Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 575 shake down

[Brian E. Buxton (BrianBuxton]

Buyers are getting nuttier and nuttier about service work ... asked for a buy figure on a 2007 F430 the other day and had a couple of dealers tell me that it needed a clutch in order to retail the car - it had 62% life remaining!  Why would you replace a clutch, brakes or anything else with *over* 50% usable life remaining???  Same as people changing timing belts every 3 years or 10,000 miles.  Belts do not wear out in anywhere near that time frame.  Tensioners are going to be the issue if there is one, but not a belt.

On another note the F1 trans do wear through clutches a lot faster than manuals trans cars.   Lots of slip on takeoff and in shifting.

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On 5/19/19 7:47 AM, Clarence Romero Jr. wrote:

Ok so it’s been in the high 80’s here in Atlanta 

Highway surface temperature over 95 plus

The car is black on black and hey I am not white so the A/C is gotta work

And low and behold it’s a cold one 

Very impressive to say the least 

The motor temps in stop and go traffic are great as well

Looks like Ferrari finally did there homework with regards to keeping these V-12 cool

Nothing anywhere close to the 512 motor temps 

In transmission auto mode pretty smooth shifting 

The car had a new clutch installed a while back and the car only has 26K on it

So I don’t know what the previous owner was doing ? Drag racing?

Anyway my drivers seat stopped working, I know it’s a fuse 

And you will never guess where they put the fuse box on this car

Passenger side, remove foot carpet, unlock panel 

It’s like they stole a page from the circuit breakers panel on the F-14!

I will let Rick cover that one 

Anyway that’s it for now 

Plan on doing an oil change soon so look for that report 

Gotta go guys

Later and thanks for all the great support 

     RF4-4EVR

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