F12 Paint Bubbling

popsmuf · May 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM

Chill47 said: ↑

This defect persisted in the 812 Superfast, which is susceptible to the same corrosion issue on its rear quarter panel grilles.
Click to expand...

Is this true? Have any 812 owners posted about this?

rumen1 · May 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM

MaranelloAllTheWay said: ↑

I think you have unrealistic expectations from a company that after decades still havent figured out how/where to place and run car battery successfully. Its far more difficult to master body work (prep and paint) than to deal with battery. If they still cannot figure out how to make batteries last, how can you expect them to deal with rust issues?

The battery on my oldest car is 6 years old now (GT3RS), still cranks like when it was new. It stays parked 2-2.5 months at times without a battery tender.

Ferrari should move the battery to the trunk where it wont sit next to a 900F exhaust manifold. Ferrari should also use average quality battery like what Honda or VW uses (I’m not asking for a high quality one like what Porsche or Lambo use). Ferrari should also use appropriate cables with the right thickness and right material that a) tolerate voltage drop, b) corrosion. These are things that Ford explorer solved 30 years ago. Front engine corvettes (which look very similar architecturally to V12 ferraris) have had their battery in the trunk for over 3 decades.

The reason why Ferrari keeps the battery in the engine bay is obvious, they want to keep it as close to majority of electrical components as possible. Current/voltage have an inverse relationship. Longer the voltage have to travel, thicker and better quality wires they need to use. This isnt as simple because all of the modules of the car have to be redesigned to work with these wires. In layman terms, they are being cheap about it. All these electrical gremlins these cars suffer is because improper battery placement, improper choice of wire, improper choice of battery material.

Ferrari isnt stupid. They have smart people working there. The problem is they dont care because you guys keep buying their cars whether they have these issues or not. It makes no business sense to spend millions of dollars improving quality when those millions of dollars will not have any return in terms of pure profit.
Click to expand...

If you think about it - they haven't even bothered to fix the sticky interior plastics for 30 years for a start.

Conversations

Alerts

F12 Paint Bubbling

popsmuf Karting

rumen1 Formula 3
Owner

Share This Page

F12 Paint Bubbling

popsmuf Karting

rumen1 Formula 3 Owner

Share This Page

rumen1 Formula 3
Owner