Ferrari 360 Spider Advice

Look for another one. Way to many known problems with this one. Sounds like a money pit! A car fax means very little as many cars are repaired under the radar.

 

There's a lot of unknowns here, but the car isn't the perfect example of the 360 Spider. Can you share the color combination? Do you know the completeness of the service records?

With that many miles and those problems, I wouldn't personally pay any more than $62,500 USD, but that's just my opinion. This is principally due to the top problems and the gear change noise.

As always, if you're serious, get a good PPI!

 

I heard that the dealer charges $40,000 to diagnose, replace the top! Run!!!

 

I would run from the car as well. Don't let emotion cloud your judgment I did that once and it cost me about $44k on a Older F car that I ended up selling for $30k. There is no such thing as a cheap Ferrari because you end up putting the saved money and then some in non perfect cars with deferred work or unseen issues. If this car has these problems already just think what is lurking.

Note on the top it is made by Mercedes Benz and a very common issue is the piston in the rear engine compartment that is pressed into the tubing leaks out fluid over time making the top inoperable. The fix for this is to refill the fluid reservoir 2 x per year or replace the whole hydraulic line. the part is about $1100 but takes 8 to 10 hours of work to get it out to replace and bleed.

 

any problems are fixable but when you said roof, I switched off - you should too. Theres many better examples out there, do yourself a favour and leave this one alone.