Baracus
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Granturismo S MC Shift - some “Italian†gremlins with my new baby!
This is my first post after lurking for some time
Recently joined the world of Maserati ownership - a 2009 GTS MC-Shift in Grigio Touring, with a facelift nose. Absolutely love it, completely awesome car that's a pure delight every time I jump in it!!
However, I've had a couple of ongoing issues that not even my nearest Main Dealer (Carrs Ferrari/Maserati in Exeter) has an answer for, so I'm hoping some of you knowledgable folks may be able to give some suggestions please
I've searched the web high and low, and can't find anything that matches my exact symptoms so maybe it's just me (not unlikely!)?
1) Mystery 5 short beeps. They come from the dash after about 1 to 1.5 hours of driving. Only started happening after Carrs replaced the resistor for the rad fan recently (which may have required unplugging battery?). There is NO text on the dash, no warnings, just 5 short beeps. Temps are normal, no other strangeness going on as far as I can hear or feel.
Nearest answer I could see is that the Tracker has lost signal. I do have a tracker but it's not enabled and as I say, hasn't done it in the 7 or so weeks I've had the car before the last lot of work done on it last weekend.
I can't see any pattern to when it happens other than after “some time†of driving. Once it happened cruising on dual carriageway. Other time was in stop start traffic going to an event so was slow driving and hill starts for about 45 mins.
2) Fuel needle calibration. Maybe 3% of the time after I turn the engine on, the fuel needle reads as if I have 25% extra (I wish!). This can happen twice in a row (I mean after switching off, next time I drive it's still +25%), but usually resets itself the next time I switch on. It can happen when tank is totally full (reading 25% OVER maximum) or mid way - no pattern here either! Can't see ANYTHING about this. Is it a mechanical problem or electronic? Where could I look to fix it? I hope we don't have to go INSIDE the tank!
3) Parking sensor “Parking Help Unavailableâ€. Again this only started after the last lot of work - been fine for the previous 7 weeks. And it comes and goes, but last couple of days when I put her in Reverse this warning comes up in Text and sometimes the sensors seem to be detecting particles of dust in the air or something!
I have read quite a lot about this on forums to be fair, but not sure what exactly is the best course of action to find the culprit. The fact that it sometimes works suggests it's not a hardware failure.
This only started happening after parking in a field at the event I mentioned above. But I checked and they are clean so no idea why this has intermittently decided to start happening.
4) Alloys. On another note, just the other day I was forced to pull towards the kerb to avoid someone passing widely around some parked cars and I went a bit too far left - really gutted, kerbed all the spokes on the front left Neptune wheel
The alloys needed doing anyway as some of the rim (edges) were a bit rough but I could have lived with it. But now I can't, it's really bad. Problem is the “best place†relatively local to me (= SWWR, South West Wheel Repairs, so I'm told) is booked up for full refurbs until October so I'm looking to get a temporary fix on just the front left until then. Any suggestions for this?
Ideally a service that could come to my home and just patch it up / colour match as best they can, with a view to doing a full strip down on all 4 with South West Wheels in a couple of months.
5) Finally - anyone know of any good independent service specialist in East Cornwall / West Devon area, so I don't “need†to use MD's? Also anyone trusted to do some small bodywork touchups would be useful!
Sorry for the wall of text - wanted to be as clear as possible if anyone CAN help me!
Thanks in advance!
Looking forward to hanging out with you in here for many years to come!
Best regards,
Mark
This is my first post after lurking for some time
Recently joined the world of Maserati ownership - a 2009 GTS MC-Shift in Grigio Touring, with a facelift nose. Absolutely love it, completely awesome car that's a pure delight every time I jump in it!!
However, I've had a couple of ongoing issues that not even my nearest Main Dealer (Carrs Ferrari/Maserati in Exeter) has an answer for, so I'm hoping some of you knowledgable folks may be able to give some suggestions please
I've searched the web high and low, and can't find anything that matches my exact symptoms so maybe it's just me (not unlikely!)?
1) Mystery 5 short beeps. They come from the dash after about 1 to 1.5 hours of driving. Only started happening after Carrs replaced the resistor for the rad fan recently (which may have required unplugging battery?). There is NO text on the dash, no warnings, just 5 short beeps. Temps are normal, no other strangeness going on as far as I can hear or feel.
Nearest answer I could see is that the Tracker has lost signal. I do have a tracker but it's not enabled and as I say, hasn't done it in the 7 or so weeks I've had the car before the last lot of work done on it last weekend.
I can't see any pattern to when it happens other than after “some time†of driving. Once it happened cruising on dual carriageway. Other time was in stop start traffic going to an event so was slow driving and hill starts for about 45 mins.
2) Fuel needle calibration. Maybe 3% of the time after I turn the engine on, the fuel needle reads as if I have 25% extra (I wish!). This can happen twice in a row (I mean after switching off, next time I drive it's still +25%), but usually resets itself the next time I switch on. It can happen when tank is totally full (reading 25% OVER maximum) or mid way - no pattern here either! Can't see ANYTHING about this. Is it a mechanical problem or electronic? Where could I look to fix it? I hope we don't have to go INSIDE the tank!
3) Parking sensor “Parking Help Unavailableâ€. Again this only started after the last lot of work - been fine for the previous 7 weeks. And it comes and goes, but last couple of days when I put her in Reverse this warning comes up in Text and sometimes the sensors seem to be detecting particles of dust in the air or something!
I have read quite a lot about this on forums to be fair, but not sure what exactly is the best course of action to find the culprit. The fact that it sometimes works suggests it's not a hardware failure.
This only started happening after parking in a field at the event I mentioned above. But I checked and they are clean so no idea why this has intermittently decided to start happening.
4) Alloys. On another note, just the other day I was forced to pull towards the kerb to avoid someone passing widely around some parked cars and I went a bit too far left - really gutted, kerbed all the spokes on the front left Neptune wheel
The alloys needed doing anyway as some of the rim (edges) were a bit rough but I could have lived with it. But now I can't, it's really bad. Problem is the “best place†relatively local to me (= SWWR, South West Wheel Repairs, so I'm told) is booked up for full refurbs until October so I'm looking to get a temporary fix on just the front left until then. Any suggestions for this?
Ideally a service that could come to my home and just patch it up / colour match as best they can, with a view to doing a full strip down on all 4 with South West Wheels in a couple of months.
5) Finally - anyone know of any good independent service specialist in East Cornwall / West Devon area, so I don't “need†to use MD's? Also anyone trusted to do some small bodywork touchups would be useful!
Sorry for the wall of text - wanted to be as clear as possible if anyone CAN help me!
Thanks in advance!
Looking forward to hanging out with you in here for many years to come!
Best regards,
Mark