Intermittent Brake failure on 458

My Spider was 2013........We now know what the problem has been, as Ferrari have recalled the cars.

 

The car only had 4000 kms on the clock. I bought it used, but the previous owner had driven 1000kms. The service centre could not conclude anything because the police took the car after the accident. Car was 30 minutes into a gentle drive, was plenty warm, but not hot at all, as it had not gone over 30kms until I applied the brakes at 90kms and found the pedal hard and with seriously compromised deceleration. Up until then the car had given no sign of brake problems. I had driven for 30 years at that stage in my life and had driven many exotic cars on the road and track. ( no offence taken) No mistakes....Brake booster let go.

 

100 % !!!! I could not agree more. Mine took the life of an innocent man.

 

What are you talking about ????....Read the press about the Hong Kong accident in June 2015 !! I am VERY real.

 

Todd....I don't know you, but it would be an understatement to say that you know more than nothing, apparently about everything.
That accident involved a Deutsche Bank ( not Barclays) executive, with a 30 year unblemished driving record. It happened at 7 am ( not 3am) in the morning, under his building, when he was on the way to work. What you say about the trial, is as incorrect as your other plainly factually incorrect statements. I lived in Hong Kong for 8 years and know about 10000 times more about the intimate details of this case than you, so please stop embarrassing yourself by making statements that are so ridiculously incorrect that they can only be for the enjoyment of 5 year olds. The statements you made can be read on-line anywhere and still you get them wrong, which says everything about you.
In my life, I have owned 8 Ferrari's, 3 Astons, 12 911's and numerous other exotic cars. My understanding of the automotive world makes yours look like your typical mono-syllabic and uneducated answer. Short and of little use.
Why don't you take some time to read the links below to see that there is a real problem with these cars:

https://thebrakereport.com/ferrari-brake-lawsuit-explained/
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ferrari-is-sued-by-us-drivers-over-brake-defect-2024-03-19/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-19/ferrari-sued-for-failing-to-fix-life-threatening-brake-defect?embedded-checkout=true

I too long for the days when Sahelanthropus, ( you can Google it) such as yourself can return to their caves and stop attempting to interact with the serious and educated people on this forum, who have a solid grasp of the facts and of reality and who are attempting to stop each other being hurt of worse by our cars.

 

By the way....The accident happened at the entrance to a car park, but the car had rolled, for 118 metres, with its brakes on ( CCTV footage shows the brake lights) on a public dual carriageway, underground, lit, dry and with no ingress or egress ......But why am I telling you......you don't care about the facts.

 

And when I say...More than nothing...I mean...Little more than nothing.

 

There are so many. I personally know 9 owners who have lost their brakes on 458's and they all know others. There is absolutely no point in trying to engage Todd Clout about this. Just read his posts, it will tell you all you need to know about how much he knows on this topic ( which is nothing) and on most others things, which seems to be near nothing. He even gets simple facts, that are in the public domain, on the web and in print, completely incorrect. Why do us sensible and informed people even bother engaging with him. It is possible we enjoy seeing him self-flagellate in public.
Maybe is a Bosch, brake booster engineer !!
I am sure he is likely a 16 year old who has never and will never touch or drive a Ferrari.

Todd....If you are reading this, reach out to Jeff Rose and his friends, who are part of one of the US class actions and ask him if he or any of the others are ignorant or if they believe there are no problems with the 458.
Lawyers are only involved, on a no win, no fee basis, because they think there is a case to win.
If there were no braking issues with 458's, why would the lawyers try? Just to waste their own time and firm's money? You clearly do not understand contingent funding.
We know who is ignorant and it is definitely not the owners of the 458's in question.

 

Errr...What ?? I would say he is almost never right from what I have read and he can't even scrape data correctly from the internet without making a total hash of it and embarrassing him or her self. Celebrating his incompetence is odd and frankly, when we are talking about topics where people have lost their lives or their liberty, or their mental health, we should be much more careful and respectful of the facts.