How many miles will a ferrari 348 go with never getting a belt change ??? You wanna know?

You let it go for 81,000 miles?! Lol. You’re a legend.

how many years of driving does that represent?

 

Legend.

 

Nice !!!
Tell you this if it belonged to David Wells it was beat to heck before you got it. Thats a great run

BTW You win !!!! LOL

 

Hey, that's my neck of the woods. Post in the FL section. There is (was) a guy in Jupiter that works on these cars. I think he lives in Jupiter Farms. This might be the guy. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068577791218&paipv=0&eav=AfbLWpj0iWTRWt_2jmSYAMSn9MazB7fUHxHIlgH8TbV4DscpQh8P0bdepEqm_oscsOo


Who did you use in CT? My guy retired a couple of years ago.

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Wait your belt or something in the timing system failed? If you have a shop do it, hang on to your hat, there is almost certianly 16 bent intake valves to boot. Machining the head etc.

Well done btw.

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I do most work myself as well, but looking for someone to do an engine out on my 355, BEFORE a belt brakes. 10 years on them, but only 13k miles.

The picture was at Carter Hill Farm on CT RT 66 in Marlborough. About a mile west of the center of town.

 

Glad you're proud you blew up your car. 5 stars! Now it will cost you 3 Major Services to repair (if not more).
Great at math! 5 stars! Fchat kudos! Like always.

 

10 years would have been 3 engine out services for $15K total. Now, you are looking at a total engine rebuild. I hate to tell you that you are not ahead of the game. Hey, it was fun.

 

Well, if he did majors every 15k miles he would still come out at least 2 majors ahead. And he will have a better engine in the end, so probably a good deal. Fact is, if you just drove these cars until the motor blows you can probably buy a used motor and rebuild it for less than what all the majors would cost if you did them on time/mileage recommendations. Preventive maintenance on a Ferrari, as specified by Ferrari, is a false economy. But we do it because we (at least some of us) believe that belts break if you look at them crooked.

 

Mine blew up 2 years and 1000 miles after a major. So did a few others. You think a major prevents failures? I just read through a ton of your posts. You drop in, give a comment and leave, usually agreeing with something someone else said ahead of you. No insight, no record of you actually having a Ferrari or any legit experience with them. Probably not old enough for a license.

 

No matter what I think about intervals, the OP is enjoying the car in HIS way. If he comes back on complaining about what his lack of maintenance will cost him...feel free to blast him then.

sjd

 

Totally, he is not bothered at all, he's not complaining. Rather he relished his time.

In fact he is sharing a valuable data point many are too afraid to find themselves but many have wondered. I find this post very useful.

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Having been around here for some time one thing I can say with some authority is that there are a many, many, many more threads about how long belts last than there are about broken belts. And in those few broken belt threads it's typically some other failure that caused the belt to break, regardless of model , year mileage or age.

 

When I bought my 348, my plan was to do the major every 5 years. I ended up going 9 years (and just over 9,000 miles) before I got to my first one due to several reasons beyond my control.

The belt was just starting to show wear, and the tensioners/bearings were all Ferrari parts. I replaced them with the Hill tensioners/bearing in the kit from Ricambi.

Obviously, I got very lucky, but the point being is that the belt can definitely outlast the recommended interval and will break for reasons other than time surpassed/mileage driven.

 

Like a broken pully fence.

 

Lucky? Was there any indication that failure was imminent?

 

No. Definitely not imminent.

I mean lucky as in 9 years without the belt breaking or the bearings/tensioner seizing.

 

When I was replacing my belt in December last year, I found out that it was made in July 2006 so 16 years old. It was in the engine probably for about 10-12 years (6 years while with me). It still looked pretty good. I was lucky not about the belt but about the sprocket fence which was on the way to get dislodged over the next (guessing) 6-7000 miles.

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Live and let live. Your car you do do it your way.

But.

The point of a regular maintenance schedule is to service the car before the components fail so that the enjoyment of the car is not interrupted or additional collateral damages are incurred. The collateral damages in this case are 16 or more valves, possible number of pistons and liners, expensive head gaskets (x2), machine shop cost of valve job, and 20 hours of additional labor over the engine out. Depending on who is doing this engine rebuild and what else is damaged, this repair can go into $2x,000 easily.

Where I live, a valve job is $100 per valve, and cost of valves is extra and it's $200 - $300 each. A liner is $500 each the last time I needed one. A piston with rings is $1750. Three months in the shop.

I am not blasting the OP for enjoying the car his way. I'm just pointing out the cost when it destructively catches up.

 

No.

I mean lucky as in, going 9 years without an issue.