599 - Check OK light on before or after engine started?

Simple enough question since I had an electrical meltdown this weekend for no apparent reason. Please verify and answer this: When you turn on your key, do you have a "check OK" light come on before the engine is started or after. I see the "check" light coming on first, but I can sit and wait for an hour and never see the "check OK" light come on. I start the engine and the "Check OK" light comes on after 10 seconds for two seconds then goes out. I'd really like to do this as a poll but don't think I'm allowed to. Please look closely at your TFT screen while doing this as I though I was seeing Check Ok when it was actually just Check.

Thanks for your advice. Now on to my overnight reset!

PS Car seems to be performing great with no errors after the last reset except for the Check OK note on the TFT. A friend of mine who owns a Super Leggera drove it yesterday and called it spectacular. I'm just so new to it, I'm not sure what is perfect, 100% performance and limp mode where it's dialed back some.

 

According to your owners manual check is followed by check ok which tells you it is ok to start the car

 

As Greyboxer says, turn the ignition on, wait 3-5 seconds and then you should get the ok or a warning that something is amiss, always wait until it has done its check before starting as it seems to rule out errors later when driving.

 

Ok, thanks for your help. I know what the manual is stating and that's the reason for this question. I understand your "follow the manual" but several others have said the same scenario occurs with them. It's in my other thread though. Just trying to get some numbers. I get a "CHECK" but no "CHECK OK" so after waiting an eternity, I go ahead and start the engine. "CHECK OK" light comes on about 10 seconds after engine is running.

 

It looks like there may be a difference in how the Check OK lamp is mechanized depending on whether she has Motronic 7.1.1 or 7.3.2. Stuff like that rarely gets into later owner manuals, which are largely copied from earlier ones except for big differences.

 

Mines an '07 so I doubt it has the new motronic

 

Maybe early ones do that, mines a late 08 car.

 

FWIW

Mine is an '07 and the Check OK only comes on after engine start. I have waited forever for it to appear before starting, but it never has.

 

When I turn on the ignition I get a "check" light. I also note the the yellow "check engine" is illuminated also and a few other things. After I start the engine and the "check engine" light goes out do I get the check Ok. This makes sense to me. Anyone else. BTW I have a 08 model.

 

It would be helpful to talk with the chassis numbers, because manufacturing time and first registration of the car can be temporally apart.
So a middle or late 07 could be a car before 156936 which should be built after the middle of 07, i believe.

I will check my car the next days.

Daniel

 

Vin 163222 2008

 

VIN 157967 01/2008

"Check" when ignition on
"Check OK" after starting the engine

Daniel

 

VIN 152776 01/2007

"Check" ignition turned on
"Check OK" after engine start

 

Starting to get interesting. Three posts and all three are contrary to the manual.

 

One with 7.1.1 and one with 7.3.2. Definitely proves 599s are female and do what they like.

 

Mine's an '07 with chassis number 156391

 

I ascribe that a 599 should not be used as a getaway car if robbing a bank. I treat it just like an aircraft in that you can't rush it.

My personal start procedure:

- insert key and turn on
- wait until all system diagnostics check is complete
- press start button
- wait some more...
- wait until "Check OK" illuminates

I am never in a hurry when starting this thing.

Got in a rush and left it in 1st gear a month or so ago when I parked it and when I turned the key to restart it later in the day, it said "complete electrical failure" (had never even heard of that warning). Pulled both paddles back to indicate "N" then turned key off. Repeated start procedure as above and she was fine as frog hair.

Mine is sensitive and it sounds like a common thing...

Best.

 

Funny, I always leave the car in first (instead of using the handbrake) in the garage. I never encountered any problem insofar (actually not at all, except this one time experience of limp mode due to too fast starting).

 

In that case we should take Lord Flasheart's advice "Always treat your Ferrari, Like your treat your Women!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFb5-2hHddc

RIP in Rik Mayall... Lost to the great theatre in the Sky...

P.S. To stay on topic, never ever ever try to quick start a 599. Each second saved will cost you an hour of lost sleep or time stood by the roadside praying to Enzo in heaven - "Please just get me home! I will never do it again! - Be My Friend, Godfather..."

 

Turn the key on, small blue light saying check, wait a few seconds and check OK or in my case "bulb failure" as I have LED side light bulbs, then start engine.
Mine is a late 08 car.
Ps just been out on greasy English roads and found out that I am still in love with the car!

 

I just turn the key, press Engine Start, let all the lights clear out and drive away. For parking I leave it in 1 and I use the parking brake. Call me paranoid but I once read a story - maybe here on F Chat- about an F1 car deciding to release the gear and the car rolled inside the garage. What worries me more is the newer cars with their DCT and electronic parking brake. What if the computer hiccups and releases both... eek!