2015 458 Spyder New Owner

Hello Everyone.

I just purchased a 2015 458 Spyder, 11800 miles here in Texas . I was a Porsche owner for the last 7 years. Although Porsche makes amazing cars, the 458 is on a whole different level.
I was considering getting the extended power warranty, especially because of potential DCT issues. Any 2015 owners with issues? Thank you all.

 

pics?

 

I owned a 2015 458 Spider that had over 10,000 miles on it when I traded it in. No DCT problems at all.

 

Congrats
I have yet to meet someone with a 458 that had the DCT issues. I ask almost every Fcar owner I meet about issues they have with their car to gain insight on how they handled it and associated costs, now the battery is a different story.

Enjoy in good health

 

Thanks for the response guys. Here is a pic as requested. Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Big congrats on your new ride. Looks clean. As a first time Ferrari owner, you can consider getting 1 year of extended warranty for peace of mind. After 1 year of getting comfortable with Ferrari ownership, you can decide whether to extend warranty coverage. In 2 years of ownership, I had a dead OEM battery within the first 3 months and failure of the roof closing mechanism at 1.5 years both replaced under warranty. The roof closing part had to be sourced from Italy and took 3 weeks to arrive. It would have been a very costly repair outside of warranty. I am unsure whether the folding roof is covered under power warranty, be sure to check the fine print.

 

Thanks for the info. Greatly appreciated.

 

I just bought a 2010 with 28K miles and when i called few service dept's to ask about the DCT issues the consensues was 1- No such thing as "early cars" had more DCT issues than later cars. 2- The ones that did have DCT issues it happened early in the cars life and was a very limited issue, not wide spread and exaggerated as how we see on forums sometimes.

Drive it & enjoy it...and don't take any advice from me, i haven't even owned mine 24 hours yet lol

 

Congratulations mate , enjoy in good health and thinking always positively !

 

Thank you!!!

 

Thank you. Enjoy your ride as well!!!

 

Congrats! Coming up to one year of ownership on a 2013 Spider. Didn’t opt for the warranty, no problems.

get out and enjoy, ain’t nothin’ like a drop top if you have the weather for it!

 

awesome car! enjoy it!

 

Thanks you!!

 

Congrats

By the way, here we drive Spiders. Spyders belong over there, you know, that "other" Italian manufacture whos name I dare not mention

Welcome to Ferrarichat

 

15 Italia no issues what so ever. Enjoy your new ride.

 

Hahaha thx.

 

Congrats! Black Ferrari's are the prettiest & fastest!!

 

Thank you!!!

 

beautiful pick up.. good luck with her and enjoy it...

 

That's odd. Looks more like a drop-top sportscar to me than an F150. Oh well

 

Thank you!

 

Beautiful, black is the new red. Let’s see some interior shots too. All the best man , Kirk.

 

Nice choice of color - you'll love it - you'll have to get used to the spelling its "Spider" for Ferraris and "Spyder" for Porsches - I have owned my car since new and have close to 30K on it. I never had a problem with the car, however I changed the battery at 4 years as a precaution just like I change tires every 3 years, but the only problem I had was with the external battery conditioner - it failed and produced a couple of electrical system warning messages after I have replaced the battery 6 months prior.. The Ferrari supplied conditioner is made by CTEK and I bought the MXS 5.0 with the Ferrari adapter and its working fine. I would suggest you check the temperature of your charger if the car has had a battery failure because most likely it was caused by the conditioner drawing down the battery and it will do it again.

Good Luck and Enjoy

 

Congrats best car I have ever owned! 2013 spider here 3 years and no issues!