488 Pista Spider Infotainment Screen Goes Dead

Yesterday, I took out my spider for a drive and about 5 minutes into the drive, the radio screen goes dead. Then about 5 seconds later it re-awakens and 5 seconds later dead again. Doesn't matter if the radio, media, navi mode is selected. It cycles through this for the entire 30 minutes I was out.

Took it today and about 10 minutes into the drive started happening again but only did it 4x in the 30 minute ride rather 4-5x in a minute like it did yesterday.

Car is kept on tender when not driving. Everything else works with no problem. I locked the car, hoping to reset it but no luck. I'd like to try something before sending it to the dealer since we're having great weather in Jersey. I shot video of the issue but can't upload it.

Anyone else with this issue? or any idea what it could be?

 

I took a video of it on my iphone but can't upload it. It's being picked up today so will report back to once its been sorted. Interestingly, yesterday afternoon the AC system wouldn't work either. There has to be a short somewhere in there.

 

I am the original owner of the car and definitely did not put a scanner on the car. To be honest, I'm not mechanically inclined to work on these cars and with all the computer boards on modern day cars, I agree that it has to be a circuit board somewhere. I will report back once it's be fixed, hopefully by the end of the week.

 

Update - The dealership has been trying software updates and other things that Ferrari Technical has asked them try but problem still persists. So, Ferrari has asked for the existing radio unit to be sent to them for further diagnostics and a new unit has been shipped out which hopefully is due in tomorrow morning. Will keep you posted....

 

Pista spider was returned this morning and took it for an extended drive to check out the infotainment system. The radio, ipod, navi and phone systems all work and back to normal. No more dead screens.

I guess it was just a bad unit (premium version) which was surprising to the service folks since this was the first time they had to order a new unit over the years. Oh well, hopefully this helps if anyone else should experience the same issue.