If this was any other scene in The Fate of the Furious, there’s a chance this smaller aspect might have been easy to mask.
Not only did the audience need to believe that Charlize Theron’s villain would be fooled, but to a certain extent, the viewers themselves needed to be fooled.
But in this particular moment, Dom’s car had to misfire as part of a gambit to confuse Cypher into thinking his car was disabled.
Considering all of the CGI effects, car stunts and various aspects that fall into one scene of a Fast and Furious film, it’s still kind of funny to take in the fact that one small sound effect could collapse an entire scene an subsequently cause a problem for the entire movie.