16,000 miles // 26,000 Kms car. Bone stock , Launch Edition, 2015. Out of Warranty. Outside temps: 80F /27C and dry. Driving in Dynamic, Manual, Battery >95% and installed seven months ago.
One hour into a cruise and just one mile from home, at a traffic light, go to accelerate lightly, and instant CEL and warning that Dynamic and Race are not available.
Drive half a mile with CEL on, literally limping home as the CEL gods intended, and come to another traffic light. As soon as the car comes to a stop it throws itself into Neutral and will not go into Reverse or 1. Traffic behind me has queued up.
With almost no choices, in the car, stuck in Neutral, with vehicles queued up behind me, I put blinking hazard lights on and shut it down. I wait 10 seconds, fire it up and still stuck in Neutral and still CEL. Restarting has done nothing. Cars zoom around me; I am abandoned at the intersection. Wave vigorously to police officer to stop; he waves and keeps going. I don't feel safe; I wanted him behind me to force cars around me. Thought I was lucky to spot him. Guess not.
Next move: Shut down again, wait 10 seconds... then, I decide to let the car roll back about a meter in Neutral without power (don't ask me why... but if the trans was really in Neutral and free, it should roll on the mild incline. It did. I cleared a variable).
Then, brake on, and on the third restart, if fires up, but the very first sound upon firing up is the slightest 'pop!' that is a 100% a distinct sound... like the slightest of misfires you can have in this electronic era. Going back to when I fired up the lawn mower as a kid, with endless hours of listening to engines over decades, there was 100% a tiny pop.
At this moment, the CEL Code cleared. I selected 1, and drove home in Natural. I let it shift in Auto for a few shits, it was ok, then switched to Manual. Drove a bit, then parked, and under pressure to get somewhere in my other vehicle, I did not fully attend to battery terminals or cables (move number 1 for all electronic/electric glitches.) I did, probably unwisely (risk getting stranded), start it again (no CEL, but that second it lingers is a quantum level warping of time, am I right?), and I drive it around the block, then park it. All clear. Pop engine cover, blast battery connections with WD-40 and hop into other vehicle and roll.
I got a CEL on my second drive as an owner, and removed and cleaned all the connections (from reading threads here), and never saw one again til now (3.5 years later).
Will do that tonight and report back. It's the getting stuck in Neutral issue that bugged me out. No like.
One hour into a cruise and just one mile from home, at a traffic light, go to accelerate lightly, and instant CEL and warning that Dynamic and Race are not available.
Drive half a mile with CEL on, literally limping home as the CEL gods intended, and come to another traffic light. As soon as the car comes to a stop it throws itself into Neutral and will not go into Reverse or 1. Traffic behind me has queued up.
With almost no choices, in the car, stuck in Neutral, with vehicles queued up behind me, I put blinking hazard lights on and shut it down. I wait 10 seconds, fire it up and still stuck in Neutral and still CEL. Restarting has done nothing. Cars zoom around me; I am abandoned at the intersection. Wave vigorously to police officer to stop; he waves and keeps going. I don't feel safe; I wanted him behind me to force cars around me. Thought I was lucky to spot him. Guess not.
Next move: Shut down again, wait 10 seconds... then, I decide to let the car roll back about a meter in Neutral without power (don't ask me why... but if the trans was really in Neutral and free, it should roll on the mild incline. It did. I cleared a variable).
Then, brake on, and on the third restart, if fires up, but the very first sound upon firing up is the slightest 'pop!' that is a 100% a distinct sound... like the slightest of misfires you can have in this electronic era. Going back to when I fired up the lawn mower as a kid, with endless hours of listening to engines over decades, there was 100% a tiny pop.
At this moment, the CEL Code cleared. I selected 1, and drove home in Natural. I let it shift in Auto for a few shits, it was ok, then switched to Manual. Drove a bit, then parked, and under pressure to get somewhere in my other vehicle, I did not fully attend to battery terminals or cables (move number 1 for all electronic/electric glitches.) I did, probably unwisely (risk getting stranded), start it again (no CEL, but that second it lingers is a quantum level warping of time, am I right?), and I drive it around the block, then park it. All clear. Pop engine cover, blast battery connections with WD-40 and hop into other vehicle and roll.
I got a CEL on my second drive as an owner, and removed and cleaned all the connections (from reading threads here), and never saw one again til now (3.5 years later).
Will do that tonight and report back. It's the getting stuck in Neutral issue that bugged me out. No like.
