Ferrari Mailing List: Re: The cars we love to hate (No F content no way)

[E M (pokiebaron]

I have a friend over in Dubai.  Similar thing.  Loads of very expensive cars
running around.  Oil changes cost nothing due to the price of oil, but so
often, people won't spring for the cost of a new oil filter during an oil
change there!!!.  lol

I'm sure there are lots at the other extreme too, who send their cars back
air freight to have the oil changed at the factory. There was a story not
long ago, a guy air shipped his Lambo back to London for a service.

Ed
911SC

2009/2/26 LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>

>    Good point about protecting the investment.  but given the level
> of economical education/practical sense we see I guess it's to be
> expected.   I had a similar conversation with a customer when I had
> a MB parts & accessory business - he had a friend who owned a 560SEL
> with 80k miles (IICR) but had never changed the oil!  His "logic"
> was - if a car costs $80 thousand $$s it shouldn;t *need* oil
> changes!
>
>    Un-freakin' believable!   But a true story.  Whenever I think
> about buying a used car I always think about that guy and hope I'm
> not buying something from him!
>
>    I remember when I saw my 1st 930 Turbo, on I-10 in Houston - the
> filthiest car I'd ever seen - with pieces of bodywork loose and
> flapping in the breeze!  This was back when they were 1st available
> in the US so it was a fairly new car.  Guess it  could have been
> stolen?
>
> Sincerely,
> Larry T  (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
> www.youroil.net Oil Analysis Kits & Porsche Posters/Weber parts
> Test Results - http://members.rennlist.com/oil/
>
> http://www.scamfreetop10.com/1233.html
>
>
> .
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] The cars we love to hate (No F content no
> way)
>
>
> >   Like many cars in this class - and even the really up-scale
> > cars - the performance and reliability is usually related to the
> > owner's maintenance schedule.  I'd bet that your Metro has been
> > maintained properly since new.  And I don't mean that you have
> > treated it gently.  I mean that you have probably just kept to a
> > regular maintenance schedule and fixed things RIGHT any time you
> > have had a problem.  Given that kind of approach, most cars will
> > run almost forever.
> >   Sadly, here in the States, most drivers equate the word
> > 'maintenance' to the word 'repairs' when in actuality, maintenance
> > is what you do to MINIMIZE the need for repairs.
> >   As you can probably tell, this is a soap-box issue for me.  For
> > most people, their automobile is the second biggest purchase they
> > ever make.  So with that given, why do people treat their cars
> > like CRAP?!
> >   I stop for a coffee on the way to work most mornings.  There's
> > often a woman there whose car is filled with TRASH up to the
> > windows - passenger seat and back seat!  I'm talking everything
> > from old MacDonald's bags to underwear!  Its like a filled
> > dumpster!  And I bet the car has never seen an oil change!  This
> > example, while pathetically funny, is certainly an end-member of
> > the spectrum.  But even if one has zero-point-zero interest in a
> > car, wouldn't you think that they would at least protect their
> > investment?!
> >   By contrast, my daily driver looks and performs the way it left
> > the factory.  That's not to say that my wife won't eat snacks in
> > the car or pull hair from her hairbrush and throw it on the floor!
> > And she wonders why we always drive HER car on the weekends! :-P
> >
> > Happy Wednesday!
> >
> > rick
> >
> > --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Stephen Sherman <sherman [at] wildblue.net> wrote:
> >> My 89 Geo Metro just turned 140,000 miles on yeaterday
> >> bought it new in 89
> >> an has been rock solid. I run 70 most of the with jumps to
> >> 80. It is the
> >> little engine that could.
> >> Looking into a plug in or hybrid to replace it but it will
> >> go to one our
> >> daughter's children.
> >>
> >> Stephen
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