California - Roof won't close

Came home from a nice drive in the spring sun and wanted to close the roof. Everything is fine, it opens the trunk and roof and rear window comes out and then it starts to close the trunk and stops 4-5 inches before it close the trunk and nothing happens.

I can open the roof again and the trunk closes as it should and everything is fine, but it will not close the roof. So as it will open fully everything should be working okay, so what could be the problem?

 

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I guess that you mean only operate the roof while the car is running, not that the car should be running when disconnecting the battery, right?

 

Had the car on a CTEK MXS 5 directly to the battery over night, took the car for a spin in the morning sun and put the roof up when I came back like there had never been a problem. The roof apparently has the attitude of a French waiter at a bistro in Paris

 

What I have learned over the years is that almost any car will have some weird behavior at some point. With the different forums really maturing over the last decade, it is getting easier to live with this as help and advice is almost always available.

Ferrari hasn't really moved into DIY territory yet, but I think we should start to see it soon with the California.

The cheapest car I ever had from a maintenance point of view was a Maserati GranTurismo, over two years and 20.000 miles it was only ordinary service. Most expensive, a Range Rover with constant weird electrical issues - that was an endless money pit.

 

It just did again today :-( It has been nice weather all day, so the car has just been left with the roof down and driven multiple times and apart from the first two trips the roof will not close.

So I'm going to leave it in the garage over night on the charger and see if that fixes it again. I put a multimeter on the battery (car not running) after putting it in the garage and the battery said 12,7V

 

It did again today. First drive this morning no problem, all other trips over the day, will not close. It's dirty I know, pollen season is starting and I can't wash it with the roof down ;-) It just stops in this position.

I put it in the garage over night and on the charger to see if that fixes it. Checked the battery with a multimeter (car not running) and it said 12.7V

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I lean towards it having something to do with the battery. A night with the charger on and everything is okay again. It is reassuring in itself, even though we have the Power Warranty, that there is not a leak or a sensor that is impossible to find.

 

The Ferrari sticker says 'FAST 2019-09-09'

 

Old My kid's Audi TT Quattro Roadster from 1999 is running a 15 y.o battery and no issues no matter how long it sits and never had a tender on it.

It was on the OEM tender all winter, but I have been using a Ctek MXS 5 since it came out of the garage.

No HELE, car running, only DLR, no stereo, no A/C on yesterday. I'll find a new premium battery and put in.

Anybody knows if the Power Warranty is affected if you replace the battery yourself?

 

And here I thought Range Rover batteries were behaving badly ...

 

will have the dealer check it when it's in for service later in May, but as it closes no problem with a fully charged battery, I suspect the battery is the issue

 

The new battery is of course in back order so it will not arrive until mid next week. The intermittent errors is still there. So took the voltmeter out just to check. So after a spirited drive the battery will read 12.55V when not running, 12.69V with the tender on and 13.91V with the car running in idle. 13.91V in idle seams low to me, I would expect above 14V. I know that you normally say between 13.5V and 14.5V, but the car seams to prefer the higher voltage.