Your also speaking of doing it yourself witch is a big difference.no dealer is going to give wholesale on ferrari parts. Then labor is never cheap. if you want to charger people $2500 installed with parts I will send you all my referrals. Sent from my SM-G996U1 using Tapatalk
$1500 is full on retail for parts. Doing it myself? You mean in my Ferrari shop? Been in the Ferrari business over 40 years. Went to 360 school in Maranello. Sorry, you're just getting screwed.
So what do you charge to do them for customers Aldo belt service? Sent from my SM-G996U1 using Tapatalk
On a Spider once the top is removed its really easy. 6 grand or so. A coupe is harder but you don't need the day it takes to pull the top so it costs less.
Well I’m not disagreeing w mr rifle.. the trouble is we all don’t have access to him or a quality ind shop. My retail search after moving to Houston last year yielded my quotes. the people hurting f car resale are the unscrupulous shops quoting $$$$$ prices. I would never pay someone the equivalent of a good engine for a service.
You missed, I had the passenger side fail. Lucky, and I do mean lucky I was just above idle when it broke so my car had minimal damage. All said and done at the end of the day with some upgrades while I was in there, I maybe spent $5000. That included the head being sent to a Ferrari Head specialist and sending the rest of the engine to another well trusted Ferrari Mechanic for final assembly. Mine happened exactly at 29,875 Here is my post of what I all did. https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/go-big-or-go-home.582865/ Replace Variators, 10hr tops! Any longer and you probably don't have the right tools.
Did your car fall under the recalled numbers? If not, that’s weird. It means that the parts can just fail.
On my '99 I had them replaced under the recall, here's the thread if anyone cares to read. There is a picture of cracked vaiator in the thread about 7-8 posts down, you don't want that at all. https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/cam-variator-horror-story-any-input-please.155780/
I read your topic. i don’t understand if A) you had an issue with your original, 99 variators B) you had an issue with updated variators C) you did not experience any issue with Cam variators but were bothered by FNA service i only see a broken tensioner in one of the pictures
The car was part of the recall, so variators needed to be replaced, there were issues with originals that FNA would fix. Yep was annoyed with FNA
There was no recall for the variators; There was a campaign. They are different things. Recalls are mandated by the federal government for health and safety issues. Campaigns are done by the auto maker voluntarily to address issues. One is required by law, the other is not. And yes, sometimes they will launch a campaign to avoid a recall but a campaign is still a campaign, it is not a recall.
OK so there have been some failures. The picture in the attached post is a tensioner support, not a variator. Per the local dealer, my 99 had the variators replaced by the dealer campaign. So again, I am not gonna worry about it.
Gl getting f to help pay for this. some reading on this.. https://www.clubscuderia.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?50690-360-Camshaft-Variators-anyone-else-replacing-as-a-precaution
Well they are BUT you have to take the car to the country that realized the profit. FNA isn't going to pay for something that they didn't make any money on.
