550 will not start..Help needed!

Roger- Sounds like you need a new battery.

 

Was it the battery?

 

I'll wager it was the battery. They just don't last long in that hot engine bay. I'm surprised he even got it started with a bad battery. Unlike other cars, seems that the battery in a Ferrari is like a bulb in a string of Christmas tree lights. If one link doesn't work, the whole system goes out.

 

Roger,
Go to autoparts store and buy a spray can of starting fluid. crank motor like you want to start it and have a friend spray fluid into the air cleaners. If the car fires up and runs for a few seconds and then dies start looking for a fuel delivery problem. Fuel pumps, fuses to pumps relays to pump massively clogged up fliters and fouled fuel pump from internal debris breakdown.

If the car does not run on starter fluid then it is time to look for an ignition problem.

Any last things done to car before shutdown 3 months ago like vigorous washing?

 

Try resetting your inertial switch down next to your battery. It may have been nudged when your battery was being replaced. If the car is in a wreck or turns over, it cuts power to your fuel pumps, however I don't know if it also cuts the starter....

If this has been tripped, you "should" be getting an icon on your MFD that looks like a gas station pump with a line through it.
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Nothing more frustrating than a car that won't start. I found this. P0600 - OBD II Trouble Code If it's an electronic problem, you will need someone with the right software to diagnose, an Indy Ferrari shop or a dealer. Have you changed your ECUs, mounted on the inside of the engine compartment...one on each fender? The new ones are green. Usually one breaks (due to the heat they are exposed to in the engine bay) and results in a "Slow Down" light and "limp mode" shutting down the bank with the faulty ECU. But since you jump started the car, it could have fried them both at the same time and that's why it won't start. Or, as the link says, you could have fried any part that is linked and because it's like a string of Christmas Tree lights, the whole string is dead.

 

Actually, you can solve 0600 without special tools but special tools are way faster. Often 0600 can be really simple like a nonfunctional A/C very common in Ferraris and then the serial link lacks communication with the A/C and then you get the code. Some would ask why the A/C of all things well the ECU for 1 thing reads the draw of the A/C and ups the idle and turns on fans. We started with points and condensers and the electronics now all link together in an incestuous way and we can't get them out. The impossibility of deleting the alarm is a classic example of this.

 

FBB damn that alarm anyway. Lol it is not my favorite part of the car so to speak.

 

Did you try with the starter fluid? Easy and effective way to diagnose if it's a fuel or spark related issue. You can also remove the spark plug after cranking, take a picture and post. You can smell them as well to see if you are getting fuel into the cylinders.

Then you can remove one spark plug, ground it well to something , and have someone check for spark. From there we can see

 

No need to buy anything if you have not gone through even more simple basics. You did not tell us you got the inertia switch light. I hate threads that don't give complete info then ask us to guess. So lets go back to basics even further...do you have gas in the car?

 

Where do you buy ethanol free fuel?

 

In Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Iowa. We drink all the ethanol to keep from freezing...

 

That's your mass airflow sensor. Unplug them and clean them. Check that connections are clean and connected and that wires are not broken. I'm guessing that's a symptom rather than a cause, though. The car should at least start and idle rough with one dirty, or disconnected, or intermittently connected MAS. Then the slow down light should come on and

The triangles under the wheels refer to your suspension mode. Ignore that for now. That light will go off, unless your actuator wires are kinked, then unwind them.

One thing to consider is that there are two of everything that make the engine run. If the engine will not start at all, I would be looking at parts in the systems that are before either fuel or ignition split into two, because it's unlikely that two parts would break at exactly the same time.

Question: Has your gas tank been pulled and the plastic parts repaired? While sitting, those could have deteriorated enough to crumble when you started the car and are now clogging your fuel line at or near the tank.

 

At a race track or airport in CA.

 

Pulling the tank is not technically difficult. It's just laborious. Gotta drain the tank and pull it out through the trunk. You would only want to do that after you confirmed that it is leaking. The smell of gasoline in the trunk is the first clue. Mine was repaired when my car was 10 years-old (five years ago). My car spent time in Texas and Florida before it came to CA, so I have no idea what it had been exposed to. Yours may not be rotting at all if your car has been fed a steady diet of ethanol-free fuel. But I understand that some have dissolved from the inside with pieces of plastic found floating in the tank. Easy to assume that small chunks or even dissolved plastic goo could clog the fuel line. Trying to consider what would happen to a car while sitting that would make it not want to start.

Just throwing that out as one possible cause. My bet is still on something electronic causing fuel starvation. Rodents eating wires? Dead battery and then trying to start with a battery charger are, IMO, the most important clues to follow. I still think that you fried something at that point, possibly both ECUs. These ignition systems are delicate. I have heard others say to never jump start or to even start the car via compression downhill because of surges in voltage. Not sure if those are old wives tales or not.

You have my sympathies. It's tough trying to track down this type of gremlin. We all want to help, but also are following to find out what to do when the same thing inevitably happens to us.

 

For California,
Ethanol-free gas stations in the U.S. and Canada

Bill
FL

 

You make no sense. My guess is you trying to say car started on starting fluid. That means you got no fuel. You confirmed no fuel in the fuel rails. My two 550's will not crank if the alarm is armed. If the car cranks the alarm is off.

If all true above then I would open the panel in front of the rear bonnet and hot wire the fuel pumps with 12V. If the car runs fine now then you know the problem is getting power to the pumps. Do this and report back for the next step.