Ferrari | Chassis cracks, rust, and PPIs... oh my! | Page 1

not from bigger wheels?

i've seen it....nothing to do with accident damage.

usually 308s with sticky tyres and too much track work.

obviously a daytona won't get chassis cracks...nothing flexible cracks.

Happy to do it..

BUT, I did exactly that for someone we all know once before. I pointed out on page 2, paragraph 2, line 2 of my PPI to him that the car had serious rust requiring significant repairs..

and he STILL bought the car for very close to asking price without even following up the clearly written and itemised PPI findings..

you can only lead the horse to water..(not that it was Horse).

Yes, 308 series cars crack around the rear-most engine support rail... where the lower control arms attach either side of it and stress the main oval rail connection... this will happen eventually on any 308 pre QV, even with std tyres if driven far/hard enough..

but if you fit bigger tyres/wheels... it will happen much sooner..

Later 308QV and all 328 had a strengthening procedure doen. I have made these brackets, have them in stock (I made 5 sets, have 1 left) and weld them on as a factory replica upgrade.

edit.... Just to clarify... not all QV have the upgrade.. only the later ones, and then ALL 328's have it.

serious rust ??!!!

you wouldn't know serious rust if you fell over it !!

I've posted the PPI on fchat so all could see what your idea of a PPI is and just to refresh your memory it took a "highly trained exotic professional" (NOT) at the local garage to find in less than 2 minutes the rusted out CHASSIS rail.

I'll certainly be recommending others follow in my footsteps 

Well, if you want to discuss it, I'm happy to.

Keeping things in context, which is a problem for the stupid it would seem, the WHOLE paragraph says how the radiator is leaking and "may" be repairable, and the same paragraph says how there is rust AROUND the support brackets (thereby pointing out where to look to see  for yourself)...

ANY normal person of sound mind would have had an alarm bell ring with that... Not only is the radiator leaking requiring immediate repair (ie removal), removing the leaking radiator will immediately involve attending to the rust.

All aspects of your "problems" were not only found, they were pin pointed 100% accurately.

You chose to proceed without even contacting me to follow up the findings...