Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Your not going to believe this

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

This reminds me of my late father’s Kia Sedona van and his problems with the driver’s side power window switch.

 

It was glitchy, you had to punch it with your finger for it to work. Sometimes it didn’t do that either.  So, I offered to try to fix it.

 

It didn’t take much effort, the switches were mounted on a small plastic panel, so just a simple pry with a screwdriver and out it came. All of the switches were separate and snapped in with tabs that, luckily, that Korean plastic was rather pliable so none of them broke when popping the individual switches out of their sockets. That’s half the battle won right there!

 

Again, the switch disassembled easily and I noticed the internal contact toggle had a nub that was nearly worn down to the base, thus, not making good contact with the metal contacts anymore. So, how to fix this? He NEVER rolled down the passenger’s side window... I just swapped switches! Popped the whole works back in, worked like a charm! Zero dollars out of his pocket!

 

Peter

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

 

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dino308gt4=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 4:31:10 PM
To: PeterGT4 <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Your not going to believe this

 

You got me curious.....

Scuderia Parts lists the switch at $641.  Still not cheap, but better than $2000

Hans.

On 8/10/19, Jashburne via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:
> $2,000 for a power window switch. Plus more than $440 in labor.  Yup, no
> margin there!
>
> John
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 10, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As has been said before, you can find better, but you will not pay more...
>>
>>> On Aug 10, 2019, at 12:04 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This dealer is really gouging on the parts prices.  Just checked the
>>> various online sources and the steering rack is available for under
>>> $5k.
>>>
>>> Hans.
>>>
>>>> On 8/10/19, Lashdeep Singh via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:
>>>> $36k at the dealer is prob $18-$20k at a good independent.
>>>>
>>>> Why does the interior need a restoration already??
>>>>
>>>> 612s do drive really well though. It is an amazing GT with a muscular
>>>> engine
>>>> and real back seats too.
>>>>
>>>>
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