Crazy video. This YouTube guy I follow who has the same Ferrari that I have posted a scary video where the car just died and had to get it towed in a spectacular fashion. Very deep in the video, he explained what happened. At timestamp 22:30, he admitted he ran out of fuel. Apparently, you can’t let the fuel run low on these cars. Talk about clickbait titles.
Yup. Click bait title and Dumb As **** thing to let the tank run dry. The fact that he called the gearbox a PDK and couldn’t fathom the emergency gearbox release in the first few minutes of the video destroyed his credibility. The sad thing is that this guy has close to a million subs who hang on his every word.
Agreed completely. I used to love this guy, but really disappointed with this video, as I am sure Ferrari must be as well. I was told never to run with less than about 1/8 tank, and parking on incline likely starved fuel too. What was he talking about with that tool to put in neutral?
The tool to put into neutral is the emergency gearbox release. It’s like a giant allen key and it lives under the floor of the boot next to the emergency tyre inflator kit.
Indeed. Made everyone think it was the PTU. That's some big assumption. Didn't even bother to say, in the first video, gee the car was on 1 bar, which, in case you don't know, it will show as red. For good reason. I will now offer, free of charge, my MFFBTG: (modern Ferrari fuel bar translator guide): For cars from the mid 2000s and later: The fuel gauge will remain optimistic, until it isn't. This inflection point happens around 4-3 bars remaining. Thus: V12 cars: 3 bars remaining= look for fuel 2 bars remaining= you really better locate fuel now 1 bar remaining= FIND FUEL IMMEDIATELY, you can help by using wet mode and driving very gently (did you know wet, sport, race all have different engine fuel maps? So race will use more fuel, wet will use less, its not a massive difference, but if you are on the red single bar, you're going to need all the help you can get!) V8/V6 cars: The above but start at 2 bars Hybrid- if you have a good battery charge you can drive on battery for a bit dont let the fuel get too low. The bottom line is this: dont let these cars get too low on fuel. Extra editorial: about 20 years ago we had a blackout on the entire east coast of the USA where all the fuel stations had no power, so no gas was flowing. My rule of thumb became to make sure any car had about 100 miles of range in the tank. With V12 Ferraris that usually equates to a little bit less than ½ tank. It depends where I am but I figure if that ever happened again, with 100 miles of range I can get to wherever I need to go. Extra editorial part 2: these cars are very sensitive to low voltage. One time I had driven for 3 hours, stopped for fuel (see above free guide), went to start the car and... nothing. The car freaked out and thew every error possible. This was not helped by the fact I was 3 hours from home and had my kids with me. I was able to get the car started with a jump from a very unhelpful gas station employee, he didn't have the slightest idea how to do it- how is that possible? anyway, went on our merry way, visited a friend, car was fine the rest of the trip. Brought to dealer, turns out the battery had some bad cells. Modern batteries are made pretty poorly. Ive had more than a few with bad cells. The point of this extra rant is- dont assume it's the PTU. It could easily be the battery or, did you check to make sure there was gas in your car?
