Epic!!!
Just read the entire post. Awesome and thanks for the excellent pics (by all posters!). What happened to the titanium center caps? The titanium matched the wheels, but I like the yellow for the overall look. Seems you decided on the yellow after all?
Now that the centers are yellow as they should, you can paint the calipers in a proper colour: black, grey, silver...
Hi Andy, just catching up with this thread and your beautiful 458! Don't mind me asking, but who did the PPF for you? Was it Topaz or someone else?
Ta! Just about to have mine done by them as well, and it's good to hear your install continues to survive well.
Small end of summer update - car is still awesome Main event this year was a driving tour in the south west of Ireland, and the car performed brilliantly. I snapped this picture early morning in the services car park on the journey there, and I think the nice light shows the paint colour pretty well. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Andy - Thank you for sharing your ownership experience with the Forum members and for the many beautiful photos of your magnificent 458 Italia. - Dave
I've been enjoying my time in the garage over the past few weeks, doing the winter cleanup and applying a couple more layers of sealant. Really pleased with the results - the paint protection film is still basically perfect as far as I can tell, almost two years on. There are a couple of small stone chips, but nothing bad enough to warrant replacing the film in those areas yet. The best thing for me about it is the "self healing" aspect - I'm careful with my washing methods, but not over the top paranoid, so I don't doubt that I'd be creating a small amount of swirling on paint. On PPF it's just gone after a few hours in the sun, and it's back to the perfect paint finish "locked in" under the film. (I am using the car during the winter, as I can't bear the thought of it being locked away for months, but only on dry days when road salt is a non-issue.) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not much of an update, other than up-to-date photos for those that may not have seen this thread before - I still have the car, still love it, still use it (up to 25k miles now, apparently "very high" mileage for this kind of car!), still love cleaning it (the pictures are after the winter freshen up), and it's still perfectly reliable. I have again wondered about a change (McLaren 720S - much faster, but poorer in all other respects for me, Aventador S - spectacular, but I don't fit!), but ultimately realised I'm lucky enough to own the car of my dreams, so would like to keep it for as long as I possibly can. I did do one small "upgrade", seen in the first picture - the carbon "LaFerrari style bridge" for the centre console, which I was lucky enough to pick up on eBay for a (relative) bargain. It's an official Ferrari part, and I was brave/stupid enough to fit it myself, luckily with no unhappy ending. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Your Fuoco 458 looks incredible. I had ordered F1 Rosso 2007 on my 2011 458 (which I still have). It is bicolor (black roof) I completely understand how difficult and how dependent the color shows based on atmospheric conditions, photographer, camera, etc. I have about 11K miles on it with PPF. The paint and PPF still looks amazing. I decided to order Fuoco on an incoming F8 spider. I saw it on a LaFerrari at my dealership. Wow. Should be an interesting contract to the argento pista I have. Congratulations and enjoy.
Man, I still prefer 458 to 488 in the looks department. So elegant and so sporty at the same time. PF design indeed is timeless. The pista look is also very awesome in its own sense.
Thanks for the tip, but I actually find the opposite, at least when it comes to photography - in real life I agree with you to some extent, but, with my limited camera skills anyway, under direct sun the paint tends to “bleach out” a little, and look more like standard Rosso Corsa.
There’s never been an instance where I mistake Fuoco for Rosso Corsa. It has much more depth than RC in sunlight. Image Unavailable, Please Login