Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Gavins first 308GTB question

[clyde (clyderomero]

How many miles on the car?
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-----Original Message-----
From: "jim" <jimshadow [at] verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 05:59:05 
To:clyde <clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>
Cc:"'The FerrariList'" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Gavins first 308GTB question

What, no pictures?????  

Sounds like something in the steering rack.  May want to have that looked at
sooner rather than later. 

Congrats on the new car and 1st drive!!   Now post some pictures somewhere
would ya!
:)

JIM

-----Original Message-----
From: gavinnz [at] xtra.co.nz [mailto:gavinnz [at] xtra.co.nz] 
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:38 AM
To: JIM
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Gavins first 308GTB question

Well I got the car today and straight away was stuck in 1st and second gear
bumper to bumper traffic.. but the car behavied very well given the trying
conditions....  I left the city and did some open road stuff to try and get
more of a feel for the car...

one major question!!!
The steering feels like it's "binding up" near the top, by the wheel
someplace... their is to much force needed to get the wheel to start moving
(normal steering movements).    I can hear a noise (kinda squeak) coming
from the steering coloum when I break the friction.. it feels kinda like you
have a broomstick in a rubber tube and to turn the broom stick you have to
overcome the stickness of the rubber.... it is independant of the position
of the wheel also...

It totally mucks up any delicacy in small steering movements!

Any clues as to what it is?????

Other than that are my first impressions are...
Easy to drive.
Amazing low rev ablity in traffic... so flexable.
Small children point at it.
Does 110 mph easy:)

It's all I hoped and more so far... the first big drive is home tomorrow.

Regards
Gavin

PS In great and HIGHLY typical Italian fashion when I was familiarising
myself with all the controls with the seller... the left headlamp failed to
go back down!!! lol
You have gotta love the Italians.
I just poped the bonnet and wound it down by hand for now.   Classic, and a
great start!



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