458 2011 Italia - Battery

Many opinions on the subject if you do a search. I would pass on the Ferrari battery for sure, no need to pay for the Ferrari sticker on it.....and get an aftermarket brand that maybe you have had success with in the past. Question, how old is your battery and have you kept it on a battery tender? I am guessing my battery is about 4 years old (bought the car used and don't really know for sure) and works perfectly. So for me, during my life with cars, I have had great success with "DieHard" batteries from Sears. Now I know Sears is long gone and the brand was picked up by Advance Auto so I would have to have some faith that they carried on the quality that the original DieHard's had. So for me that is what I plan on doing when the time comes. Others here I have read like "InterState" and in fact, my Ferrari dealer said that is what they use for replacements. Other step up to the lithium style etc, but thats not for me.

 

Costco
Interstate H6 (48) AGM - 760 CCA
$169 (with $15 core)
30 min diy swap

 

+1 on the Interstate

 

just another option, I use the Odyssey 48-720 in my car. Perfect fit and it doesn't have any issues cranking over etc.

 

My Ferrari dealer recently replaced my 5 1/2 year old Ferrari battery (original one when car was built) with an Interstate battery on my 2015 458 Italia.

I had no issues/problems with the original Ferrari battery (not one single issue) and none so far with the Interstate battery.

I buy Interstate batteries for my Mercedes Benz SonderKlasse variants. No problems whatsoever, they are a quality brand in my experience.

Cheers!

 

Also agree with interstate. Used them (supplied by Ferrari dealer) on my F430’s and they’re perfectly good. Don’t understand why a lot of people buy these $3000 batteries that defy gravity or whatever they do… no need.


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Interstate
What 430F1 said, my experiences too.


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Porsche has settings stored in memory for battery date of installation, type, and number of amp-hrs., and usually a serial number, too. You input them at time of replacement via a tool like iCarSoft. The idea is that the battery charging profile gets altered over time to compensate for age, then gets reset. If you switch from AGM to lithium ion, you should change the setting for that, too.
Sometimes some of the systems “forget” from being disconnected, so you have to do things like cycle the window switches up and hold them up and down so they can relearn auto up/down.
Disconnecting the battery also resets the smog monitors, so you have to do a drive cycle to reset the smog monitors to pass a smog test. This applies to all cars, including Ferraris. If you are not close in time to your next test, you can just drive, as most often just driving the car normally (including a number of cold starts) for some hundreds of miles will also reset them.


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