What do you guys think about this 612?

Find another car with less miles and less headaches. Not worth it in my opinion ..

 

If you were going to keep it I would say it may very well be a good buy. However, since you want to sell it in a year or so, you may as well look for one that doesn't need anything.

(Just copy and paste the link)

 

You would be looking at $16k for repair and maintenance under best case scenario for the issues you described, even assuming for argument sake this was not an accident car.

Keep searching, there are bound to be much better ones out there.

 

When? And did that owner keep the car and continue to drive it regularly? A blip on the carfax isn't the end of the world.

Neither is service. The nice thing about doing substantial service to a car is you know it was done right and that it's 0 time, great feeling, and you get some of it coming back at resale. I had to do about $9k on my 612 at purchase.

Compare cost of ownership over the time you expect to own it with another target car. Service is a fun experience, to me anyway. We all pay for it, in the purchase price or while we own 'em, or it comes out of our resale value. I'd rather enjoy the process and know I'm driving a freshly up to date car.

 

Link please, so the car is recorded for posterity.

- go to the website
- copy the URL
- come back to this thread
- post quick reply
- paste the URL

Done, Son!

 

Got to be the gorgeous white OTO with yellow calipers listed well under market.

 

That's a nice looking 612. At the right price and for the right person, I suspect it would be a good deal.

 

I don't think it's worth it because....it has deferred maintenance issues. My experience is that even if you bought a pristine one owner car with full service history and no currently "open" issues, a bunch of issues will crop up. But, I never buy cars with CARFAX accident records. Even though as Bob says it might be fine.

 

shame about the issues because its a gorgeous car.

 

Someone will buy it and love it. But not at $110K

 

Beautiful 612. Personally, if I were seriously interested in the car, I'd request the actual records for the purported "accident" reported on the car fax. What was a front end damage claim might just be a relatively minor repainted bumper. Conversely. it could have been a major accident with a bent frame and a slew of replaced parts. Just saying that you really can't trust car fax to accurately report the specific damage the vehicle sustained. I also think, in general, that the car fax report is useless as many owners might have repaired a damaged vehicle and due to not making an insurance claim the repairs are never reported to car fax. A PPI should uncover prior work done but I'd be willing to bet that countless cars have work done that are never uncovered with a PPI even when done by an authorized F car dealer. I also think the mileage makes one think the car could have been abused but we all know that isn't necessarily true. Many F cars have been hammered relentlessly on track days and then had their damaged diffusers replaced, the car detailed and some paint touched up before moving to their next owner. Just saying that if you like this 612 then dig deeper into the alleged prior accident. My 2 cents.

 

Gorgeous. But a buy and hold proposition...

 

Where's the link?

 

Thanks for the link, Dohangs. Beautiful car.

 

Definitely gone, off manheim as well. Interesting that there doesn't appear to be a single OTO on the market right now, at least not on cars.com or at auction. Hell, only a dozen total on cars.com, all early models.

EDIT: Seems there is actually one OTO. The low price threw me, higher mileage. http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/620750010/overview/

 

Bob- That is a lot of OTO for the money, assuming no unseen warts. About the same mileage as my 575M.

 

Yeah, no kidding, and the one Dohangs was eyeballing, I'm betting it went for under $100k. I know a lot of guys are afraid of stories and miles, but golly gee, sometimes the savings is worth the risk. After all, for us secondary owners, it's all about risk. The difference between us and people spending the same dough to buy a new SL63 or something is that we're willing to take some modicum of risk to drive the most exclusive, beautiful and revered cars in the world. Low production numbers mean greater risk of some one off catastrophic failure every so often, hell even the normal stuff is expensive. So when I see a car with a "story", or deferred maintenance, it doesn't frighten me. Just quantify it, what's it worth to you? Someone probably got this Bianco 612 OTO for under $100k. If I weren't driving a 599 now, I might have bought it, stories, miles and all. Hope to come across her one day or maybe see the new owner posting here soon.