Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 575 shakedown

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

Maserati Quattroporte has the battery in the trunk.  This thing is
huge, like that on a diesel bulldozer.  But the trunk only opens
electrically.  Oops.

You can access a limited (read: small wire) connection to the battery
from under the hood, possibly to trickle charge enough to get the
trunk open.  But to open the hood, you need to open the door.  Which
is electrically operated.

Oh, but wait.  Those clever Italians realized that the electric door
opener would likely fail, so they conveniently put a manual door
handle right beside the electric one.  I mean, right beside.  So it's
totally optional whether you open the door electrically or manually.
Weird.

Hans.

On 5/28/19, Charles Perry <charles [at] carolinasound.com> wrote:
> How about battery goes dead, you have to break your window? I’ve been
> researching McLarens since they’re a relative bargain. I’ve been looking
> mostly at the 650S, but apparently on the MP4-12C, when the battery dies,
> the last thing it does is lower the window a hair so you can open the
> dihedryl doors with a special key to get in to charge things. If that
> malfunctions, you have to break the window to open the door. Check out this
> video. Skip to 3:56 if you’re short on time:
>                                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znSziiek0j8
>
> My wife’s first-gen Boxster is almost as stupid. If the battery dies, you
> can’t release the front hood (where the battery is) because it’s an electric
> release only. There’s a little pop-out piece of plastic in the driver’s side
> footwell fuse holder where you can connect a jumper cable to get enough
> juice to pop the hood, but that’s a common failure point of Boxsters,
> including my wife’s. So I had to rig up a cable to back feed voltage into
> the cigarette lighter to be able to pop the hood to charge/replace the
> battery. Not the most German piece of engineering…
>
>
>
>
> From: Ferrari
> [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolinasound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On 
> Behalf
> Of Doug & Terri
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 2:56 PM
> To: Charles Perry
> Cc: 'The FerrariList'
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 575 shakedown
>
> Oh my – yeah, $300 batteries just don’t last like they used to
> So your battery goes dead – suspension collapse?  Doors and hood and trunk
> locks?
> Some of our wonderful modern vehicles treat their owners that way for
> electron negligence.
> That’ll show ya - - - - “peep”  all gone.
> So Clyde – will your 575 treat you bad if your battery goes “peep”?
> Just askin’
> Cheers
> Doug
>
>
> From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On
> Behalf Of Clarence Romero Jr.
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 10:58 AM
> To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net<mailto:dnt [at] dock.net>>
> Cc: The FerrariList
> <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com<mailto:ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>>
> Subject: [Ferrari] 575 shakedown
>
> One of the major issues is that it needs to be on a tender if your not going
> to drive it fora extended period of time
> The alarm system is always hot
> There is a batter disconnect switch under the hood that you can use to
> disconnect the car so to say from the battery
> But I don’t know if the alarm function is still operational
>
>
>
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>
> Clyde Romero
>
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