PPI Reveals $75K in REPAIRS for a FERRARI WORTH ONLY $80K 

It warms my heart to see you and Josh hanging out collaborating and filming together again. Also, I do miss a good sawzall performance.

Very Useful video Dan. When I got my f430 they wanted 1500 for a PPI. I skipped it and just went on my own inspection. So far so good.

Great topic for discussion !! Josh laughing in background as you're reading the cost estimates was hilarious !!

Hi Jim! I have attached the inspection report for your vehicle. Here are the technician’s findings and recommendations: Convertible top is crooked, one side latches before the other. Once the headliner is replaced, we will run it a few times and see if the issue is still present. Annual service due. Not sure what the service history is, but we would recommend the following based on normal intervals Oil change + annual inspection: $1000.00 Drive belts: $450.00 Pollen + engine air filters: $480.00 Brake fluid flush: $460.00 Gearbox/differential + DCT fluid flush: $895.00 Power steering flush: $450.00 Spark plugs: $980.00 Washer spray nozzles misaligned (can be adjusted during annual inspection) High beam lights not working with headlight stalk. Recommend replacement $2950.00 parts/labor Engine and power steering oil both overfilled (can be addressed with oil change/power steering flush) RH secondary air pipe is crushed but still functional. I can provide a quote if you would like. TPMS warning light, sensors show 0 months life left. Recommend replacing set of 4 sensors $2400.00 parts/labor Vibration felt at idle, rattling from rear of the vehicle. Can diagnose further if you want. I will have my sales manager take a look at the vehicle as well and provide you with a rough estimate for value. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! Monica Wegerer Service Advisor

Everytime josh said something, we learn something. That's how awesome he is.

Very informative. Starting to look at 430's up here in the Great White North in the next year. I'm in sponge mode, absorbing everything.

Very informative. Thank you

Awesome to see you and Josh working together again!! I miss that content.

Josh is a cool guy. I like seeing him appear on the channel!

The best PPI i ever did? I was buying a vehicle 1,300km away (canada -eh!) in my uncle's home town who was (now deceased) a Master HD Mechanic. He went to the shop of the dealership and put it on their lift. 3 days later the dealer called me and was concerned about who was going to put the vehicle back together if i didn't buy it LOL. He tore off the oil pan, transmission pan, water pump, rear differential cover, the water pump and the accessories belts and pulleys hahaha. He even inspected all the markings and stickers on all the replaceable wear items to verify if they were OEM equivalent. I love him for it and its a story i always love to share. Needless to say, the vehicle passed inspection when i got it back to my home town with flying colours.

Thanks for the help Dan. Really appreciate it!

Sounds like home inspections. “Pool in great shape!” means zippo when the pool breaks the following week because everything was installed incorrectly. :(

Great video. So many sharks out there ready to steal your money. Same goes for independent mechanic specialists. Had one that would drop a fat bill for servicing - and that’s it. No itemisation of the work done. The arrogance was just incredible. Love the channel Dan and all things Ferrari.

love the guy who has atleast 6 ferrari in for a repair at his shop and wear a lambo tshirt !!! this guy is awesome! keep up the good work

Fantastic video. Great to have Josh give it the stamp of approval 😁😁

I love your videos Dan... I am really close to buying my first supercar which is going to be a Gallardo, if I don't start with Lamborghini, I will always wonder.... =) But I'll have to say, you are making me more of a Ferrari fan with every video. Keep up the great work!

A company that runs track day experiences here in the UK had a F430 for several years. After 100k miles even it still didn't need new ceramic rotors. The ECU will log an estimated wear based on usage so that would have been useful for the new owner to know. Perhaps Josh just didn't mention it. As he says though, the best way to confirm wear is by weight, as they just shed carbon from the matrix rather than getting thinner like steel ones. I wonder if the dealer that did that PPI was really just trying to say DON'T BUY IT!

Another excellent video. It’s a great reminder that quality and thoroughness of PPIs vary, and always be sure of what you are paying for. And $1600 for a PPI? 🤯

Dammmm 75k!!! Haha. The 430 we allready knew it was perfect. Dan i have to confess, i really like Josh, had grow up in a car repair shop i can see he knows really his stuff and his a great guy. He should come more in your channel.

Hey Dan, I started watching the "a##hole sheriff" pulling You over video about an hour ago- only to end up here with Your most recent video...Your videos are very informative- I dreamed about owning a supercar, but the amount of owners' experiences on RU-vid made it very realistic for me. So, I guess that's one dream I won't be chasing anymore.😄

Dan and Josh, very informative video!

Thanks again Dan.....

One of the great things about having done Collison repair work.... I can spot a car that's been wrecked etc and if people are trying to hide it.

Amen bro, you said what all us DYI car guys already were thinking. PPI is just a way to make people feel better and then liberate large sums of money. If an honest mechanic is doing it, maybe it's worth it, but you never really know. I've seen people do such superficial inspections. Any real PPI would include a compression and leak down test. Honestly, the only thing I would pay for is the leak down. Everything else you do in a road test and scanning some codes.

Josh is the kind of 3rd party mechanic I like to find, he sounds like he is really knowledgeable and a straight shooter about what you really need to repair and what just isn't necessary to spend money on. I know a couple of BMW mechanics like that here in Atlanta, and I am looking at either an F430 or 458 in the next few years. Would Josh or anybody else on here have a recommendation for a Ferrari shop in the North Atlanta Suburbs? Ferrari Atlanta is in Alpharetta, so I'm sure there must be somebody near there...

Haha shop full of Ferraris, wears a Lamborghini shirt. Lol

Just got your PRANCING MOSES Stickers in the mail the other day, love them

Hey NGSC! Boy oh Boy!! The info your guy was spitting about the common issues with the Cali was not so bad until he mentioned the trans issues!!!! I was thinking of on too! Thanks sooo much for the info Your Channel is such a useful tool for us tools that want the yella badge! Keep up great content Oh yea and Moe does a great job holding down that floor too Take care

Outstanding video.

Dan's garage is brighter than my future with all the lights he has🤣🤣

What’s the exhaust set up for this F430? Headers+ stock? Believe you had headers+ S line on your personal F430

I guessed the headlight price before you stated it. I had a 2014 Ferrari Cali30 HS and a local PPF shop damaged my headlights during the install. Apparently the headlights are $10,500 EACHHHHHHHH plus install because that's what their insurance co paid me. lol crazy.

I would say Josh knows his stuff and I would gladly have him PPI my next purchase.

Question for josh, what does it take to do a carbon fiber to steel conversion on breaking systems? Is it as simple as a pad and disc change or do you have to swop the caliper and go down the worm whole from there? (I think on Lambo mucies you have to swop the axel hubs and carriers over.

Guys like Josh are INVALUABLE to owning a supercar as you need someone you can TRUST thats not trying to bleed you dry. Its hard finding upstanding qualified people like him depending on where you live that deal in whatever car you own or want to own. After owning a few nice cars i have found that its knowing the right people more that matters most.

This seals the deal for me to never purch a used Ferrari without warranty

Suspension parts alone can cost a fortune. It’s well worth it to have compression checks and looking for leaks and going over past repairs.

A $200 ppi should give you a picture about the big stuff. A $2000 should tell you everything.

You can absolutely read the clutch information from any Launch x431 tablet. I wouldn’t touch these cars with the Getrag transaxles personally.

$587 to replace the gas cap tether..... most outrageous of all! I just bought one $37 bucks and installed myself 5 seconds

How cute that Josh a Ferrari mechanic is wearing a Lambo shirt!

The Brembo rotors are not very durable all things considered. I love the Surface Transforms CCST discs on my 488. I get about 4 times the wear on track and I can run aggressive pads that does not wear down in two or three track days.

Dan, you left out the "bargaining tool factor" of the PPI. That PPI for the California was perfect....😉

"Know what you are getting [into]" words to live by.

After all the crazy expensive repair videos I've seen on exotics, it's easy to see why people buy them stick them in a garage and if they drive they're more gentle than I am with my 9 year old toyota. It's fun to watch these and fantasize but even if I had unlimited money I wouldn't buy one on a bet. This is a raging recommendation for me to buy any Lexus I want, any one and enjoy the reliability. Yes I know, apples and oranges, but Im not going to buy a car in fear of some Italian car getting wonky for no reason at any time.

Been following Fed's channel for some time.

I used to inspect cars for Manheim auctions and I’ve been a wholesale dealer for 5 years forgot about a ppi I don’t need it

Loving all the ads, I guess that helps pay the ridiculous Ferrari taxes. Felt like I was watching regular tv

ALWAYS always get a PPI especially on these cars.

This is funny I was about to talk smack about Ferrari PPI and you go to my boy Josh in Austin. My Porsche shop in California was next to a Ferrari shop where Josh worked at 14yrs ago. Josh and I chatted all the time about weird cars, we did a Camaro together that went to Barrett Jackson. You won’t find a better exotics mechanic. If you need a PPI on a Porsche then I’m your guy but Josh is the guy for Lambo + Ferrari and anything else that has a gummy dash & spits spaghetti out the exhaust.

I'm wondering if the shop doing PPI for the California also recommended themselves to fix the car, at a "discount" of 75K :)

I had the headliner replace and so I got a inspection, with the replacement of the headliner I also need the new cords, that 3700 for that, 2400 to replace the headliner, plus 175. For a couple clips then the transport back and forth was 1400

Never have a PPI done by someone who is an acquaintance of the previous owner. They skip over things because they sometimes rely on what the previous owner has told them about the car and don't go deeply enough into certain areas. After taking ownership of my F355, I found 30 additional things to what the PPI inspector found, costing me $40,000 in repairs (and it was only that "cheap" because I did a lot of the repairs myself).

Side note: with non supercars (and probably supercars) if a ppi is done at a dealership, ppi will show everything that they want to sell you (and everything will be "necessary or your life is at risk"). Unless you're an inuit who needs an ice maker, don't put much faith in a dealer ppi.

Customer - complains when you miss something Mechanic - quotes everything Customer - gets upset when mechanic quotes everything.

Gotta get into the headlight business... Order from Ferrari and Italian Superior Headlight Industrial Emporium, because nothing says reliability like FISHIE headlights.

A Ferrari dealer in south Florida charged me $1000 for a ppi inspections on a Ferrari F430 . Them told me the soft top was not operating properly, and will cost $23,000 to fix.

Dan, hope you can help me with a very quick question. My 360 has been doing these weird random CEL beep hiccups. They feel like misfires but I think it's more to do with the CELs and whatever the ECU is doing. I only have CAN line error codes. Josh mentioned one interesting thing about the engine mounts on the Cali and how bad mounts can mess up misfire calculations? Now, I decided to install Challenge Stradale engine mounts in my 360.. The car definitely vibrates more at idle (the car also feels more alive which is why I put them in). Anyway.. Do you reckon these mounts are somehow messing my car's readings up? 🤔🤔 Appreciate if you could pass it by Josh! 👍🙏

Very interesting

everyone needs a Josh.

Frankly, the potential customer on the California should have walked away just based on the visual inspection. Broken buttons, worn key, excessively warped leather, yellowed clear bra - all on a vehicle with just 20,000 miles? That’s enough to walk away. Period. There was no need to proceed with a PPI on it on that point.

Great to see Sawzall again in his shop of quacks.

Maybe it’s a good idea to get a PPI on the PPI?

What did it sell for?

Question for Josh - is it recommended not to use the pink antisqueal gel when using ceramic brakes (assuming it's used correctly!!)?

The revenue breakdown for new car dealerships relies very heavily on service sales. Usually, the margins on actual car sales is razor thin. As a result, dealer service costs have crossed the line into absurdity. Ferrari is clearly an ultimate example of that. Those prices took my breath away.

Hey Dan, just curious, is the subject Cali the grey one for $80k on Autotrader at Pompano, FL ?

Federico is actually a really well known watch RU-vidr, small world!

How much would it cost for a shop like his to replace a broken California transmission?

So now im invested in the California story ..im gonna need to know what happend

If the car is a CPO or Ferrari Approved would you still get a PPI from a 3rd party? Thank you

"this car shoots into the future" Why not buy this beast? Half money,... double fun :-)

So wait ... after those repairs and fixing up that you did, what did Josh say is still wrong ?

Great video even if you don't own a Ferrari

Temptation is real, always loved the 430 and have a Hot Wheels scale model of one. But my mate who literally knows everything about cars (he's an engineer/customizer/car part inventor) said Ferrari's, esp the 430 being 15+ years old, is a dog and will have issue after issue. He said avoid like the plague or I'll be hit with thousands in repairs as well as the stupid Ferrari service cost. He said technically he could service it but if it's not done by Ferrari the car becomes fairly worthless. I'm in the UK btw.

Wow, so a PPI is like a home inspection for a car.

Josh has his own shop now?

Very clean Ferraris.

You'd think after spending 200,000 dollars the car would be better made......

no way.... 😢

Sounds like the PPI is worth it

PLS name the MAD company doing that PPI on the california. They need to be called out.

Not that I could afford a second Ferrari but I thought the auctions were cash only

Almost $15,000 for headlights !!!????? At this rate Ferrari is just being disrespectful to their customers.

He need more light in the shop..

Is it just me, or does this Ferrari guy sound exactly like Jesse James?

And people complain about needing to replace the battery out of a Tesla for $10,000. Lol

Dead mosquito found under passenger seat; recommend complete replacement of interior.

Too risky for me

Lies! the clutch only has 6% life on it! And it'll cost 3.5 Million dollars to replace and it can only be done by the factory and it's a 600 hour labor job @ 1k/hr.

PPI are a shot in the dark...

I feel more confident if he had some light in his shop..........

I'll Buy it for 5k then...

Hey man, if you don't know the channel you have to take a look at the *AutoTopNL* channel. Just for fun and the *autobahn* :-)

Didn't you buy a mustang with a cracked head?

Josh help me over Instagram. Awesome guy! Thank you Josh!!!

So Dan is like, surely this PPI is crap but Josh is more like, well yeah, I’d probably replace some of these parts too. Reminds me to stick with Japanese or US cars.

That moron with the California is already at the finance company. So in his mind he's bought the car already. Even at half the price, the repairs are a huge amount of money given the value of the car. Your mechanic agreed with the necessity of most of the recommended repairs. As to the "aesthetic" items, isn't that why you buy a Ferrari? Do you want to be looking at a flickering display every mile you drive? You can't complain about a PPI because it finds too much; you complain about a PPI when it finds too little, and doesn't find the big things that are there. You can always decide not to do particular repairs. But what is shocking about a Ferrari is what those repairs cost. It's clearly just a rich man's toy. I'll just keep driving my MINI Cooper S which, in the real world, is just as fun and a lot less annoying to drive. And costs almost zero.

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I fell asleep!