This Is The TRUTH About Owning A Bugatti

I'm trying hard to get a Bugatti Veyron. I remember sitting in the car with my wife when I was 26 and saying, "You know what I said when I'm 30." I'm going to have a Bugatti Veyron or a Pagani and, um, it was both cars and when I was 28 I had a Veyron and when I was 32 I had both, so, it's what tickles your pants. It's fair play here, man, that's impressive, what do you prefer in Pagani or Bugatti? I just did an article on coach because they're doing an article on Bugatti and what it's really like to own a Bugatti and I had a great time. times in my Bugatti and I loved having it, I mean, so far, the experiences I had in that car completely supersede the experiences I had in the Pagani, maybe for different reasons, maybe I was a little younger and a little more on I love cars or that specific car, um, but you know, I've put 16,000 miles on my Veyron, which is a lot of miles to put on a Veyron, um, you know, I just stayed in the gym.

I used to take it to Mark. suspenseful if I needed a sandwich, you know, that was that, that was my car, you know, when I wasn't out seeing clients, I was going back and forth to wherever I was going in that car, the service bills got a little scary, um and I was Starting to get a little scary and I think the only thing holding the cars back is maintenance. Know. I think if car maintenance cost half as much, the price would be double. You know, they say average. A Bugatti owner owns 32 cars, two boats and a plane, that's the average Bugatti owner, that's crazy, yeah you said they're scary, tell me a typical gay bill for a service and then something that It's pretty scary, okay, so don't go swimming. and not get wet So when you buy one of these cars you know it's not a surprise you know what you're in for so an annual service is I think 18,000 plus vat for an oil change um if you need a spark plug . change it too you can put another 10,000 on it and then if you need tires there are 27,000 set up then every third set of tires you have should have a new set of wheels at 55,000 euros a set

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is this, this is just for starters, but you know what I was getting into when I bought the car. um, I looked for a very, very good car before I bought it. I asked Bugatti to inspect it, so I knew there would be no surprises. I knew this was the script for next year. I need to get through so much year after so much, you know. I know what to expect from the straw that broke the camel's back after putting 16,000 miles on it and the good thing about my car is that I used it so everything stayed lubricated, nothing, no pipes ran dry, no cracks there.

There were no leaks, you know, I was very lucky with my car and they tell you we wish everyone used their car like you because we don't, you don't have a problem, you know, you hear stories about people who had to replace it. turbos and engine services and things like that, I mean, it could run into the hundreds of thousands. I mean, that's scary, but in my personal experience I told this story to Walter Car the other day, so my car went in for service while I. I left it at the service center which is in Acton North London um the switch that makes the um the mirrors the outside mirrors were fine it worked everything works the mirrors are fine um but yeah I really had OCD and you know if I put my finger on it , I could toggle it a little bit and it had a little bit of play, I mean, like half a million play, like it was nothing, but it just aggravated me, so I told the service advisor to give me a Please, when you service the car, just take a look at that switch because it might need a washer or an adjustment or something I don't know, so he said, "Yeah, okay, Carl, we'll look at it and see." Well we'll send you a quote, send me a quote, okay, later that day they emailed me and the email was for the quote for nine and a half thousand pounds plus that, so it's like anything.

I get a bill or like anything in business, um, I mean justification. I can justify to you why you should pay me 2.6 million for a LaFerrari, okay, so if someone can justify to me why that change to adjust it is going to cost nine. Fifteen hundred more than I will pay it, but you have to justify it to me, so my words to the service advisor were: how to justify it, why is it like this? Well, Carl, you need, you need a new door card, you need a new switch, you need a new motor, you need a new glass mirror.

I'm like no, no, I don't need any of this, like everything is fine, you wouldn't have noticed unless I told you, it's just because it's my car. I saw it so I'm not going to pay that's ridiculous leave it so a client of mine who makes all the carbon fiber components for Formula One cars also has a Bugatti Veyron he's one of those people like he works in his own car, so I told him and he said, look next time you pass it, put it down. I will take a look. He's an engineer by profession, so I took the car down and left him with it for two days and came to London for maybe a weekend.

Out of London, the car is ready, I'm going to pick it up, so I'm thinking, I don't know, I don't know how much he's going to charge me here, you know he's a customer, he's a friend, but he still has business to earn. time is still something that had to be worked on a little bit so you know how much it's going to cost so I got there I talked to the switch it was okay how much do I owe you oh he said there were parts and labor and it was complicated, so he said, well, we'll get to the point, he said, uh, well, the pieces I couldn't just buy one, I had to buy five because that's what you get in a package, you get five, so I can only, I know that We only used one but I had to buy five um and it took me 20 minutes to make it and the pieces for five of them were a pound 89.

So next time you'll get the first round in the pub and I was like, "You're serious, he He says, yes, when we removed it, the washer you needed was from a Volkswagen Transporter. I went on eBay, the same part number, the same VW stamp, the same part on eBay. I had to buy five, one pound, 89, so it took me 20 minutes to remove the mirror strip the door card never touched the mirror strip the door card put another washer and replaced it there ready they wanted nine and a half grand for that on top of that they did it.

I know, I said, okay, I won't play this game anymore, I know you. I'm not saying this, but without realizing it we're saying gay overload oh no, I'm definitely saying no, I'm definitely saying that, but it's there, it's your USB, it's what they do, you know the people who own these cars. who make fun of someone who looks at them knowing that you have money to spend because you drive a Bugatti, that's why people buy them