456 Reliability ?? Your Opinions requested !!!
Discussion
As a family, we have owned 3 456s I can only speak as I have found. As with all warranties the Formula Ferrari warranty has a degree of flexibility and the amount of work done will vary dependent on the dealerships willingness to help you.
Joel, if you want a full break down of the costs and problems (and resolution thereof) throughout our period of ownership feel free to email me (or perhaps better, mrsd, my mother, through our profiles.)
>> Edited by jaydee on Saturday 9th August 22:51
Joel, if you want a full break down of the costs and problems (and resolution thereof) throughout our period of ownership feel free to email me (or perhaps better, mrsd, my mother, through our profiles.)
>> Edited by jaydee on Saturday 9th August 22:51
well I am of course honoured that you do at least believe me!
I suppose whatever one has is the best! and youve had 3 so your bound to be right of course!
As for Bull in a china shop antics, well its a great pity you have lowered what was an interesting debate into that kind of standard.
I suppose whatever one has is the best! and youve had 3 so your bound to be right of course!
As for Bull in a china shop antics, well its a great pity you have lowered what was an interesting debate into that kind of standard.
I apologise, that was inappropriate and uncalled for, and now it's gone. What I was trying to convey (ineptly) was that the attitude a dealership takes towards warranty depends heavily upon their willingness to help a)their customers in general b) a particular person and that I can only speak as I find of our experience over the period of ownership of 3 of these (excellent) cars and of the particular dealership with whom we deal.
As a neutral bystander reading this thread I cant understand how this has turned into a arguement
think the points are as follows
1. we have established what goes wrong
2.what upgrades there are to prevent reoccurance
3. Check if they have been done
4. I very much doubt any upgrades at any (great) extra cost will be looked at by the warranty company, they will mearly repair failed item
5. Its not a cheap business keeping one on the road, but i think we guessed that!
think that about sums things up!
think the points are as follows
1. we have established what goes wrong
2.what upgrades there are to prevent reoccurance
3. Check if they have been done
4. I very much doubt any upgrades at any (great) extra cost will be looked at by the warranty company, they will mearly repair failed item
5. Its not a cheap business keeping one on the road, but i think we guessed that!
think that about sums things up!
Hot summer nights perhaps lotusnobles said:
1. we have established what goes wrong
Check, although it is a Ferrari, so we've probably missed something
lotusnobles said:
2.what upgrades there are to prevent reoccurance
Yep.
lotusnobles said:
3. Check if they have been done
lotusnobles said:
4. I very much doubt any upgrades at any (great) extra cost will be looked at by the warranty company, they will mearly repair failed item
Well, kind of. Obviously no-one's going to get the CF bonnet or the M dashboard mods for free, but there are areas where the fix does produce what could be regarded as an upgrade, simply because the original parts are not directly replaced, but rather replaced by the current part which has had the benefit of development.
lotusnobles said:
5. Its not a cheap business keeping one on the road, but i think we guessed that!
You're not wrong there. Buy one now ! Avoid £###,### in depreciation
But remember it was still a near £200k car new. Sorry to have aggravated (caused?) an argument, peace and love to all
Let's not end up like the Tamora, T350 bunch 
(sold the first one at a profit though 
)
How very odd...uonlyhave2seats said:
Mine is a very late 98 car, it is deffo 20000 km or every year.
Seems like this is another reason to buy a late 456.
Sure does, particularly as the price diff. is relatively small (
) uonlyhave2seats said:
Will you buy a car from me now?
Nope...
...but only 'coz I'm skint
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