How concerned should I be?

1 - Ferrari are a car manufacturer based in Italy - they are not doing the PPI or the service - an unrelated dealer is

2 - surely there are service records to cover the period which give the mileage

3 - you have agreed a price based on all the information - it is likely the 50167 should read 50617 - if you intend to drive the car the difference is minimal - now is not the time to renegotiate - just think of how long it would take and how much it would cost to source another 'extremely nice example'

 

Please post the VIN... someone may know about the car specifically.

Mike

 

Small milage discrepancies are very common on carfax/auto checks. Would t be a deal breaker for me, especially with service history.

 

This says the car has basically not been driven in 5 years.

 

Any way to contact the owner who had it between 2011-2015 ?
Who never drove it, it is getting harder and harder to get this info from anybody. I had one dealer tell me they were required by law to dispose of all past records .... ? To protect the privacy of the prior owner ?
So last owner only had the car for 4 months ?
Curious if you could talk to him also.

 

wouldn't worry about it......leakdown is consistent, a few miles here or there is not a deal breaker especially if your gonna drive it.

 

There are a ton of spiders on the market. I'd suspect that for 57k, you could find another with less miles and without mileage inconsistencies.

Get your money back. (And 10k is way too much of a deposit BTW)

The search is half the fun.

 

+1

You can justify it at the purchase as no big deal, but wait for the nightmare when it comes time to sell. For all you know, the car could have done 0 miles in those years or done 30,000 and been rolled back. Headache for the future.

 

The notarized letter is helpful, if the mistake was made by him. Curious if you have the maintenance records and how far back they go ?
Your PPI seems solid if the guy doing it knows 355s, all documentation plays a part in value.
If the prior long term owner is deceased this may explain the ... not driving it, health issues may have been a factor.
I totally understand your brain when you see and drive "a" Ferrari and your brain says THIS IS MY NEW CAR, my common stable brain starts misfiring especially when you hear the exhaust granted as mentioned the price may be a bit high for the miles, but can also indicate known issues have been resolved at this point.
Knowing me, I would probably go for it.

 

You may be able to get carfax to fix it

But 5 years no mileage is a red flag

Carfax sucks sometimes try the other reporting agency

 

Ive seen these inconsistencies in the past too. When you get the car inspected, it's a human entering the mileage and may not be the most intellectually gifted human at that. The mileage thing would not be a issue for me and I've resold a F car in the past with a bigger error on the Carfax mileage than that with no problem. Paranoia is setting in.

 

As Tim says above, I'd be concerned about the 5 years with no mileage, but not a small error on the carafax in general.

 

How about the lip on your wheels? I think they are typical and it's just an optical illusion but the front lip looks wide than the rear. My car had 3200 miles when I bought it. Called/fedexed back to NY to have title updated and salesman wrote 29,000 not 2900, haha,

Anyway car is in very good shape. Bolster wear on otherwise great interior. I wondered about that but it's impossible to get in and out behind the wheel without it. No rear view mirror, 355 rear fender liners, slow down lights, worn out light control stalk. All valves tight, plugged heater core, cracked oil tank pipe. Axle work, cracked radiator up high thankfully, leaky washer motor, blown rear speakers after market, crazy after market wind blocker that gouged seat backs (removable panel luckily) shift linkage needs adjusting, replaced gearbox fluid with redline shockproof, clutch engage is high. That's basically all I had done on the major plus tbelts, pulley and 355 exhaust ecus. Clutch and shifter were NOT adjusted. Better since I lubed cables. I think the car may have been spun and curbed. Drives great and I want to try and lube or bushing the top joints. Weird creaks lately on our crap roads.

 

Bringing these cars back to life is a labor of love.......can you say, "neglected"?
There are some really terrible owners out there!

 

Sounds reasonable to me