Migliore
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Picked up the car last night from my local indie, a few minor things to sort out, but early days. I'm very happy to have the car back in the stable.
It's an episode a lot of owners fear encountering, I went through all the scenarios too, sell the car, get something less high profile so that when it breaks down you don't have to suffer the inquisition from less brave hearted and stylish souls than Maserati owners!
Forgive the self indulgent post but sharing my experience may be of interest to those who find themselves in the same position. I thought I'd driven over a piece of tin plate in the road but the sound I heard was probably the pressure plate tangs. My 24 yo old daughter was with me in the car, she's a decent looking girl so the resultant high revving from the middle aged man in a Mas with a young blonde in the passenger seat is not the look I've been trying to cultivate.
The car was booked in for a service with my local guy for the first time rather than the independent through whom I imported the car, I'd imported the service pack from Eurospares all ready to go, when I called and told him about the recent development he said "yeah, no worries we'll give it a go" he's a honest guy and a bit understated.
I odereded the clutch replacement kit from Eurospares which arrived very quickly, as did the advice from FedEx to pay the duty! On imports over $1000 au . I'm patient to a fault (some say) but I didn't want pressure the guy to get it done and out the door, I can't be easy dealing with the general public and their lack of understanding, we all have timeframes to fit into, so I just let him have it to get it done when he can, with the maybe misguided notion that he'd have a quiet few hours to work on it and enjoy getting under a nice piece of Italian beauty.
I sent him a few links and posts on this site regarding the PIS point, he's just spent $10k on kit and fully expected it to read what was required, I don't think that it did but when I drove the car yesterday I'd have to say it was the best it's driven in the 2 years of ownership! Far more responsive from a start and pulling very easy through the revs up to 4200k. I haven't had the full debrief yet but he told me there was a lot of plate left on the clutch replaced about 15k miles ago.
I've read here about the learning mode for gear changes etc so maybe the facelift software is all what it was intended to be?
Only issue I've noted is an unsteady idle or "hunting" as I've heard it described on here. Driving the car yesterday evening I'd forgotten or got used to the number of people who check out the car, I found myself thinking "what you looking at?" It's been a long 3 weeks.
It's an episode a lot of owners fear encountering, I went through all the scenarios too, sell the car, get something less high profile so that when it breaks down you don't have to suffer the inquisition from less brave hearted and stylish souls than Maserati owners!
Forgive the self indulgent post but sharing my experience may be of interest to those who find themselves in the same position. I thought I'd driven over a piece of tin plate in the road but the sound I heard was probably the pressure plate tangs. My 24 yo old daughter was with me in the car, she's a decent looking girl so the resultant high revving from the middle aged man in a Mas with a young blonde in the passenger seat is not the look I've been trying to cultivate.
The car was booked in for a service with my local guy for the first time rather than the independent through whom I imported the car, I'd imported the service pack from Eurospares all ready to go, when I called and told him about the recent development he said "yeah, no worries we'll give it a go" he's a honest guy and a bit understated.
I odereded the clutch replacement kit from Eurospares which arrived very quickly, as did the advice from FedEx to pay the duty! On imports over $1000 au . I'm patient to a fault (some say) but I didn't want pressure the guy to get it done and out the door, I can't be easy dealing with the general public and their lack of understanding, we all have timeframes to fit into, so I just let him have it to get it done when he can, with the maybe misguided notion that he'd have a quiet few hours to work on it and enjoy getting under a nice piece of Italian beauty.
I sent him a few links and posts on this site regarding the PIS point, he's just spent $10k on kit and fully expected it to read what was required, I don't think that it did but when I drove the car yesterday I'd have to say it was the best it's driven in the 2 years of ownership! Far more responsive from a start and pulling very easy through the revs up to 4200k. I haven't had the full debrief yet but he told me there was a lot of plate left on the clutch replaced about 15k miles ago.
I've read here about the learning mode for gear changes etc so maybe the facelift software is all what it was intended to be?
Only issue I've noted is an unsteady idle or "hunting" as I've heard it described on here. Driving the car yesterday evening I'd forgotten or got used to the number of people who check out the car, I found myself thinking "what you looking at?" It's been a long 3 weeks.