RE: Ferrari recalls V8 engines...

[CarsGoVroom]

Stubbs said:

There's one to add to the PFMEA

Ha! Love it.

[br d]

Captain Muppet said:

br d said:

When I first got the 430 there was a recall over the manifolds, they apologised profusely and offered a very nice Merc as a stand in. They said it was a problem that wouldn't manifest itself for many thousands of miles but they wanted it sorted now, I think it came to a few grand. After I'd had it back a couple of weeks they rang back and said they weren't happy with the redesign and wanted to do another refit, so they took it away and did it all again. I didn't notice any difference either before ar after.
They picked up and returned the car on each occasion fully valeted and with little Ferrari gifts left on the passenger seat.

Can't knock it really.

Edited by br d on Wednesday 9th May 19:10

You can't knock it? They took your car away because they built it wrong twice.

Sorry, you're right. They should build every car to absolute perfection. There should be no possible chance of any error or failure amongst the thousands of high tolerance, intricately manufactured moving parts and electronics.
And if the infinitely impossible were to occur and something went wrong then they should either just leave you to it or at most grudgingly acknowledge the issue and make a half arsed attempt to put it right while treating you with contempt.

[BigTom85]

br d said:

Sorry, you're right. They should build every car to absolute perfection. There should be no possible chance of any error or failure amongst the thousands of high tolerance, intricately manufactured moving parts and electronics.
And if the infinitely impossible were to occur and something went wrong then they should either just leave you to it or at most grudgingly acknowledge the issue and make a half arsed attempt to put it right while treating you with contempt.

That about the gist of it!

[isaldiri]

The Wookie said:

That's funny, my old man's last Spider the Manifolds disintegrated after 6,000 miles, no courtesy car was offered, and they had the car for 6 weeks while the dealer argued with Ferrari about how much of the engine they were going to rebuild as somehow bits of the Catalyst had been sucked back into the engine, damaging the valves and the crowns of the pistons.

They eventually offered us a new car and promptly stitched us up on the sale of the old one...

Have to admit I was particularly unimpressed by the 430 manifold issue. When I had one a few years ago, I dropped by the dealership for a check on something else and was told the car had to be kept 'for a while' as they weren't happy with the manifolds. 'For a while' ended up as... almost 7 weeks as the factory in Italy had just shut for their summer holiday and had no parts available despite it being known to be an issue with the 430.

[fuchsiasteve]

br d said:

Sorry, you're right. They should build every car to absolute perfection. There should be no possible chance of any error or failure amongst the thousands of high tolerance, intricately manufactured moving parts and electronics.

It would be a Honda then

Part of the joy of ferrari ownership is paying a fortune for a car that goes very quick and breaks regularly. But god they sound good!