Teenagers discussing 355 maintenance costs

This kid is a professional You Tuber - he probably makes a million a year

Nearly 300K subscribers...

I bet he is a member here too

 

A good bit of Eww-t00b hyperbole there but perhaps a reality check for those who want to buy a Ferrari and not maintain it themselves. I'd love to see a comparison of the actual cost of ownership of a 355 vs. a 458 once the 458 is out of warranty. Ferraris have always been spendy to keep but now that owners don't have the option of doing all of the work themselves ownership is gonna get spendier. I'm glad I remembered a long-time Ferrai owner's advice when I went shopping.

 

He is a member here.

As soon as he bought it, he needed a clutch which he was shocked about. That only leads me to believe he didn't do a PPI. So now he makes a video on how he spend an absurd amount of money on a car he just bought. When in reality, a good PPI would have spared him a lot of this.

 

Haven't seen that video, but have watched a few of the others while you-surfing Ferrari videos. The channel is pretty light on content and a depth of factual accuracy from the few I've stumbled onto.

 

seriously though who cares
if you buy a 355 for 60 and spend 40k its still well worth the money given how awesome of car it is. buying a car for 100k that doesnt need work is the same as buying one for 60 and spending 40k on it. much rather blow 100K on a 355 as opposed to a range rover, MB, or BMW etc

 

Great more Drama Queens is what the world needs

 

that video was a waste of brain cells ill never get back. is this for real?
OMG tires and brakes are so expensive? these guys cant be for real. who is their audience? high school kids who want to buy a ferrari on honda prices?

 

I think of it as - you either buy the used car and pay these maintenance costs or you buy the new car, get free maintenance but pay devaluation..

So.. just buy the car you really love

(If these are all the receipts, it's actually not that bad... we've all seen examples of cars with $60k or even $80k spent over 5-10 years periods)

 

******** that car goes into a shop they can just see $$$ because these idiots can't change their own oil.

Less talk about maintenance paperwork and the total money spent, and more talk about the actual maintenance preformed and maybe the shop that did this work, how in the **** does a car with a fresh engine out service all of the sudden have a valve guide issue that the owner could "feel" in less than 100 miles??


Clutch was checked good how did he burn it up in 5 miles and end up with a 7k bill? No actual breakdown of what all was done or what was actually wrong was it trippeseals or a leak.that toasted the clutch? Still a clutch swap is all I heard so a sensor, clutch and flywheel resurface for 7k? Screw that noise.


Lots of unanswered things here and only concentrating on the money spent, id rather see a real breakdown of the costs parts and labor seperated. Thats the learning curve these people need to learn.



All this video tells us is what happend to their car this is not normal at all.*


Also highschools need to get auto shop back in the mix.*


Whole video is a joke.

But nice plug for the signed posters...

 

Bwahahaha! So true, only this guy has figured out how to make being a drama queen into a profitable venture on Ew-t00b. Such are the times in which we live.

 

My opinion, they're idiots.

That car was a bit of a roach. You could tell it had been through hell and back. The seller put lipstick on it and they bought it.

It was on eBay for months on end at a price below market...and now they whine on YouTube about how much it costs to maintain when all of their issues would've been apparent with even a decent test drive let alone a thorough PPI.

Their videos are cringe worthy but hey they've got a following of teeny boppers and they've monetized it, so more power to them. In a world of women making centi-millions starting off from shi#y sex tapes, these guys aren't so bad.

 

They are not "self made". If you watch the video of "how he made his money" you can clearly see through the bull ****. They got their start from their parents and are trying to play it off as their own success to build a following.

Seems to be working...

 

Agreed that high schools need to bring back auto shop. Anyone else attend Mr. Charlesworth's class at Ramapo High? Good times.

Re: YouTubers income. The factor to consider here is views as opposed to subscribers. Other factors include the audience demo, skip-able video vs. non skip-able, seasonality (December is typically the highest month for advertiser costs, January is the lowest), mobile vs. desktop views, video length (more ads can be shown in longer videos), pricing model (CPM, CPC, CPCV, VCPCV) etc.

The JR Garage channel has roughly 24 million views. Accounting for the rev share with YouTube, content creators typically receive roughly $2 per 1,000 views (depending on the CPM charged to the advertiser and many other variables). My guess is that this channel has generated roughly $50K in earnings for these guys. I believe they made the majority of their money trading penny stocks and flipping cars.

Also worth noting, the majority of their audience is a younger demographic. Hence, video titles like "Don't buy a used Ferrari" are named accordingly to drive clicks / views (aka clickbait).

I applaud JR Garage for their entrepreneurial endeavors. However, this particular video did rub me the wrong way.

 

We clearly aren't their target audience, but one thing's for sure - they're making good dime off YouTube. Defo not buying that self made bs though.

 

^^^THIS!

 

saw that vid. it was a bit vague.

the only money they put into the car was the clutch and the capristo exhaust/test pipes.
the rest of the invoices they reviewed was previous owner.

but something was always fishy when the clutch died literally a few kms after rolling it off the truck at delivery. especially after all the 'maintenance' that was done prior.

i watch the channel to see what they're up to with the 355.
I beleive they bought Gothspeed exhaust ecu simulators and a set of bigdaddy spacers since they were having SDL and CEL issues with the test pipes etc.

they also bought a Gallardo Spider recently too.

 

He loves to show the sporty nature of the car... but I can't figure out why he drives his car around in comfort mode all the time

 

My 97 355 had $80k of service records when i bought it. These guys are looking to drive traffic and of course the cost to acquire vs cost to maintain has been a topic since the first high end car of the last century depreciated - but at macro level - the car can have it's issues as we all know. Where you take the car for service, which parts you use for replacement (oem vs. lower cost parts shared with other models or better engineered replacements), and of course how maintain and treat the car impact total cost of ownership. Mine has been great with maintenance and addressing things after frequent inspection.


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I do subscribe to these guys on YouTube. They got popular when they made a video about driving kids to school in a Dodge Viper. I saw when they first bought the 355 and it literally broken down within 5 miles of driving it. They sunk $6K plus into clutch system, which like someone mentioned above, that indicates that they didn't do a PPI. They acted shocked when they found out it needed repairs.

They also just bought a Gallardo...which the top broke shortly after they bought it. Maybe they like buying cars with issues and fixing them?!

One of them is still in high school and their target audience is in fact high school kids. Their first claim as "business men" was opening a lemonade stand as kids. That's great. And they claim to have started five successful businesses but have never said what they are. You would think they would be using YouTube to promote their businesses.

The car has a Capristo exhaust on it which sounds amazing! I will give them credit for that!

 

Latest venture is an exotic rental / exotic airport concierge / car storage operation with the above listed cars. However, the name is registered to their father's business, a cell phone and sim card rental operation, iirc. In touch USA or some such. According to reddit.

About Us ? Lusso Dream Cars

 

these kids are a joke......more $$ than sense.

SPOILED rich kids!!

 

You need about 1M subscribers to make about $10k a month.

 

A million a year from 300k subs? Maybe you were kidding but I so wish that were true...

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