Need FF help

I can understand why they will resist a new hood; I recall reading somewhere that an FF hood costs $8500 or so.

You will probably get a lot of advice to hold out for a new hood. But it is not so simple. Best of all would be a paintless repair if that can be done. Next best would be a repaint of the hood if the dent is too deep for a paintless fix (remember that a new hood also has to be painted to match). And also keep in mind that the hood is enormous and that it has been fitted to your car at the factory. It's gap lines will be small and uniform. It is not at all clear that a new hood would do as well; each fitment is different.

You could adopt the strategy of letting them go ahead with the repair and not signing off on anything until it is done and inspected by you or your representative expert. If it doesn't meet with your approval go for the new one.

 

I would guess that a replacement hood would depreciate a car as well. Would a prospective buyer of your car be more concerned with a repaired hood vs a replacement hood? Or another way to put it, a buyer assumes the damage was minor enough to only repaint the hood (if paintless repair is not possible) vs the damage was major enough to replace the hood.

 

Hell, brand new cars arrive damaged all the time. They are repaired and there is no record. No big deal.

 

What he said. brand new Ferraris are damaged all the time during shipping. They repaint them at right at the dock with no record whatsoever. Dealers frequently have to sand and buff poor paint jobs.

 

Its not really much different than if you had driven the car for a couple years/20K miles and decided it was time to re-spray the hood to remedy the inevitable road rash. Most important thing is to be sure the shop doing the work is a certified Ferrari body repair shop, which if you're working with your local Ferrari dealer, it will no doubt be. Don't let the insurance company talk you into going with "their" shop and insist on using the repair shop recommended and used by your dealer.

Can't imagine why this would reduce resale value. OK, so that's a rhetorical statement. I know some still insist a car is less valuable if any repair has been done to it. But the other side of the coin here is most FF owners I've encountered are people who use the FF as a car, not an asset they hope will appreciate, so we expect the car will experience issues along the way, and if made right at a certified shop, are as good as ever, if often not better. Odds are good the hood will come out looking better than it was from the factory. A body shop may decide that the best way to blend color, especially if its one of the more complex paint colors, is to re-spray the whole front end; now its all better than new.

 

Perfect!

 

A good body shop will have painters that are miles better than what the factory have.

Just go to car shows and look at all the custom painted cars, those paint are FLAWLESS.

 

Depreciation, try driving the FF for a couple years and hang on to your shorts for its depreciation! I wouldn't worry at all about trying to get it fixed. All the time you spend fighting this you are not driving your FF. I'd want to be paid for all the FUN you are not having without the car

 

And owning an FF may be cheaper than owning the S&P 500.