This story is not very technical, which is wonderful for non technical me! But it is about one of those things that you just don't expect, and could never imagine happening.One day a 1986 3.2 Ferrari Mondial came in by tow truck. The owner told my husband that his car was having trouble to start and once it did it idled, but died if you touched the gas.
My husband's first thought was "control box" and he went directly to it's location in the trunk of the car, where everything appeared to be okay. But when he removed the control box cover itself, the problem was instantaneously apparent.
The control box was submerged in water!
Aside from that, nothing else was out of the ordinary. You would think that other things would be soaked, but everything in the trunk on top of the control box was bone dry.
The client later told him that the car had stayed outside during a bad rainstorm. Of course, the drainage for just this scenario , was completely blocked, Murphy's fault.
He took the control box completely out of the car and held it upside down. In the picture you can see the water pouring out of it!
Now here's where the extra mile comes into play. Before replacing the unit and both relays, Massimo also fixed the drainage problem, (not necessarily part of the repair.) ensuring that if the client ever made the mistake of leaving this car outside in wet weather conditions again, there would be no encore.
Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to do something big as well as nice.
