Not disagreeing with you at all - but I fear they are not the only ones. I needed new suspension shocks for my 20 year old (nearly) S2000 Honda - nla (although my Japanese contact could have built them from parts) and, owning a 7 year old rather swift Audi I'm on a seeming civilised Audi forum , and they have the same problem once they are about 12+ years old (I have been tempted to post on that forum - "are you sure it's not a Maserati"!)..........it seems they're not the golden oldieswe all know Maserati needs to do better with its support for old
Definitely not the only one...completely agreed.Not disagreeing with you at all - but I fear they are not the only ones. I needed new suspension shocks for my 20 year old (nearly) S2000 Honda - nla (although my Japanese contact could have built them from parts) and, owning a 7 year old rather swift Audi I'm on a seeming civilised Audi forum , and they have the same problem once they are about 12+ years old (I have been tempted to post on that forum - "are you sure it's not a Maserati"!)..........it seems they're not the golden oldies
Good point. I have a friend who does extreme rallies (cross continent stuff) in his 250 Pagoda and he always brags about parts availability from Merc. Not anymore! I am now finding quite a lot of NLA on my 2004 CL so it does seem to be industry wide and perhps a part of a bigger picture to get us to give up on perfectly serviceable old cars because we cannot maintain them!Not disagreeing with you at all - but I fear they are not the only ones. I needed new suspension shocks for my 20 year old (nearly) S2000 Honda - nla (although my Japanese contact could have built them from parts) and, owning a 7 year old rather swift Audi I'm on a seeming civilised Audi forum , and they have the same problem once they are about 12+ years old (I have been tempted to post on that forum - "are you sure it's not a Maserati"!)..........it seems they're not the golden oldies
It's nothing new.Not disagreeing with you at all - but I fear they are not the only ones. I needed new suspension shocks for my 20 year old (nearly) S2000 Honda - nla (although my Japanese contact could have built them from parts) and, owning a 7 year old rather swift Audi I'm on a seeming civilised Audi forum , and they have the same problem once they are about 12+ years old (I have been tempted to post on that forum - "are you sure it's not a Maserati"!)..........it seems they're not the golden oldies
bills that were £100k, £150k & £195k
These are all collectors cars from around the world, the £195k one belongs to a barrister in Hong Kong who wants it perfect and doesn't care what it costs.I am absolutely unable to get my head around this. I nearly bought one 25+ years back. They were peanuts (comparatively speaking)
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GreatFor the car makers it's an economic decision, stock / manufacturing cost vs revenue. And to some extend I get that. Another point I get: for a budget priced shopping trolley, one could expect less support than a more expensive car.
But if you are a marque proud of it's heritage, selling not so cheap cars it should come to a point where they should support that and keep the heritage intact. Even if it was only making the original designs public so somebody else could fabricate them. Will the competition be interested what Maserati made 25 years ago? don't think so Tim. Even a patent has a due date upon which everything is fair game.
But I predict this will get worse with modern cars. Most of us on here have cars which have a limited amount of electronics. Development and legacy these day goes so fast, that your car will be totalled just because it is unrepairable on some microchip which has gone extinct. Try finding new parts of a 6 year old phone (or get support for that matter). Not possible.
But anyway it's a nice temperature and the sun is out. Gonna enjoy the rest of may bank holiday day.
Bloody ****, they are out in force!
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The new Mods?
Thank you. Under observation.Bloody ****, they are out in force!
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...much like me.Thank you. Under observation.![]()
Since you were born mate...much like me.