Help from 430 owners: servicing/maintenance up to 30k

[mwstewart]

Hello all,
I'm going to look at several 430 Spiders over the weekend, all of which have covered between 20k and 30k miles. I've read plenty on common issues and what to look out for but the one thing I'm not quite sure of is what should have been done in terms of regular and scheduled maintenance to this mileage point.

If anyone could shed some light on this before the weekend it would be very much appreciated.

Mark

[mwstewart]

Thank you very much. The info above puts me in a much better position

[mwstewart]

Thanks all - deposit left today on a car with both annual and mileage based servicing. Truth be told I'm very excited.

giggle - Would you mind providing some detail on the warranty claims?

[mwstewart]

voicey said:

Welcome to the fold. Which car was it?

Thanks! Here's the spec (unsure what is standard and what isn't):

2006 F430 Spider
27,000 Miles
6 Speed Manual
Grigio Titanio paint
Rosso interior
Carbon Fibre Trim
Ferrari Stereo with a telephone module
Ferrari Crested Headrests

[mwstewart]

It is indeed; you're clearly very market-savvy

[mwstewart]

voicey said:

I follow the 430 market here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

And the 360 market here: http://aldousvoice.com/category/buying-and-selling...

I also collect pertinent info on 360 and F430's in my database. I don't have anything on that car other than it has been for sale since Jan. Interestingly, HWM have been sporadically advertising a car with the same spec but for less money (£59k) - I can't tell if it is the same car as there are no pics on the advert!

Very good You're quite right: they had two grey Spiders in stock since Jan; one had 24k but required a front end respray so I wasn't keen on that, but the one I have left a deposit on was first advertised at 63 before ending up at it's current price of 68,998. You will have noticed that the Spiders have gone up quite a few thousand since the start of the year - whether this be seasonal or due to us coming out of recession (a la housing market) I don't know, but I did get a little off of the asking price.

[mwstewart]

voicey said:

At least we get to drive our cars before winding the clock back. You tractor boys can't even seem to drive down the end of the road before crashing or catching fire.

That's the one. It was their originally advertised price before going to 'POA' on their own site. I used that ad as a bargaining point.

Plenty of banter here I see