Wanted silver/red F430 Low Miles

Great combo! I've been looking for a black/red, white/red or just something different. Nice cars are hard to find, most of the ones I've seen have 6 to 8 owners have sketchy service history and look road hard and put up wet.

 

http://m.cars.com/vehicledetail/#vdp?listingId=668081259

This one only has 4 owners and is under $100k... And 24k miles. I'd be on this if I was looking for a 430 (disclaimer- I have nothing to do with this listing... Just saw it on cars.com)

 

Wow I guess I have a skewed opinion on "high miles"... Sorry! And the challenge wheels can be had for $3k-$5k OEM, so I'd recommend looking past that if the car you find is otherwise checking your boxes.

As for the interior, I guess I always put that at the bottom of my list as long as the car looked great otherwise. But seeing how I own a 360 in silver/red, I can understand your love of it!

Good luck with search!

 

https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/647084962/overview/

This one might hit more checkboxes, although it is a spider....

 

Wow that's nice! Checks a lot of boxes for me.

 

2006 Ferrari F430 F1 Coupe

Here ya go

 

Wow, nice! That interior, exterior, caliper and wheel combo really works for the 430. I'm normally partial to 360s in Argento Nurburgring, but this one makes me just a little bit envious!

 

Agreed, Great looking 430!!! i like this better than the one I found, but I am partial to coupes.

Haig, looks like you have some tough choices

 

How much service and what type of service should have been performed on the last two cars linked to this thread? I'm interested because I am in the market as well.

 

When I bought my 360 last year, I was able to acquire service records from the sale to the first 4 years, then a gap of 4 years, then nearly every receipt thereafter from 2009. I got a solid PPI report and bought a 15 year old car with only 24k miles. I don't know if this qualifies as well sorted and documented in your eyes, but it did in mine, especially considering the price I got.

Using the carfax, you can often find the name of the dealership that sold it and those that serviced it many times throughout life. Also, have the current owner send you a pic of the service book where there should be stamps from the shops that worked on it.

The reliability between a TR and a 430 is significant from what I understand, as is the cost of maintenance.

If you can get the last several years of service on it and a solid PPI, you should feel like you are getting a quality car, but obviously not the same in value as a 1-3 owner with every single receipt. How much of a discount this creates comes down to what you can negotiate.

 

Thanks. That sounds like good counsel, but I was trying to determine how extensive the service was for a 430 and what is involved in that regard. Obviously, it goes without saying that a car that has better service documentation is going to be worth more than one that has less documentation.

 

Did the dealer say why they had no service records. Was it purchased by them as a bank repro, or thru a dealer auction? Has the dealer tried to contact the name of the person or company on the front of the title? If they deal very much at all it high end cars, they would know how more value that adds to the sale of the car..... unless, they DO have the service records, & there items on the records, they don't want you to know about. Got into a similar situation a few years ago on a Jaguar, turned out the motor, had been changed!

 

Chris Carbine in NOLA has a 430 spider Grigio/ red with 20k something miles. Asking 109 IIR. can google his website