Realistic running costs GranTurismo

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ParanoidAndroid

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Hi everyone,

Newbie here considering a Granturismo (amongst a few other things). Just wondered what the realistic running costs are like for these from owners that actually run them? I’d probably be looking at a pre-2013 car either 4.7s (with sports pack) or the Mc Shift. Been looking on autotrader and getting a bit scared seeing some of pictures of invoices showing £4K, there’s even a lovely looking 4.7s with a reported service costing £6k, with previous services at £4K and £3k. That is serious expense for a 5 year old car with 32,000 miles on the clock. Assume some of those involved discs and pads but are they really this expensive to run? It’s an auto so doesn’t even have the clutch costs in there. My annual mileage would be around 8k a year so nothing massive.

Are these prices the norm or are they rare? Understand it’s not going to be a cheap car to run and would happily put £3k aside a year but some of those costs are pretty wallet melting!

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JonW

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Hi,

I’ve got a 2012 Granturismo S (with Sports pack), and have owned it for 2 years.

My experience so far is that £3k a year is more than enough to budget. I haven’t spent anywhere near that (if I exclude cosmetics like a full detail). For example, I have just had mine serviced by Maserati (minor service), and it was £1500 inc VAT. This included £140 of labour investigating why my parking assist only works intermittently.

However, I know that at some point I will need new pads and eventually new brake discs, and there is always the risk of something else that might need doing.
 
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First off no Maserati is cheap to run. Parts prices are sky high but with some savvy knowledge you can limit this.

The prices you have quoted are main dealer I suspect so you will always pay a premium.

Most on here with the older cars use the specialists.

If your handy with the spanner’s you can save yourself a fortune. This forum is full of tips and alternative parts.

Thinks you need to know:

The MC Shift is arguably the one to go for but more expensive to run.

Clutches are circa £3k and need doing every 40k Miles.

Brakes are expensive and not very good but we will have a solution for that in the New Year.

The biggest issue are the variators which is a £4K job. If you going post 2011 then this was resolved.

Servicing, £600 a year from a specialist.

Buy well and it won’t cost a fortune.
 
Wanderer

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JonW said:
Hi,

I’ve got a 2012 Granturismo S (with Sports pack), and have owned it for 2 years.

My experience so far is that £3k a year is more than enough to budget. I haven’t spent anywhere near that (if I exclude cosmetics like a full detail). For example, I have just had mine serviced by Maserati (minor service), and it was £1500 inc VAT. This included £140 of labour investigating why my parking assist only works intermittently.

However, I know that at some point I will need new pads and eventually new brake discs, and there is always the risk of something else that might need doing.
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What is 'Sports Pack'? My QPV has it listed as an purchased option on the build sheet, I thought it was either Skyhook or nothing....
 
Ewan

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£3k per year average is ample. On a good year it could be just £1k. But you’ll need fresh tyres every other year given your mileage, so that’s £1k ever other year just in that. So, over 4 years, you’d need a small service at £1k, a large one at £2k, and two sets of tyres at £2k. To that add some brakes - maybe £2k. So that’s £7k over 4 years on the basics. Then you just have to cover all the unknowns - at a budget of maybe £1k per year. And hey presto, you’re towards the yearly average of £3k.
 
ChrissGT

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Mine has a service history for 30000k over ten years, excluding tires. All done at a dealer. So thats 3k a year.
Once you go for aftermarkt parts you can easily save a lot pf money (i bought fd brake pads for all corners for 250, at the dealer its 1000 for all corners). You can save as well when doing your own small service, like oil and filters or use an independent shop (no need for a specialist to replace oil).
What is costly are clutches, suspension bushings and other parts that fail and and hard to repair yourself.
3k is enough even if you dont do your own work. More then enough when you start doing some things yourself. Budget the money and put it in a special maserati piggy bank, so when the bill comes the money is there.

On another note, i put away 3k for maintenance, but i seem to be spending the money on upgrades, that is sort of a hidden cost ;)
 
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Ewan said:
£3k per year average is ample. On a good year it could be just £1k. But you’ll need fresh tyres every other year given your mileage, so that’s £1k ever other year just in that. So, over 4 years, you’d need a small service at £1k, a large one at £2k, and two sets of tyres at £2k. To that add some brakes - maybe £2k. So that’s £7k over 4 years on the basics. Then you just have to cover all the unknowns - at a budget of maybe £1k per year. And hey presto, you’re towards the yearly average of £3k.
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What tyres are you using that you're getting 16,000 miles from them?
tell me!
 
Wanderer

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Pramrod said:
What tyres are you using that you're getting 16,000 miles from them?
tell me!
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My QP has P zeros on, three new just 5k miles before I bought, I’ve added 5k, and my garage man says there’s loads of tread left, and there is, I can see why they won’t last another 5k or more, but then again I’m no boy racer, off at the lights guy. In fact i’ve never purposely span the rears...
 
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10,000 miles on P Zeros on a QP - with lots of tread left.
I need your right foot I think!
 
Scaf

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I am now 2.5 years into ownership of my 2010 low mileage GTS.
£1500 major service and £800 tyres plus local oil change at £100 and that’s it........
in the same period I have spent just over a grand on my wife’s 2016 1.4 Vauxhall’s corsa !!
 
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ParanoidAndroid

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Thanks everyone, that has put my mind at rest some what, the costs don't seem as bad as I thought and certainly comparable to TVR's I've run in the past! I think I'd be looking for a low'ish mileage MC Shift if possible (although open to the auto if it has the sport pack and subject to driving one!), ideally with a lighter interior. Not sure what I'm going to be doing yet, sensible head thinks I may wait until next year and see what the prices are doing, maybe able to get a facelift for under £40k by then but not sure I can hold out that long. I'd also need to part ex my current CLS.

Basically I want a fun (interesting car) to use but it must be able to fit my 2 year old son in the back. Have thought about pure 2 seater sports cars (quite fancy a Lotus Exige!) but I just dont think I'd get the time to really use it and it would become an expensive depreciating garage filler! Appreciate the Maserati is more of a GT than out and out sports car but I think it would fit my needs very nicely. For what its worth, also considering -

BMW M6 Grancoupe - lovely to look at, nice interior particularly in lighter colours, gadgets, very fast - but maybe too fast to be able to enjoy the performance and keep license!
Lotus Evora Sports Racer again, lovely to look at, no where near as practical as the Maser or BMW but does have back seats and can fit small kids in there at a push. Rare, difficult to find, especially as a manual S version and in the right colour.
Aston Rapide - Gorgeous, stunning interior, back seats okay for kids, v12 but I'm not sure I can turn up to a customer site in this, my budget would need to be stretched and then would probably only get a higher miles one, although prices are tumbling.

I think the Maserati is certainly my preferred choice, subject to driving them all.

Thanks again for the advice regarding costs! Really helpful and friendly.
 
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mattjevans

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I went through a similar thought process re M6, Lotus, etc, before buying my GT-S. Suspect many on here have too.
 
Masser50

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For what it’s worth l looked at an Evora 400 (had it for the weekend) and my boys could just fit but I knew within a year it would be pointless for 4 of us. I love my Lotuses (still have my Elise) but just couldn’t make the jump. Plus the noise on the Maser makes the 400 by comparison sound like a tractor. I wished it didn’t but it did......

To me the M6 will age quickly, whereas GT is likely to be timeless given it’s already past 10 years pretty successfully. Rapide is nice but again lacks the finesse of the GT.
 
Mattp

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If only I could read! ive just tyed this out.... but then rembered your after the GT! but hey... a QP is also good fun!

Im another that found the QP to be the best of most worlds! my Alfa was getting too small for the growing kids, so wanted something equally as unusual, the QP scores 100/10 in that respect! its not cheap to run, but it was cheap to buy - you choose your poison I suppose!! Id also like to think that the prices have pretty much bottomed out... so overall depreciation shouldn't be too bad!

Buy one! you wont regret it!

back to the kids... there is so much legroom for them in the back, plus the reclining and heated seats makes for happy snoozing passengers!
 
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