355 engine bay shields

[Nosevi]

Better safe than sorry Pete, thank goodness for camera phones makes it easy.

True. It's just that I wouldn't dream of having to do this with one of my other cars which go into garages which have a much faster throughput of cars. I've had far more snags at service time with the Ferrari (things not done, snags I've later had to fix myself, things broken during the service, all generally costing me money....) than I've had with any other car whether the other cars had gone to a main dealer or a scruffy little garage down the road. TBH it's been the one slight disappointment of ownership.

Edit: I've used it myself though, when my engine cover got totally chipped and scratched underneath when a garage had taken it off for some work. And when the front end was covered in overspray even though I had had no paint work done.

[A348W]

Nos, happens in normal garages as well. I know a few people who have marked their spark plugs etc and funnily enough what comes back hasn’t been changed; an this from main dealers!

Lots of scope to wrip people off unfortunately!!!

[Nosevi]

Nos, happens in normal garages as well. I know a few people who have marked their spark plugs etc and funnily enough what comes back hasn’t been changed; an this from main dealers!

Lots of scope to wrip people off unfortunately!!!

You're doubtless right. I've only ever had snags with the Ferrari (specialist and main dealer) but maybe I've just been lucky with other cars.

A mate of mine bought his 348 shortly after I did and on buying accepted a significant loss in value by simply doing all servicing work himself. He'll get less money back when he sells but has zero agro regarding paying other people to do things like 'lose' the engine bay shields when the car is serviced. I'm not convinced I made the right choice in maintaining a service history...…..

[MalcH]

You're doubtless right. I've only ever had snags with the Ferrari (specialist and main dealer) but maybe I've just been lucky with other cars.

A mate of mine bought his 348 shortly after I did and on buying accepted a significant loss in value by simply doing all servicing work himself. He'll get less money back when he sells but has zero agro regarding paying other people to do things like 'lose' the engine bay shields when the car is serviced. I'm not convinced I made the right choice in maintaining a service history...…..

I often think the same. However these days I seem to have so much other **** to do I'm happy to pay somebody to do my Ferrari.