F355 purchase

[jy]

I'm looking to buy a 355. I have a lot o f experience with berlinettas and spiders but I've never bought one. Can anyone offer me buying advice? Haven't considered a GTS - any views?

[Jonny5]

Try the archive, it's been covered a few times.

I had a GTS - i'd say avoid. Mine squeeked, rattled and leaked. Much prefer the lines of the Berlinetta, but with summer coming up.... Get the spider.

[spice]

GTS best looking of 355 with top off and with top on, best of both worlds, grand tourer spider, mine dont leak or rattle, bit of a performance getting roof behind seats , i have carbon race seats maybe easier with standard seat ? last gts ferrari made go for it.

[murph7355]

spice said:

GTS best looking of 355 with top off and with top on, best of both worlds, grand tourer spider, mine dont leak or rattle, bit of a performance getting roof behind seats , i have carbon race seats maybe easier with standard seat ? last gts ferrari made go for it.

If it weren't for the oh so visible seals behind the screen rail and before the rear window roll bar, I'd agree.

And the t-bar thing inside the roof.

If it's colour coded/non-vinyl like.



>> Edited by murph7355 on Tuesday 12th April 23:04

[jvaughan]

GTS gets my vote.... Almost bought one, but then the house came along, and the family stuff is kinda taking over.

also looked at the F355 F1, but didnt like the gearbox (no clutch, paddleshift). I was at LM 2 years ago, and watched one try and do a 300 point turn in the road due to a road closure. The rest of the cars simply spun the rear wheels and turned on the spot. The F355 took ages ... Fiddly gears and crap turning circle.

also, slightly more storage space in the GTS .. only slightly !

>> Edited by jvaughan on Friday 15th April 10:36

[james p]

murph7355 said:

If it weren't for the oh so visible seals behind the screen rail and before the rear window roll bar, I'd agree. And the t-bar thing inside the roof. If it's colour coded/non-vinyl like. >> Edited by murph7355 on Tuesday 12th April 23:04

While these matter, I just don't think they outweigh the GTS benefits. [I am tempted to get it colour coded though]

A bigger issue is trying to put the roof back single handed in the rain!

James


>> Edited by james p on Friday 15th April 12:04

[Monge2]

jvaughan.....I almost won the lottery on Wed's and almost bought a Mig last week. Does that help? didn't think so.

jy....summer's coming, get a manual spider and make sure it's got a good warranty. Oh, and a Tubi or Capristo!!
Verdi's are good place to look.

[jy]

Thanks everyone. Have decided to go for 355 manual spider. Can't decide if I should fit Tubi or Capristo though? Views on that would be appreciated. Also, if I put 20k miles on a 40k car, am I commiting financial suicide?

[maranellouk]

Capristo

[steve f]

capristo

[stuh]

Capristo

[BCA]

Anyone know where theres a reasonably long clip of a 355 with a capristo - IIRC I downloaded a video that you made "stuh" but it wasnt really long enough for me to judge it properly....


any chance of a hoon with the camera running a little more?? infact - any chance of a hoon, I'll do my best to keep up...

[GI Jnr]

I had a GTS.

Best of both worlds I reckon:

Had the roofline of the Berlinetta and the open top of the Spider. With the colourcoded roof, it was beautiful...

No leaks either.
Tuan

[EK993]

I have a decent clip, got it of a F-Chat thread... just searched but can't find the original thread to link to.

Is taken from outside the car, which is owned by GrahamS on F-Chat.

Is about 12mb - if someone want to host it I can send it via email.

[stuh]

BCA said:

Anyone know where theres a reasonably long clip of a 355 with a capristo - IIRC I downloaded a video that you made "stuh" but it wasnt really long enough for me to judge it properly.... any chance of a hoon with the camera running a little more?? infact - any chance of a hoon, I'll do my best to keep up...

Why not come along on the Northants run? You can passenger in the spider and get the full-on roof down effect

That clip was a bit pants as the compressed .AVI kills the sound quality.

[BCA]

stuh said:

BCA said: Anyone know where theres a reasonably long clip of a 355 with a capristo - IIRC I downloaded a video that you made "stuh" but it wasnt really long enough for me to judge it properly.... any chance of a hoon with the camera running a little more?? infact - any chance of a hoon, I'll do my best to keep up... Why not come along on the Northants run? You can passenger in the spider and get the full-on roof down effect

Sounds good, would love to - when is it?? (uni dates might mean I cant have fun )

[stuh]

BCA said:

stuh said: BCA said: Anyone know where theres a reasonably long clip of a 355 with a capristo - IIRC I downloaded a video that you made "stuh" but it wasnt really long enough for me to judge it properly.... any chance of a hoon with the camera running a little more?? infact - any chance of a hoon, I'll do my best to keep up... www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=168334&f=65&h=0 Why not come along on the Northants run? You can passenger in the spider and get the full-on roof down effect Sounds good, would love to - when is it?? (uni dates might mean I cant have fun )

8th May - only criteria is that passengers must be less than 6 stone


>> Edited by stuh on Wednesday 4th May 02:52

[BCA]

BAH!!! Cant make it im afraid Would love to join you at another in future though (start my 4month holiday on May 23rd!!)

6 stone??? Im skinny enough as it is and I weight 10.8!!

Thanks for the offer all the same,
Ben CA

[ade.]

jy said:

Thanks everyone. Have decided to go for 355 manual spider. Can't decide if I should fit Tubi or Capristo though? Views on that would be appreciated. Also, if I put 20k miles on a 40k car, am I commiting financial suicide?

Go for either - but make sure you go De-catted !

A 40K mile car will be already one of the cheaper cars available, so adding another 20K miles will be OK. It means you will be selling at by far the 'cheapest' price when the time comes , and that attracts attention and lots of buyers.

Buy it and drive it properly, thats what I reckon.

[kenyon]

Capristo
Sounds the best on 355 , where the tubi decatted on 348 sounds the best for that model..