car should have come w/ a battery conditioner, plugs in under right side of passenger dash in any of my cars that are not being used every day i plug them in, saves headaches
Here's my dilemma. F430 with brand new Optima battery. It started fine two days ago but was not driven. I moved it out of the garage to wash it. This morning I went to drive it and no go. The pump primed when the door opened and the interior lights came on. I got the ok light and pushed the start button. All I got was clicking and all of the dash warning lights. It kept defaulting to CST as well. Any ideas? I had to leave for work so no chance to check anything. My car is all stock. No aftermarket electronic components.
Here's the one that got me going: https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/360-430/150885-battery-360-a.html
+1 I would not go smaller but rather the largest possible. They have very high cranking amps for first 5 seconds but you also need to larger deep cycle capacity for longevity.
Bill- Sounds like she went flat. There have been some problems with Optima batteries after Johnson Controls bought them and moved production to Mexico. Ferrari fitted them as OEM on some of the V8 models around 2008, but had so many problems, they went to Braille or Interstate as replacements. If she deep discharges, a normal battery charger may not work and you will have to take her back to the dealer for charging or replacement. Hopefully you can use the battery disconnect switch, recharge her with a regular battery charger, not a maintainer, and she will be ok.
Taz - Thanks for the input. It is slowly charging up now. I measured 11.2V. Trying to determine if I have a parasite stealing voltage. Everything is stock except the air horns. Nothing drawing there until you push the horn button. The only other thing I see is the Becker radio flashing red light. Update: I got her running after the quick relearn. Drove it out on the highway and got it good and warmed up. Drove around for about 10-15 minutes. I parked it and let it sit for 5 minutes. Fired right up. I'm letting it sit overnight to see if it dies again. If it does, I'll have it load tested and replaced if needed.
Bill- 11.2 volts is very low. Keep an eye on her and make sure she is up around 12.4 volts before starting.
I should have clarified it was 11.2V before I started charging. I'll be checking it again in a few hours to see if it dropped overnight.
Last night at the Ferrari Club dinner table four different owners were asking: "Why only the Ferraris in their collections have trouble lasting 1-2 weeks off of a battery maintainer?" The Ferrari mechanic thought it was due to poor quality batteries from Ferrari... Anybody want to offer an alternative explanation?
Maybe too long between being driven? IMHO if you subscribe to Ferrari Fridays it should never go longer than 1 week.
I have a lot of cars and some of my storage areas do not have power, so I have spare battery (I try to use odyssey when possible), for each car. I only use digital trickle chargers and I have a couple of genius portable chargers, as well as a battery charger (one of those big things on wheels like shops have), which I use when I rotate out a battery. One last thing I have this really big portable charger designed to have enough power to jump a few semi's (it is not that small and it is heavy and not cheap) before it drains, and I found out if I turn it on and attach it to the battery in one of my cars for about 10-15 minutes, when I take it off the car starts. Comes in handy when one of the cars that is in a place without power has a discharge issue. I have not tried this with a Ferrari but I have feeling it will work as well as it has on the other cars. It is not just Ferrari's with these issues I have the same problem with my 997, 4C and Evora400, after about 2 weeks the battery is down to 25% or less if not left on a charger.
I recently had an incident where my battery (one year old) was completely drained by a faulty battery charger. I replaced the battery tender with a new one and luckily everything went back to normal. I had replaced my battery about a year ago with an Optimum red top. The old battery other than being 7 years old, it was still good. I think it's important to change batteries every 5 years to be on the safe side.
Probably, some are die hard original Ferrari parts no matter how crappy they are. The key is to install very good battery like Interstate battery and use AGM so it won't leak acid inside the car. Use a very good latest technology battery charger. And replace batteries preventively every 3 - 4 years. My 2 cents, based on my own personal experience. Dan Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
I have 4 cars on trickle chargers. Aston is worse than F. BMW bad too. Most last two weeks without chargers on. It’s because of all the electronics.
If all these cars were used as daily drivers, the problem would not exist! Sent from my iPad using FerrariChat.com mobile app
