458 The Grigio Has Landed

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Good news, bad news, good news
The truck was actually able to fit down my street so I didn’t have to meet him at the front of the neighborhood and I got to see my new toy being unloaded from the stacker. Very cool stuff!

Sadly the rear ramp wasn’t aligned and I heard a bad sound as the diffuser bottomed out. But that’s why the delivery guy drives it off the truck and why they have insurance.

The good news is this is the perfect opportunity to upgrade to a carbon one, which leaves me with at least 3 choices with wildly different prices:
Competition Motorsport’s C3 comes in the least expensive, Capristo the most expensive, and Fabspeed in the middle. Anyone had a chance to compare these?

CMS touts the ability to replace individual fins if they get damaged, but Fabspeed is a sponsor so I have a soft spot for them.

 

It's really hard to get a full day of work at home done with this thing sitting in the garage. I did manage to combine both for a little while, taking a conference call over bluetooth and messing with the dash settings. I'll have to figure out the mapping of the A B C D settings on the exhaust remote.

 

2013. Unfortunately will probably develop sticky buttons in warm, humid Texas but apparently there's a fix for that. I can't believe how big the frunk is. I think it has more cargo space than my wife's Z3.

 

Silver painted. Standard black leather seats, full electric. It's always possible they had been changed as the tires are new. Has less than 7k miles, but not for long
Came with the 30-pin to lightning adapter so I now have an unopened extra if anyone needs one.

 

Thanks! The only color I wanted more was Blu Corsa, which isn't a choice on a 458. I considered getting something more common like white or black and getting it wrapped, but I'm not totally confident in how good it would look. I'll probably end up doing it on a Tesla next year since they just don't have many choices.

 

If you don't have the 30-pin in the glovebox already, the lightning adaptor won't do you any good. I'm guessing there are some threads that talk about what it takes to get it installed and have the car programmed to use it. If it were a Ford or a BMW I would know but it's pretty much all new to me. Unless I'm going for a longer drive I don't usually bother plugging in and just listen to the car unless somebody calls. (And then I usually can't remember how to answer through the car controls)
I actually just got it back from the dealer Friday. Because the transportation company wanted to pay the dealer directly, I didn't bother with trying to get a CF diffuser instead, and so it took a while to get the parts in and painted. I was surprised they don't just come flat black but I guess there are variants where they are some other color.

 

I think most people really just want bluetooth audio, but the 458 wasn't ready for that leap of technology, even though it was years after other cars that had it. So even with the 30-pin, you access your music through the "ipod" menu, and phone calls come through bluetooth. The stock sound is pretty poor so you've got to be on a pretty long boring drive before it's worth the pain. The first owner of mine had put in a lightning extension cable, which was nicely convenient, but made it even flakier. I'm guessing a 30-pin extension would be more likely to work correctly, but I've found the phone sits happily upside down in the cupholder with the short cable.