Major Service #4

It's started. I've had my 308 GT4 for 15 years, and this is the 4th major service I've had done on the car. The first was done when I bought the car, then one at 5 years into ownership, and one at 10 years. And now, the 4th at 15 years of ownership.

Larry at Ferrari Technologies in Orange, CA has done all of them, except for the first one, which was done by Marc Spencer in San Jose when I bought the car. Larry also does the annual service each year.

I stopped by the shop today at lunch, and took a couple of pics. The car will probably be done at the end of this week, but it may go into next week.

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Well, it’s done. In addition to the major service, also did the following:

New brake pads and rotors front and rear.
Rebuild both rear calipers.
New brake booster.

When all was said and done, total price came to $9300. Ouch. But the car is running well.

I probably should have had the brakes done last year, but we decided that we could put it off a year as there was still a little life left in the pads. I wish I had done it last year to spread out the costs a little bit.

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Thanks. There was someone on Fchat selling these a couple of years ago. I couldn’t resist. I have the original cover in storage if I ever need to go back to stock.

 

I got lucky with that one. Larry actually had a new old stock one sitting in his shop. It was a few years old (at least 5, probably more)- he had ordered a master cylinder for another client, and you had to buy the unit with the booster. He replaced the master cylinder for that client, but kept the booster since it didn't need to be replaced. So, the end result is that I got a brand new, albeit old, booster for the car, and got a decent price for it (I understand that going rate for one is about $1500 now).