Hi Folks,
360 is back from it's annual service, and it is wonderful to have it back. The first few corners made me realise how I take it for granted having such a fab car to be bombing round in on a daily basis. Over the last few weeks I have been in my bangers, either a 2009 Pug 308CC (yep you read that right) or a 2019 Micra CVT(!), so jumping in the 360 and threading it through corners with almost zero body roll was an eye opener that reminds you of why we do the things we do for these cars (slash labour of love). For me, the sublime body control and progressive weight transfer across the chassis combined with that soundtrack is what makes these cars so special.
Anyways, the service, it was a basic oil service with pollen and air filters with a few planned replacements.
Firstly I have been driving this 360 of mine since I picked it up in 2018 with a single high tone horn, which if you have ever heard, is commical, like a noddy car from a cartoon, literally, beep beep
However in the month before my service was due that remaining working high tone horn also packed up, so I bought a pair of horns (high and low tone) from Graypaul my loacal main dealer (£50) and had those fitted. Apparently getting the bumper off was a bit of a pig and it did require a couple of new plates to be bought from Eurospares - apparently not available from the main dealer, so that's all done and finally I have a working twin tone horn (7 and a half years and 75k miles later after picking it up
).
While the bumper was off the left hand side challenge grille mesh (one of the few options from new) was re-secured after a light interaction with a pheasant on day one of picking the car up in 2018, Sam said it had knocked out one of the securing bolts leaving it a little loose - so that's all fixed and secured as per design intent.
I also replaced all 4 of the right hand side bank coils and the left hand two forward coil packs (the LH two rear coil packs were replaced when my catalyst caught fire last year), so now I have all new coil packs. The coils are Ferrari OEM parts at £300 each, so for the six I have replaced on this service that’s £1,800 on the coils alone, I’m glad these do not need frequent replacement!
The interior dome light also stopped working on door opening but that was just the connector needing to be messed with so that is now working again although the map light switch and the interior light (with doors shut) switch has also never worked, probably just a dicky switch.
So, that's it now, it'll be fine for the rest of the year
....... we will see!
Cheers, Giles
) Grand Prix Originals driving shoes which ached after about 10 hours driving so I took the right shoe off….. no cruise control in the 360! I’ll use my knackered old puma’s on the way home.
