Hi. I am just after a price on the part number (circled in the image, attached to this thread). I know the cost of the motors and various pumps, etc, but I can't seem to find a price for this particular part. Any list of prices of the main components in the roof structure and electrics would also be most welcome. Many thanks Image Unavailable, Please Login
Item 6 is a little screw quoted as £ 4.79 plus vat on the Eurospares site Ferrari California - Electrical Capote: Moving Parts: Page 074 | Order Online Eurospares To which I suggest you go to price your shopping list Note that availability is not guaranteed
Thanks. I was actually talking about the big, main part. The actual arm. I can't seem to find a price for it anywhere! :-(
It looks like the arm is not a separate spare part but a complete roof Ferrari California - Electrical Capote: Structure: Page 075 | Order Online Eurospares..
Cheers. I thought this same thing, but I've seen other parts from that picture, on sale. The motor at the bottom for example. Oh well, I'll have to keep digging. Just really, really curious to fin out the costs of all the main parts.
The cost on that must be terrifying. Is your roof damaged? Have you tried some of the wrecking yards to see if it can be taken off a wrecked California?
Thanks for your concern. Thankfully no, my roof is fine. On a very, very rare occasion, as the back window comes up on the opening phase, it gets stuck (after opening 6 inches), so I have to close it, then try and open it again, which works. I don't know why it does it, but it seems to be have to overcome a stiff phase (like it's catching on something). Hence why I was looking at all the roof parts cost. It's still under warranty but I'm due to renew that soon, so I'm just thinking of what to do. The whole roof structure is £10k, but it's the individual parts I'm more interested in. Motors/pumps, switches , etc.
This is an example of what happens on the very, very odd occasion: https://youtu.be/fTPZ0fL0L1Y Notice how he has to shut the roof and restart the opening process.
Could be a sensor ... thinking part of the top is in an "implausible" position so stopping the process to avoid damaging anything. The sensors are soldered into the wiring harness.
Thanks for that. Can it really be just a sensor? Would it not be doing it all the time? It's probably happened 4 times in the last 3 months. The rear window panel initially moves for a split second, then moves again. It's like it's two stages, but they're so close together, it's hard to see. Have a look at the video again and when the roof opens properly, take a look at where the roof got stuck in the first place and you'll see what I mean. Does you roof start off moving in one smooth action, or do they all do that? 😁
Yes, problems with the sensors can drive you crazy because they are intermittent and hard to reproduce at the dealer. I have not seen a problem like yours specifically but anything that happens occasionally with the roof behaving normally the rest of the time points to a sensor issue, not a mechanical issue, at least in my mind, because if it were a mechanical issue it should be broken and stay broken. The sensors are simple Hall sensors that detect motion but they are soldered into the harness, so if it's a weak solder joint the jostling caused by the roof going into motion could make it fail intermittently -- or at least that's my theory on it. It could be the module that controls the roof. It could be a hydraulic fluid leak in on of the struts, although I would think they would have seen that when they looked it over. It could be an issue with the battery. Something may be misaligned. Could be a lot of things ... this is why I think the extended warranties are a good idea. My top has been up and down at least 100 times since my sensor issue was sorted out last year, with no problems, but it took a few visits and some aggravation to get it fixed. YMMV ...
Thanks for this. It's really helpful and throws up some valid points! 👍🏻👍🏻
