When I had it serviced every 6000 miles, I never needed to add any between services; with the 9000-mile services, I need to add a litre between 6-7k miles after a service. This hasn’t changed with the higher mileage.

I bought it for my everyday car and used it for most journeys. I’ve never tracked it and never intended to mod it significantly. It does spend a lot of time on motorways, but I do live in the middle of nowhere, and the start and end of most long journeys are either 30 or 65 miles of A and B roads to/from the M6 or M42.

What’s gone wrong? The gearbox would only engage 1/3/5 and went into a limp home mode (50k miles), a power steering pipe sprung a leak (64k miles), a wheel bearing got very noisy (60k miles), the front speakers decomposed (from about 10 miles), and the multi-function display expired (90k miles, two months out of warranty).

The gearbox was cured by the fitting of the piston caps, the power steering pipe was replaced with a “pipe kit,” the wheel bearing was replaced, the speakers were upgraded, and the MFD was replaced with an exchange unit.

The disks and pads lasted 75k miles, and the battery began showing its age after five years.

I had the steering lock fixed under warranty, but it wasn’t causing a problem.

I haven’t had any water ingress to the headlights.

The service costs have been:
30 Oct 2009, 5985 miles, Middlehurst, £210.50
1 May 2010, 11696 miles, Middlehurst, £479.19
21 July 2010, 18418 miles, Middlehurst, £905.00
15 Oct 2010, 23740 miles, Litchfield, £327.12
24 Jan 2011, 28817 miles, Litchfield, £149.98
24 Aug 2011, 36279 miles, Litchfield, £764.35
22 Nov 2011, gearbox software upgrade, Litchfield, £300
3 Jan 2012, 42736 miles, Litchfield, £154.79
4 April 2012, 47049 miles, Litchfield, £511.49
18 July 2012, 50942 miles, Middlehurst, Gearbox Piston Cap Kit, £513.32
30 October 2012, 56604 miles (54k service), Litchfield, £485.64
2 July 2012, 64367 miles, Middlehurst, Power Steering hose, £455.12
19 July 2013 65561 miles (60k Service + wheel bearing), Litchfield, £1102.45
19 December 2013, 74812 miles (66k service + F/R disks and pads + replace rear anti-roll drop links) £2554.92
June 2014, Speakers replacement (along with Sub, Amp, Processor, Install, R35 audio) £1900
21 June 2014, 84802 miles (72k service + battery), Litchfield, £346.00
August 2014, MFD Display, Middlehurst, £980
1 Dec 2014, 94593 miles (78k service), Litchfield, £512.76

Tyre costs have been:
9 April 2010, Event Tyres, 2x Yokahama, £700.62
16 August 2010, Event Tyres, 4xYokahama, £930
November 2010, Tirerack (USA), 4x Blizzaks, £1350
28 April 2012, Event Tyres, 2x Yokahama, £613.28
3 July 2013 2013, Event Tyres, 2x Yokahama, £481.16
2013, eBay, 2x Goodyear, £300
October 2014, Tyreleader, 4x Dunlop Winter, £980

So how much has it all cost? – well, I may have missed a set of tyres along the way, but strictly speaking, half of the audio costs weren’t “necessary,” so I think that evens out.

Total Service costs: £12652

Total Tyre costs: £5355

To work out some interesting numbers, we need a valuation, so the current part-ex valuation from the Autotrader site with my reg and mileage is £30,750. Whilst some of you may disagree with this, I intend to keep it for a while longer and will update this post occasionally so that we can use this for comparison purposes in future posts.

So, having done 100,000 miles in 5 years and eight months, an average of 17647 miles/year:

Total service, maintenance and tyre costs: £18007.

Original Cost: £52,345. Current part-ex value: £30,750. Total Depreciation: £21595

Total annual costs, including maintenance, repairs, tyres and depreciation: £6988, or 39.6p per mile

Guy
 
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#11 ·
Agreed bud, it's an excellent informative real life high distance road use post, thanks guyblue

What a fantastic post!
So informative, I plan to keep my r35 for a good few years, it's just too much fun on the loud pedal, , I do a fair few motorway miles as well.
 
#239 ·
Make me laugh people try and buy cars with less than 30k on as they think its going to blow up.
Look after the car and service it and it will do high mileage with no issues
Wicked thread,, I just bought a 2014 GTR,, I’m planning on keeping ,, it’s probably my last car I’m buying,, so lots of maintaining I’ll be doing ,, so this thread will help me out ,, I’m only at the 2nd page I got to start reading
 
#12 ·
Matty it was June 2008!

So mine has only 31K, job changed so I didn't do the mileage

2 batteries
similar TM problem but a clean up fixed that
few other well know issues but nothing to bad except bits badly fitted parts

and mine is 4.25 ish
 
#13 ·
Excellent post!

I wanted to buy a car with under 30k if possible but mostly because I had re sale in mind as I tend to only keep any toy for a year. Ended up doing a deal on 38k car which has been well maintained by Litchfields, this post gives confidence they can last if looked after.
 
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#16 ·
As someone who doesn't own one of these, this makes me confused

75k miles on the brakes...when some of you state that brakes need to be changed every 15-20k

Also tyres are stated as needing to be changed every 8-12k

I understand OP has a lot of motorway miles, but still

???
 
#19 · (Edited)
Treg is very correct. Can be big differences on consumables depending on how a car is used. I did a front set of pads in 1.5 years and don't track it but do drive in a progressive manner.

OP, what a fantastic thread mate. Thanks for taking the time to share. Gives me great confidence as I intend on keeping mine for a long time.
 
#21 · (Edited)
I have never kept a car for more than 2 years, but what else is there that offers the same as a GTR ?? For the BMW fan boys as there are a few here, please don't say an M car !! :chuckle:
The only other car that seems to offer remotely the same performance and value is the new Corvette (flame suit on!) and I can't see that ever having the steering wheel on the correct side !
 
#29 ·
Very useful write up, thanks for posting.

Like others, mine is a keeper. Now in my 5th year and just brought it out of it's Carcoon today. Having been driving an Audi A2 (yep, you read it right) and a Hilux for the last five months, it feels something special to be driving the GT-R again - felt like a bloody harsh ride though! :)
 
#30 ·
Bell Housing - yes, forgot that one, went about the same time as the wheel bearing, so about 65k miles. Replaced with OEM part under warranty (so no paperwork, which is why I forgot it!) New part seems to be holding up OK.

"Beans?" - whenever an appropriate situation arises....
 
#33 ·
TWO at nearly 100k?? superb! lets see the odometer :cool:
 
#38 · (Edited)
My GTR has just passed 100,000 miles last week, all of them driven by me.

/snip/

Guy

Hi Guy,

What a fantastic post. Thank you for taking the time to do so!

Really useful information in here, especially for people looking to buy used cars with higher mileage.

I have also had my GTR from new since June 2009, but covered a mere 55,000 miles. Like you, mainly motorway mileage as an everyday car for commuting, but mixed with use of a sensible family car at the weekends (are Audi S4's sensible?).

I am pleased to report similar impressive reliability, with only the audio head unit and some LEDs in the instrument cluster failing, both of which were replaced under warranty.

For me though, it is the fact that after nearly 6 years of ownership I still don't want to replace it. I have never kept any of my previous cars for more than 3 years...and that includes the likes of a UK R34 GTR and a 911 Turbo (both of which were fantastic cars) - but nothing (within a reasonable budget) has tempted me to replace the GTR.

I'm looking forward to many future enjoyable miles in mine, and wish you the same in yours.

Ben.
 
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