Testarossa Dreaming - realistic maintenance budget

I have a TR and drove modern Porsches. P-Cars are perfect scalpel sharp race cars. But compared to my TR, blah!...TR are an explosion of emotions, period.

 

As a 15 yr Testarossa owner and more than one Ferrari owner I respectfully DISAGREE with you.

 

+ 1 on this.
Brent,
As a current TR owner and a having owned both the cars you own right now in the past and also a Gallardo, I can tell you it's very difficult to say which is a better choice. I personally think all of this depends on personal taste and likes and dislikes. I live in Austin also. If you would like pm me and I'll be more than happy to have a conversation with you and give you my input.

 

+1 Me too. On my 12th yr and the model that I've heard most often mentioned over the years is the 355.

 

Agreed on the 355's. Very expensive as well. Some of you TR owners are simply lucky and I am very happy for you. I was just speaking from experience having owned 5 and reading about them on this forum, several of which have had the dreaded $20K transaxle issue. With my luck I won't be surprised if I'm next in line.
Despite the TR's extreme reliability and durability, somebody is going to end up paying big money to keep them on the road, if not current owners, maybe the next ones, but somebody will. Age will always prevail.
Reminds me of the last Lamborghini Diablo I had and sold to a friend here. I had to pay $46K for that "engine out" service. Makes the TR seem like a bargain.

 

Yes, the valves had to be all replaced with upgraded stainless steel ones, clutch, etc etc, that was incredible. George Evans (world class expert on Diablos) wasn't nice to me

 

PRETTY SAD - that this part NEVER EVER ......... I mean NEVER gets mentioned.

Maybe some TR owners can learn how to shut there traps like lambo owners.

 

This is BY FAR the highest price I've seen or heard of concerning a single Diablo service. Certainly a combination of a neglected service car and using George, who is both quite good and quite pricey.

Diablo maintenance seems to be similar to TR maintenance with the exception of clutches, but the new generation of composite disks is changing that rapidly.

And because the Diablo is more rare than a TR, you get situations like $6,000 sets of brake rotors. But that should be taken up now in the valuations that are just now starting to take off.

 

+1

 

The exact opposite, stop the constant whinny about a 10-20k bill , and slamming the Testarossa as too expensive when lambo owners are not complaining at spending double and triple and not creating a new thread every other day slamming their car.

People should be celebrating of such a great exotic.

Dreams cost money !

 

You're just not looking in the right place. (lamborghini - talk . com)

http://www.**********************/vbforum/f47/gallardo-how-much-maintenance-4715/
http://www.**********************/vbforum/f4/maintenance-costs-new-lambos-815/
http://www.**********************/vbforum/f4/annual-maintenance-costs-murcielago-gallardo-6343/
http://www.**********************/vbforum/f47/looking-buy-gallardo-yearly-maintenance-costs-14369/index2.html

and so on.

 

none of those links work Joe

 

Yeah cuz FChat blocks competing sites. They're from lamborghini -talk . com.

Here are the links again, with spaces so they won't be filtered out by F-Chat. Just remove the spaces before "Lamborghini" and before "-talk" to get them to work:

http://www. lamborghini -talk.com /vbforum/f47/gallardo-how-much-maintenance-4715/
http://www. lamborghini -talk.com/vbforum/f4/maintenance-costs-new-lambos-815/
http://www. lamborghini -talk.com/vbforum/f4/annual-maintenance-costs-murcielago-gallardo-6343/
http://www. lamborghini -talk.com/vbforum/f47/looking-buy-gallardo-yearly-maintenance-costs-14369/index2.html

 

Thanks, but a little amiss looking at the titles. Gallardo /Murci chatter reflects 430/458 and 599 talk not Testarossa talk.

Where are the Countach and Diablo talks and threads ?

We must compare applies with applies when we talk about our cars.

Thanks for trying to post links.

 

Lamborghini owners are NOT spending 2X or 3X what TR owners are.....they are pretty equal in that respect.

Do you REALLY want to know the difference between the two camps as far as maintenance costs? The classic V12 Lamborghini owners (pre-Audi) drive special cars and they know and accept the higher cost to be in a select group.

Remember, the COMBINED number of 350GT/400GT/Miura/Countach/Diablo is less than the TR series by itself.

OTOH, the Audi generation guys will be whiny as hell in 10 years, because the cars are less special.

 

We don't gripe about maintenance costs much....Special cars for special people.

The general plan for me is to spend $5k per year. That will be enough 4 years out of 5. That 5th year would be like $10-$15k (brakes, or clutch, or other engine out service).....no biggie, geez just look at the beauties we get to drive!!!!

Thats pretty much in-line with what most guys allocate.

 

These blah blah discussions have been going on for decades already, and I can point out many flaws in the lambo as I can aN Edsel - you have missed my point entirely,which is any of these iconic exotics require a little extra money, especially as they age.The ongoing barrage of the Testarossa weakness and it's costs is almost as annoying as another belt thread, and really not true. That's what I was pointing out, lambo owners go through it as well, just don't cry about it.

 

What do flaws have anyting to do with the discussion? None of these cars are swiss watches. I just take offense to your 2X-3X figure. Just have $10k in the bank at purchase and allocate $5k each year.....finite.

 

what has this to do with swiss watches???
those also have to get a yearly check-up, otherwise they will fail some day

 

LOL, who the hell gets their Rolex serviced every year?

What does it have to do? Big Red says you guys are whining about service costs and I'm pointing out that you can't expect Swiss watch reliability from an Italian car.

 

Shark01 may I suggest you take up your beef / offense with the guy that posted this below, not me.

 

I have here some swiss customers and I know from 2 of them that they give their rolex once a year or every 2 years for service/cleaning. if this would be a must??
but same as the TR service- not all is a must to do

 

Same reason my wife gets her wedding ring "checked" every six months at the jeweler - it's so they have more foot traffic in their store!

Although this last trip (after being married for almost 10 years and thus 20 visits to the jeweler) was worth it; a cracked prong that would have eventually led to the diamond falling out. If only my TR timing belts would last as long!