Burned Enzo's tail-light...

Hi all!

I got to take this picture a few months ago. It's the tail-light of a client's Enzo. Apparently, as per the official version, it was burned due to hot gases comming out of the exhaust.

Only this one got burned, the other three remaining perfect... Looks strange, doesn't it?

Any one has a clue about this problem?

Nowadays the car is back in its perfect shape. Well, some panels look a bit bizarre, like not perfeclty adjusted, but I believe it's kinda normal with Ferraris...

For your information, this car is used on a classic "supercar-in-a-city way": it's always parked indoor, and only driven to the hotel when the owner is in the city and he asks for this car to be delivered. Then it's run mainly inside the city to go to fashionable places, pubs and restaurants, and then back into the car-park, where it stays for several weeks or months 'till the owner is back. In any case, there is a person who takes care of the collection (which includes another one, a yellow Carrera GT, one or two Veyrons -still checking about that-, an MC-12, a Phantom, a Maybach 62, etc...), and starts them often, rides them, and so on.

So, what do you think?


Ps. Sorry about the quality, I took the picture with a cell-phone.
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Sounds like this guy has a great collection of cars.
Have other Enzo owners experienced this?? Seems strange to me. Only 1 out of 4 like this. Looks like the plastic lense is sun-damaged/persished, but is obviously not the case here. I would put it down to a crap casting of the plastic lense mate from the factory. Not sure the exhaust heat would cause that. Maybe over many many years, yes. But not on a 3 year old car. That or a light bulb blew and caused this damage to the lense, but also unlikely IMO. Either way........its all repaired now.

 

That's weird! I drove mine in city traffic and nothing like that happend. Maybe switch to a Tubi exhaust.

 

I've seen a red Enzo driven by Jean Todt showing smoke coming out of the engine... and it was a winter morning, but the car had driven slowly down the Champs Elysées during an exhibition.

On the other hand, the guy who takes care of this person's cars, claimed that this problem happened when entering the car-park, accelerating to pass through the door and heat coming out of the exhaust....

 

I was behind an Enzo with acrid, brown smoke coming out of it while crawling in traffic on a hill outside of Monterey. I was told this was from the clutch.

 

This would be true.

Not the best stuff to breath BTW.

 

That would be condensation.

 

How could the exhaust burn the tail light without deteriorating the rest of the body panels above the exhaust ?

 

I don't think it did. I think the LED's flashbulbed.

 

+1. Last saturday here in Rome. Was behind an Enzo with the same smoke and a smell of burned clutch.

 

Should be, yes..... But the fact is that one of Ferrari F1 staff members that was driving with Mr. Todt got off the car, looked at the smoke, and made a funny face....

I found the pics I took that day. Sorry again for the quality, it was a tiny old camera

Here is the sequence: (sh*t, can't hotlink pics from my photobucket!)
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What, a guy named Pyrus talking about burned stuff?

 

first time i see that with a Ferrari....and with a Enzo! wow.
i remember a Diablo it was the same problem comes from catalysator behind the car too hotest.

 

beautifull car and rims looks good in this color i like that.

 

It definitely does look like burned acrylic - I work with tons of the stuff and we heat it up a lot and thats what happens, it bubbles just like that.

Weird thing is it takes maybe ~400 degrees of heat, maybe more to get it to do that. I would be utterly amazed if the lens got THAT hot and it didn't affect the rest of the paint. Also would be amazed at how the exhaust could reach the lens and still be that hot in such a confined area.

Maybe the car was on fire and the lens just hasnt been replaced yet?

 

I know a guy with a Murcie that melted his license plate rim while on a road trip. That's quite a bit different situation though considering the exhaust placement on the Lambo.

 

You are quite right. That is not good. I would have that checked out.



When I drove P 4/5 there there was less traffic.
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Granted I don't own an enzo, but I was thinking the same thing when I read the original post. I don't see how just one of the lenses could be affected from exhaust gasses, if at the very least the one next to it wasn't, and most likely the body panel would have seen some effects as well. I would guess a wiring problem inside or a faulty led/bulb.

PS: wonderful picture as always Jim

 

I had a bulb replaced and it wasnt LED.

 

That's what I would have thought to see something happen to the lense like in the picture, but Jim said LED and I guess anything is possible when you're dealing with electronics so it could have caused marks like that.

 

No mine wa a regular fillament bulb, That I coud see happining, but LED is too cool of a light.

 

P 4/5 has 599 taillights which I think are a combo of both. (See photo earlier) Are Rev white lights LED in Enzo? Either way it looks like a defective tail light that shorted out and blew the bulbs to me. It also looks like the short/bulb blow started in the center white reversing assembly/bulbs. An arc/short could have done that.

 

No they are both fillimant bulbs, you can buy a LED replacemnt for them. I read somthing on a 360 owner here replacing his reverse lights with LED because of cracking. Here is the Link
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120072&highlight=led

 

Thanks. This may be the problem.

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Question:

Is there some requisite number of posts, views, or hours that any other Enzo thread exists here that triggers the eventual highjack to an entirely different car or is it just kneejerk reaction?

I'm fascinated.