Why I Spent £4,000 On Switches For My Ferrari! |
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2021
- I head back down to DK Engineering to collect my Ferrari 360 which has been receiving some repairs/upgrades, including some very expensive switches.
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I totally understand why you spent the money, really like the fact you are keeping it standard and giving it a new lease of life.
It's not strictly standard as it has the Challenge Stradale exhaust, Challenge Stradale rear valance and Challenge Stradale ECU.
The challenge rear grill is standard as it was a factory fit option, well it was on my 2004 car, but yes the exhaust is not a standard or factory fit option. Ferrari do now offer a new ICE head unit with a motorised screen.
Totally worth it. People overlook the importance of the feel of the interior of the car. It really impacts the driving experience. The price is crazy but it's a Ferrari. Porsche prices aren't much better, and I've spent a lot of money on my 911 over the last ten years chasing the same 'perfection'.
Porsche prices are certainly not much better but I don't think they have ever used the sh*ty soft touch coating that Ferrari or Maserati used, or have they?
🙄@UCssbYQv4EXkz%F0%9F%99%84uBzKE4ZWKaQ Porsche never suffered with Chinese chocolate buttons , i am surprised he has no gremlins in the electricals
@@MrJef06 Think everything plastic from that period had the same perishable coatings.
My recently sold 2001 Alfa was very similar with all the buttons and door trims getting that sticky feeling.
The 911’s from the same era (997 and 996) got sticky buttons especially on the climate control rocker switches. Fortunately not as far spreading as the 360!
@@quickmick6131 I’ve never had the sticky buttons in any of my Porsche cars from that era.
Only someone who really loves their car would go this far. It's going to look immaculate for it's 20th birthday! 👌
only someone without a wife***
Loving the 360 restoration series this channel should have a million plus subscribers
I get it Sam. It’s a key touch point. It would drive me mental every time I drove if it was my car..
It would ruin my experience. I'm impressed he let it go as long as he did.
@@benkrapf explain to your wife why you spent 4K euro on your Ferrari's BUTTONS; that'll go over great!
@@troystcyr3771 My wife would not care... She would spend more on a freaking handbag.....
It’s so nice to see a UA-camr sharing their love and passion for an older classic car and their ownership journey with it.
It’s some of my favourite content on your channel Sam.
Be interesting to hear how much the paintwork is going to cost when you do it!! 💰 💰
I really advise against a full respray. I recommend finding a good paint restoration guy that can paint and blend the damaged areas. Especially being in those wheel arches. Even if you have chips, a good restoration detail with touch up paint will be a huge improvement and still retain the factory paint. My .02
VW can scan your car and colour match to the faded paint. So there must be other independent people who can do the same
I agree
In my 996, I added a Bluetooth module wired into the back of the head unit, this allows me to use my phone, play music without changing the oem look.
Same here.
Me too! (On my Ferrari 360). Works great and definitely the way to go to maintain factory stock interface…
@@gregmccandless3872 Mind you, I only really listen to podcasts so not sure about music sound quality?
What unit did you buy?
As someone who has a very nice condition sports car from the '90s, I can tell you it's very important to do these types of things on a regular basis. When things wear out or get tired looking you need to replace or refurbish them. if you don't, within a few years the whole car starts to look tired and a bit neglected and it does affect your ownership of it. Things like chipped and scraped mag wheels are in your face every time you wash the car so you tend to do less cleaning and take less care because they are already a bit rough looking and cleaning won't really help. This of course means they slowly get even worse. It's a vicious cycle that just leads to needing a full or major restoration whereas a few bucks spent every month or two on the little things can keep it looking fresh and cool. This prompts you to be more careful when cleaning and driving it and so the car looks and drives better for longer.
I love the 360 content! It feels like an actual person experiencing owning their dream car and sharing that experience with the viewers. So many of these youtube channels feel like some billionaire flexing on us with the cars they have. This feels like what I think any of us "normal people" would experience owning our dream car. Keep it coming!!
Think you’re destroying myths about maintaining these wonderful cars Sam, well done indeed
That 993 GT really is a corker. I was fortunate enough to briefly drive a Midnight Blue example quite some years ago now. Money well spent on those sticky buttons. Collectively the work done has enhanced the car enormously. Please do keep the current wheels. Wishing STG many miles of happy motoring in his refreshed 360. Thank you.
From looking at the comments and my personal opinion, this is so worth the money. Interacting with DK engineering also gives an exclusive look into all sorts, such a cool place!
It's hard to understand doing anything but the bare minimum until you have something you genuinely care about and are proud of. Looks amazing!
Great insight into what it takes to keep a classic in top condition. As explained, the most expensive part of the work is the labour. Having worked on my own restoration I can appreciate the amount of time it takes to strip down and replace any part. Really useful video Sam.
Its great to see Sam is still owning and enjoying his car and restoring it! Rather than other youtubers constantly changing their “dream” cars with the same mod list to milk in youtube. Keep it up sam!
Everyone dreams of a mechanic like that! What a bloke, great customer service!
Love the restoration work, interior looks amazing. Such a great car.
I love your approach to preserving and improving the 360. It shows true passion for it.
You could see the guy's passion as he was describing the work they'd done. I don't own a Ferrari but if I did DK Engineering is where I'd take it. Awesome job.
Thanks for your detailed coverage of your 360 Sam. One of my favorite cars.
I'm looking forward to you taking your Ferrari on future road trips. Love those travel videos where you're "living" with the car.
Absolutely love this series. So so good!
I worked at a Ferrari dealership in high school. It was quite common for clients to bring in their older cars to have the buttons replaced. Now, yes, it's a lot of money for buttons. It kind of feels gross reaching for A/C controls in 110ºF Texas weather and the buttons feel like they had Coca Cola poured all over them. As the direct point of contact with your vehicle, it truly makes a difference. Glad to see you're enjoying the 360 Sam, look forward to the completed restoration.
Absolutely loving this series. My dad and I are starting our journey to 360 ownership, the only other dream car is an FF so its between those two, and watching how much you love your 360 is just further proof to me that I will love my hero haha
Gotta love a resto. Always money well spent. Love the love you showing for your F360 mate
Good on you Sam for doing all this to the car that you love. Absolutely loving this series. Keep up the amazing content sir 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Your 360 is looking really great. Looking forward to seeing the further work you have planned to make further improvements.
congrats on improving your 360 and making it as new as possible, loving the content..happy motoring
Impressive rejuvenation, awesome work, great to get the explanation from the expert on the how and why of work performed.
SO worth it! to make that feeling like it was new again ! so awesome Sam !
Sam, love the contact and passion for the 360. Bit of advise from someone who fully restored a few passion projects, IF you plan on using the car don't paint it unless its absolutely necessary. Because once its "perfect" you will never drive it in fear of a ding or paint chip or a million other thangs that happen when you use it. My advise is, drive it and enjoy the daylight out of this beautiful car!
Looks so much better! I think it is money well spent :) Looking forward to the video on getting the car resprayed!
Well done!!! This video….absolutely therapeutic for my OCD🤩
Amazing content, DK look to have done an incredible job with your car and it truly does look sooo much better for the work you’ve had done. I could totally justify it so I’m 100% with you. Looking forward to seeing it painted!! So much so I’ve hit the bell icon 😄
I love this restoration series. Love this as well as Paul Wallace’s one on his Murci. And I don’t at all think its a crazy thing to spend that amount of money on just buttons. It’s your interaction with the car, it needs to look and feel good. As a car audiohead myself, can’t wait to see u tackle the audio system next.
It's looking stunning and very original! Awesome job!
It looks stunning Sam, I can’t blame you, a car that’s so close to your heart deserves love and attention. Like you said, like a New Car day. Congrats 👏 👏
so clean and shiny, they did a lovely job. it does look like a new car. well done. grats.
It looks like it was in safe hands at DK because it looks absolutely amazing. Kudos to you for doing it right and I’m sure it only adds value to the car in the long term anyway. The plastics look amazing and must be great to see and touch when you drive but for me the wheels and rear diffuser just make it look brand new. Well done and congratulations.
DK really are in a league of their own! Awesome video!
Glad you got all the bugs sorted out on the 360! Good episode.
Now PLEASE do a segment on that beautiful 993 GT!!!
You have only done the right things!! Continue to refresh it like you are doing!!
My ocd was looking forward to watching this as soon as I saw it was up 😂 all the refresh bits are definitely worth spending the money on 👍 looking forward to paint
Looks great and glad to see you keeping it original.
Very satisfying watch
Reconditioned lovely congratulations
Finally, been really missing the 360 content. The interior is looking nice and minty 😍👌🏾
Mate what a transformation especially the switches, you now own an immaculate interior 360 congrats and the undertray 👍
The buttons are totally understandable. Looks great, Sam! People really don't understand the costs and time required to work on vehicles.
I totally get it. I’m happy you did it. Boy does your exhaust sound awesome.
That is practically brand new :O Great work! Awesome video :D
Congratulations 👍 Sam on getting the 360 back . Love that car definitely need a re fresh.
I agree with the buttons, looks good!!
it's a very very nice car! good work! Hope you will hold onto it for a long time.
You are the best steward your 360 could ever ver have Sam. Good on ya.
Totally understand well done. I have got sticky surface material in my Alfa, you absolutely notice it EVERY time you use the car !
I totally understand, Sam. The buttons are the things you touch and see the most in your car, so you notice every time.
cant wait to see the new paint job, this car already looks soo good now!
Nice job. The 360 is looking terrific. Did my own work on the sticky buttons on mine. Makes a big difference. Nice one
Those buttons etc do look rather good. Worth mentioning that as well as new OEM parts costing more that they would in time go sticky. A friend bought a hvac panel got an F355 he had. It came from the factory sealed and sticky inside. It had probably been on the shelves for some time.
Car looks fantastic.
It's clean Sam...well done chap...totally worth it...it's a keeper...enjoy...!
Lost your channel for a while I’m glad to be back!
Awesome job! That car will be beautiful by the end of this
Very understanding.congratulations
Those buttons look great. I’d have done exactly the same thing
It looks lovely Sam! Money well spent.
Money well spent, looks tremendous. Well done sir
Brilliant video Sam, always enjoy seeing work being done to older cars, to help bring them back to factory fresh. Re. the head unit, I'd look into having the 'PORSCHE' inscription removed from a single DIN PCCM head unit so you have CarPlay. If you weren't fussed about CarPlay and were fine with just Bluetooth and DAB functionality, the Blaupunkt Bremen SQR 46 and Continental Automotive/VDO radios are good options. The only downside is that the lighting colour of the units may not match with the 360's (isn't the 360's green?) and I'm not sure how difficult it'd be to have the bulb colour changed in the head units. Keep up the great work!
It is nice to see you get the 360 in a good shape.
Personally I would spend that money on it as well.
Keep up the good work.
Oh how I miss my 2004 360 ..Great Cars ..Money well spent sir 👍
Great video. Keep up the good work.
Looks so much better left with those wheels a great honest car getting well looked after 🤘😎🤘
Looking good. Agree on keeping it standard and as how Ferrari built it. Only a couple of my switches have gone sticky, I'm planning on sorting them over the winter, so will be interesting to see how that goes.
Having worked for a ferrari dealer and seen so many cars that suffered with the sticky buttons, its worth every single penny Sam. They do transform the interior especially on a warm day when you touch any button and they leave your hands black. Until you've owned a ferrari or worked on one you wont realise! Nice job
Worth every penny ! Interaction with the car is done through these switches.
Car looks brand new! Congrats!
I had sticky buttons in my car as well, before I restored them myself. I TOTALLY understand why you fixed it, and fixed it properly. The car deserves it!
Please share your knowledge on how to restore them, I’m sure it would be vastly appreciated. 🏴🇬🇧
@@johafo excellent job, they look great, well done. 🏴🇬🇧
I think the information that you need to buy an engraving laser for tens of thousands of dollars will suffice. If you want really restore it and not only make it bit better, than it is. Its impossible to restore them both cheap and good. You must make choice.
I used to own a Coupé Fiat (still regretting letting that go). The entire center console and part of the dashboard were coated in the sticky stuff. It took me a week of evenings and an entire weekend to strip that down and re-paint it matte black (including (dis)assembly). I completely understand why you had these buttons fixed and it looks amazing!
Hey Sam perhaps a solution for the radio the might be worth looking into is a FM radio transmitter they're fairly inexpensive and plug into the 12v power outlet and pretty straight forward to use!
Looks stunning and worth every penny.
Sam this a unique car! Excellent work, do not change anything!
Absolute congratulations, you proper legend. Money well spent. Now, make some videos with it!
Worth doing the buttons! Keep going with this one!
Totally get the button refurb’. Good job 👏
Happy to hear that you refurbished the buttons not replaced them. When you said you were spending that amount of money on replacements that would only deteriorate in the same way, I was left questioning your sanity lol. But his makes sense.
I would 100% have done the same as you. The joy of seeing it as perfect as this after that work far outweighs the money if you can afford it. Congrats pal!
Wheels are poppin!
A huge difference! Worth it!
Cool series on your 360, please stick with the red. Totally understand that switch rebuild, recently replaced some sticky knobs in my 997 911 as well.
Big 👍 Sam looks great and those wheels look fantastic 👌
Spot on Sam, I’m doing exactly the same process on my 928 👍🦘🇦🇺🙃
Having owned a 2006 Alfa Romeo GT totally get the sticky button fix. Can’t wait to see the paint work done and for the big birthday trip
I love that you are willing to put all that money in the car - and that you can afford it. Most of the cars are being ridden to death. Hopefully you can keep it as long as you want and enjoy every mile in it 🤞
Splendid job, who’d have thought such little jobs can make such large collective difference. Cars looking good :-)
Absolutely beautiful👌 I would have to get them buttons and other things sorted first as well,well worth it.
Now, after you get the paint done, go and get the white detail from the amazing Jim white at White details 🤙
the mechanic is a really nice guy. Really come out of his shell since the first video!
Awesome video Sam. Don't forget PPF or XPEL or whatever after the repaint!
I doubt that Sam has another £4000 for full PPF at the moment
Its quite easy to get a Bluetooth 12v receiver and connect it to a small amp (if your 360 does not have one). This will all hide away out of site and connect to your phone for music. Also look at adding a USB port for charging. Done this on a few classic cars and works well, with nothing to see but can even get your sat-nav voice over the speakers.
I did this on my f430 expensive, but it totally changed the feel of the interior, better than new
Looks great. Money very well spent.
Well done Sam. Money well spent 👍🏽
That looks really smart, 100% keep it looking like a Modena rather than a CS rep, love it!