From MSN: But getting a Bugatti serviced costs a pretty penny too: For a Veyron, the least expensive model at $1.7 million, an oil change costs $20,000 to $25,000, according to Royalty Exotic Cars. Wonder what they do for $20 to 25K?
Model/ Oil Change / Major Service* 512/Testarossa/ $195 / $7715 360 / $195 / $3200 308/328 / $195 / $5395 348 / $195 / $6375 according to jalopnik *Major Service = belts, tensioners, bearings, seals, & gaskets (every 3-5 years)
Pretty sure you need to drop the engine in those Ferraris for a major service to get at the belts etc
I watched a video of what it takes to change the oil in one. The back half of the car gets dismantled and it had something like 16 drain plugs?
The Ferrari dealer here in town is in a new state of the art building, and the service area has floor to ceiling windows at the street. While the service area is very clean, it is weird to walk by and see several Ferrari's on lifts with the entire back half of the car disassembled and the engine and cradle sitting below the car. Just a routine service ma'am!
About 15 years ago we were doing a tune-up on a front-engined four cylinder Porsche. It needed spark plug wires badly. They were proprietary to Porsche. The wires had a price of a little over $500, and the coil wire was not included in the set. That killed any thought that I would ever own a European high-performance sports car.
Had an 83 Ferrari GTS Quattrovalve with 31K miles, I took it to an independent repair shop that specialized in Italian cars as well as German luxury cars to have one of the major service intervals done which included belts, replacing the water pump, ignition parts, various seals, hoses, tune-up, and valve adjustment and oil change. That visit set me back just under $5K. I enjoyed one last summer and took it to Carlisle fall meet and put it in the car corral and sold it to a major collector that lived along the lake in Erie PA. When I delivered it to his place in Erie I was dumbfounded when I saw his complex and his collection of at least 100 cars. I did love that car and felt like a millionaire when driving it, it was Prugna in color and made a statement. A fun story about it, I had allowed a friend to use it for his wedding. I was on the way to the wedding when he called with desperation in his voice wanting to know where the hell the gas filler was, he was already late and was sitting at the gas station. (the car had half a tank but he wanted to fill it for using it) I told him where it was and he made it to the wedding literally in time to take his spot up front
About fifteen years ago I had a customer who was working on a 924. Some young kid with no money had bought it used for $2-3k and was crying the blues at $500 wires (that he wanted to return after installation because he’d found them listed somewhere cheaper) along with the other tune up parts and a clutch kit. At first I felt for him, but later felt he deserved what he was getting. Patrick
Had similar fun with Mercedes-Benz. Any time you go to the dealer prepare to have 2" lifted from your wallet. They wanted $400 for a voltage regulator, turns out it was the same one used in a later model Beetle for 1/10 of the price. Spark plug wires, same thing, ended up making up a generic set and they worked fine. Just add another resistor to coil and everything was fine. If you decide to drive an import, prepare to either pay or do the research and be ingenious. It one of the biggest reasons I always came back to Buick; they were easier to fix, parts were cheaper and better yet, available. Oil changes can be done on the driveway. The oil the Buicks use can be as cheap or as expensive as your wallet will allow, it's not picky and if you use cheap oil it won't blow up.
When you walk into the service department of an exotic/high end car dealership and, just inside the door, there is a 55 gallon barrel of KY Jelly with a canoe paddle in it; you should know what you're in for.
FWIW I worked on a 924 trade in when I worked at the Chevy dealer way back when. At least 2 of the plug wires had electrical tape on them and the coil wire was cooked on one end from being run loose for who knows how long. Plug/coil wires were about $50-$75 each (no sets, you bought them individually) in 1992. Used car manager wanted it running at least decent as he knew a guy that would snag it for a reasonable price but he did not want to spend $500 in parts for a tuneup. If memory serves 4 new bosch plugs and a set of Nissan 280Z wires cost the dealership about $20 bucks and it can like a top.
I wonder what the people at my local Jiffy Lube would do if I ever pulled in with one of those and asked for the Saturday Special. I’d do it just for the entertainment value.
This... https://jalopnik.com/lazy-idiots-at-lube-shop-cut-hole-in-audi-s4s-aero-pan-1748394648 Patrick
Here's a good story - A local dealer (who I won't name) brought his son into the business after college. Kid does well and decides that the real money is in flipping exotics. Convinces the old man to let him run. This was back in the late 70's early 80's when Ferraris and Lambos and others were starting to rise. Kid did great, went to the high line auctions and made a killing. Of course being a legit big name dealer they had to warranty their used cars. And the service department was none to happy to be working on exotic cars, not at all. After the old man got wind of the beating he was taking it stopped quickly and they had a fire sale on the remaining inventory. So yeah, it has always been that way and the parts needed had to be ordered and shipped from the old country. Full disclosure: I picked up one of the fire sale ones - 67 E-Type with a fried clutch.
We get some pretty cool stuff traded in for cheap....I mean CHEAP.....I almost bought a gorgeous 5 year old Bentley for under 20k (was over $250,000 new).....I did say almost.
If you can't afford the new one, you can't afford a used one either. It ain't a Chevy, parts hurt the pocket book.
