360 Service History Help

[furrydice]

Hi all,

Just back from looking at a 99 360 F1 (private sale). The car is in very good condition and It's everything that I'm after. There is however a break in the service history as described below:

2 Owners - Sold second time through same Ferrai main dealer, all servicing done at main dealer.

new 9/99
6250 Service 10/00 @ 6K miles
Annual Service 10/01 @ 11K miles
Annual Service 11/02 @ 16K miles + Cambelts
....
Annual Service 2/05 @ 20K.

Basically the car has only done 4K miles in the last three years, but due to low milage the owner didn't bother having the annual service done in 03 & 04. I can appreciate the reasons behind this but would this put you guys off?

I also wanted to ask about the maintainance schedule - it seems to be in two parts in the book; annual and the 6250,18250 services - I assume that the latter are the major services. If this is the case should the service this year have been the 18250?

From the dates the cambelts are now due (event though only 4K miles on them).

The clutch was 60% worn at the last service (300 miles ago). Whats your gut feel as to how many more miles before this goes.

Has anyone who has bought private tried getting information about the car from the main dealer?

Any help would be appreciated.

Gary

[POORCARDEALER]

Car should have been "time" serviced when doing the low mileage per year, its not the end of the world if the car has a clean PPI now, but it is a useful haggling tool as it is worth a few bob less in my view

[rviant]

Also with a clutch 60% worn on an F1 it will be next to useless and need replacing straight away. But if it is a a good price why not. New clutch will cost around £1300

>> Edited by rviant on Tuesday 6th December 13:04