maintenance cost

He either has no personal experience, or actually owns one of those $30K Testarossas.

 

Not even close!!! figuer 500.00 year for basic fluid replacement and every 5th year 7500.00 (1500.00 per year ammortized) for belt service. So for annual maintenance it is 2,000.00 per year.

 

Only if you like doing burnouts....

 

Another thread said the 308 yearly budget was $1500. Surely a Testarossa isn't as cheap to maintain as a 308??

Ken

 

If you can do your own services on your Testarossa, then the costs are very reasonable. The cost of the parts for the "major service" are less than $2,000 currently - and that is for everything, hoses, belts, tensioners, just lots of stuff. Fluid changes if done at home are less than $300 a year. So using these numbers, and the 5 year belt-change rule, your under $700 annually. Not bad at all eh?

 

Even if you pay a dealer, $15 large a year is absurd even for a daily driver.

 

Im on my 8th yr now, and total has been under 2K, this includes all oils, and flushes annaul (motor oil), break and rad flush (every 2 years), and tranny, gear oil change (every 3).

The 7/8 year belt rule is perfectly fine if you change the tensioners and do the complete service and start the car or drive it every other weekend for half an hour to keep the belts from going bad.

I love it when people come up with these numbers to scare everyone. Common sense rules the day with not just the TR but all ferraris.

 

just bear in mind that your clutch can go bad or you may develop an oil leak. these are one time costs that can be expensive to fix. but my experience has been that there isn't much that goes wrong.

john

 

He doesn't know what he's talking about. It's about $7,500 for a 30K service.

 

Dear Ferraristi,

Manual says....coolant, brake, clutch, gear box fluids once a year. I also do a coolant cleaner scrub out with distilled water and scale remover (prestone) for a week then a coolant change ( once a year ) ...You wouldn't belive the grunge that comes out of the coolant system. I put 6000 k a year.( daily driver )

I won't even touch the belt interval ( I like it though

Shamile

Freeze...Miami Vice !

 

John G is right to raise the point about one-off repairs or replacements from time to time. When brakes, clutch, gearbox, diffs or anything seriously mechanical needs replacing -and they do, as on all high-performance cars- then there is a spike in costs.

Spare parts are expensive, that's all.

Routine service costs can be calculated, but there is always some niggling problem to add to these, plus, in my experience, the suggestion of taking preventative action on parts that might not make it through to the next service.

 

Matt Stone- another useless journalist who is lacking in the fact dept and giving the TR a bad name.

 

Your 6k beats my 2-3k. I found no need to change the clutch oil or brake oil yearly or tranny/diff oil either, still looks new when it comes out. As a matter of fact, even when i change the rad fluid every second year and motor oil every spring, it looks clean, as for the moisture in the oils when it sits, never had an issue.

 

I have had my TR 8 months now not including the major service and clutch which I figured into the purchase price I have spent about $1100.00. That was for a fuse panel.

 

Dear Ferraristi,

I don't know how y'all spend so little. My 91 TR which I love and drive daily really costs quite a bit. Just the yearly fluids/filter/ plugs change (myself ) at least 350.00
New center console plastic switch panel ( org. got a scratch ) 350.00 from Ricambi
door pocket 400.00
OEM 512 TR dip stick 400.00
OEM 512 TR Gas cap 265.00
main door weather seal 452.00
front hood shocks (once a year ...that's all they last) 100.00
defroster switch 120.00
hood release cable F & R 80.00 ea
OEM 512 TR steering wheel 850.00

OK, I can still keep going. BTW, sick of the tan carpet, put a new black wilton wool set, 1300.00

Need I say more ? It's not just the raw maintenance but the upkeep of the overall condition.

If you really want to keep your TR looking great, I just can't see spending less than me....I don't think I'm overkill


Oh yeah, drain the green coolant. Put the prestone cleaner (clear ) plus distilled water, run for min 6 hrs use, drain....tell me the color !

Shamile

Freeze...Miami Vice

 

You are right they cost more than nickels and dimes but I dont think you wore out a door pocket (?), gas cap (?), dipstick (?), steering wheel (?) and the carpets (said you didn't like the tan) to the tune of $3200 from normal use or wear and tear. And even if you did they need to be calculated into 15 years of depreciation, not an annual cost. The hood struts I'll go along with but the console panel was damaged, the door seals, hood cables and defroster switch were presumably 15 years old parts as well. Looks to me more like you spend $493.46 per year plus expenses for replacement of things that you broke, lost or just did not like.

 

I purchased my 512TR new and sold it with 75,000 miles on it. All service was performed at the local Ferrari dealer. It averaged me about $4000 a year. Granted I drove a bit more than most and Ferrari of Los Gatos was not shy in invoicing. The car ran great though. In those 75K miles it never left me stranded. The major service is expensive, but it's an engine out job on these cars. I believe the TR, like my GTO, is an engine sub-frame deal. Just lift the car up, unhook a few things, and roll the whole engine/gearbox assembly out. And, naturally, when the engine is out, you work on everything you can because once it goes back in, you don't want to take it out again.

Steve

 

Sure sounds easy doesn't it?

That's quite a list of cars in your profile.

 

Wow...THREE Daytona Spyders??? WUWT??

Ken

 

Dealer maintained for an almost daily driver in Ca. I'd say $4k is easy to accept. But $15k? Guys on glue.

 

Dear Ferraristi,

Believe me, I didn't list what all what I've spent. I was just taking a cross-section of expences from maintenance to wear items. OK, the 512 TR wheel was really for my hands. The Testa wheel is thinner and hurts my hand while the TR wheel is thicker and doesn't stress my wrist.
The dipstick, the gasket needed replacing ( small leak down the tank ) but was 125.00 from F pimp so a few more buck got that nice shiny "ferrari" bling bling cap ......the fuel cap ? ....well you just have to have it all match

I was wondering, am I changing stuff too soon. Every other car has a coolant, brake fluid at 2 years and gear at 3 yrs. F is the only one I know that specifies 1 yr intervals. Is this just F padding?

Rifledriver (Brian) what's your take on the fluid intervals. ( NOT BELT INTERVALS ) ?

Shamile

Freeze...Miami Vice !

 

I do them on my own at 1 year, coolant every 2.
I consider brake fluid a disposable especially considering the damage I have seen it do and I use expensive fluid. Gear oil, depending on your use and environment could make me change that but we need to go with averages until we know the exact situation. Motor oil is a no brainer.

 

I don't even want to add up my annualized costs over the past 2 years.

UGH.

(I actually did in another thread somewhere. It hurt)

 

How does your 288 compare to your 512 ?