My friend works at an independent garage that specializes in Italian Exotics. He called yesterday to tell me about a guy who brought his Enzo in with EVERY warning light on the dash blinking. It seems he left the key in the ignition and drained the battery. He did not follow Ferrari's specifications on jumping the vehicle and roasted EVERY sensor. My buddy said it was going to be deep into 5 figures to fix!
I guess if the guy can afford a million dollar car, a five figure repair bill would be a drop in the bucket for him. Either way though, it sucks to have to fix everthing. Evidentally, a million dollars doesn't make a guy smarter, huh? But, I have a confession. Two days ago I learned from a buddy of mine that with new cars and all the electronics they have in them now, you are supposed to boost other cars off with the car not running. I didn't know that. He said that starting the car and boosting other cars off the old fashioned way will screw up your computer, etc. So, I guess what happened to the Ferrari could have happened to me. Thankfully, it didn't because I have boosted others several times.
There's lots of chatter on the Ferrari chat boards about jump starting and blowing things out... so I am wrong... apparently there is a right and wrong way to jump start a Ferrari and not just the Enzo.
Guess I'll have to stick with American iron.... I'm too stupid to have an exotic!
Could be worse, an acquaintance of mine took his Enzo in for his first oil change and found pieces of valve spring in the oil...$100k later he had a new engine...
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