Ferrari 458 Spider, Owner'S Manual

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About your Vehicle
- Make regular stops to loosen up your limbs and refresh yourself,
and avoid driving for hours on end.
- Keep a constant air circulation in the passenger compartment.
- Never coast downhill with the engine off: in these conditions
the engine brake, servo brake and power steering are inefficient,
braking requires greater pressure on the pedal and steering will
be harder.
Driving at night
When you are travelling at night, follow these fundamental rules:
- Reduce speed, particularly on dark roads.
- Driving conditions are more demanding at night, so take
particular care.
- If you start feeling tired or sleepy, stop immediately: to continue
driving would be a risk for yourself and for others. Continue only
after you have had a rest.
- At night, it is difficult to judge the speed of vehicles in front of
you as you can only see their taillights: keep at a greater safety
distance than you would during the day.
- Use the high beams only outside of urban areas and when you are
sure that they will not disturb other drivers.
- Turn off the high beams when you see oncoming vehicles and use
the low beams.
- Keep the lights and headlights clean.
- Watch out for animals crossing the road when travelling outside
urban areas.
Driving in the rain
Rain and wet roads can cause hazardous situations.
All manoeuvres are more difficult on a wet road since tyres have
significantly less grip on the road. This means that the braking
distances increase considerably and road-holding decreases.
Below is some advice for driving in the rain:
- Keep a greater safety distance between yourself and the other
vehicles and reduce your speed.
- When it is raining very hard, visibility is also reduced. In these
cases, to make yourself more visible to others, turn on the low
beams even during the day.
- Drive through puddles at low speed to avoid losing control of the
vehicle (“aquaplaning”): if this occurs, grip the steering wheel
firmly.
Warning
If the road is wet, reduce your speed to avoid “aquaplaning”
(when the tyre no longer touches the road surface because the
side channels of the tyre tread are not capable of removing all
the channelled water due to their particular shape or insufficient
depth and a layer of water is placed between the road surface
and the tyre. The fluid pressure generated is so high that it
supports the vehicle's weight making it virtually impossible for
the driver to control the vehicle).