California T battery

Close to making my dream of Ferrari ownership come true with a Cali T, which I hope to have end of this week/beginning of next (doing its annual service and some minor repairs to qualify for new Power warranty).

Over the winter/spring (in Portugal so fairly mildish) my just departed 992 C2S had the battery go flat a couple of times when not in regular use.

To avoid this with the Fezzer I got the latest CTEK which I will mount on the garage wall and have just ordered a compatible magnetic adaptor.

My plan is to have the car on the tender whenever its not on the road, all year round. I figure the magnetic charge point will make this pretty painless.

Is this overkill? or good practice?

 

Thanks for that!

Good advice thanks. won't be a daily, maybe once a week spring/summer. although bet it will be more initially haha first ferrari experience

 

Interesting. Did the charger just come loose in the trunk or did it have its own storage area? Thx

 

Good job its magnetic haha

 

Thank you so much @spaghetti_jet for taking the time to do that. That's a very cool cover. I will ping the dealer today and see if it does have the original charger. cheers

 

Not just you, I drove out of my garage with the magnetic charger still on haha. It came out from the extension adaptor, that magnet is really strong - no harm done as I heard the cable unclip and stopped the car. I do have a longer extension so maybe an option would be;

1. Front park the car into the garage so I have to run the cable over the car (or on the floor) to the magnetic charger mount. Surely even i will notice that!
2. The CTEK charger has an app - I may be able to set an alert so that it beeps when my phone comes into Bluetooth range.

Or it just becomes a habit I guess, I never forget to connect it, so hopefully i can remember to disconnect it LOL.

 

Happened once on the CTEK One - I think it was charging but the app didn't show it. Restarted charger and app and all good.

 

But even with the battery tender always connected if I don't drive the car for a week or 2 (invariably Autumn/Winter when the weather can be poor) then I start seeing all the sensor errors on starting the car:

TPSMC failure, manettino failure, tye pressure failure sometimes even chassis fault etc blah blah. Scared the crap out of me the first time. But now I know to relax, switch off the car wait a minute start it again and all errors disappear.

Oh the joys and foibles of Ferrari ownership

 

The battery was new when I purchased the car 2 years ago. The dealer replaced it (at their cost) on the service and inspection check so I could get the new Power warranty. It threw sensor errors from the start if it wasnt driven for a couple of weeks. and my CTEK One reports that its in top shape.

I have a mate with a 2017 488 with the same issue and another friend with a 2021 Roma who has similar.

I always mention it on a service ( in fact it was in just 2 weeks ago) and they always have a look and give the sensors and battery a clean bill of health.

But its a good suggestion thanks, I may just get it load tested anyway..

 

Did the same thing again yesterday afternoon, hadn't driven the car for 6 days or so.
It's 24-7 on the tender when not in use.
More annoying than usual yesterday as the errors didnt go away with a restart. had to drive it for a few minutes then stop, restart and it was all good.
Tbh the car is on the market now and I was actually driving it to a dealer to get a valuation etc.