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car is immobilised!!!! help!

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  1. tbd06

    tbd06 Rookie

    Feb 25, 2008
    12
    London
    bought a 2002 575 about 6 weeks ago. absolutely love the car.....went to my garage just now (friday evening) to take it out for a spin.....and the car is not responding to the "wireless control"!

    brushing it off as a battery issue, i opened the car with key to find the car is completely immobilised.......and now, i cant even close the door properly (i'm assuming because the windows are not coming down).

    the spare wireless control does not work properly. checked the manual which provides the following instruction:

    "Press the wireless control push button controlling the LED. If it flashes quickly while the push button is pressed, the wireless control is OK. otherwise check and replace batteries"

    so i press the button, the LED turns on immediately, and stays on (does not flash, stays on). I assume this is what the manual means.

    "If the wirelesss contol is ok and the system doesnt reply yet, make the resynch procedure, press the button for three consecutive times within 10 seconds"

    i assume this simply means press the button 3 times within 10secs....which i've done...and nothing.

    Ofcourse it being friday evening, no garages are open, and i dont know what or where i'm going to be able to get it done tomorrow...

    Has anyone had this issue before? Why would/could this occur so randomly?
    I've kept the car under an indoor car cover for the first time for the past few days...there's no way that could affect anything surely?

    any helpful comments/feedback would be tremendously appreciated

    thanks.
     
  2. dsd

    dsd F1 Rookie
    Owner Silver Subscribed

    Nov 19, 2006
    4,271
    Northern Virginia
    Do you have the Red Fob and the code?

    -dsd
     
  3. tbd06

    tbd06 Rookie

    Feb 25, 2008
    12
    London
    forgot to mention that
    have the red master, 1 black slave, no code....i could hopefully get the code from the dealer (not ferrari approved) tomorrow.
     
  4. tbd06

    tbd06 Rookie

    Feb 25, 2008
    12
    London
    problem solved..............................it was just a flat battery! feel like a new parent who overreacts at the first sign of anything wrong with the baby
     
  5. sparta49

    sparta49 F1 Veteran
    Owner

    Mar 3, 2001
    7,804
    LA
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    Frank
    You will stop running to the garage to check if it's still brathing in about 20 years or so :)
     
  6. 4retr

    4retr Formula Junior

    Nov 21, 2004
    384
    Southern California
    Full Name:
    David B.
    My daughter is 4 now and I still go in every night periodically to check to see if "everything is alright."

    But I also take a peek at the cars in the garage every night also.
     
  7. JazzyO

    JazzyO F1 World Champ

    Jan 14, 2007
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    Onno
    But you'll never stop worrying about who she's flirting with...


    Onno
     
  8. tritone

    tritone F1 Veteran
    Silver Subscribed

    Dec 8, 2003
    7,199
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    James
    Onno - I don't worry about my 550; she spends her idle hours with her older sister, 330 GTC.

    OTOH; i would not leave her alone in the barn with the 1950 Studebaker flatbed truck! (some of those farm-types had no sense of shame back then).
    and nor would I trust her with the wifes street-rod pickup; I don't want her getting any wild ideas involving supercharged 502's and tubs......).

    Tritone
     
  9. JazzyO

    JazzyO F1 World Champ

    Jan 14, 2007
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    Onno
    LOL - I'm trying to get mine the same action but she may have to share the dark with a Boxer. :D


    Onno
     
  10. Pcar928fan

    Pcar928fan Formula 3

    Jan 21, 2008
    1,702
    Austin, TX
    LOL! That is ALL funny! Love it!
     
  11. ferraripete

    ferraripete F1 World Champ

    that boxer is a bad influence!!
     

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