How £ has being a FOG member saved you

[justdan]

Just reading dave1966's post and how FOG input has saved a garge bill , how much has fog £ has fog saved people !
I no its not about £ and we are all here with a common goal and interest that being our money pit Fronteras , good banter .
The mountain of knowledge in this forum is huge !
I can say FOG has saved me atleast

£1000

[4x4 bobby]

FOG must have saved me at least £3000 over the years.

[justdan]

night shift brain , Iv just reread my post ! Apologiese for the dog awful spelling and grammar gents ! Night shift brain stops me from being able to string a sentence together ( which is hard at the best of times )

[4x4 bobby]

Not a problem bud we all get like that on nights im on early's.

[Retro Pedro]

For me, the reality is priceless
How many of us are 'amateur' mechanics that can get our sockets and spanners out and have a go with the benefit of re-laid info from other members that have previously been there and have happily passed back info from their own learning curves.
Guess like all of us, apart from the quest of coming up with the 6 numbers, I for one wouldn't be able to have my 'Fronty hobby' if every job carried a garage bill. I'd be counting the thousands of £.
What forum life is all about - all made possible by the internet and good will.

[mickh]

This is without doubt the best forum I have ever joined. Had some good buys from members, loads of advice and met some of the gang for spanner parties and days out.
The important and easy thing to forget is the time and effort put in by the Admin team who do a great job without being too officious. There must also be various costs to running this and I have no idea how much that is or where they get the money from apart from donations from members, which is why we should all try and make a donation every now and then.

[yaki]

TBH FOG has cost me loadsa money, if I hadn't have joined and got into modifying and using my Frontera off road I would be loads better off


On the plus side I have had an immeasurable amount of fun and it has been worth every penny, there is loads of good advice on here and the help and support is invaluable

[BoxCleva]

If FOG wasn't around I wouldn't have owned numerous Fronty's and currently be driving a Trooper - Simple as that. The garage bills (or frustration) would have left me wandering away cursing the bloody things.
On the flip side I would hope that I have in turn helped people save money on their vehicle repair costs.

I'm a big believer in 'what goes around comes around'

[Mr Mud]

I never intended to buy a Fronty just a cheap car, but wound up buying one of these little beasts and now I'm glad I did, great forum, great people and I love my little truck, they kind of grow on you

Being a member of F.O.G. has saved me a fortune in garage bills, and all the accumulated info on the forum is invaluable, thanks to all you Foggies

[4x4 chrissy]

FOG has cost me my sanity over an over again, u lot drive me daft....... but I love you

[Lenny1969]

Cost is incalculable to me.

I've done alsorts to the 7 fronties i've had, all some form of mechanical or electrical fix, and the majority of info gleaned from here. Only exception over 16 years, well 2 really, was bleeding the fuel through on my 2.2 DTi which i was told couldn't be done. It could, it was easy, and i posted on here somewhere how i did it. Secondly was my electric windows fix because i was on holiday in Cornwall with no net access and had no option but to start stripping the car to find out where the control unit was.

Otherwise i've saved a small fortune, which is partially why im looking for another Fronty in a few weeks. Never let me down in a major way, unlike my 5 Discoveries that always went pop when i least needed them too.

[SPEEDBIRD 202]

Yep the old Forum has got me out of trouble quite a few times. The good thing about it is ... if you want, you con learn loads before you even have to make a purchase of a Fronty.

Are you going to get another 2.2 DTI - Lenny 1969 ???

[jellybaby]

saved me loads. but that saving was probaly lost due to spending on plasters

[Lenny1969]