This is off the Ferrari forum:

"The basic seat that comes in the 360 is priced at 3,700 but each seat and that does not include the bracket rails witch are priced at 300 per bracket. So that makes it 8,600 for the set. WWWOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!

Next we have the next step up wich are the Sport Seats and these seats are race seats and have a carbon fiber backing. Retail price ??? 7,900 each plus brackets 8,500 so that means 17,000 for the pair!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY she - ite

Finally the "Daytonas" witch are more comfy have fancy inserts and piping and are electric are??????? with brackets they are 9,600 wich makes them
ARE YOU READY 19,200 oOH mY fvCK iN GoD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Good Lord!

 

To hell with Ferraris. <----- No offense but that sounds like a pretty shitty deal. Do you really think they cost even a third that much to make?

 

With that, RZ seats seem cheap and worthy in comparison

 

True, but you're comparing apples to oranges. EVERYTHING on Ferraris is rediculously overpriced. Don't quote me on the exact #s, but I remember reading in one of those car mags (C&D, MT, R&T) that an oil change on a Ferrari is $200, changing the brakes was a couple grand, and if you watched Bad Boys II, I believe replacing the dashboard was what... $24K?? Overpriced not only because they can, but because the HAVE to be. It's a Ferrari. Owning one implies you roll so deep in $$ that you can afford to use dollar bills for toilet paper...

 

Ferraris aren't the only car with outrageously over priced parts, try the AMG series of mercedes benz. The set of brake pads for those rides come in at $2500, that's a fact, I went to go pick some up for some one just a couple of months ago. The oil change on those cars is about the same, near $200, reason, the oil filter has a locking mechanism that only a dealership would have the tool to get off. Oh and to top it off I asked the parts guy what the cost of labor was to change the brake pads. Get ready for this......$1000.....I asked why and he in turn asked me if I had ever changed a set of brakes on a car with disc brakes, I said yes, of course I have. He told me there was nothing different from what I do on any other car when changing the pads. How insane is that........You pay for the name man that's all it is. Yea it's finer quality crap and it's all exclusive and stuff but that's the only reason it's all so over priced. Just to keep it exclusive....

 

Yeah...well, let's just smoke those 'exclusive' peices w/ our 'collector' peices, shouldn't we?

 

Hell YeaH!!!!!

 

Locking clip on the oil filter?

Use a remote oil-filter, and bypass the troublesome thing


Expensive pads?

PAH! Machine some pads from another car to fit, or machine the calipers to accept other ones. This is a common mod on classic minis - to let the 998 calipers accept metro pads (larger surface area)



and as for the seats, I can get carbon-fibre FIA approved buckets trimmed in alcentera for £150

 

TurboIIGuy, wow...that's such garbage. Yes, AMG vehicles are limited production and what not...but c'mon...that's just pure rape. The stealership strikes again...

I woulda thought that AMG vehicles could match Porsche's lifetime guaranteed brake pads??

 

I don't know where the **** you got this info from but it is 100% bullshit.

 

I'm guessing you own an AMG? hehe. I do remember you saying something about owning a Benz...

 

Yo, I don't own an AMG, can't say I would ever want one. As far as the prices thats what the parts guys out here at south bay gave me. I picked up the brake pads for my boss at an electronics store I used to work at a while back. If it's all B.S. then maybe it is but I'm just passing on what I got dealt at the dealership. As far as the brake pads go, I saw it for myself, that's how much they were charged at. But whatever, I don't need to deal with the prices so it ain't a thing to me.

 

I don't think that you can use other brake pads, machined or not, to work on this car. Don't forget guys, this car comes with Carbon Fiber brake rotors. I think the brake pads were made of kevlar, I don't remember though.

 

What AMG was it? I wasn't aware that any AMG cars were available with carbon-carbon brakes.

The pads should be about $250. Perhaps you misread the invoice. And the parts guy was probably just pulling your leg about the labor cost.

-Max

 

No. I work for Mercedes Benz. No brake pads cost $2500, AMG or not. Its not $1000 labor to put them on either. The most expensive brake job I have ever seen was a 2000 C43 AMG, it was $1950 for front and rear pads and rotors installed.

Mercedes uses regular brake pads no carbon/carbon setups here. No carbon fiber rotors, no kevlar, None of that ****. I can't speak for a SLR though, thats the only car I haven't seen or driven, but the service literature I have seen says nothing about carbon fiber or and fancy **** like that.

Sounds like your dealer is ******* with you and *** raped your boss

 

The people who buy Ferraris LIKE that the parts cost that much... those guys will stand around and BRAG about how much they paid for things. It's like women buying clothes available elsewhere at Neiman Marcus for twice the price. It's basically like being proud that you can afford to be ripped off. Its part of whats wrong wih our society, but thats another conversation.

 

Sad thing is the oil change for a Ferrari is underquoted

nsxfiles.com - guy has an NSX that he races and bought on of the newer bad-*** Ferraris as a "fun car". Oil change is about $600 - no kidding. Uses specially blended Shell oil, and it takes a lot since it's a dry sump. That's just insane!

Dale

 

Deep man...very true, and very sad.

 

I was about to say, Ferrari OEM oil changes are much more than a couple hundred US dollars. Tune-ups are even worse. Aside from rappers (but including them too since they seem to ditch their rides after the model is upgraded), most Ferrari owners do not drive their cars very much at all and so get the savings of not making enough miles to designate a tune up. And aside from people who have the incentive developed on their own, which is a rare coincidence with that class of people with that amount of cash, most people just don't touch the things on their own. They get in, they start it up, they drive, and they turn it over to someone else to do the other work. In my opinion, that's ****. I'd much rather be working on a 355 in my garage than an FD. But even just buying one is still out of my personal range.

One thing that I can appreciate about high class vehicles costing so much in every aspect of marketing sales and maintenance is that aside from those fools who end up rich for very little reason and very little work who think they should get an expensive new car and get West Coast Customs to slam color and shine on it, the general stereotypical moran is kept out of the bragging rights. I'm very appreciative of that because all those stupid fools who choose to get a loan and buy a $30,000 so they can try to race every single car they have next to them and pretend like they're in a movie just can't quite cut the expenses of a similar priced higher class vehicle. I know we can all bitch about spending so much money on our cars to the point where we should just buy a new $50,000 piece of European engineering, but we just can't justify on our own intelligence with pissing our friends and families off with even more spending on things, especially when instead of putting a single turbo on our car, we're getting a new set of spark plugs, an oil change, having our tires rotated, and maybe a clean fuel filter. That stuff seems so simple to us that we just don't justify spending that sort of money without getting a serious kick added to our rides. I'm sure we'd all rather have a little more grease on us now and then and make some random runs to the parts store once a month than shell out what could have paid for a new motor or a fine boost upgrade. For now, I'd rather have the thrill when I spend a lot of money. And that's exactly what I'm doing.

As for those rich dudes who can afford to buy the class, I envy their bank accounts, but I pity their common sense. I have a feeling We'd be seeing some pretty sick *** Ferraris out if we could take over their garages for a while.