Hello friends. After leaving the car at Ferrari and looking at the inoperative points of the car they tell me that I have to change the air compressor. They charge 6480€. They also tell me that I have to change the front suspension arm which they charge me 4009€. Also a rear tie rod worth 1936€. Can you advise me please if there is any other way to make these repairs less expensive? I’m really thinking I bought the mistake car. Is it possible to have these breakdowns with only 50,000 kms? Thank you very much for your help. I add some pics Ferrari send me. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This thread in the Ferrari Parts & Collectibles forum shares a source selling 612 compressors for $489 USD. If you're comfortable doing ship-in-a-bottle auto repairs, replacement is a DIY job. Here's a photo from page 139 of the workshop manual showing the AC compressor's location on the engine: Image Unavailable, Please Login If only these components were as accessible in the engine bay as in this photo. They are not! I am guessing your shop shared the photo of the oily-looking alternator as proof that the AC compressor is leaking. The R134a refrigerant includes a small amount of oil, to lubricate the compressor. When refrigerant leaks, it usually deposits this kind of oily residue on anything in proximity to the leak. If you don't want to do this job yourself, I expect there's a shop somewhere near you that would take the job. AC systems are fairly generic from one brand to another. Hill Engineering makes rear tie rod assemblies for £360.00. This is an easy DIY repair. The control arm issue is vague. It is very common to have to replace the ball joints that Ferrari uses, but the control arm itself should not fail absent a major impact with a curb or the like. Again, Hill Engineering is the go-to source for the ball joints: £125.00 for either the lower or the upper.
Access to the compressor is easy because they are changing the belt. Hello Thank you for your answer. It helps me a lot to make decisions. Spending 6000€ on the compressor is a lot of money for me. Between the belt, and everything they are proposing to me is an expense of 22000€. The only good thing is that my car doesn't have the service book, and with that repair at Ferrari it would be a car that gives me confidence the day I want to sell it.
Changing the accessory drive belts on the 612 is a surprisingly difficult job. This is due to the plastic covers Ferrari chose to place over the two belts. In the workshop manual photo I included in my previous post you can see one of the two covers. The difficulty arises from the small clearance between the covers and a structural crossmember running across the front of the engine. When I changed my belts I was unable to remove the covers; the best I could do was unscrew them and move them around as needed to remove the old belts and install the new. These covers serve no useful purpose; I would guess 999 of 1,000 models do not have covers over their serpentine belts. But these are not Ferraris, and Ferrari I guess has got to be different.
"They also tell me that I have to change the front suspension arm which they charge me 4009€. Also a rear tie rod worth 1936€" This is crazy talk. The wishbone almost certainly just needs a new ball joint - nobody replaces the whole thing. Ball joints are a few hundred euros each. The Rear tie rod is available on its own for about 500 euros. https://www.berlinettaengineering.com/collections/ferrari-612-all-parts https://www.superformance.co.uk/612/suspension.html
