Mondial battery

Might be helpful to mention which Mondial you are speaking of (year and variant), and also update that information in your profile.

I'd also suggest that prevention is the key, as jump starting is generally very bad for your alternator. As the alternator then has to work overtime trying to charge your dead battery.
Thus, better to maintain and check your battery condition periodically, and use a battery tender religiously.

 

The battery posts on the oem battery are under the body area for protection from rain, although there is also a plexiglass cover for that purpose too. Some people use the red Optima battery with the posts in the centre of the battery, that makes the terminals accessible to jumper cables.

Makes sense to have a remote positive terminal, but I am not sure any Mondial owners have done this. I might do this, but I hooked up connectors for a battery maintainer, and have an expensive Northstar agm battery, and have never had to do a boost. If you remove the windshield fluid tank, you can remove a cover piece that will allow access to the battery, so that is what I would do in a pinch if I needed a boost.

This link might help...

https://iboughtaferrari.wordpress.com/tag/change-battery-ferrari-mondial/

 

My Mondial is the 3.2, yours does look like much less clearance there. I thought the t was pretty much the same at the front of the car. Looks like that is not the case.

 

Here is an extract from an old Fchat thread, the only instance of solving the t jump start I could find. Other comments say you can get at the battery through a space just behind the headlight bucket, but that does not look viable or safe to me, the odds of arcing the battery by contacting the jumper clamp to the body would be very high with such little access room.

"Introducing: "Hank's Mondial t Positive Post Battery SPUD" Just trim an end off a short basic battery cable, solder it all together and find or make, a protective cover for the hot end. Simply install the spud at the positive battery connection, and let the end of the spud protrude up thru the open space.

Now, opening your bonnet will probably take more elapsed time, than that needed to (properly)connect a jumper cable to your battery.

Cheers guys & gals,

Hank"

 

Again, an ounce of prevention. I have had four Ferraris over the past 21 years, one for 10 years. Never had to jump start any of them. While inconvenient, I have AAA as my back up...I can just have it flat bedded home.
But, I always replace my battery every 5 to 6 years, test it annually with a battery load tester, and (when I can remember ), keep the car on a battery tender. For most Ferrari applications, an AGM type battery is preferred, since they do not require periodic checking of the electrolyte level.

 

Sounds pretty complicated to reinstall the wheel.
It's a little easier to reach the battery on a 355, but not much. Still have to jack up the front of the car, remove the right front wheel, remove the screws and front portion of the fender liner to get to the battery. Basically impossible to check the electrolyte level from that angle, which is why an AGM battery is preferred.

I bought wheel hangers probably 17 years ago...best to use two, makes things even easier....but I don't like knurling. Mine are perfectly smooth, with a slightly tapered tip. Maybe my OCD, but the knurling can mess up the wheel inserts on your wheels. Mine do have a hole drilled through them, so if they get stuck, I can shove a small screwdriver through them to use as a lever.

 

The good news is the t heater motor is typically a Bosch unit, part number 0130063015 and widely available through Rock Auto, etc.. The bad news is the whole dash has to come apart to get the big black heater box out from under the dash. The unit is believed to be from a Fiat tractor, although some enterprising fellows I recall may have crossed it to a BMW 5 series unit of similar vintage. But it is the labour to get at this unit that makes the fan repair a challenge.

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If there is an electric pump for the HVAC system, it is usually located up front, near the heater core. At least that is what I saw on my F355 spider.

 

https://mondialt.wordpress.com/resources/

 

Crazy as it sounds, but I don't think Ferrari intended its Mondial t owners to replace the battery themselves, nor have the car jump-started.

 

Per the Owner's Manual, this is as far as it goes. In other words, nothing about how to replace the battery.

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https://www.ricambiamerica.com/car-diagrams/ferrari/v6-v8/mondial-group/mondial-t/air-conditioning-system.html

Maybe it is the pump number 18 in the diagram making some noises?

 

In addition to a battery tender as suggested above, I'd like to share my ultimate back-up plan if anything else fail:

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A Lithium Jump Starter: about $60 at COSTCO and the tiny + cable will relatively reach the + of the battery w/o having to remove anything. Plus with this one you can use it to power/charge (built-in wireless charger) your phone in case you're really stranded in the middle of nowhere!

 

ERRATUM:

 

My 328 came with these:

https://www.amazon.com/Allstar-Performance-ALL76139-Battery-Charger/dp/B003BZZA5Q/ref=lp_15720011_1_21?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1588084179&sr=1-21

I have always thought they were Ferrari original but guess not. They are installed at the top of the spare wheel well, plastic insulator in place. These make jump starting your car, or using your car to jump start other cars an easy job. Takes minutes to install.

 

Just gotta be super careful on that positive terminal...lots of metal the positive clamp could accidently ground to....I recall on my 308GTS, the previous owner installed ones of these https://www.summitracing.com/parts/pco-6385pt?rrec=true