Engine light came on...

Try plugging in a OBD reader and see what codes it gives you.

 

Did you put fuel in it recently? If you did and didn't tighten the cap firmly it will give you the light... Ask me how I know

+1 for the OBD reader.

 

Welcome to Ferrari ownership. It is a right of passage that you must deal with a CEL pretty much as soon as you take possession of the car. If you are lucky, it's nothing like the gas cap. If you are unlucky, you need new catalytic converters. It's a roll of the dice, good luck!

 

Yep welcome to the exotic car ownership hahahaha.
Most get a CEL at some point but the best thing to do is NOT to panic for a start!
You need to get a scanner and plug it in (or get someone else too) and see what the codes reads.
Post the code here and you'll get bombarded with info.

Who would have thought the petrol cap not screwed tight enough can cause this, but it can.

In the front hood, on the LHS there is a knob. Turn it and leave it off for about 10 minutes. This shuts the system down, kind of like a PC reboot. It solves things all the time.
You will need the stereo code as well when you get up and running again.

Try this first and see how it goes.

 

I will get a code if I don't get gas or tighten my gas cap every three weeks or so.

 

Take it to Pepboys, autozone or equivalent. They have OBD2 scanner, plug it into port below the dash on left of steering wheel. Get the code and post it here.

Likely something stooped simple.

 

Mine came on after my 3rd or 4th drive. Replaced 2 O2 sensors. Then came on again a month later for the same sensor. Replaced it again and haven't heard from it since. Like others have said not a huge deal but really annoying.

 

My "slow down" light came on only once....on the way to propose to my present wife....always a good joke that the car was trying to warn me...hasn't come on since...

 

LMAO

 

Do not let it go- find out what it is! Could be anything from a fuel cap to simple sensor to MAF or a header pre-cat about to let go- catch that last one soon enough and save yourself thousands on a new downstream cat (I know this from experience). Could be anything...but I wouldn't ignore it like I might on some other cars.

 

Could be that my slow down light was that exactly...drove it another 5k miles but at the clutch replacement we found all kinds of debris from the right side pre-cat in the screen of the main cat...dodged that bullet...

 

I hope it stays off for you! It could have been a weird mis-fire or sketchy ground (I recall my mechanic checking all grounds one time). Unfortunately it could come back on though- mine went off then came back on and we kept getting fuel trim errors of some sort...I don't remember if the weird fuel trim faults (as read by the OBD plug/my mechanics's Ferrari SD computer) was when the MAF went bad (and then the other MAF a year or so later) or related to when I had the pre-cat issue. If it comes on again, get the codes checked as it can be so many things!

Good luck with it and in the meantime continue to enjoy the car! Worst case it's something that needs to be fixed and then you have to move on (as difficult as that is with some of the invoices )
-Andrew

 

Generally a bad idea to do a reset to get the light to turn off. Most of the time you have not fixed anything, just hidden it from sight (the old, outta sight outta mind fix). Get an OBDII reader and check the error so you know what actually caused it to go off. Otherwise you could have turned what could have been a minor repair into a big one down the road.

 

As everyone have recommended, get an OBD2 reader. There's quite a few thread here on which ones to use.

As everyone have also already mentioned, it could be a loose gas cap, O2 sensors or dirty / bad MAF's. My CEL also comes on once in a while. Then it goes away on its own after a while.

I cleaned my MAF's and the CEL went away. I determined my MAF's were not really bad. The thermistors got dirty so when I cleaned my MAF sensors with MAF cleaners the CEL fault code went away.

 

Here are the fault codes. Please see attached.
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Joe- If you go to ferraridatabase.com, you can find all kinds of tech data for your 360, including owners manuals, the terrible workshop manuals, and the P-Codes just posted.

 

Well remember when I said my CEL wasn't a big deal earlier in this post. Well approx 100mi after getting my tranny fixed my Italian biatch decided to stall in stop and go traffic in the middle of the freeway (embarrassing). I got it started but quickly found out she wouldn't idle without constant pedal. I got it to the shop barely and codes show left O2 sensor again. Apparently there's two (01). One is new which made the CEL go out on replacement. They swapped the other left one with a good one and they say the car runs perfect again. Upon hearing this I said to replace all of them. Also they claim MAFs fuel pumps etc are fine. This car has had a CEL light off and on most of the time I've had but always ran fine. I guess my questions are can a bad O2 sensor really cause the car to stall because frankly it ran fine even with CEL lights on. Also in the midst of removing and reinstalling the tranny what could have been loosened, nicked, missed etc that would cause the stalling and CEL codes?


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If the car gets really confused about how rich/lean it is running, then yes, it can run horrible like you describe. The O2 sensor is supposed to help it adjust timing to get detonation right so that it's burning the gas correctly.

I'd be curious why you are getting fouled up sensors so easily. Are they melting? Damaged? Dirty in some way? Or do they look totally fine?

 

I suspect the reset will hide the code for the next 15 - 20 min of (continuous) driving

Hope I'm wrong...as you're just about coming up on the time the roll over valves start effing up...

Jeez, I hope not....

 

Rollover valves, rollover valves?? Geez what next lol. You can see I haven't had a Ferrari for long.


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Roll over valves and Fuel Pumps are known to go bad and starts leaking as the car ages. Plastic parts.......

Mine was replaced by the dealer at around 12K miles, when my car was 10 years old.

Dan