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PDK not going in to gear

SimonH

SimonH

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Hi all

Strange PDK malfunction

I am a new Porsche club member and have bought my first Porsche, a lovely 2009 997.2 4S with full history and Porsche extended warranty. The car had its big service including changing the PDK gearbox and clutch oils back in June by Porsche Ferndown in Dorset. It has only covered 45,000 miles.

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, as if the gearbox was totally confused. I didn't see any warning lights (though the red 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 took this video of the malfunction on my phone yesterday ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqwyvNB62U

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

Has this happened to anyone else on the forum? Any info/advice would be hugely appreciated.
 
As it is normal again, I'd get it to Ferndown to see what ECU errors are showing and take it from there.
 
Moved to the appropriate forum.

As it's under warranty, I would take it to the PC to diagnose, as Ralph says above. Could be a software issue?
 
Thanks guys for your comments - I have now booked it in for early January with the dealer, so will let you know the outcome....
 
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