Hello there,
It's been a long time since I’ve been on the forum, but am thinking about returning to Maserati ownership! Don’t know if anyone remembers, but I bought MAF260’s 3200 back in 2010 and had it for 4 years. Now my wife's interested in getting a Granturismo, and so I have been doing some forum searching to see what the potential pitfalls are.
I came across
this thread which seems to sum things up nicely.
Would be keen to have anyone’s opinion on buying one – we’ve been to see a 2011 4.7S in Gateshead with what seems like a good service history. The car itself looks neat and tidy, good paintwork and interior. Service stamps either by Maserati or later by Emblem, and has been serviced every 2 years.
A couple of things I noted:
Ongoing beeping from the parking sensor system as we were pulling away for a test drive with the screen showing it was the front ones were detecting something (despite there being nothing in front of us) – I can see in the thread above that a couple of people mention parking sensors that needed replacing - was ongoing beeping the symptom?
Also when the car was parked up and idling, the engine fan was coming on and off fairly regularly as we were walking around giving it the once over – is that an issue anyone has any experience of? Is it normal? It seemed to be every 30 seconds or so it would come on – we’d done maybe a 15 minute test drive, and not at breakneck speeds.
Any advice would be very welcome, as I’ve barely been on the forum since I had to sell my 3200 and so haven’t been keeping up with all the info. Am I right that the variators ought not to be an issue on a 2011 car?
I know that ideally I’d get a proper inspection by a Maserati indy but that’s always been a bit difficult up here (Newcastle/Durham). Am considering
autolink that ‘deals with’ Maserati and Ferrari, but I’ve no experience with them as I used to take my 3200 down to Autoshield in Manchester.
Cheers
Chris
