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Hi all. Just had a strange experience

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stephenkershaw

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Hi everyone. Really strange experience with my 997 Carrera today. Filled up at a petrol station ( first time its cost £90 to fill it up!). Set off and the Pdk gearbox would not change out of first. I used the paddles to change up and whilst the dash display showed 2nd and 3rd gear, the gearbox was still in First gear and would not change up. I pulled over and turned the engine off and restarted, and everything worked as normal. Anyone else had the same experience?
 
It sounds like it was in sports plus to me. It happened to me once and I had managed to catch the button somehow. In sports plus it only changes gear at the red line which you are unlikely to hit around town ??
 
Hi Gordonawood
thanks for replying. I don’t have sports plus I’m afraid. I know, I don’t know what’s wrong with me either??. And I was pressing the accelerator and nothing happened, then it would suddenly accelerate. Bit scary really.
 
The pdk is very sensitive to apparently unrelated things, I have heard of PDK throwing scary errors ( I realise not in this case ) when the car has a coil pack problem, or an AOS starting to fail - basically anything where the DME and the gearbox are getting conflicting messages can make the gearbox sulk.

Maybe just a "ghost in the machine" that will never happen again, or perhaps the start of an unrelated and hopefully cheap to resolve issue.
 
Many thanks Paul. Guess nothing more to do that keep monitoring it. The old switch it off and back on again trick worked the last time so hopefully nothing too serious. Thanks for taking the trouble to reply though. Much appreciated. Steve
 
Hi Stephen, I have just read your post and I had a similar strange PDK malfunction yesterday...

I bought my first Porsche, a lovely one owner 2009 997.2 Targa 4S with full history and Porsche extended warranty back in March. The car had its big service including changing the PDK gearbox and clutch oils in June by Porsche Ferndown in Dorset. It has only covered 45,000 miles and has been cosseted all its life.

The car is wonderful, but yesterday, after parking up and then restarting, the car would not select any gear when I engaged either drive, reverse or manual mode.

The gear selector indicator on the instrument cluster was also flashing between 1 & 2 very quickly when in drive, as if the gearbox was totally confused and was blank when I selected reverse. I didn't see any warning lights (though the red fasten seatbelt light perhaps obscured them...). I then switched off the engine, restarted the car and the gearbox worked as normal. Again no warning messages in the info computer or dash display.

I had just finished a 40 minute journey through torrential rain, so could this be a contributory factor?

I wonder has this happened to anyone else on the forum? Any info/advice would be hugely appreciated!

Is your car's PDK operating smoothly now? I hope it is...



 
SimonH said:
Hi Stephen, I have just read your post and I had a similar strange PDK malfunction yesterday...

I bought my first Porsche, a lovely one owner 2009 997.2 Targa 4S with full history and Porsche extended warranty back in March. The car had its big service including changing the PDK gearbox and clutch oils in June by Porsche Ferndown in Dorset. It has only covered 45,000 miles and has been cosseted all its life.

The car is wonderful, but yesterday, after parking up and then restarting, the car would not select any gear when I engaged either drive, reverse or manual mode.

The gear selector indicator on the instrument cluster was also flashing between 1 & 2 very quickly when in drive, as if the gearbox was totally confused and was blank when I selected reverse. I didn't see any warning lights (though the red fasten seatbelt light perhaps obscured them...). I then switched off the engine, restarted the car and the gearbox worked as normal. Again no warning messages in the info computer or dash display.

I had just finished a 40 minute journey through torrential rain, so could this be a contributory factor?

I wonder has this happened to anyone else on the forum? Any info/advice would be hugely appreciated!

Is your car's PDK operating smoothly now? I hope it is...
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given you have a current Porsche warranty I would get the car booked in to have them check for any codes,
that will at least officially flag the issue with them and you (And they) can refer back to that should a more serious or permanent reoccurrence happen. Even if it’s way down the line and you happen to be out of warranty you have this a checkpoint that there were issues at some point.



 
Hi Simon. Yes no more issues for me so far thanks. It wasn’t wet when when i had my issue. Sounds like you have got some good advice. Hope it gets resolved satisfactorily.
 
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