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Help With 488 Issues

Discussion in 'Technical Q&A' started by Hopeful, Sep 6, 2019.

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  1. Hopeful

    Hopeful Karting

    May 31, 2019
    157
    Vero Beach, FL
    Full Name:
    Tony M.
    I have an '18 488 Spider and could use some advice on 2 issues:

    1. Recently, on a cold start, the car is idling at 1200 rpm instead of the usual 1000 and feeling/sounding rough. This clears up after the cars warms up for a minute or so and is then fine. It's southern Florida so its hot out all the time but the car is garage kept and its happened both in a non-air-conditioned bay as well as the air conditioned bay (77 deg) I now keep it in. Is this typical or something amiss and needs to be rectified?

    2. Cruising tonight in Race mode, 3rd gear I think, and accelerating slightly. Pushed the Bumpy Road button and the entire dash went black and I think the car died (I panicked a bit so Im not sure if it really died or not) but everything came back in a second and it kept on cruising like nothing happened. I keep the car on the battery tender all the time and had just been driving about 5 miles without shutting the car off anywhere. I quick switched over to the battery voltage display and it showed something like 12.5V but the voltage jumps around so much there's no telling what it might have been 2 or 3 seconds earlier. Any thoughts?
     
  2. Qavion

    Qavion F1 World Champ
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    Feb 20, 2015
    14,534
    Sydney
    Full Name:
    Ian Riddell
    12.5 volts is not good at all (assuming the engine was running). I would assume a faulty alternator or poor battery connections (but surprised to see this on a new car). I guess you are not near a Ferrari specialist (otherwise you would take the car straight to them and fix everything under warranty).

    Note that the bumpy road may have been responsible for inducing the fault rather than your selection of the Bumpy Road button.
     

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