Since my 355 rolled over 50k miles over the weekend....

[Mario149]

.... after clocking up nearly 1k miles on an epic Spa Classic trip, it's now (according to conventional Ferrari wisdom) worth about £8.50. Any offers?

[K50 DEL]

Might see my way clear to giving you a tenner for it as long as it's just had a full service and belts!

Let me know if you're interested lol

[Mario149]

K50 DEL said:

Might see my way clear to giving you a tenner for it as long as it's just had a full service and belts!

Let me know if you're interested lol

Hmm...I will have to go away and consider your offer

[RosCabezas]

I'd pay double!

[iandc]

Keep it and enjoy it - it's only just run in!!!

[Mario149]

iandc said:

Keep it and enjoy it - it's only just run in!!!

[JasonSF]

hehehehe. Mine has cleared 71k miles now. In a moment of madness last year I enquired about part-exchanging it and was offered a very generous £9.750 by the dealer. That was only assuming it was a real peach of a car as offer was over phone. He said it would drop to around £6,000 if it needed anything. Gotta love them eh.

[PAUL. S]

I am in the market for a leggy / well loved / over due service / damaged (mechanically or body wise) or even lhd 355 if anyones thinking of selling and dont want the hassle of dealing with joe public or giving it away to a dealer. Pm me please if you have one available.

Edited by PAUL. S on Tuesday 31st May 16:40

[xPOW]

mine's having it's cam service at the moment. Plus sorting various oil leaks (one of which contaminated the clutch, only 50% worn), so that needs replacing too.. £7k all in

[sa_20v]

I'd rather have a car which has been well driven and looked after than a low miler. There's quite a few supercars which have been left to rot in underground carparks, totally neglected with poor servicing, only occasionally taken out to their nearest Starbucks. Such owners aren't liable to have much mechanical sympathy either.

[jdw1234]

sa_20v said:

I'd rather have a car which has been well driven and looked after than a low miler.

I completely agree....


....until you have to sell it!!

[xPOW]

or even better, a well-maintained low-miler

[RevHappy]

xPOW said:

mine's having it's cam service at the moment. Plus sorting various oil leaks (one of which contaminated the clutch, only 50% worn), so that needs replacing too.. £7k all in

£7k
Yet another reason to keep to the newer stuff for now.

[Mario149]

xPOW said:

mine's having it's cam service at the moment. Plus sorting various oil leaks (one of which contaminated the clutch, only 50% worn), so that needs replacing too.. £7k all in

Christ on a bicycle, where are you having that done?

[xPOW]

Mario149 said:

Christ on a bicycle, where are you having that done?

main dealer. may have been a mistake financially but good if I come to sell as it's got 12 years of all main dealer with only 14k on clock..

started with annual service and cam service and 2 yearly fluid change. I knew I had 2 small leaks which I delayed from last year until the full engine out this time.. one more serious and the clutch getting knackered is unfortunate!.

Not all service though as having it detailed, and wheels refurbed and dash leather sorted (as splitting by airbag as they do). Still, £7k

[iandc]

xPOW said:

main dealer. may have been a mistake financially but good if I come to sell as it's got 12 years of all main dealer with only 14k on clock..

started with annual service and cam service and 2 yearly fluid change. I knew I had 2 small leaks which I delayed from last year until the full engine out this time.. one more serious and the clutch getting knackered is unfortunate!.

Not all service though as having it detailed, and wheels refurbed and dash leather sorted (as splitting by airbag as they do). Still, £7k

Cheaper to throw it in the bin and buy a new one for £8.50 with 2 year warantee!!!

[Mario149]

xPOW said:

Mario149 said:

Christ on a bicycle, where are you having that done?

main dealer. may have been a mistake financially but good if I come to sell as it's got 12 years of all main dealer with only 14k on clock..

started with annual service and cam service and 2 yearly fluid change. I knew I had 2 small leaks which I delayed from last year until the full engine out this time.. one more serious and the clutch getting knackered is unfortunate!.

Not all service though as having it detailed, and wheels refurbed and dash leather sorted (as splitting by airbag as they do). Still, £7k

After the car is out of warranty, servicing at a main dealer is never going to make financial sense if looking at the value it may "add" to the car IMO. To keep a 355 in excellent condition nowadays is going to cost £3k+ per year now at least (for those that don't believe, look at my running costs on PH and the few other people that post everything up, warts and all....I believe a lot of people delude themselves that they can/do spend less, or actually do spend less, but I wouldn't want their car after they'd finished with it). Add minimum 50% on top of that if getting it done at a main dealer. That's at least £1.5k per annum extra cost to keep the official Ferrari stamp in the book rather than having a Rardley/Autofficina/Shiltech one (which arguably adds *more* value to the car to people who know what they're on about). Consider that over a period of 5 years, and there is no way you're going to see that £7.5k back as a premium if you sell it

[Mario149]

iandc said:

Cheaper to throw it in the bin and buy a new one for £8.50 with 2 year warantee!!!

[JasonSF]

They just get better with use. Here's mine with the most miles and the most BHP. I have also seen one of my old 355s for sale 3 years after I sold it with half the miles on it when I sold it and full stamped main dealer history. Go figure. At least the high milers have not been clocked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUc16cLtjXo

[jdw1234]

Mario149 said:

xPOW said:

Mario149 said:

Christ on a bicycle, where are you having that done?

main dealer. may have been a mistake financially but good if I come to sell as it's got 12 years of all main dealer with only 14k on clock..

started with annual service and cam service and 2 yearly fluid change. I knew I had 2 small leaks which I delayed from last year until the full engine out this time.. one more serious and the clutch getting knackered is unfortunate!.

Not all service though as having it detailed, and wheels refurbed and dash leather sorted (as splitting by airbag as they do). Still, £7k

After the car is out of warranty, servicing at a main dealer is never going to make financial sense if looking at the value it may "add" to the car IMO. To keep a 355 in excellent condition nowadays is going to cost £3k+ per year now at least (for those that don't believe, look at my running costs on PH and the few other people that post everything up, warts and all....I believe a lot of people delude themselves that they can/do spend less, or actually do spend less, but I wouldn't want their car after they'd finished with it). Add minimum 50% on top of that if getting it done at a main dealer. That's at least £1.5k per annum extra cost to keep the official Ferrari stamp in the book rather than having a Rardley/Autofficina/Shiltech one (which arguably adds *more* value to the car to people who know what they're on about). Consider that over a period of 5 years, and there is no way you're going to see that £7.5k back as a premium if you sell it

Mario149...its Mr POW!...look at his numberplates and they way he worries about the headlight alignments on his Landy...there can be no reasoning with a man with such levels of obsessive cumpulsive auto obsession.

I bet he asks the Main Dealer to line the stamps up with a ruler after each service!!!


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