[DeTomaso] Ferrari 360 maintenance costs-- NPC

Mike Thomas mbefthomas at comcast.net
Sun Feb 7 23:13:08 EST 2010


Atta boy! 

-----Original Message-----
From: hemipanter at hemipanter.se [mailto:hemipanter at hemipanter.se] 
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 10:00 AM
To: Mike Thomas
Cc: pantdino at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ferrari 360 maintenance costs-- NPC

We do not have to be to scared of working at Ferraris, we changed a clutch
here last summer without problem. If I had a 360 I would have put a Hemi in
it anyway, to make the car move. How about that statement?
Goran

> I've often heard the most expensive car in the world is a used 
> Ferrari, now I can see why.
>
> Mike Thomas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com 
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> On
> Behalf Of pantdino at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:21 PM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Ferrari 360 maintenance costs-- NPC
>
>
> I've noted that the early Ferrari 360's have come down into the $70K 
> range, so I was getting an idea of what the ownership costs would be.
>
> If your wife complains about how much you spend on your Pantera, show 
> her these numbers:
>
> The cams are driven by a toothed belt that has to be replaced every 3 
> yrs regardless of mileage. The variators are what advance the exhaust 
> cam. If one breaks the cam stops turning and you bend all the valves. 
> The F1 actuator is what shifts the paddle gearbox. Actually it's more 
> like $13K to fix but I'm deducting some because failures are not super 
> common. Very few clutches last 20,000 miles.
>
> To be fair, any of us could probably do our own annual fluid changes 
> and save $900 per year.
>
> -----------------------
>
> FERRARI 360 SERVICE COSTS for 6 yrs and 15,000 miles . Assuming 
> purchase price of $70K, belts, variators, and annual service recently
done.
>
>
> Belts every 3 yrs x 2 = 6K
> variators every 3 yrs x 2 = 1K
> Clutch assuming 15M life = 5K
> Annual service @ $1K per yr = 6K
> Tires x2 @1K each = 2K
> Depreciation @10% of value per yr = 33K
> F1 pump and actuator repair = 10K
>
> TOTAL 63K-- maybe less if the car does not depreciate as much as the 
> Maserati coupes have.
>
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