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Giles’ 458 Italia On-Line Scrapbook
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giles
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Hi Folks,
Last of the massive modders here again(!), I’ve just bought some subtle fancy parts for my 458, a set of Titanium wheel bolts from Wisdom Titanium. I’ve bought these before for the 360 Modena, so I know the product and I’m comfortable with sending money overseas! The price is excellent at £287.82 (inclusive of import tax of 69.82) , helped currently by the great exchange rate from US Dollars (Wisdom just take the $289 price and convert to GBP on Google
) so it is an extra special bargain at the moment 
Link: https://www.wisdomtitanium.com/tita...titanium-ferrari-wheel-lug-bolt-52mm-hex-head
Unsprung mass, worth its weight in titanium
Cheers, Giles
Last of the massive modders here again(!), I’ve just bought some subtle fancy parts for my 458, a set of Titanium wheel bolts from Wisdom Titanium. I’ve bought these before for the 360 Modena, so I know the product and I’m comfortable with sending money overseas! The price is excellent at £287.82 (inclusive of import tax of 69.82) , helped currently by the great exchange rate from US Dollars (Wisdom just take the $289 price and convert to GBP on Google
) so it is an extra special bargain at the moment Link: https://www.wisdomtitanium.com/tita...titanium-ferrari-wheel-lug-bolt-52mm-hex-head
Unsprung mass, worth its weight in titanium
Cheers, Giles
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giles
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Hi Folks,
I have created a Fuelly info page on my 458, with currently only one fuel up at 13.8 mpg, quite surprised at that, thought it would be better. I guess the real world benefit of the 488 turbos can be seen here as I regularly would get 22mpg in the 488.
Anyway, the other benefit of the fuelly app is that I can log all the services too which I have done.
Fully appreciate the nerdy context of all this stuff but I kind of like it
https://www.fuelly.com/car/ferrari/458_italia/2010/gilesimp/1403204
Cheers, Giles
I have created a Fuelly info page on my 458, with currently only one fuel up at 13.8 mpg, quite surprised at that, thought it would be better. I guess the real world benefit of the 488 turbos can be seen here as I regularly would get 22mpg in the 488.
Anyway, the other benefit of the fuelly app is that I can log all the services too which I have done.
Fully appreciate the nerdy context of all this stuff but I kind of like it
https://www.fuelly.com/car/ferrari/458_italia/2010/gilesimp/1403204
Cheers, Giles
giles
Active member
Fear not, the service costs are currently an engineering judgement(!) as a place holder until I can dig out the accurate figures. So essentially rounded up figures will be estimation and accurate to the penny costs will be actual, same as my 360. It’ll take a bit of time but at least on the 360 I probably have the paperwork bills.
On the plus side, collating all this information keeps me off Autotrader and buying another car!
Cheers, Giles
On the plus side, collating all this information keeps me off Autotrader and buying another car!
Cheers, Giles
definitely nerdy Giles; and numbers I probably dont want to know or let the boss know, especially the service costs!!
There are 2 sides of the equation. I only share the car's appreciation side of the ledger so using that metric I can show what a canny financial move buying a Ferrari was
