Cars & Food & Radio 4: A Midlife Monologue: Batteries, Ferrari electrics and the Impossibility of the Electric Ferrari Who designed the electrics on my 355 and why didn't they get a German in to help?
That guy is a putz. His biggest ***** about the 355 is the battery location? That is his "electrical" concern?? He obviously never owned a Jaguar and its Lucas electrical characteristics...or a late model GM product that has batteries so buried it takes a week to extract them. He deserves the Audi he likes some much. I hope he has since sold his 355 to a real man. What a putz.
John I have owned my ferrari for a long time and I have yet to replace the battery. My 355 and I believe the 348 both have the cut off knob right where your wire came out. What I am trying to say is that inmany years I have not even needed a trickle charger and that's leaving the car for 6 months at a time. So the good news is you will probably only need to change it once so it is not as bad as you might think.
OMG that was much ado about nothing. The proper charger location is the lighter in the cabin. Mine is under the rear bonnet. I would never consider fastening it to the actual battery.
I think it has to be charged at the battery if you are going to use the factory cutoff otherwise no power goes anywhere
.... I hook up a battery top up unit (trickle charger) everytime the car is not in use at the charge points outlined (there the same in the 348 as the 355 by the looks of it) and going on 5 years the car starts perfectly even after a month or more in hybernation (by that time I have Ferrari withdrawal symtoms and have to get it out so its never been dormant longer than that ).
Y'all might want to read the above comment again. Hooking a tender cable to the battery and having it pop out in the front truck is pretty easy stuff and avoids confusion when storing the car with the cut off switch in the off position.
I use the tender and I connect it at the back. It's easy and simple. No need to bother with the cutoff switch, just leave it on all the time.
Its not that unusual. The Mid year Corvettes had the battery in a similar spot on the left side behind the left front wheel. required the wheel to be removed to replace. The battery is a huge chuck of weight, the lower you can get it, and any thing else which is heavy, in the car the better it will handle.
