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"The Diablo&amp;#039;s V12 has two $5000 engine computers, which occasionally fail. Lamborghini is sold out of replacements. On paper, a used super-exotic makes sense. You get the mind-blowing performance and heartbreaking looks, but at a lower price than a new hypercar, and with no yearlong stay on a dealer&amp;#039;s waiting list. But\u2014surprise!\u2014the buy-in is only half the damage. Parts are far from cheap and often hard to come by. Many jobs require purpose-built tools. And for countless reasons, supercars are rarely designed for ease of maintenance\u2014the same task that takes an afternoon on your mother&amp;#039;s Toyota could consume five days on a McLaren. We polled owners and mechanics to find out what makes working on these cars aggravating, expensive, and just plain weird.  McLaren F1 McLaren estimates annual running costs to be $30,000. Oil changes are $8000. Owners can have their cars serviced at the factory in Woking, which employs two full-time F1 techs. (Ralph Lauren does this with his three F1s. The money from that blazer you bought goes to good use.)  The factory generally insists on replacing tires ($3000 each) in pairs. McLaren scrubs in every set sold, for free.  Service can take up to six weeks, not including transit to the UK. (Ten days door-to-door by air, seven weeks by boat.)   &amp;quot;The car is appreciating so fast, the repair bills will never catch up to the price.&amp;quot; \u2014The bright side, according to Lauren&amp;#039;s mechanic, Mark Reinwald.  Ferrari Enzo Resale value on the 650-hp Enzo works as it does with all Ferraris\u2014service records are crucial. &amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Every time something was done to the car, you better have the piece of paper that goes with it,&amp;quot; says Michigan&amp;#039;s Ken Lingenfelter, the owner of our photo car. If you don&amp;#039;t, get ready to knock far more than the service cost off your asking price.  &amp;amp;nbsp; $6,000 Oil or shop fluids can irreversibly damage a $6000 carbon-ceramic rotor, so a set of factory covers protects them during service. Each dealer must buy a $10,000 tool package and this scissor lift for Enzo work. (It won&amp;#039;t hold the new LaFerrari, either.) Scheduled Maintenance  15,000 miles: Oil change and air filters. Not bad. 30,000 miles: Spark plugs, fuel filters, and timing chain (an engine-out service\u2014ouch). 15 years (mandatory): Seatbelt pretensioner replacement.  Topping off after an oil change takes an hour:  Add eight quarts oil, idle V12 until warm.* Run engine at 4000 rpm for two minutes, idle for two minutes. Add oil one quart at a time until full. Total capacity: 12 quarts.  *Warm up the Enzo&amp;#039;s V12 with the $60,000 engine lid open, and the carbon-fiber body will expand enough that the lid won&amp;#039;t close until the car cools.  Porsche Carrera GT Like other Porsches, Weissach&amp;#039;s 205-mph, V10 super-Boxster runs 15,000-mile oil-change intervals. And by supercar standards, a valve-adjustment service (30,000 miles, engine out, four days) hits once every blue moon. Everything else is, predictably, nuts. $3,000&amp;amp;nbsp;Oil Change Three reasons why:  A set of four ramps ($1100) is required to get the car over the hoist arms. The rear-heavy car has to be fixed to the lift so it doesn&amp;#039;t tip or fall off. A $550 set of \u00BE-inch aluminum plates bolts to the car for the purpose. (Many owners leave them installed.) Two engine-oil filters\u2014one replaceable and one reusable screen. Strip the drain-plug hole in the aluminum cover, you&amp;#039;re out $6800.  Service your Carrera GT, or just buy a used Cayman? Replacing the trick ceramic clutch: $25,000 including labor. A full brake job\u2014$30,000\u2014is a steal by comparison.When the CGT was new, dealers had to buy a special $10,000 table and an $8000 jig to hold the car&amp;#039;s engine during service. *The battery hides behind a panel in the right rear wheel well and only fits through the hole one way. All the more reason to use the sold-with-every-car trickle charger.  Lamborghini LM002 It&amp;#039;s not a supercar, but the Rambo Lambo used enough parts from the superbin. Roughly 300 were made from 1986 to 1993, using the V12 from the Countach.  $5,000 per tire! Pirelli recently resumed production of LM002-specific Scorpion tires, although without the early sidewall ridge for flotation in loose sand. A set of five is discounted to $15,000. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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