2nd gear is stiff

Have you tried a search? There are quite a lot of threads on Fchat on this subject

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/technical-q/101885-pap348-gearbox-oil-change-10.html

 

Perfectly normal, unless it persists after the car has warmed up. With a few caveats...

At any temp, my car (and from what I hear many others) doesn't like being shoved into second in about the top of the bottom 1/4 of the rev range. She either wants to be wound up and shifted quickly or not spinning fast at all and gently guided in.

At any rate, just make sure you do not do anything the car doesn't want to do (you will know) and you should be fine.

 

most of the 348's do it to some degree.
Lots of posts including some of my own gear oil experiment.

shuffle from 1st to 3rd until she warms up..

as previously mentioned, don't force the car to something she doesn't want to...

try changing your gear oil (or having it changed) to some of the recommended ones. Should help it out.

 

I think it is normal. I've had the same "problem" in my F355 since I bought it. Once all the fluids are warmed-up, it ****s much smoother.

 

Quite Normal but some will say theirs don't do it. I just go 1st to 3rd until up to temp, simples.

 

Yes and yes - see the link in post #3. I changed to the superlight about a week ago and this is after doing a change using the "proper" NS about 2 months ago which made no difference. Gearchange is so much nicer now even from cold.

In the UK it cost £85 for 5 litres (you need 5 as each bottle is slightly less than 1lt and the box takes 4 lts)

 

This any good to you?

You 5 x RED LINE SuperLight ShockProof™ Gear Oil 70w-75 -1 US Quart (0.946 litre) but in reality you use only 4 of them + a tiny bit from fith bottle

It is yellow in colour
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Shell Helix Ultra 5w40 - you need 11ltrs

 

I use Red Line 10W40

 

Liqui-moly 5w-40 full syn.

Mobilized reply by David

 

+1 on Liqui Moly 5w40.

 

WOW, what a difference!!! I put the Redline in and had instant gratification. The car shifted from 1st to 2nd and back no issues. Shifting through all gears was better, most def the best option to what Ferrari recommends.

 

I'm not affiliated with the seller. My research shows this is a good price for Red Line products so want to pass it on to fellow f-chatters. I recieved my order in approx. 5 days. There seems to be few bids so I waited till the end of the auction and purchased one case for $70.00 + shipping.

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Death, taxes, and stiff 2nd gear in Ferrari.....

 

I seen that on ebay, I didn't see it again after it ended. That is a great deal on it! I ended up paying 15.00 per qt free shipping on ebay. Still not bad compared to other sites I've seen.

 

It really fixed my problem! No grind, no clunk! It felt great, 1st time I've felt it feel so good. That was straight from install, no warm up!!!

 

I was only just thinking yesterday about giving an update on this and was just to say that it just gets better and better with the more miles I do

No brainer to do IMO